Interior Designer Required

An excellent opportunity to join our dynamic, talented and successful team as an interior designer has arisen.

Roles/duties:

Work in conjunction with our interior designer to develop and deliver concepts.

Prepare and develop where required, drawings, models, images, material and mood boards and other documents relating to the design.

Assist where required in the co-ordination of the internal design team.

Liaise, where appropriate, with members of the external design team and other associated organisations or companies

Seek continuing professional development.

Contribute, or otherwise assist, as required.

To qualify for this role you must possess the following:

Bachelor of Architecture/Interior Design degree.

Minimum three years professional experience.

Proven design experience demonstrated by your portfolio.

Experience within Commercial, Healthcare, offices and third level education sectors.

Hand drawing visualisation skills - digital rendering skills an advantage.

Ability to work in a team as well as under your own initiative.

Full proficiency in Adobe Suite and InDesign/Sketch Up, Autocad and Revit, as well as Microsoft Word packages.

Fluency in written and spoken English.

Revit experience is essential for the role.

Our work spans Commercial, Healthcare, Higher Education, Leisure and Laboratory/Research buildings.

We offer excellent working facilities and training programmes.

 

Please submit your CV to careers@stwarchitects.com

Green light for Proton Beam Therapy Service and new clinical facility designed by Scott Tallon Walker

The UK government has invested £250 million in the development of two facilities to provide Proton Beam Therapy – one at UCLH and one at The Christie. PBT is a highly-targeted type of radiotherapy that can treat hard-to-reach cancers  which can result in less  damage to surrounding tissue or fewer other side effects. Both centres are expected to open to patients from 2018 and construction is due to start this summer.

Proton Beam Therapy uses a beam of protons (accelerated to a very high energy state) to deliver radiotherapy that is directed to a precise target area within the body with minimal collateral damage to surrounding tissue. This allows very rare cancers including tumours affecting the brain, neck and spine to be treated more effectively. UCLH, together with The Christie Hospital at Manchester, will provide the UK’s first such facilities to provide high energy proton beam therapy, and will begin treating NHS patients from 2018.  

In addition, the STW designed scheme also houses a new short stay surgery centre. Particular design attention is being paid to patient flow and the overall design for Paediatric patients who will form a substantial part of the patient cohort for PBT.

The UCLH development is  vital milestone in the process of improving health care by moving existing services into an integrated and centralised campus and introducing world leading PBT as a significant enhancement to therapeutic cancer treatment services throughout the UK.


Varian Medical Systems will provide the PBT equipment for both UCLH and the Christie 

Green light for Proton Beam Therapy Service and new clinical facility designed by Scott Tallon Walker

A new clinical facility to house a Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre and inpatient services at University College London Hospitals (UCLH) NHS Foundation Trust, has been approved by the UK Department of Health. The facility has been designed by Scott Tallon Walker (in association with Edward Williams Architects).

The UK government has invested £250 million in the development of two facilities to provide Proton Beam Therapy – one at UCLH and one at The Christie. PBT is a highly-targeted type of radiotherapy that can treat hard-to-reach cancers without causing damage to surrounding tissue or other side effects. Both centres are expected to open to patients from 2018 and construction is due to start this summer.

Proton Beam Therapy uses a beam of protons (accelerated to a very high energy state) to deliver radiotherapy that is directed to a precise target area within the body with minimal collateral damage to surrounding tissue. This allows very rare cancers including tumours affecting the brain, neck and spine to be treated more effectively. UCLH, together with The Christie at Manchester, will provide the UK’s first such facilities, treating NHS patients from 2018.

In addition, the STW designed scheme also houses a new short stay surgery centre. Particular design attention is being paid to patient flow and the overall design for Paediatric patients who will form a substantial part of the patient cohort for PBT.

The UCLH development is vital milestone in the process of improving health care by moving existing services into an integrated and centralised campus and introducing world leading PBT as a significant enhancement to therapeutic cancer treatment services throughout the UK.

Varian Medical Systems will provide the PBT equipment for both UCLH and The Christie.

