Easterhouse Arts Factory : The Bridge

The Bridge Arts Centre, Glasgow : Scottish Design Awards 2007 - Public Building Architecture Grand Prix - Winner: Gareth Hoskins Architects The Bridge Arts Centre, Glasgow Client: Glasgow City Council £8.5m Bridge Arts Centre Award : PM's Award Finalist 2007 images from GHA 230507: photos © Andrew Lee Photographer The Bridge Arts Centre in Easterhouse won the British Construction Industry (BCI) Regeneration Award 10 Oct 2007, at the BCI Awards in London. The Bridge Arts Centre was also a finalist in the BCI Public Building Award and the Prime Minister’s Better Public Building Award, an award launched by the Prime Minister in 2000 to encourage high-quality design in new public buildings. The Bridge Arts Centre was the only Scottish project shortlisted for these awards and competed against a number of high-profile London-based projects. The building has already won six other awards this year including the Scottish Design Awards 2007 and the RIBA national awards and is currently further shortlisted for the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland’s Andrew Doolan Award The Bridge : National RIBA Award 2007 The jury citation described the building as an example of ‘urban regeneration at its most powerful’ and commented on the building’s ability to ‘lift the spirit of all who engage with it’. The Easterhouse Arts Factory by Gareth Hoskins Architects, Glasgow is complete: images from GHA 230507: photos © Andrew Lee Photographer The Bridge and Robin House - also by Gareth Hoskins Architects - both won a GIA Award for 2006. The Bridge was short-listed for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Award 2006 Nearby building is the Easterhouse Community Health Centre by Davis Duncan Architects Gareth Hosins Architects - The Bridge Easterhouse PR 081106: "Gareth Hoskins Architects recently completed project The Bridge for Easterhouse Cultural Campus, which in addition to a wide range of visual, performing arts and community facilities forms the base for the new National Theatre of Scotland, has just been shortlisted for the RIAS Andy Doolan Award as The Best Building in Scotland." images from GHA 201106: photos © Andrew Lee