Brockholes Visitor Centre
Samlesbury, Lancashire

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Project Details

  • Brockholes Visitor Centre, Samlesbury, Lancashire, 2008–2012
  • Project: New visitor centre and masterplan
  • Client: Lancashire Wildlife Trust
  • Status: Built

Awards

  • Mies van der Rohe Award 2013, Shortlisted
  • RIBA National Award 2012, Winner
  • Civic Trust Award: Special Award: Sustainability 2012, Winner
  • Building Awards: Sustainability Project of the Year 2012, Winner
  • Sustain' Award: Architecture and Design 2012, Winner
  • North West Regional Construction Award 2012, Winner
  • RIBA Regional Conservation Award 2012, Winner
  • Wood Awards: Commercial and Public Access 2011, Winner

AKA Design Team

  • Jonathan Cook Landscape Architects
  • Jackson Coles
  • Max Fordham
  • Price & Myers

Contractors

Mansell Construction

Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering

B&K Structures

Photography

  • Ioana Marinescu

'The design of this building takes away all the apparent conflicts between architecture and sustainability ...'

Max Fordham, Civic Trust Awards National Panel 2012

'A loo, a brew and a view'

Adam Khan, Brockholes Visitor Centre – consumption, landscape, infrastructure, Quarderns

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