Senior Project Architects, Architectural Graduates, Senior and Junior Architectural Technicians required

Scott Tallon Walker Architects require:

• Senior project architects with 5-10 years experience of running large Commercial or Healthcare projects in our Dublin, Cork and London offices.
• Architectural Graduates and senior and junior architectural technicians to join teams on fast moving high profile projects in our Dublin, Cork and London offices.
• Architectural Technicians and Student Architects seeking year out placement in our Dublin and London offices.

Revit experience is essential for all the above roles.

Architects should be on the RIAI Register of Architects if employed by STW(IRL) Ltd or the RIBA Chartered Members / Architects Registration Board (ARB) UK Register of Architects if employed by STW(UK) Ltd or a person eligible to seek registration as an architect without further assessment. Architectural Graduates should be seeking supervised professional training prior to assessment for entry to the register of architects.

Our work spans Commercial,Healthcare, Higher Education, Leisure and Laboratory/Research buildings.

We offer excellent working facilities and training programmes.

Please submit your CV to careers@stwarchitects.com

Scott Tallon Walker at MIPIM

Scott Tallon Walker/ Edward Williams Architects scheme for UCLH - Proton Beam Therapy Centre and Cancer Surgical Services has been selected for exhibition at the Architecture Tomorrow stand at the inaugural MIPIM in Olympia.

In the catalogue to Architecture Tomorrow, Chief executive of the Maggie's trust says ''Scott Tallon Walker and Edward Williams Architects has created a building that houses the cutting edge medical technology of Proton Beam Therapy. It is sharply urban, celebrating technical excellence and clinical expertise - an impressive monument to medical advance.''

Visit the Architecture Tomorrow at stand B10 today, 16th October 2014 and tomorrow 17th October 2014.

Design Awards 2014

The shortlist for the 2014 Design Awards has been selected by this year’s awards panel. The winners of this accolade will be announced from this shortlist at the Architects for Health stand IHEEM conference.

Two of the 5 project nominated in the future projects category are by Scott Tallon walker National Forensic Mental Health Centre

• Scott Tallon Walker Architects Proton Beam Therapy Unit 
• Scott Tallon Walker Architects Banbridge CTCC 
• Avanti Architects Clatterbridge 
• BDP Royal Liverpool University Hospital 
• NBBJ 

The award winners will be announced at the IHEEM conference in Birmingham on 7/10/2014.

RIAI Gold Medal awarded to Kevin Bates

Associate Director Kevin Bates, who heads up the office of Scott Tallon Walker Architects in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been awarded the highest Architectural Award from Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland. The RIAI Gold Medal, which is awarded every three years, was presented to Kevin by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, in November 2013.

The winning project is a set of Religious Hermitages (Postinia) located on a hillside in the Comeragh Mountains, Tipperary, in Ireland, which was completed in 2004 and designed with his former partner, Tom Maher.

The RIAI Citation included “Close to mature broad leaf trees, Poustinia is impeccably detailed and built. Every element is exquisitely considered. The rooms cantilevered off the hillside make the lightest of footprints. The cranked plan configuration with bespoke furniture and floors of local limestone entrap smooth plastered internal space to overlook a wider strikingly contrasting landscape. External walls and roofs fuse in a composition of alternating rough sawn douglas fir and smooth sawn larch strips. The contrasts of this wonderfully enigmatic project are resolved in ways which evoke its very spirit. Contradictions are synthesised in a clear and simple idea, suggesting a conjunction of the temporal and the transcendent”.

Building better health services

Plans for a new clinical facility in London – housing the world’s most advanced form of radiotherapy – are now open for public consultation.

The new development will start with the construction of a Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) Centre below ground. A state-of-the-art patient facility with patient beds and operating theatres will then be built above ground.

The whole facility is planned to be over 25,000 sq m with four floors below ground and five floors above ground. People will access the Centre through a main entrance at ground floor level on the corner of Grafton Way and Huntley Street.

