The competition was aimed at creating a striking new identity for the area in and around Vauxhall – a stretch of land dubbed the ‘Missing Link’ between the new US Embassy and London’s South Bank. The competition brief invited landscape, architecture and urban design ideas for Vauxhall. Vauxhall is at the heart of Nine Elms on the South Bank, the £15 billion opportunity area between Lambeth Bridge and Chelsea Bridge which includes Vauxhall town centre, the new US Embassy and Battersea Power Station.
The shortlisted teams in the professional category include erect architecture with J&L Gibbons, London; Cedric Chausse & Charlotte Portier, London; and Blank Architects, Moscow.
Teams in the Highly Commended category include Irene Iacolino, Diego Astuto, Daniela Landi & Luigi Rapicavoli, London; Arkilab APS, Denmark; and Igor Marko and Francis Moss, Marko & Placemakers, London.
The winner of the student category is Frances Kellerman, Jeffrey Ziemann, Taylor Massey & Lauren Richter, University of Texas – Austin.
Highly Commended in the student category were: Amy Collinson, Landscape Architecture, University of Sheffield; Charleen Chae, Drew Finke & Julie Huynh, University of Texas – Austin; and Anders Petersen, Aglaia Tsigka, Aniekan Usoro, Yuan Hou, Bin Xia and Chien Ling Cheong, CURe at the School of Architecture, University of Portsmouth.
Over 100 Entries from 21 countries all over the world were received for the RIBA Vauxhall The Missing Link Design Competition. The Judging Panel, which included Doreen Lawrence of the Stephen Lawrence Charitable Trust, met to select the shortlist which was presented at a press briefing hosted by Angela Brady, RIBA President and Dan Pearson, the award-winning landscape designer.
The shortlisted designs are on exhibition at the Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London, SE1 7LB and on an Outdoor Trail through the Rail Arches and Parks of Vauxhall until 19 April 2013. The shortlisted will now be invited to meet with the client and discuss their design proposal in more detail and a winner will be selected at the end of May 2013.
The client for this design competition is Vauxhall One, the new Business Improvement District (BID) for Vauxhall. Vauxhall One came into being in February 2012 when local businesses voted to invest their own money to bring benefits and improvements to the area.
