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inmidtown Habitats

Design competition organised by The Architecture Foundation on behalf of the inmidtown Business Improvement District.

Issued: 3 October 2011

Image Credits: Top Left: Top Right: We3d, Creative Commons; Bottom: inmidtown

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Contents

1. The Project • 1.1 Overview • 1.2 Aims • 1.3 Context • 1.4 Competition Partners • 1.5 Site/Location • 1.6 Programme and Design Requirements • 1.7 Budget and Funding • 1.8 Consultation • 1.9 Timescale

2. Competition

• 2.1 Client Body • 2.2 Competition Format • 2.3 Competition Address • 2.4 Submission Requirements • 2.5 Registration • 2.6 Questions and Answers • 2.7 Anonymity • 2.8 Eligibility • 2.9 Technical Experts • 2.10 Professional Indemnity Insurance Requirements • 2.11 Honorarium and Remuneration • 2.12 Press and Publicity • 2.13 Exhibition • 2.14 Copyright • 2.15 Criteria • 2.16 Feedback

3. Jury

• 3.1 Jury Members • 3.2 Technical Advisors

4. Terms of Appointment

• 4.1 Appointment • 4.2 Scope of Work and Payment Schedule • 4.3 Consultant Team

5. Project Partners

• 5.1 About inmidtown • 5.2 About The Architecture Foundation • 5.3 About Animal Estates London Headquarters

6. Supporting Documents (available for download from www.architecturefoundation.org.uk)


1. The project 1.1 Overview

TheArchitectureFoundation,togetherwithbusinessimprovementdistrict,inmidtown(‘theClient’)isrunningadesigncompetitionseekingproposalsforaseriesofbeehives,bird‐boxes,bat‐boxesandplanterstoincreasebiodiversityincentralLondon.ShortlisteddesignswillbeshowcasedatanexhibitionattheBritishMuseuminFebruary2012andthewinningdesignswillberolledoutthroughouttheHolborn,BloomsburyandSt.Gilesareasinthesummerof2012.

1.2 Aims

The primary aim of this competition is to generate creative, practical and affordable designs for urban beehives and complementary bird-boxes, bat-boxes and planters to be used by inmidtown business members in their outdoor spaces. In addition it is the desire of the inmidtown (‘the Client’) to raise the national and international profile of the inmidtown area as an exemplar, sustainable place for businesses of all sizes to thrive.

1.3 Context

1.3.1 inmidtown

inmidtown is the Business Improvement District for the Holborn, Bloomsbury and St. Giles neighbourhoods of Central London. With a membership of 560 local businesses it works in a number of ways to promote the inmidtown area as a destination of choice both for offices and retailers. This includes programmes to:

• Improve and regenerate the local public realm and transport infrastructure, through its Framework for Change1, its engagement with other local interest groups and its involvement with the Mayor’s Legible London scheme as well as investing directly in public realm improvements such as the introduction of PlantLocks (bicycle stand planters) around the area.

• Keep the area safe, through its business crime reduction partnership and partnership with the Metropolitan Police, as well as the presence of the inmidtown Rangers throughout the week.

• Increase sustainable business practices in the area, for which it has already won two EECO (Environmental Excellence in Camden Organisations) awards from Camden Council. inmidtown is working with its member businesses to improve their environmental performance, reducing costs and carbon, through various programmes such as its “Zero Waste to Landfill” scheme and its recently introduced the “Midtown Buzz” scheme which provides free beehives and bee-keeping training to its membership who wish to produce their own honey on site. The Client has also recently pledged its support for Capital Bee, the Mayor of London's new urban bees campaign.

• Enhancing retail offer and trading environment.

• Advocating for member businesses, building and maintaining key organisational relationships

1www.inholborn.org/sites/inmidtown.org/files/files/Inholborn_Public_Realm_0609.pdf


in the management and development of the area.

1.3.2 Midtown Buzz & Urban Beekeeping

inmidtown’s ‘Midtown Buzz’, project has now completed its first year, with the first honey harvest collected from two rooftop hives this September.

