The Robert Graves Poetry Prize, honouring the Wimbledon-born war poet, is open for entries. The competition, run in partnership with University of Roehampton and sponsored by Marcus Beale Architects is now in its fourth year. First prize is £1,000 and entry is open to all.  It is judged by literary agent, Peter Straus and Prof Paul O’Prey, former student of Robert Graves.  More information here.

Oxford Preservation Trust Award 2019.

Category New Buildings.

Project page  here

Updated designs for a new mixed use project at Upper Green Mitcham have been submitted to Merton Council. The project will create 20 new flats plus a large retail/restaurant unit in Mitcham town centre, between the Fair Green and Three Kings Pond.

MBA are advising York based practice DC-Architecture on the design of a new hotel near York’s historic Micklegate Bar. Following research into the history and development of the site and surroundings, and drawing inspiration from York’s surviving timber framed medieval buildings, a new design was developed with strongly rhythmical jettied elevations using untreated vertical larch fins with lime rendered panels between. The design makes the most of the slightly curved frontage of the site, provides a varied roof line, and breaks up what might otherwise have been a monolithic frontage into a series of smaller pavilions. The elevation reflects the roof form and layout of the hotel behind, which opens onto a small central garden courtyard accessed through an arch from Micklegate itself.