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Neu Architects picked to transform Lancashire town of Bacup
30 November, 2009
London-based Neu Architects in collaboration with LOCI Design has won the final contest in a series of competitions aiming to transform six Lancashire towns.
The competition chairman, Stirling Prize winning architect Stephen Hodder, announced today (Monday) that Neu had beaten rival bids by firms including Patel Taylor and Bath-based Grant Associates to redevelop Bacup, south of Burnley.
The town is one of six covered by the Pennine Lancashire Squared competition devised by the late music mogul and developer Tony Wilson, which has now led to winning schemes including Clitheroe by DSDHA and Blackburn by Mesh Partnership working with Studio Weave.
For the Bacup project, Neu Architects and LOCI proposed a new street market with extensive use of local materials and tree and hedge planting.
Hodder said: “No one has ever attempted anything on this scale before – six resolutely independent towns all working together in a transformational way on a single architectural competition.
“The creative response from the architectural community has been amazing. These squares are not cookie-cutter solutions dusted down off some architect’s shelf. They are living, breathing spaces which are about the people of these towns and their lives.”
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I live in Bacup... unfortunately. It's a once beautiful industrial market town now only known for the murder of goths and once being the home to Juliet Bravo. That a major architectural competition has ventured anywhere near let alone concentrate on the town itself for redevelopment astounds me. i love the plans and hope that they go ahead at full steam. fingers crossed Bacup can then set an example to other run down chav dominated towns across the uk.
James, I concur.