During this first phase, it has become clear to the members of the Midtown Buzz scheme that although beehives exist whose designs have stood the test of time for bees and beekeepers alike, these hives are not in fact ideal when relocated from the traditional rural context into urban areas2.

Challenges for urban and rooftop hives (and their keepers) include strong winds (and air-conditioning vents), distance from or lack of forage, access and health & safety concerns on terraces, rooftops, and often having to work in very tight spaces

Existing hive designs do not fully respond to these challenges. A hive that is truly suitable for an urban context will have flexibility in its fixing and siting, will deal with the challenges posed by wind and weather at height and of course, the need to be visually appropriate and attractive in a public setting.3.

1.3.3 Pollinators

As a natural continuation of the Midtown Buzz scheme, and in order to ensure its success and expansion, the Client has commissioned The Architecture Foundation to run this competition for a truly urban beehive. However, recognising the growing need to accommodate nature in the city, and in order to build upon the success of the new hives around the area, the competition is not simply for beehives, but also solicits proposals for complimentary bird-boxes, bat-boxes and planters that will be installed throughout the area to ensure adequate forage and pollination.

The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) estimates that out of some 100 crop species which provide 90% of food worldwide, 71 of these are bee-pollinated.

Despite the essential service bees provide, the United Nations Environment programs notes that globally, honeybees and other bee-pollinators are in decline. Specifically, research points to a significant 25% decline in managed European honey bees between 1985 and 2005. 4

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs’ recent white paper, ‘Securing the Value of Nature’ states that:

• The value of pollination to UK agriculture is £440 million per year (13% of the total value of agriculture).

• There has been a drop of 54% in England’s honey bee colonies over the last 20 years.

• More than 50% of our landscapes now have fewer species of bees and hoverflies than in 1980.

• The cost of replacing bee pollination with hand pollination is greater than the total market

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value of the crops, at over £1.5 billion per year.5

1.3.4 Designing for Urban Biodiversity

In recent years, designers in the UK and the rest of the world have become increasingly engaged with the possibilities of encouraging the role of wildlife in the city, designing to support and enhance urban biodiversity and eco-systems. In London alone, recent projects by 51% Studios, London Fieldworks and RSA graduates Jorgen Tandberg and Yo Murata, to name but a few, have catered to bats and birds6; property developers British Land have also recently run a competition for urban insect homes7.

It is within this context that inmidtown are sponsoring this competition, looking to increase the number of species the district caters for and the scale at which the scheme is rolled out in the area.

1.4 Competition Partners

This design competition will be collaborating with University College London, Arup, and the artist Fritz Haeg’s ‘Animal Estates’ programme. Opening in Arup’s vestibule gallery space on Fitzroy Street in the Autumn of 2011, Arup Animal Estates: Department of Urban Wildlife Client Services, a new division of Arup operations, will provide spaces and resources for interested teams and local partners to develop existing and new projects that seek to accommodate and welcome native London wildlife clients back into the city.

The space will act as a reading library and resource centre with a growing display of plans and prototypes, a meeting and conference space for consultations between local wildlife experts, designers, scientists, architects, artists, students, and particular Arup staff and project team, enabling them to individually and collectively develop work and present the progress, process and results to the public.

Entrants to this competition will be able to make use of the resources, facilities and knowledge available to develop their ideas and proposals for the inmidtown Habitats competition. A number of events will also be held at the venue, including an opportunity to ‘Meet the (Animal) Clients’ relating to this brief on the 13th October 2011 (6pm-8pm). This event will also be filmed and made available online for those who are unable to attend in person.

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1.5 Site/Location

Thefocusareaforthenewhabitatsistheinmidtowndistrict,whichcomprisesHolborn,BloomsburyandSt.Giles,threecentralLondonareasthatareverymuchinterconnectedwhilstretainingtheirownindividualcharacters.

