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RIBA London, Design for London
and Qatari Diar competition.

RIBA London has teamed up with Design for London and developer and investor Qatari Diar to launch Forgotten Spaces, an ideas based competition that will highlight areas of left-over land in London and encourage innovative proposals for improving local communities.

The competition featuring cash prizes is open to students, artists, designers and architects in Greater London and will result in a public exhibition at The National Theatre on London’s Southbank from:
24 May – 4 July 2010. A launch event and announcement of winners will take place on 26 May 2010.

Complementing the Mayor’s Great Spaces initiative, Forgotten Spaces seeks out under used areas of the capital and hearts of local communities and explores their possibilities.

'Remembering Spaces'  mapping workshops

The workshops explore different approaches to the re-imagining of "forgotten spaces". The aim is to stimulate original and innovative entries for the competition, encouraging participants to bring their professional skills together with approaches and insights from grassroots approaches to regeneration.

• Brixton: 15:00- 17.30, Thursday 4 February- COMPLETED
  Brixton Village Market, Atlantic Street, Brixton SW9
• Hackney: 15:00-17.30, Saturday 13 February- COMPLETED
  Starting point 129 – 131 Mare Street, Hackney E8 3RH
• Waltham Forrest: 14:00-16.30 Saturday 20 February- COMPLETED

Image gallery to appear here shortly.

Prize fund

Design for London, Qatari Diar and RIBA London will jointly announce the competition winners and award the cash prizes at the exhibition launch event on 26 May at the National Theatre.

• First Prize £5,000
• Second Prize £2,000
• Third Prize £1,000

Winners and shortlisted entries to feature in public exhibition at The National Theatre in May 2010 on London’s Southbank from 24 May – 4 July 2010.

Competition brief and submissions brief

Please note: registration is now closed, submissions for those already registered must be received before 11 March 2010

Partners 

Notes:

1.0 Forgotten Spaces is an ideas based competition. Entries will not be built. The competition is open to artists, students, designers and architects living and working in Greater London as defined by the 32 Boroughs and the administrative boundaries of RIBA London.

2.0 Design for London| is a regional design resource for London. They are part of the London Development Agency (LDA) and work on behalf of the Mayor of London. Design for London’s role is to help the LDA ensure a design led approach to delivering improvements to infrastructure and the built environment in London. They also work with the boroughs and others to support the delivery of good urban change and well-designed projects across London.

3.0 Mayor’s Great Spaces|  is an initiative to revitalise some of the capital's unique public spaces. It will help transform some of London's recognised and lesser known streets, squares, parks and riverside walks into places Londoners and visitors will want to use and enjoy all year round. The initiative aims to celebrate and support the good work being done across London to improve public places. It will embrace projects at any stage of their development, including projects that are already part of other public space initiatives.

4.0 About QATARI DIAR Real Estate Investment Company|  is wholly owned by the Qatar Investment Authority, QATARI DIAR Real Estate Investment Company was established in December 2004 to support Qatar’s growing economy and to co-ordinate the country’s real estate development priorities. Qatari Diar is currently involved in more than 30 projects in 18 countries around the world.

Qatari Diar is becoming established as one of the world’s most trusted and respected real estate companies because of its commitment to quality, local community, partnership and hallmark sustainability.

Qatari Diar’s hallmark vision of sustainable development places community and local traditions at the forefront. The Company aims to create and manage property investments and developments which not only comply with the best international standards, but which also strongly reflect local culture and values. As a result, Qatari Diar’s projects deliver a distinctive and sustainable social, economic and environmental benefit to the community. In addition, Qatari Diar often enables local and international developers and investors to partner in its projects, and to work together in exploring other opportunities, both locally and internationally.

In the UK, Qatari Diar has a £5bn investment and development programme under way including the Chelsea Barracks project, its recent acquisition of the US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square, London, and its involvement in the development of the iconic, 300m tall Shard Tower, designed by Renzo Piano, which will become Europe’s tallest building and a catalyst for the regeneration of the area surrounding London Bridge Station, known as London Bridge Quarter.