Irena will be giving a talk at AGM in Holmfirth this Friday 18th November to discuss a community plan for Holmfirth and the Holme valley.

Bauman Lyons Architects led a tour of Tower Works buildings and site on Friday 14.10.11, following a Topping-Out Ceremony as the last piece of bronze roof covering was installed jointly by Naz Parkar (Homes & Communities Agency), Irena Bauman, Julie Kenny (Yorkshire Forward), Councillor Richard Lewis (Leeds City Council) and Roger Quarmby (Quarmby Construction). Phase 1A will open in the New Year as lettable office space for small/medium sized creative and digital industries tenants. Occupiers will select from a range of high-quality naturally ventilated office spaces in a BREEAM Excellent-rated facility.

Tom Vigar, Associate at Bauman Lyons, gave a talk to 200 school children aged between 7-11 years old at Riverside Primary School in Hebden Bridge earlier this week about the nature of architecture, what architects do, and how they design spaces.

The school is currently in the process of transforming a storage room, with the help of the children’s ideas, in to a special space which encourages emotional and social skills where the children can go to think, create, listen, be calm, work together and relax. Essentially it is a space where the children can really look after themselves.

The talk was designed to inspire the children for their project along with offering tips, advice and explaining the skills needed to become an architect. The talk lasted around 30 minutes with a question and answer session at the end – with a lot of very eager questions to be answered!

Bauman Lyons have recently been involved in the Design for Future Climate, Adapting Buildings programme ran by TSB.

The research carried out was used on our Church View project, which is a refurbishment of a 1913 office building in Doncaster and is featured in this months RIBA Journal (Oct, p62)

Irena will also speak on Understanding the Value of Place at the learning lunch event on the 13th of October at 12.30- 14.00 at Creative Sheffield  organized by IntegreatPlus

As part of Sheffield’s Urban Design Week, Integreat Plus will be bringing together renowned practitioners to give presentations on Understanding the Value of Places. A wide range of topics, from the cultural values of places to the economic value of public realm will be covered during the session. Spaces are limited to just 25 so please contact Integreat Plus to book in advance.

Irena Bauman will give a talk titled ‘the public use of space’. Irena is a founding director of Bauman Lyons architects, a former CABE commissioner and the Chair of the Regional Design Review Services, as well as a member of the Sheffield Sustainable Development and Design Panel.  

Wednesday 12th October  12.30pm to 1.30pm
WHOSE SPACE IS IT ANYWAY? USE OF URBAN SPACE

Venue: Electric Works, Sheffield Digital Campus, 3 Concourse Way, Sheffield, S1 2BJ
Event Organiser: Sheffield Hallam University

Bauman Lyons Architects and Estell Warren Landscape Architecture designed a public realm scheme as part of a long term strategy to improve and reinvent the seaside experience for the residents and visitors to Bridlington. One regular visitor to Bridlington sent in this complimentary note about what she thought about the finished work…

The third in Bauman Lyons’ series cerebrating 20 years of practice by holding evening conversations with people who are doing interesting things and are doing so with great professional integrity. This time Zygmunt Bauman talks with Fran Graham and Bauman Lyons team about social media and how a firm such as ours should engage with it.

Please join us if you can this Thursday 7 July at BLA for a stimulating conversation and refreshments. Places are extremely limited however- please contact the office for availiability if you would like to attend.

Director Maurice Lyons is now a Code for Sustainable Homes Assessor.

The third of the four planned workshops on Creative City Limits will be chaired by Irena Bauman on Monday 27th of June 2011 at the University of Leeds. 

This  international and interdisciplinary research network offers a forum for reassessing the place of creativity in urban economic growth. Leeds workshop will focus on the way creative industries and cultural practitioners have related to the physical fabric and process of change in cities.

An excerpt from Rachel Unsworth, Sue Ball, Irena Bauman, Paul Chatterton, Andrew Goldring, Katie Hill and Guy Julier’s action research into transforming the inner city for the benefit of its communities and the environment, carried out by Leeds Love It Share It has been published in City Journal.  City provides a crucial space for critical perspectives from around the world – on geography, urban studies, cities, culture, sociology and politics.

The article “Building resilience and well-being in the Margins within the City” can be read here

Irena Bauman will be presenting current research case study from the Design for future climates: adapting buildings 2010 competition at the conference due to take place on 21 July 2011 in London.

A one-day practical conference event which will focus on:
•    Policy drivers
•    Assessing overheating
•    What guidance there is available
•    The new UKCP09 data
•    Urban heat islands

To book your place or for information click here

LeedsLoveitShareit, a community interest company set up by Bauman Lyons, University of Leeds and Leeds Metropolitan University, has published our first research paper ‘Margin’s within the city’ in City Journal. The research investigated the underutilised capacity of skills, social networks and physical assets in an inner city community of Richmond Hill and is titled “Building resilience and well-being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks” it can be downloaded here.

The second in Bauman Lyons’ series cerebrating 20 years of practice by holding evening conversations with people who are doing interesting things and are doing so with great professional integrity. Our second conversation is with Emily Cumming who is a 23 year old inventor. She is inspirational. Please join us if you can this Wednesday 8 June at BLA for a stimulating conversation and refreshments. Places are extremely limited however- please contact the office for availiability if you would like to attend.

Work has started on site for the conversion and extension of the Grade II listed Town Hall at Hebden Bridge.  The engine house has now been demolished in preparation for the piling works.  The work is due for completion in March 2011

The work at Bridlington Spa Gardens is now compete.  The project which started on site in 2009 was part of the wider redevelopment of the environment around the famous Royal Hall & Spa as well as the Princess Mary Promenade.  The £6m project was funded by Sea Change, Yorkshire Forward & East Riding of Yorkshire council.  Photos courtesy of Estell Warren Landscape Architecture

Watch Bauman Lyons latest building project. It only takes 30 seconds to lower your carbon footprint…

Bauman Lyons extended their commitment to persevere with food cultivation with the installation of a green house on Friday 28th of April. Kate Middleton and her fiancé were in attendance.   The green house was purchased with grant support from Co2Sense since it is estimated that, if cultivation succeeds, the office will achieve of 6-10T Co2 reductions per year.

Bauman Lyons are proud to present the first in series of talks called ‘Celebrating Integrity’ to commemorate the 20th year of the practice. The series will continue throughout the year so please keep checking back.  Places are extremely limited however- please contact the office for availiability if you would like to attend.

MAUD students from Sheffield and Irena in Copenhagen and Malmo on a study tour for their project: Desirable Neighborhoods – pure inspiration!