Bloomsbury is a district of spacious garden squares with a lively cultural and intellectual life, home to the British Museum, the UK’s most visited tourist attraction, as well as a number of distinguished medical and academic institutions.

Holborn is one of London’s most important commercial areas with a bustling business life, as well as being an important centre for the legal profession, a role it owes historically to the neighbouring Inns of Court.

St Giles sits between Bloomsbury and Covent Garden and links Oxford Street with Holborn. Once the main approach to the City of London from the west, it will soon be home to a major station on the new Crossrail link and is a focus for a number of exciting urban developments.

As part of London’s central zone and a major business and employment centre, the district has been designated as an area of growth and intensification in the Mayor’s London Plan8.

Together, these areas form a very special place at the heart of London, physically, socially and culturally. The area is a destination of interest for locals and tourists alike, with its beautiful squares, impressive buildings and vibrant feel. inmidtown intends to build on these qualities to make it a

8http://www.london.gov.uk/sites/default/files/LP2011%20Chapter%202.pdf


truly sustainable and liveable part of the city.

The beehives, bird boxes, bat-boxes and planters resulting from this competition will be located in a variety of different locations throughout this area in a variety of different locations.

1.6 Programme and Design Requirements

The Client is seeking design proposals that comprise:

• One beehive • One bird-box OR one bat-box9 • Two or three planters

It is the Client’s intention that the winning designs will be manufactured at volume and installed in a variety of diverse locations across the area, with the clear aim of supporting wildlife and increasing biodiversity, and building upon the success of the Midtown Buzz honey bee project.

Proposed structures will need to be both technically and aesthetically suitable for a wide range of buildings and sites throughout the business district. 10 1.6.1 Technical Requirements

The habitats and planters must all be fully functional and fit for purpose. Technical guidance on functional requirements is available in the Supporting Documents appended to this brief.

Due to the variety of spaces and surfaces where the structures will be installed, proposals should carefully consider and respond to the following considerations with flexibility and versatility:

• Size; • Fixing/Installation Methods (potential to be fixed to a variety of surfaces/materials and

potential to be moved); • Materials.

The proposals should be suitably robust to deal with the following concerns (which will vary from site to site):

• Maintenance (should be minimal); • Weathering (whether they are located at ground level or many storeys up); • Vandalism/Mistreatment/Accidental Damage.

The proposals should also:

• Be suitable for volume manufacture at a suitable price-point and time-scale (see 1.7 Budget & Funding and 1.9 Timeline);

• Be easily moveable; • Include possibilities for BID branding.

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Furthermore, the individual typologies will need to conform to the following requirements:

Beehive designs must:11

• Have Capacity for a minimum of eight frames and be fully expandable and adaptable; • Be Adequately sturdy and solid to withstand winds at high level; • Be Portable; • Comprise a modular structure, so that several units could be joined to increase capacity; • Allow access for beekeeper to inspect for disease, assess hive capacity, clean and disinfect in the

winter.

It is highly recommended that the hives be based on the standard National or WBC hive system, as this is what is currently used by Midtown Buzz members

Bird-box designs must12:

• Be designed to suit native birds. Designs can be tailored to one particular species or adaptable to suit a range of different birds. Ideally, at least one of these should be one of those at risk in London, as detailed in Appendix document 6.3 (e.g. Swift, House Sparrow, Starling)

• Allow access for cleaning in the winter.• Consider how to deal with droppings in and around the box entrance.• Depending on selected bird species could be a modular structure (e.g. for colonial species such

as House Sparrows).

Bat-box designs must13:

• Consider how to deal with droppings in and around the box entrance• Bedesignedtoallowforplacinginnumberwithdifferentaspects

Planter designs must:

• Vary to allow for different uses/installation locations. • Comprise a modular structure, so that several units could be joined to increase capacity. • Address drainage and the potential for water-staining.

To fit with inmidtown's sustainability ethos and its “Zero Waste to Landfill” scheme, the solution should preferably:

• Incorporate the use of recycled materials wherever possible; and/or

• Follow a “cradle-to-cradle” approach to material choice and design i.e. • Use materials which have the potential to be reused / recycled in the future (using existing

technology); • Ensure the design of the structures allows for their reuse/adaptation/dismantling.