Over the coming weeks UCLH (University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) will be listening to what local politicians, residents, patients and staff have to say about the proposals for the site on Grafton Way and Huntley Street in the heart of the capital. A public exhibition of the proposals, will be taking place on Monday 7th October, 2.30pm – 7.30pm, and Tuesday 8th October, 2.30pm – 7.30pm in University College Hospital’s Atrium. The development team will be available to answer questions about the proposals and the services that would be provided on site.

The Proton Beam Therapy Centre at University College London Hospital is designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects & Tsoi Kobus & Associates

Further information is available on the UCLH website.

About Scott Tallon Walker

Scott Tallon Walker Architects (STW), based at Cromwell Place in London SW7, specialise in larger projects in the higher education, healthcare and sports areas. Last year the practice won the competition to design a new £250 million Proton Beam Therapy and Clinical unit for University College London Hospital which is currently at pre-planning stage, (in association with Edward Williams Architects).  The practice has previously designed the Vice Chancellors Residence and extended the Library for the University of Surrey. The firm has also recently been appointed as joint architects to design consolidated accommodation for the School of Biological Sciences on the former Science Library site at Lennoxvale at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. STW were also joint architects with Populous on the £260 million re-development of the Aviva Stadium, (formerly Lansdowne Road) for the Irish Rugby Football Union in Dublin which was awarded the British Construction Industry Award for International Project in 2011.

For further information contact either

Eoin O'Morain or Sheila Carney

Scott Tallon Walker,

10 Cromwell Place,

London SW7 2JN

Tel - 0207 589 4949

Sheila Carney Sheila.Carney@stwarchitects.com

Eoin O'Morain eoin.om'orain@stwarchitects.com

The UK Government commits £250 million for innovative cancer treatment to save lives and reduce side effects.

A major new cutting edge radiotherapy treatment will be available in the UK thanks to £250 million of government funding to build two new facilities in Manchester and London, Public Health Minister Anna Soubry confirmed today.

The therapy – Proton Beam Therapy – is a particularly important form of cancer treatment as it targets tumours more precisely with less damage to surrounding tissues. This can improve the quality of life following cancer treatment, reduces side effects, especially for children and, because the NHS will be able to treat more people, it will save lives.

Currently, the NHS sends children and adults needing Proton Beam Therapy to the United States, but from 2018 it will be offered to up to 1,500 cancer patients at the Christie NHS Foundation Trust in Manchester and University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London.

The Prime Minister’s commitment to increasing access to advanced radiotherapy treatments will significantly improve the experience for patients and their families who currently have to travel long distances for treatment.

The Proton Beam Therapy Centre at University College London Hospital is designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects in association with Edward Williams Architects & Tsoi Kobus & Associates

Media

UK Government - Government commits £250 million for innovative cancer treatment to save lives and reduce side effects

UCLH - The world’s most advanced form of radiotherapy is coming to UCLH (University 
College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust) after the Government today committed £250 million to bring Proton Beam Therapy (PBT) to the UK.

publicservice.co.uk - Proton beam radiotherapy is coming to UK.

Nursing Times - Nursing Times Proton beam cancer therapy coming to UK.

Bloomberg - Proton-Beam Cancer Sites to Get $380 Million From U.K.

Business Week - Business Week Proton-Beam Cancer Sites Get $380 Million From U.K. Government.

Reuters - UK plays catch-up with $380 mln spend on cancer-zapping beams

Scott Tallon Walker Architects win competition to design £35 million 5G Research Centre for University of Surrey

Details of world’s first 5G research centre revealed 

The competition to design the new 5G Innovation Centre drew strong international competition when the University of Surrey received funding of £35 million last year to develop and fund the project. The funding for the project comes from a variety of sources including the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) government and a range of corporate sponsors from the mobile communications industry.

Scott Tallon Walker’s concept for the new building creates a flexible space with a circular atrium that acts as a central lung and focus, to ensure maximum interaction amongst researchers. This ability to have both staff and students interact easily is a key element in the success of the design.

