Walter Menteth
Walter Menteth B.A.(Arch), Dip Arch., RIBA, FRIAS, chartered Architect, director Walter Menteth architects and Project Compass CIC, School of Architecture Portsmouth University and thefulcrum.eu. Holder of the RIBA President's medal for Research and RIBA President's Award for practice located research. His practice has won a number of architectural awards and has had their work published internationally.
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building culture describes from inception, commissioning culture and practice for UK arts buildings, over 204 A4 pages with 185 illustrations, supplemented with these appendices. Building Culture is a uniquely comprehensive exposure that offers case studies, research, reference, guidance, analysis of Covid impacts, and recommendations, for communities, arts professionals, commissioners, clients, architects, project teams and policy makers, for future best practice. Building Culture contains – 10 chapters by eminent architects, competition programmers and a client; unique sector data and procurement analysis; programming and funding guidance with resources and references; sustainability, inclusivity and social value overviews; strategic insights, Covid coverage and recommendations.
(With contributions by - Ian Ritchie, Brian Heron, Tim Ronalds, Sarah Featherstone, Hana Loftus, Alex Reedijk, Nicola Walls, Angus Morrough- Ryan, Jim Roberts, Chris Coleman-Smith, Luke Cooper, Sylvia Hebden and Donald Hyslop)
'Building Culture' is available to order, RRP £35 + £3.60 UK post & packing, from ProjectCompassCIC@gmail.com,
In this context proposals for Portsmouth’s Southsea frontage proposals are reported in this context and comparisons drawn with similar circumstances in the City of Cork Ireland.
The list of words, with a particular focus on design contests are some of those considered to be the most confusing in competition discourse. The ‘legal language’ found within Directive 2014/24/EU has been referenced to help define and ascribe common meaning, wherever appropriate.
This architectural culture is profoundly determined by the strategic policy and regulatory framework of public competitions, which practicing architects have generally failed to fully engage. In these a lack of clarity and transparency, along with excessive time, cost and complexity, have contributed to this disenfranchisement and disillusionment; and the alienation from the processes of so many among society, clients and industry. If progress is to be delivered, and better environmental outcomes achieved from public architectural competitions, then fuller and more pro-active engagement is required with better facilitation of the means to achieve this.
building culture describes from inception, commissioning culture and practice for UK arts buildings, over 204 A4 pages with 185 illustrations, supplemented with these appendices. Building Culture is a uniquely comprehensive exposure that offers case studies, research, reference, guidance, analysis of Covid impacts, and recommendations, for communities, arts professionals, commissioners, clients, architects, project teams and policy makers, for future best practice. Building Culture contains – 10 chapters by eminent architects, competition programmers and a client; unique sector data and procurement analysis; programming and funding guidance with resources and references; sustainability, inclusivity and social value overviews; strategic insights, Covid coverage and recommendations.
(With contributions by - Ian Ritchie, Brian Heron, Tim Ronalds, Sarah Featherstone, Hana Loftus, Alex Reedijk, Nicola Walls, Angus Morrough- Ryan, Jim Roberts, Chris Coleman-Smith, Luke Cooper, Sylvia Hebden and Donald Hyslop)
'Building Culture' is available to order, RRP £35 + £3.60 UK post & packing, from ProjectCompassCIC@gmail.com,
In this context proposals for Portsmouth’s Southsea frontage proposals are reported in this context and comparisons drawn with similar circumstances in the City of Cork Ireland.
The list of words, with a particular focus on design contests are some of those considered to be the most confusing in competition discourse. The ‘legal language’ found within Directive 2014/24/EU has been referenced to help define and ascribe common meaning, wherever appropriate.
This architectural culture is profoundly determined by the strategic policy and regulatory framework of public competitions, which practicing architects have generally failed to fully engage. In these a lack of clarity and transparency, along with excessive time, cost and complexity, have contributed to this disenfranchisement and disillusionment; and the alienation from the processes of so many among society, clients and industry. If progress is to be delivered, and better environmental outcomes achieved from public architectural competitions, then fuller and more pro-active engagement is required with better facilitation of the means to achieve this.
However most of the objectives raised appear possible under the Public Contract Regulations (PCR 2015). And that rather than reforming the legislation, a profound improvement in capacity, capability and culture is thought of greater value for achieving the objectives being sought. It is also considered that the principle of proportionality should be a primary principle in procurement, so that processes and procedures are most appropriate.
For construction consultants a specific concern is that the Design Contest Procedure is not included. This is the only procedure provided specifically for the appointment of architects and planners. It has an anonymous, qualitative and peer review assessment and selection procedure based on a spatial design proposition. It is a long standing internationally recognised competition format well explained within the Project Compass Design Contests Guidance. This procedure provides unique and innovative opportunities.
This March 2021 joint response is a collaboration between Project Compass CIC and The London Practice Forum.
This report on the M275 evaluates and proposes the route's re classification into an ‘A’ road, its adaptive reuse and modification. This enables land to be released to meet projected housing needs, without further reclamation, and allows Portsmouth’s expansion to be accessible, sustainable, and resilient - offering better quality and higher value. Pipelined investment in, for example, 25ha. of land reclamation and a new c. £36m bridge, is shown to be unnecessary.
With adaptive reuse of the urban infrastructure and wider engagement with city issues and assets the report shows how the required housing sites, better urban connectivity, mixed modal transport, accessibility, and amenity can be planned more effectively to deliver a resilient and sustainable community of better long term value.
This is a summary presentation delivered at 5 public meetings in the city of Portsmouth between Aug-Nov 2017 of a more detailed report available at www.portsmouthisland.uk/southsea-common-s-sea-defences.html with campaign details available on facebook @Southsea Seafront at risk, and
A NET_Learning Advanced course programme. Presentation of Stage 0, Module 5. at: http://www.newenergytorebuild.eu
How this maybe redressed is advanced by considering that a byte of digital information has measurable energy when transacted.