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1.6.2 Aesthetic Requirements

The habitats and planters will need to be suitable for inmidtown’s varied membership, and conform to the following requirements:

• Proposals should feature the Client’s primary brand colour of orange (Pantone 1585C). The secondary brand colour is grey (Pantone 424C).

• Designs must be appropriate in their aesthetic/materiality/finish for both old and new buildings of a variety of materials and styles and for spaces of very high quality finish (and corporate image) such as office terraces etc.

1.6.3 Structural Viability

All submission concepts should be developed to the approximate equivalent of RIBA work stage D. In terms of structure this would include a brief description (written/graphic) of the basic structural concept, materials and outline proposals for fabrication, and installation processes and requirements.

1.7 Budget and Funding

At this competition stage, and for the purposes of the exhibition of shortlists, entrants should work to a maximum budget of up to £1,250 total for the construction of prototypes of the winning suite of designs (i.e. one prototype of each constituent element in the suite).

However, for the implementation phase (the roll-out of the winning design around the area) proposals will hopefully anticipate a lower cost for bulk production of the designs, which should be indicated in the submission. Whilst allowing for the higher amount for prototypes as stated above, volume manufacture price per suite of four to five elements should not exceed £400.

Proposals need not be fully costed, but inclusion of an outline budget (for both prototype construction and bulk manufacture) is highly recommended and designs must be realistic in relation to the budget.

1.8 Consultation

Prototypes of the shortlisted designs will be displayed to a wide public audience in a high profile venue in the inmidtown area.

Public feedback, and comments from key stakeholders (e.g. existing and potential Midtown Buzz scheme participants, other local businesses and residents) will be solicited at this time and distributed to the Jury. The Jury will be mindful of these comments although this will not constitute a public ‘vote’; the final decision will be that of the competition Jury.


1.9 Timescale

Events indicated in Italics are open to the public and are supplementary to the competition, noted here as they may be of interest to entrants for research purposes.

October 2011 • 3 Online and press launch of International Competition. • 10 London Honey Show, Lancaster Hotel 14 • 12 1-2pm inmidtown Bee walk; starts inmidtown kiosk outside Holborn Tube Station15 • 13 6-8pm ‘Meet the (Animal) Clients, Phase 2, 8 Fitzroy Street, – A presentation by

experts at Animal Estates London HQ installation presenting the needs of the fauna catered for in this brief (Available online)16

• 14 1-2pm inmidtown Bee walk; as above • Other events within Animal Estates events highlighted to competition entrants17.

November 2011 • 14 5pm Deadline for receipt of questions • 17 5pm Questions and answers published on www.architecturefoundation.org.uk • 23 5pm Deadline for registering for entry into the competition (see Registration). • 28 5pm GMT Competition deadline for entries.

December 2011 • Experts and Key stakeholders review all submissions and make recommendations. • Jury convenes. • w/c 12 Shortlist of three announced.

January 2012 • Construction of short-listed prototypes. • w/c 30 Public exhibition of constructed prototypes (Venue tbc).

February 2012 • Jury convenes. • Winner announced.

March – May 2012 • Detailed design development of winning design. • Manufacture & installation of winning design around BID Area.

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2. The Competition 2.1 Client Body The competition is being organised by The Architecture Foundation, on behalf of inmidtown. 2.2 Competition Format The competition will be via n open and anonymous submission (see 1.8 Timescale for precise dates.) • Entrants are invited to submit proposals openly and anonymously. • Over the course of the first six weeks, The AF will field queries from the interested practices and

collate them so all entrants receive the same access to any supplementary information. • Key stakeholders and experts will review ALL the submissions and make recommendations. • Following this, the Jury will meet and review selected submissions as advised by the

consultants. • They will then decide on a short-list of entries to be built and publicly exhibited to a wide

audience. • Following this selection, the process will cease to be anonymous. • After the exhibition, the jury will select a winner and this shall be publicly announced. • The winning design will be manufactured and installed across the BID area.