When built the scheme will achieve BREEAM ‘Excellent’ environmental rating using mixed mode, naturally ventilated, simple yet sophisticated energy concept for its ventilation. The materials used in the building are a pallet of low energy and maintenance elements including terracotta rain screen, aluminium, glass and steel, sympathetic to the adjoining buildings on all sides.

Professor Rahim Tafazolli, the Director for the new centre at the University, said:

“It’s an exciting vision of what promises to be a very important centre for not only the University but for the whole of the UK and beyond.”

Peter Dudley, Scott Tallon Walker’s Director of Science and Technology, commented,

“Our concept for this building was informed very much by how our own architects work. We see the new centre at the University of Surrey as a place where some of the finest minds in mobile communications from around the world will be sharing their visionary ideas. Our team has watched and studied how creative groups share ideas in the workplace and our design will mean that people will have a strong sense of contact, visual and/or aural, with colleagues during the working day. This leads to better collegiality but more importantly to the sparking of creative ideas, spurring people on with fresh suggestions while seeing the progress being made by colleagues. The Scott Tallon Walker practice is obviously delighted to have won such a prestigious competition but my colleagues working on the project are equally excited as they really want to see their ideas for this creative community in action.”

The research centre will accommodate both the university’s own researchers and those of its industry partners who will come and research at the university. Part of the overall proposal includes a test bed on campus, using lampposts as mobile signal base stations, that cover an area of four kilometres squared which will be used for demonstrations and proofs-of-concept.

The university’s Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Christopher Snowden, in announcing the scheme stated that,

“The new 5G Centre will enable the UK to lead this rapidly expanding segment of the global digital economy. Locally, it will bring yet more momentum to the clusters of established and new high tech businesses on our Surrey Research Park. Finally, and very significantly for us, it consolidates the leading position of our own Centre for Communication Systems Research in Europe and paves the way for the further development of our long-term strategic partnerships with major global telecommunications organisations and significant inward investment into both Surrey and the UK.”

About Scott Tallon Walker

Scott Tallon Walker Architects (STW), based at Cromwell Place in London SW7, specialise in larger projects in the higher education, healthcare and sports areas. Last year the practice won the competition to design a new £250 million Proton Beam Therapy and Clinical unit for University College London Hospital which is currently at pre-planning stage, (in association with Edward Williams Architects).  The practice has previously designed the Vice Chancellors Residence and extended the Library for the University of Surrey. The firm has also recently been appointed as joint architects to design consolidated accommodation for the School of Biological Sciences on the former Science Library site at Lennoxvale at Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland. STW were also joint architects with Populous on the £260 million re-development of the Aviva Stadium, (formerly Lansdowne Road) for the Irish Rugby Football Union in Dublin which was awarded the British Construction Industry Award for International Project in 2011.

For further information contact either 

Peter Dudley or Sheila Carney
Scott Tallon Walker, 10 Cromwell Place, London SW7 2JN Tel - +44 (0)207 589 4949

Irish Healthcare centre Awards 2013

Congratulations to the administration and staff of the The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Livinghealth Clinic, Mitchelstown on the recent awards at the Irish Healthcare Centre Awards 2013 which took place in the Royal Marine Hotel in Dun Laoghaire on the 8th March 2013.

Awards:
The Mater Misericordiae University Hospital - Hospital of the Year
Livinghealth Clinic, Mitchelstown - Primary Care Centre of the Year

Scott Tallon Walker Architects are proud to be involved as lead designers in both healthcare working environments and wish them both continued success in the future.

Scott Tallon Walker’s vision for Spike Island

Scott Tallon Walker’s vision for Spike Island to become a major new international tourist destination was adopted by Cork County Council in November 2012, with the publication of our Master Plan. 

Compiled by a team of experts lead by STW, the document plans out the magnificent opportunity to create a new 100 acre National Park on the water, with the 40 acre Mitchel Fort at its centre, renovated and developed as a complex of cultural heritage attractions and museums.

