The School Yard
Global accolade for award-winning residential scheme
The second phase of The School Yard which has already won a string of top awards has now received international recognition for its innovative metal cladding. The residential development in one of Birmingham’s most desirable suburbs includes 13 units including one, two and three bedroomed apartments in a block that is clad in anthracite zinc. The scheme is the only project of scale in the city to utilise the material which took eight weeks to administer as it has to be worked by hand to create the desired crafted finish. The detailed finish to the main building – which was …read more
Hat-trick of wins for second phase of The School Yard
The residential phase of The School Yard has won yet another award just days after scooping a major prize for its architecture. The second phase of the project in Birmingham’s Harborne district scooped Residential Project of the Year at 2016 RICS Awards – West Midlands, the second time the scheme has been honoured by the leading property organisation. In 2014 the first phase of The School Yard – which saw the transformation of the creation of a new social hub including new restaurants, a coffee shop and food school on the site of an old Victorian school – won the …read more
EDG Property double winners at ‘Oscars’ of property design
Birmingham-based EDG Property is celebrating after scooping two regional RIBA awards after the winners were announced at an event in the city last week. Considered the ‘Oscars’ of property design with the internationally acclaimed Sterling Prize eventually given to a project that initially wins a regional award, the RIBA is presented to around 50 projects around the UK every year. At the event last night a RIBA was awarded to the second phase of The School Yard in Harborne – designed by Jewellery Quarter-based Bryant Priest Newman Architects – while EDG Property was also awarded the prestigious Client of the …read more
EDG Property project nominated for property’s most prestigious award
The second phase of The School Yard in Harborne has been shortlisted for a RIBA – the ‘Oscars’ of the property sector. Designed by Jewellery Quarter-based BPN Architects, the project was the second phase of a mixed use scheme that had already won a string of awards for sensitively breathing new life into the long vacant Grade II Listed Clock Tower building in the heart of the popular Birmingham suburb. The eight projects shortlisted for regional gongs also include the Assay Office in Birmingham and £600m transformation of New Street Station. Jonathan Hines, chairman of the judging panel, said: “The …read more
Neil Edginton likes building things – and a challenge – and his latest projects are certainly fulfilling both criteria
Coventry is nothing if not resilient. Time and again it has ridden the ebbs and flow of the economic cycle and come out fighting the other side. Even when the impediment was two nights of bombing by the Luftwaffe, it dusted itself down and reinvented itself as a new kind of city with innovations such as the world’s first ringroad and multi-storey car park. Where once it had been ribbon, then watches and then the bicycle, for more than two generations it was the motor car when the city was home to such celebrated marques as Daimler and Triumph, Hillman …read more