2.3 Competition Address FAO: Anna Kerrane Midtown Habitats Competition The Architecture Foundation Ground Floor East 136-148 Tooley Street London SE1 2TU United Kingdom 2.4 Submission Requirements Submissions must include all of (and no more than) the following:

• 2 x A1 boards • Bound report up to 10 sides A4 paper (including title page) • CD-ROM containing information on boards and on report, and three high-resolution press

images to be used should the submission be shortlisted. Submissions must be in the form of THREE copies of the printed bound report, ONE copy of each board and ONE CD-ROM. See 2.7 Anonymity


The submission on boards and report should include:

• The entrant’s response to the brief’s requirements re: sites. • An overview of the entrant’s concept. • Further explanation of the entrant’s proposals. • Outline of entrant’s response to technical constraints.

Text should be concise and clear, using bullet points where possible. It is recommended that submissions contain no more than 700 words in total. All submission concepts should be developed to the equivalent of RIBA work stage D. 2.4.1 Printing Partners: There are two options for delivery of entries: • They can be posted directly to our offices at address given at 2.3, or, • PDF documents can be e-mailed to one our preferred printing partners (see below) who will

print and deliver the bound documents and boards to our offices. “inmidtown habitats” should be the subject line.

NB. Entrants choosing this latter method of submission via a printing partner MUST:

• Send a pdf copy of a completed registration form to their chosen printers, who will place in a sealed envelope to accompany the printed submission, as per the directions on the form.

• Submit high resolution pdfs of both boards and the report to [email protected] in lieu of the CD, with ‘inmidtown Habitats Submission PDFs” as subject line. This e-mail should also be accompanied by a completed pdf of the registration form. (These e-mails will be directed by a filter to a separate folder which will not be accessed until the appropriate moment, so the subject line is critical.)

The London Print Company 212 Shaftesbury Avenue London WC2H 8EB T. (020) 7497 2862 www.londonprint.co.uk Contact: Nick West [email protected]

Cascade Group Holborn51 High HolbornHigh HolbornLondon, WC1V 6EPT. (020) 7430 5050http://www.cascadelondon.co.uk/ Contact: Antony Adler [email protected]

Please note that all printing costs must still be borne by the entrant, and payment organised directly with the chosen printers, although a discount on their regular rates is offered [please ask


printer for further details]. Delivery of printed material to The Architecture Foundation without review is done so at entrants own risk. We recommend entrants make contact with the printers at an early stage to ensure adequate lead-in time is allowed, though an absolute minimum of 3 working days is required by both companies. 2.4.2 International/Courier Deliveries & Customs For international entrants who choose to send their entries by post/courier, please note that the value of contents delivered should be based on the value of the printed materials, not on the intellectual property. Therefore, waybills should clearly indicate that the contents is printed material and of no commercial value. 2.5 Registration In order to submit to this competition, entrants MUST complete and return a registration form in advance of their entry. This form is available to download from www.architecturefoundation.org.uk. Registration fee: £10 (free for AF members 18) to be paid in advance of entry, at www.architecturefoundation.org.uk. Please note that all fees will be ring-fenced into a planting fund for the new planters. The deadline for registration & payment is Wednesday 23 November 2011 at 17.00 GMT. The deadline for final submissions is Monday 28 November 2011 at 17.00 GMT 2.6 Questions and Answers All questions related to the competition should be emailed to Anna Kerrane, Competitions Coordinator at [email protected] with the subject line “inmidtown Habitats Questions” by Monday 14 November 2011 at 17.00 GMT. All questions and answers will be posted, anonymously in a single document on www.architecturefoundation.org.uk by Thursday 17 November To preserve anonymity and to conserve resources, the AF and members of the client body will not respond to inquiries by telephone or to any entrants on an individual basis. Entrants must not contact the AF, inmidtown, any of the project consultants, or any members of the competition Jury during the competition period.

