Background
In Summer 2005 MADE was appointed by developers ISIS to run a competition to select a masterplanner for Warwick Bar, a 3 hectare site and conservation area in Birmingham's Eastside.  In terms of its canalside industrial heritage Warwick Bar is one of the richest sites in the city. The site includes bridges, locks, warehouses, canal offices basins and other buildings, which provide the potential for reuse for sensitive mixed-use development. The brief for the masterplan will invite responses that recognise the special qualities of the site, the context of Eastside as a whole and linkages with the city centre core including the new Masshouse development.
The primary driver for the design brief is an aspiration shared by ISIS and Birmingham City Council's Eastside team, which is to create at Warwick Bar an exemplar for sustainable design and construction practice connecting to and reflecting Eastside's wider range of environmental initiatives.
As a member of the development team, MADE’s next role will be to lead
on the community consultation, commissioning artist’s proposals and the
promotion of Warwick Bar; bringing the Eastside neighbourhood and
cultural economy together to ensure the aims for a sustainable scheme
can be achieved.
As a model of good practice, the development process will be made fully
transparent enabling MADE to disseminate the development process from
start to finish as a learning tool for professionals and students in
urban regeneration and to highlight the role of good design for
ensuring sustainable communities.
About the competition
MADE is involved in what feels like a unique partnership between the developer ISIS and Birmingham City Council to develop a waterside scheme, called Warwick Bar at the heart of historic Eastside and the home to MADE’s new offices. ISIS made the decision to invest in the design of the site by employing MADE to facilitate an international design competition for a masterplan for the five-acre site. The masterplan will give form to the vision to create a flagship development for a carbon-neutral mixed-use cultural village, an exemplar place-making exercise that maximises quality of life and social inclusion.
Birmingham based Kinetic AIU won the contract from a shortlist of seven international practices with their exciting approach to waterside development and a strong sense of environment and distinctiveness of place. (Press Release announcing winners of Warwick Bar competition ) The competition targeted innovative and emerging architectural practices. The short list was taken from a long list of expressions of interest from 45 firms included DSDHA, FAT - Fashion Architecture Taste, S333, Ashlar Architects, Jeppe Aagaard Andersen, Sarah Wigglesworth and Kinetic. MADE enjoyed taking on their first design competition and hope to develop this work further
Warwick Bar Soundwalk
As Lead Artists for the Warwick Bar Masterplan Sound Artists, Liminal developed a sound walk of the area.
CD cover from the Warwick Bar Sound Walk created by Liminal
Sound Clip 1 (9mb)
Sound Clip 2 (17.7mb)
Sound Clip 3 (15.2mb)
Sound Clip 4 (9.5mb)
Sound Clip 5 (11.2mb)
Sound Clip 6 (4.24mb)
Tilman Latz Presentation – 16.11.2006
See past events for further details.
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