Geared to meet the challenges of current funding, the project calls for the leveraging of the island’s unique historic and geographic characteristics to offer a variety of visitor experiences, from community based projects, to adventure tourism to re-enactments of military and penal life, to exhibitions, a major aquarium and learning centre dedicated to oceanography and the expansive marine resources of Ireland’s Continental Shelf.

The proposed attractions comprise three separate, but closely related, product groups which can be developed over three main phases.

• Phase 1 is generally small scale and focused on the Island environment and its history. 
• Phase 2 concentrates on The Fort Experience, living history interpretation, enhanced fort tours, and visitor services etc. 
• Phase 3 will include a major attraction combining a uniquely designed aquarium with demonstrations of the extraordinary marine research being conducted by Cork-based education and research institutions. The Island management is also expected to target summertime events and concerts, as a participating venue in the existing city and county festival calendar, growing to independent and national events with capacities of over 6,000 people.

The project promotes the clustering of economic development potential in the lower harbour area through phased investment in quality ferry services and linkages between Cobh, Spike, Haulbowline and other waterside villages and attractions. Over the past four centuries, Spike Island has been both an important military & coastal defense post, and a place of imprisonment. Up to recent times, this fascinating island has not been freely accessible by the public. With the transfer of ownership to Cork County Council, in 2010, Spike Island’s situation changed radically, entering a new existence as a recreational and tourist destination. Already, it has attracted several thousand visitors, and this most recent plan aims to increase visitor numbers to well over 200,000 per annum.


Irish Times - Ireland calling: 21-gun salute marks the Gathering 
Irish Independent - Gathering kicks off with a bang 
Irish Examiner - Cork brings out the big guns for the Gathering 
Irish Independent - Spike in tourists on the cards with €40m 'Alcatraz' plan 
The Gathering 2013

A dedicated unit to treat Cystic Fibrosis patients has just been completed.

A 20 bed inpatient Cystic Fibrosis ward and 10 bed Cystic Fibrosis day-ward, provided within the new 120 bed Nutley Wing at St. Vincent's University Hospital, has just been completed.


The lessons we learned from designing the temporary inpatient accommodation for Cystic Fibrosis patients at St. Vincent's University Hospital, and observing it in use, have been informed our the design of the new permanent Nutley Wing. A very simple example includes the provision of additional storage space for personal effects – within the parameters of infection control - as teenage patients in the existing ward have been observed to bring a greater plethora of beauty products, games consoles, laptops, dvds, etc, than is typically anticipated in designing facilities for adult patients!


The provision of 100% en-suite single rooms in this new facility will yield tremendous clinical benefits to immuno-compromised patients, and provide greater dignity and privacy for patients and visiting family and friends. The rooms are also sufficiently large to accommodate relatives who may wish to stay with the young patient overnight.


The design of new facilities acknowledges the increasing role of information technology in all aspects of hospital care. For most adolescents and young adults, smart-phones and social networking are a key element of their daily lives. Wherever feasible, wi-fi access in bedrooms and common areas will allow patients to remain in touch with the world outside the hospital via their own smart phones.


In the new Cystic Fibrosis unit at St. Vincent's University Hospital, we have specified an advanced patient entertainment system including X-box games and internet access, all integrated into the medical pendant, to improve the quality of life for young patients.

Irish Independent - CF unit finally set to open
Irish Times - Cystic fibrosis unit 'a tribute'
RTE - Cystic fibrosis patients transferred to new €22m facility at St Vincent's

Work experience programme with students from King Saud University, Riyadh

As part of a pilot 3 week work experience programme, Scott Tallon Walker Architects recently took three architectural students from King Saud University in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The students, Yazeed Hussein, Naif Alhaydan and Alaa Mahrous have recently completed their 3rd year of Architecture and were accompanied by their professor Dr Imad Otahbachi for initial part of their stay.


During their time here Yazeed, Naif and Alaa gained some understanding about the way we work and also about the systems we have put in place that help us to deliver projects of the highest quality. We felt it was important that they go away feeling enriched, inspired and eager to share their experience with their families, lecturers and fellow students.




