Architect beats three other practices
Carmody Groarke has won an RIBA competition to design a hotel suite on a tidal island in Devon.
The practice beat dRMM, Featherstone Young and Threefold Architects.
The judges in the Burgh Island contest included Jonathan McDowell of McDowell & Benedetti and the couple who bought the 10ha island and its grade II art deco hotel in 2001.
McDowell praised them for choosing a competition for a relatively small private project – a standalone guest suite.
They were “rewarded with an intriguing variety of schemes” from the finalists, themselves selected from a longlist of established and emerging practices.
“The winning design will create a restrained but sensuously uplifting place for guests to take delight in this stunning location,” he said.
Andy Groarke said: “We are delighted to be selected for this important opportunity to work with Burgh Island Hotel and to carefully integrate a new architectural addition into the natural and cultural history of this island.”
Fifteen practices accepted an invitation to participate and submitted an expression of interest for the project. Four were selected to develop design proposals to complement the exposed setting, with views across the Bantham Estuary and the hotel’s seawater pool. Teams were also required to carefully consider the proposed engineering approach, since it will form an integral part of the project’s successful realisation, said RIBA Competitions.
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