Two Civic Trust Award wins - C.F. Møller
8.3.2014

Two Civic Trust Award wins

Both the Aalborg Waterfront and The East Village (formerly Athletes Village) in London, where C.F. Møller has designed a complex with 185 apartments, have been awarded the prestigious Civic Trust Award.
The Civic Trust Awards were founded in 1959 to recognise excellence in architecture, design, planning, landscapes and public art. The award is given to projects of the highest architectonic quality but only if the project is assessed to make an especially positive cultural, social or financial contribution to the local community and demonstrates commitment to sustainability and universal design principles. The British award is mainly bestowed on British architecture and only rarely awarded to international projects. This year, the Aalborg Waterfront was one of the Civic Trust International Award winners. C.F. Møller's master plan for Aalborg Waterfront connects Aalborg's medieval quarter and the Limfjord, to which access used to be difficult, due to the industrial port and heavy traffic. The new waterfront, which is about one kilometre long, includes a beach promenade, which accommodates the needs of vulnerable road users. Aalborg's new beach promenade features steps and low-level terraces, which allow people to get close to the water. A variety of urban gardens are provided to accommodate experiences, such as market trading, ball games and sunbathing. The main thrust of the Aalborg Waterfront in its entirety has been to create spaces in which all the generations and various sections of the population can meet. This goal has been achieved as statistics from Aalborg Municipality indicate that the Jomfru Ane Park in the new waterfront area has, within a few short years, become Aalborg's most popular park, attracting a total of 800,000 visitors each year. The London 2012 Athletes Village, today known as the East Village, has been awarded a Civic Trust National Award. The village has been designed by a group of architects - C.F. Møller has designed one of the 11 plots, with a mixed housing scheme of 185 sustainable homes. C. F. Møller has previously received the Civic Trust Award for the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum in London, and for the Hospice Djursland.

 

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