How can we help?

We can offer specialist advice and resources for different aspects of the community and professions.  

If you are from a sector or group not listed here please contact us on 0191 260 2191 or email kate@northernarchitecture.com to find out how we can help.

Design Advice + Skills

Northern Architecture can provide support for housing providers wanting to achieve higher standards of design quality and sustainability. We can also help you work with tenants to build skills and identify opportunities for improvements that would make a significant difference to residents' quality of life. We are keen to work with you to support tenants to deliver their own design and improvement projects such as a community garden or lighting scheme.

Please contact Carol on 0191 260 2191 or carol@northernarchitecture.com

Northern Architecture can support developers on many levels of the housing delivery process. Our in-house and external consultants can provide expert advice on and assessments of current housing standards such as Code for Sustainable Homes, Lifetime Homes, Secure by Design and Building for Life. Northern Architecture can also provide and deliver public engagement programmes for schemes that sit within existing communities, larger staged developments or regeneration projects.

Northern Architecture continues to seek opportunities to work with residents and communities wishing to engage in the places and spaces around them.  In partnership we can work with you to seek funding to develop and deliver projects to enable and inspire residents and communities to get involved and take part in the process of design and development in your neighbourhoods. We can also provide training and support for groups to work with the local authority, planners, designers and developers working on schemes in your area. 

Visit our communities section to find out more.

Northern Architecture offers a range of services to support local authorities and governing bodies wishing to engage in raising the standards of design quality in our region’s built environment.  We can offer advice, guidance and support and work with you to develop training, community engagement and consultation activities and design strategies.

Education

Students and academics can use our case studies for research or education purposes and can use our library catalogue to view items available to borrow from our library of resources. Students have the opportunity to volunteer for Northern Architecture to support our education and community projects or to get involved in our GRADs programme. Visit the Recruitment page to find out more about opportunities.

Northern Architecture's Educaton Programme offers a wide range of fun and practical workshops, introducing pupils to some of the skills and techniques used by architects, designers and engineers, providing them with the knowledge and confidence to use them as part of their own design work.

The Programme also enables pupils to engage with and respond to buildings and the built environment through core curriculum subjects including English, Maths, Science, ICT and Design Technology.

Northern Architecture’s education team offers a range of services, resources and support to schools and teachers. Find out more by visiting the Education section of the website.

There are a range of opportunities for young people to find out more about Architecture and the Built Environment through our Education and Community programmes and the North East Festival of Architecture.

You can also register your interest in our new A-Good Group for 14-19yrs, by completing this form. The A-Good group will be ideal for young people interested in architecture, design, planning and the urban environment. We hope to launch the A-Good programme in 2011. A-Good members will be offered a series of events and activities about the design of buildings and places and the opportunitiy to work with a range of built environement professionals.

Northern Architecture works alongside a cohort of volunteers who are budding design professionals, either newly qualified or part way through their training, to assist with the delivery of Northern Architecture's Education and Community Participation projects as well as events including The North East Festival of Architecture.

By working with selected groups, and passing on their industry focused knowledge and skills, volunteers gain an insight into the power of community participation by gaining practical experience of innovative and creative methods used to engage the public.

Each volunteer is entered for the V Award programme, a volunteering scheme accredited by Changemakers.

Please email sarac@northernarchitecture.com for more information on volunteering with Northern Architecture.  You may also want to read our guide to volunteering with Northern Architecture.

Northern Architecture's Education and Community programmes can support you in providing opportunities for young people to get involved in the Built Environment, to lead their own projects, develop skills and make a positive contribution to their community. 

Community

Councillors can contact Northern Architecture for advice and training relating to Urban Design, consultation and involving communities in place-making. And keep an eye on our events which provide opportunities to discuss and share experience on various topics with other authorities in the region. 

You might also find the following CABE resources useful: Councillor's Guide to Good Design

Northern Architecture can provide support for housing providers wanting to achieve higher standards of design quality and sustainability. We can also help you work with tenants to build skills and identify opportunities for improvements that would make a significant difference to residents' quality of life. We are keen to work with you to support tenants to deliver their own design and improvement projects such as a community garden or lighting scheme.

Please contact Carol on 0191 260 2191 or carol@northernarchitecture.com

Resident or tenant groups wishing to become involved with the design, improvement or management of their housing or communal and outside spaces can contact us for support. We can help you develop your ideas, involve other residents and seek funding and support from the relevant authorities or housing association.  

Northern Architecture continues to seek opportunities to work with residents and communities wishing to engage in the places and spaces around them.  In partnership we can work with you to seek funding to develop and deliver projects to enable and inspire residents and communities to get involved and take part in the process of design and development in your neighbourhoods. We can also provide training and support for groups to work with the local authority, planners, designers and developers working on schemes in your area. 

Visit our communities section to find out more.

Northern Architecture offers a range of services to support local authorities and governing bodies wishing to engage in raising the standards of design quality in our region’s built environment.  We can offer advice, guidance and support and work with you to develop training, community engagement and consultation activities and design strategies.

There are a range of opportunities for young people to find out more about Architecture and the Built Environment through our Education and Community programmes and the North East Festival of Architecture.

You can also register your interest in our new A-Good Group for 14-19yrs, by completing this form. The A-Good group will be ideal for young people interested in architecture, design, planning and the urban environment. We hope to launch the A-Good programme in 2011. A-Good members will be offered a series of events and activities about the design of buildings and places and the opportunitiy to work with a range of built environement professionals.

Northern Architecture's Education and Community programmes can support you in providing opportunities for young people to get involved in the Built Environment, to lead their own projects, develop skills and make a positive contribution to their community. 

Northern Architecture

Northern Architecture aims to involve, inspire and engage all members of the North East community in the best of what the region has to offer in terms of architecture and design. This website provides information on the architecture and built environment of the North East of interest to members of the general public through our news, case studies, events, tours, and resources.

You may want to sign up to our monthly e-bulletin to receive regular updates of our news and events.

The North East has a fascinating built heritage alongside interesting examples of contemporary architecture and design and visitors and individuals can use this website to discover opportunities to engage in the region's places and spaces through our events, tours and case studies.

If visiting the region regularly or if you live here, you may want to sign up to our monthly e-bulletin to receive regular updates of our news and events.

Get up to date news and information about our events and activities. There are downloadable press releases and images in the news section of the website. Subscribe to the mailing list from our home page to get monthly news emailed to you and email cait@northernarchitecture.com to be added to our media distribution list.

Practitioners can use this website as a portal for information about architecture and design in the North East.  The case studies provide examples of best practice and promote the work of practices in the region, our events allow you to increase your knowledge, skills and networks and we also offer opportunities for you to get involved in our work with schools and communities.

We are always looking for newly developed buildings, places and spaces to feature as events in the North East Festival of Architecture.  If you would like to engage the general public in your work or projects and have a suggestion for a tour or activity that could be part the festival, please get in touch with Cait on 0191 2602191 or by email.  

Many local firms provide sponsorship for the North East Festival of Architecture.  Visit our core projects page for more information about the festival and sponsorship opportunities.

Northern Architecture is supported by a number of built environment organisations as Patrons.  For more information about the benefits of joining our Patrons Scheme please contact Carol on 0191 260 2191 or by email. 

 

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