July, 2009

 

New Jobs, New Futures

Portsmouth, UK: The Government announced yesterday that they would be creating 47,000 new jobs for young people between 18-24. As Chair of City Growth Portsmouth, Carl Leroy-Smith attended the announcement in Portsmouth by Pensions minister Angela Eagle. The scheme will pay young people a minimum wage for a 24 hour week over a 6 month [...]

Adventure Playground Underway

Portsmouth, UK: The Adventure Playground in Somerstown, Portsmouth is underway on site. The concrete car park that currently fills the site is now being demolished. The local newspaper ran an article on it this week. Read it here.
Portsmouth City Council’s in-house design team are developing the design through to realisation.
We are pleased to hear that [...]

One Life at Bay House

Gosport, Hampshire: We have been working with Bay House School and Sixth Form on their cross-curricula project ‘One Life’. This involved Year 8 students designing a community centre and worship space in teams. We worked in the school for two-weeks running 22 lessons. We focused on introducing the ideas of light, shadow, material and texture [...]