Ronan Phelan was their mentor and he produced a very detailed programme, which included practical participation in existing projects, attending in house training/seminars and visiting sites of recently completed projects and existing projects under construction in our Dublin, Cork and Galway offices.


Yazeed, Naif and Alaa were particularly interested in sustainable design and developed their knowledge of Sustainability through an analysis of the King Saud University Sports Campus and Fitness College in Riyadh, making proposals on what benefits the introduction of sustainable measures might bring to a major project in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. To assist in the development of their ideas, Pat Kirwan & Rich DePalma of our sustainability group held a number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) workshops which were open to all STW staff.


At the end of the work experience programme on Friday 29th June, Yazeed, Naif and Alaa presented their work and experiences to STW staff.


This work experience programme is a very important initiative by STW that has great potential to be rewarding for both STW and students undertaking the programme. Our intention will be to increase the number of students in the following years and hopefully develop a very successful, worthwhile relationship with King Saud University and other participating universities. Preliminary discussions were held also held with the UCD School of Architecture regarding potential programmes KSU Post Graduate students might be eligible to participate in.
We hope that the students have obtained great benefit and experience from working at Scott Tallon Walker Architects.


View some of the highlights on Flickr

STW supporting the Volvo Ocean Race Grand Finale 2011-2012

The Volvo Ocean Race Grand Finale 2011-2012 is an 8 day festival of marine, sport, culture and arts, entertainment and food. Scott Tallon Walker Architects are pleased to be providing conservation advice to the Volvo Ocean Race Galway Grand Finale event and the Global Village at the Claddagh. We are delighted to be among the event patrons who have contributed to the success of this event.

The 2012 Volvo Ocean Race event in the historic landscape of Galway Docks and Corrib Estuary is making a vital contribution to the economic sustainability of our heritage. This event can enhance the enjoyment of countless visitors of the Harbour’s built heritage and protected landscape. The festival site this year is extended to include the Global Village across the harbour which will add to the entertainment and hospitality focus of the Race Village.


The temporary bridge structures needed to facilitate this event have been carefully positioned and designed by LetsDoItGalway to protect sites and landscapes of heritage importance. This recognises not only the organisational issues associated with the very large crowds expected for this occasion but will temporarily enhance the significance of a protected landscape and the contribution of its setting.

King Saud University, Riyadh - Progress

Scott Tallon Walker Architects were appointed in late 2010 to develop the concept design and construction documentation for both the new 14,600 sq.m. College of Movement and Sports Science and the 40,000 sq.m. Sports Campus suitable for international events, at King Saud University, Riyadh by Saudi Bin Laden Group.


Our role was to liaise directly with the end users and KSU Projects Office to agree the project brief, then to deliver the full detail design for both buildings while working closely with our client SBG to manage costs and program.

The College Building consists of laboratories, classrooms, lecture theatres, offices and common social areas and was instructed to be designed in keeping with the overall masterplan requirements for material and colour selection.
Start on site date: April 2011 Completion date: September 2012.


The Sports Campus, being a centre for international events as well as college use, breaks the rules of the masterplan and is essentially two buildings connected at lower ground floor. It includes a 7,000 seat indoor athletics arena, racquet courts, mats, gymnasium, student facilities and 50m & 25m Olympic swimming pools, all to FINA standard.
Start on site date: September 2011 Completion date: December 2013

The first phase opening of the €284 million Mater Campus Hospital Development is unveiled.

HEALTH Minister, Dr James Reilly today announced the first phase opening of the new €284 million Mater Campus Hospital Development which is designed by Scott Tallon Walker Architects in conjunction with YRM. The hospital’s glass-fronted main entrance on the North Circular Road and its outpatients department were on display and will be open to the public in six weeks time. Completion of final works will be in May of 2013.


