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WINNERS’ ROLL CALL Previous Phoenix Premier Award winners are landscape architects Robert Camlin (1985), Martin Popplewell (1986), Alistair Macintyre (1987), joint winners Margaret Newstead and the John Pardey & Ronald Yee partnership (1988), Suzanne Quinn (1989), The Landscape Partnership (1990), architects Edward Nash and Joe Cunningham (1991), student at Hull School of Architecture Kartik Bhatt (1992) and in the same year, a special award for a scheme at Kensal Green cemetery went to architect Ronald Yee; student at Edinburgh College of Art Jane McCuish (1993) and in the same year, a special award for a scheme for the Mid-Glamorgan Crematorium went to student Ann-Marie Smale and Prof David Singleton from the Welsh School of Architecture; lecturers at Aberdeen University Adrian Boot and Graeme Hutton (1994). No Premier Award was made in 1995 when the top award 2nd prize, went to student from Brighton University, Helen Little. Premier Award winner of the restored competition in 2003 was the architects partnership Austin-Smith:Lord; in 2004 Belfast designer and architect Peter Hutchinson, who won it again with a different project in 2005. An imaginative design for the extension to the inner-city Sendim Cemetery in Matisinhos, Portugal won young architects Jose Cadilhe and Emanuel Fontoura first prize in 2006. A striking design for a new cemetery in Willbury Hills, North Hertfordshire by Michael Howe and Alex Ely of architectural practice mae-LLP of North London, won the Premier Award in 2007. |
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WANTED - NEW IDEAS FOR CEMETERY DESIGN
THE Phoenix Awards Scheme seeks design ideas that might elevate cemetery planning out of the dull and dangerous banality that has become typical of the 20th century. Our dead, the bereaved and all of us - as well as the birds and the bees - are not getting good value from cemeteries. They should be attractive places for quiet recreation, memorial parks and nature reserves as well as resting places for the dead, including those cremated. And a prerequisite is that they must be safe - not populated by unstable memorial structures.
By making cemeteries more accessible and attractive to the public everyone will benefit. Better landscaping, lighting, tea-shops, toilets and picnic areas for example, would encourage people to enjoy little-used urban cemeteries that could become monumental parks. Newer cemeteries outside towns, if properly equipped with such amenities, would provide for people making pilgrim journeys. But perhaps there should be smaller cemeteries closer to our communities, and even new life brought to closed churchyards by reopening them for burials? They should be for all faiths, and those who profess none.
Extensions, new developments and even crematoria estates are still being designed more for the convenience of grounds maintenance than for respect of place and spirit and civic pride. An increasingly ageing population is demanding their better care and attention. Younger generations are returning to a concern for spiritual values, heritage, and ecology - all of which can be evinced in cemeteries.
The Phoenix Awards Scheme seeks ideas to reinstate these precious places - both old, new and for the future - to a position where they are respected and cherished in the context of modern society and maintained as a constantly renewable resource.
ANYONE IN THE WORLD can enter the competition simply by submitting their ideas, briefly in writing, and preferably illustrated with drawings and / or photographs. Judging is by a panel drawn from death care industry professionals, bereavement care, the Church, architects and landscape architects. As well as the Premier Award for Total Concept - memorials in their environment - there are awards for categories addressing such issues as safety, after cremation commemoration and special interests of churchyards.
The Phoenix Awards Scheme is endorsed by The Landscape Institute and organized by the Association of Burial Authorities (ABA). Its main sponsor is the memorial insurance scheme Stoneguard.
Entry forms can be obtained by sending a large stamped address envelope to: Phoenix Awards Competition, Association of Burial Authorities, Waterloo House, 155 Upper Street, London N1 1RA.