18Pleasevisitwww.architecturefoundation.org.uk/support/membership‐levelstobecomeanAFmember.Membershipisfreetostudents,jobseekersandover65s.


2.7 Anonymity The first stage of the competition is open and strictly anonymous. Entrants must not give any indication of their identity on their submission, (whether the boards, report, digital files or CD-ROM), either by using their name or by referring to past projects identifiable as their work, or in any other way. Any entrants breaching this condition will be disqualified. The registration form should be the only part of the submission that displays the identity of the entrants. This will be detached from the submission in advance of the expert review and Jury deliberations. 2.8 Eligibility Entries are welcome from individuals, practices and teams. The competition is open to architects, artists, designers and engineers, and to students in these disciplines, whether individuals or teams involving more than one of these disciplines. Submissions are solicited from teams from around the world. Professional design qualifications are desirable, but by no means mandatory. 2.9 Technical Expertise It is recommended that entrants/teams ensure that they have sufficient technical expertise to deliver the design work on the project. 2.10 Professional Indemnity Insurance Requirements The winning entrant will be expected to operate as an appropriately defined legal entity (partnership or other structure), and will be required to carry Professional Indemnity Insurance to the value of £500,000 2.11 Honoraria and Remuneration Each of the shortlisted entrants will receive up to £1,250 to support the construction of their designs as prototypes19, and their entries will be exhibited publicly and online. The winner will receive a £1,500 honorarium and their designs will be adopted by the Client as the basis of all bee-hives, bird-boxes, bat-boxes and related planters issued by the BID for installation around the area. An initial run of Habitats will be manufactured and installed by the summer of 2012. The first runner up will receive £850 and the second runner up will receive £500.20 The Client will seek appropriate homes for the runners-up’s prototypes in perpetuity.

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2.12 Press and Publicity

Entrants must not talk to the press about the competition and matters relating to it in advance of the announcement of the short-listed schemes. The competition organisers and Client, in connection with promoting or publicising the competition, may use material submitted by entrants. [See also 2.14 Copyright below]. 2.13 Exhibition

It is planned to publicly exhibit a selection of entries in the inmidtown area in February 2012.

2.14 Copyright

All submissions to the competition must be the original work of the team members, new for this competition and not already subject to copyright by any third parties. Any individual or team entering the competition will be deemed to have given the competition organisers (The Architecture Foundation and the Client) an irrevocable, free licence to use, reproduce, copy, display, publish, and distribute the work and to use it for all of the Architecture Foundation current and future print and electronic uses. Furthermore, by submitting an entry, competitors will be deemed to have granted exclusive reproduction rights to reproduce and manufacture all designs for 5 years to inmidtown in the case that they win the competition. Design teams shall retain copyright of their design proposals. Ownership of the constructed shortlisted prototypes will lie with inmidtown. Any submission that does not contain a copyright notice shall become the property of inmidtown. Any submission purporting to limit or deny the Architecture Foundation or inmidtown licensure (or copyright) will not be eligible for prizes. By submitting an entry, competitors agree to be bound by these conditions.

2.15 Criteria

To guide jury evaluation of competition submissions, the use of weightings/percentage scoring could be considered as below: - Delivery/achievability 20% An approach that can be delivered at volume within realistic budgets and within the practical constraints of the site and client body. The Jury will not be asking for detailed costing, but proposals should not depend for their success on high levels of expenditure.


- Practicality 20% Robustness, durability, and a realistic approach to issues including maintenance, cleaning, accessibility and movement. Proposals should demonstrate their suitability for a number of very different sites. This includes clear considerations about flexible use of the structure over time, including a potential increase in capacity. - Quality of concept 15% A creative and intelligent response to the issues raised by the competition brief. - Quality of design 15% The ability to translate concept into high quality three-dimensional design, ranging from the overall approach to smaller scale decisions on detail and materials. The relationship between the component elements of the suite.