Irish Times - New Mater hospital section unveiled
Herald - Mater prepares to show off first stage of €284m revamp
Business Post - The new Mater hospital: green and tech-driven
Independent - First phase opening of €284m new Mater adult hospital announced


The new emergency department, 444-space underground car park, operating theatres, intensive care unit, radiology and 120 single en suite rooms will be rolled out in the second phase, between July and December 2012. By the end of the year the hospital will also have the country’s first out patients “self-registration” check-in service. The development will result in reduced waiting times for theatre, outpatient and accident and emergency services and will provide increased privacy, dignity and comfort for patients, according to hospital management. And the addition of 100 per cent single rooms will benefit cardiothoracic, orthopaedic-spinal and oncology patients and will play a significant role in fighting the spread of infection.


Mater Hospital Chief Executive Officer, Mr Brian Conlan, noted: “This is a great day for all our patients and staff. We now have state-of-the-art, eco-friendly accommodation and facilities, creating a perfect environment for delivery of top class care to our patients provided by the best professionals in the business.”


Scott Tallon Walker Architects are very proud to have been appointed to design this prestigious project which has been a successful collaboration with all others involved the client, planning authority, design team and contractors. We very much hope that this development will be well received by the public, patients and dedicated staff of the Mater Hospital.

STW Architect is second of 475 entries for NYC AIDS Memorial Park Competition.

In conjunction with Architizer and Architectural Record, AIDS Memorial Park launched a design competition, chaired by Michael Arad the designer of the the National September 11 Memorial, to generate ideas for the memorial park design. Yin Mau Ooi's competition entry was the runner up of 475 teams from around the world who submitted designs to create a new neighborhood park and meaningful memorial.


Mau, who was born and raised in Malaysia, graduated from University of South Australia School of Architecture and is currently working at Scott Tallon Walker Architects.


Judges Comments:
A number of entries featured submerged exhibition spaces and sunken courtyards, but few were as simple and serene as Ooi Yin Mau’s “Forest.” A flight of stairs descends from the park’s southeast corner, landing at the foot of a shallow pool hugging against the east wall. A second pool runs along the northern edge of the site, narrowing at it terminates at the northwest corner. The two pools frame a small memorial space that sits under the robust forest at ground level.


Architects Comments:
The architect graciously accepted the jury’s commendation, saying: ”It is a great honor for me to be a runner-up in this competition. I was initially shocked by the scale of AIDS crisis in New York, in which over 100,000 lives were taken away in three decades. My Design is mainly about memories and hope; these experiences are universal. It is part of our life, and our driving force to move forward. I hope my design will touch the heart of many. I feel extremely proud to be part of this competition, and I am grateful to the organizer and all involved.”

Art in Architecture – The Aesthetic Vision of STW

Venue: Emmett Theatre, Arts Block, Trinity College. May 10th, 7:00pm


The reputation of Scott Tallon Walker as a firm with a specific aesthetic vision is well-established, and is unique in the landscape of the history of the visual arts in Ireland. The natural crossover between architecture and contemporary visual art is something Scott Tallon Walker have continually underlined in their work and this, coupled with their overall vision and philosophy, will be explored in this lecture by Niall Scott.



http://www.architecturefoundation.ie/news-item/art-in-architecture-the-aesthetic-vision-of-stw/

Nanotechnology Research Building at the Riyadh Techno Valley (RTV)

Scott Tallon Walker have been retained by the International Contracting Company ABV Rock Group to work with them on the delivery of a 10,000m2 Nanotechnology Research Building at the Riyadh Techno Valley (RTV) Development, which is part of the overall King Saud University Campus in Riyadh.


Scott Tallon Walker are designing the laboratories and adapting the existing concept design to work as a nanotechnology research facility with integrated structure servicing and research concepts accommodated in a highly futuristic circular building plan form.
The building, which has commenced on site, will be completed in 2013 and will be known as the KAIN Building (King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology).


Picture Caption: Dr Zeid A. Alothman Deputy Dean of the King Abdullah Institute for Nanotechnology pictured signing off the Laboratory Layouts for KAIN with Peter Dudley and Charles Julienne of Scott Tallon Walker.