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28 July – 5 September 2008
Monday – Friday 9.30 – 16:30

Small is Beautiful!
Award winning Architecture for less than 250 grand!

Beam Gallery’s latest exhibition turns its back on the million pound regeneration schemes and celebrates the unique qualities of smaller structures.

Smaller more modest architectural gems are given a chance to shine as we exhibit the shortlisted entries for The Architect’s Journal Small Projects Awards 2008. All the projects exhibited were built for under £250,000 and are proof that ‘big’ is not necessarily more beautiful or better!

From a funeral directors hearse garage in Derbyshire to a dining pavilion in Malta, these buildings show the huge variety of great but small scale architectural design popping up across Europe today.

The exhibition focuses on the hidden treasures of excellent architectural design, which in many cases are hidden in people’s back gardens or roof tops. These are not flashy ostentatious buildings built to impress, but examples of well designed, subtle and unique architecture. These are buildings that deserve to be seen and celebrated!

Mole Architects scooped the prize this year with their £7000 Japanese Tea house built in the not so likely location of Cambridgeshire. The judges praised the project as a celebration of the ordinary. There is a wonderfully personal touch to this building as the client, a potter, hand- built all the joinery. This type of hands on collaboration between the architect and the client is an example of how unique and individual small building projects can be.

Robert Powell, Beam’s Executive Director said

“It’s great for Beam to collaborate with the Architects Journal in showing this exhibition. I think people will be truly interested and inspired to see what these architects have done with often limited space and a limited budget. With the right wit and skill, from small beginnings great things can grow!”

Small Projects has been generously sponsored by Ramboll Whitbybird.

For more information contact Juliet Burke
Juliet@beam.uk.net
01924 215 550