- Understanding of area 15% Awareness of the special qualities of the area and its various building types, and a creative response to them. Consideration of the portability of the structure/adjustability to different possible sites.

- Environmental sustainability 15% A sustainable approach to materials used, construction techniques and energy consumption in use. Use of weightings:

The weightings are for guidance purposes for the Jury and for entrants. The shortlist and winner will not be decided by rigid application of a scoring system. The Jury’s decision will be final. Its deliberations will be private, and no reasons will be given for its decisions.

2.16 Feedback

We regret that the Client, The Architecture Foundation and the professional advisors cannot undertake to give reasons for their decisions on an individual basis.

3. The Jury 3.1 Jury Members

The Jury includes:

• Senior representative, inmidtown • Nigel Coates, Architect and Designer • David Lindo, The Urban Birder • Renzo Piano Building Workshop representative (tbc) • Ian Douglas, Journalist, The Daily Telegraph • Paul Johnson, Environmental Scientist, Arup (tbc) • British Museum representative (tbc) Chair to be confirmed


3.2 Technical Advisors

Technical advisors will review the shortlisted proposals and submit comments for the consideration of the jury in the second stage of the competition.

• Davis Langdon, Cost Consultants (tbc) • Maintenance and management Consultant • Peter Holden, Ornithologist • Luke Dixon, Bee Expert • Bat Expert (tbc) • Camden Council Sustainability representative

4. Terms of Appointment 4.1 Appointment

The aim of the competition is to select a designer or design team, based on the submissions received. 4.2 Scope of Work and Payment Schedules The winning designer/ design team will receive funds to build a prototype of their proposal in December 2011/January 2012.

50% of prototype construction honoraria will be paid on announcement of the shortlist; with the balance paid upon provision of proof of costs.

Prizemoneywillbepaidonannouncementofthewinnerandrunners‐up.

4.3ConsultantTeam The development of the project for volume production may require additional consultants, such as fabrication specialists. Proposals for these appointments from the winner will be welcome. However, the Client reserves the right to have the final say in this matter.

5. Project Partners 5.1 About inmidtown

inmidtown is a company limited by guarantee, run by and for its members. It has no share capital. Any surpluses generated are reinvested in the company's services.

inmidtown an expansion of inholborn BID. A Business Improvement District (BID) is an independent, business-owned and led company, which seeks to improve a given location for commercial activity. inmidtown’s members are the 560 businesses in the BID area who pay its annual ‘levy’. Many of these are heavily involved in the governance of the company.

www.inmidtown.org


5.2 About The Architecture Foundation

Established in 1991 as the UK’s first independent architecture centre, The Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture.

We cultivate new talent and new ideas. Through our diverse programmes we facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment.

We are independent, agile, inclusive and influential. Central to our activities is the belief that architecture enriches lives.

www.architecturefoundation.org.uk

5.3 About Animal Estates London Headquaters

Animal Estates London HQ: Urban Wildlife Client Services opens this autumn in Arup’s ground floor gallery space Phase 2 at 8 Fitzroy St, London. This temporary headquarters will provide a place for activists, architects, artists, city-dwellers, designers, engineers, homeowners, and planners to research, discuss, plan, develop, and present initiatives to accommodate native London 'animal clients’. Projects may range from simple wood nest-boxes that any local resident could construct and strategically install at home, to broad master planning for urban wildlife corridors throughout the city. The space will feature a front reception desk staffed by a full time director with a team of interns, an open area for the evolving display of estate prototypes, work stations about each of the 11 selected native London species, a conference room for meetings and presentations, a resource library, and a place to consult with local urban wildlife experts. http://www.fritzhaeg.com/garden/initiatives/animalestates/prototypes/london.html

6. Supporting documents

Please download the following appendices from www.architecturefoundation.org.uk: 6.1 Bee-hive Background and Technical Guidance

6.2 Bird-box Technical Guidance

6.3 Bat-box Technical Guidance (to become available as of 7 October 2011)

6.4 Example Sites, Images & Descriptions

6.5 Links to Further Information