We have been selected to a panel of six architectural firms for Sheffield City Enterprising neighbourhoods managed workspace Programme. It is hoped that the programme will deliver a number of managed workspace in the city to facilitate business growth. 

BLA are beginning to work on the design for an inaugural exhibition planned for the opening of the new Leeds City Museum programmed to open in 2008. The exhibition will showcase photographs of Leeds taken 50 years ago by the French photographer Marc Riboud. Curator’s Notes: In the 1950s, the young Riboud came to Leeds on assignment for Picture Post. Unfortunately, in the midst of the assignment Riboud was recalled to Paris – for the funeral of Robert Capa – and his photographs ( some 60 plus) were not developed until 50 years later! Thus, they are a rare glimpse of Leeds – through a Frenchman’s eyes, and a fascinatingly biased (both prejudiced and endearing) view of the Northern town. Anna Douglas 

Discussions have commenced about phase 2 of the office development

We have been commissioned by Igloo to design a £15 Million new build office development with multistorey car park in Holbeck Urban Village, Leeds. 

Irena Bauman will present Key Note Address at C-SAP conference (The Higher Education Academy:Sociology,Anthropology,Politics) on the 22nd of November in Cardiff entitled Teaching in Public- The Future of Higher Education. Her paper is entitled: ‘Future Learning Environments’ and will be presented with the storyteller Pat Gilbey.

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We are working with Yorkshire Design to provide a roof extension over the successful Design Centre, The Calls, Leeds.

Carlsberg pre-invited Bauman Lyons to take part in an international open ideas competition for the development of the Carlsberg site in Copenhagen. Unfortunately Bauman Lyons were not the winning team but hope to work in Copenhagen in the future. 

Carlsberg Website

We are very pleased to announce that Guy Smith has become a Director. He joined Bauman Lyons in March 2003 and has made an invaluable contribution to all aspects of our work since. 

Shirecliffe Community Centre and Surestart Children’s Centre, Sheffield has been completed! It was officially opened by Lord Mayor Jackie Drayton and Rt Hon David Blunkett MP earlier this month.

Flaxengate CIMW, Lincoln, currently under construction, is taking shape and is due for completion in June 2007. When complete it will provide dynamic managed workspaces for startup businesses for creative industries, arts and digital media.

Bauman Lyons have won the Leeds Architecture Award for New Built and the People’s Award for the Little London Children’s Centre. The project gained recognition for its “bold, yet delightful design” and it’s positive impact within the regeneration area of Little London.

The refurbishment project at Marshalls Mill, Holbeck for Igloo Regeneration was shortlisted for the Conserved or Altered Building category of the Leeds Architecture Awards. The project was awarded a commendation for what the judges described as “a clever and punchy” rethinking of the existing entrance and reception to the listed mill.

Bauman Lyons and ISIS have been chosen to redevelop the Tower Works site south of the canal in Leeds. 

ISIS Developers

Wellfield Road is featured in the Sunday Times Magazine, Inside Out. December 2006.

BLA’s new build office is scaffold free! On the 22nd December 2006 Bauman Lyons will move to: Black Building, 2 Newton Road, Leeds, LS7 4HE.      

Nooks and Corners – Irena Bauman’s comments are included in an article on the Stirling Prize in Private Eye magazine. Issue 1170, 27 Oct – 9 Nov 2006

Private Eye

The Healthcare phase of Woodroyd Centre opened to the public on the 16th October. 

Irena Bauman has been invited to speak at the Northern Urban Renaissance symposium on 13-14 December in Leeds. The School of Geography at the University of Leeds is organizing the symposium to debate the reality, possibilities and limits of a renaissance in Northern cities. The symposium marks the formal launch of the Urban Cultures and Consumption Research Cluster in the School, and the Cluster is sponsoring the event.  

Leeds University

Irena Bauman has joined the new Urban Design Review Panel in Sheffield. The panel will meet once a month to review forth coming projects in the city.

Irena Bauman and Rosa Silverman contribute to Stirling Prize article. The Guardian 14 October 2006.  

The Guardian