See parking bays turn green overnight
- Published: 07 July 2008 11:24
- Author: Ruth Slavid
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- Last Updated: 07 July 2008 12:08
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London's Store Street was transformed on Friday morning (4 July), when the 14 finalists in Rambøll WhitbyBird's Greening Bays competition completed their overnight work, turning their chosen parking bays into gardens, allotments, play areas, sculptures and car dumps.
Three of the entrants received sustainable prizes – bicycles and a tree planted in St James' Park.
The award for innovation went to Matt Allan, Scott Lewis, Warren Forster, James Nevin and Chris Papanastasiou for a mini-golf hole made from the wreck of a car, including rotating the fan to provide an obstacle. Their aim is to have 18 such holes distributed across London.
Newly formed environmental consultancy Something & Son took the recycling prize for 'Car Park', using an abandoned car to create a garden, including a goldfish pond in the boot and strawberries growing out of the petrol input.
Emily Read and Kirsten Jack won the prize for sustainability for 'Anyone for Salad?' a cross between a vertical allotment and a market stall, with all produce in recycled containers, labelled with beautiful graphics, including recipes.
The judges were: Kevin Carmody of architect Carmody Groarke; George Ferguson, former president of the RIBA; Peter Murray, director of the London Festival of Architecture; product designer Paul Priestman; Andrew Ritchie, developer of the Brompton folding bicyle; Ruth Slavid, online editor of The Architects' Journal; Mark Whitby of Rambøll WhitbyBird; and Ken Yeang of Llewelyn Davies Yeang.
