First of three competitions looking at the applications of smart technologies within the City of London kick-starts The City Centre’s exhibition on A Smarter City, which will run for the rest of 2017.
A team of designers and tech experts from Atkins and Schréder has won the first design competition in the City Centre’s 2017 campaign to highlight the potential of smart technologies in London’s Square Mile: A Smarter City.
The open competition called for cutting-edge designs in response to the theme of Smart Green Spaces and will be followed by a hackathon and competitions calling for ideas on Smart Buildings and Smart Infrastructure.
The exhibition, A Smarter City, will run at The City Centre alongside The City of London Architectural Model until December 2017 and shortlisted entries from each competition will be displayed.
Atkins and Schréder’s winning entry, Key to the City, uses an augmented reality smartphone app and smart-enabled street furniture to celebrate the City of London’s network of more than 150 Green Spaces, providing information on screen to help Londoners engage with their surroundings.
The award for the Smart Green Spaces competition was presented to the Key to the City team at an event held at The City Centre and attended by over 400 people on Thursday 27 April.
The brief for the second competition, Smart Buildings, will be announced on Thursday 4 May, launching a search for new ideas on building automation, activation and use of space, sustainability and intelligent architecture. The A Smarter City programme is provided by The City Centre in partnership with the City of London Corporation and Brookfield Property Partners.
Benjamin O’Connor, director of The City Centre, said: “It was important for The City Centre and the City Corporation to select a winner that fit the ethos of our wider programme. Many people think of smart as purely technological and whilst technology plays a big part the key to a truly ‘smarter’ City is innovation. Changing the way people see and think about the City is critical. Atkins and Schréder’s ‘Key to the City’ celebrates the unique nature of the City’s green spaces whilst keeping innovation at its heart.”
Speaking on behalf of the winning team, Neil Manthorpe, principal landscape architect at Atkins and Simon Newcombe, business development manager & designer at Schreder UK said: “We are thrilled that the Atkins and Schreder collaborative submission ‘Key to the City’ has been recognised by the City of London. It was great to work together developing this unique and innovative strategy on such a challenging and important brief. We hope this pushes forward the smarter cities agenda and encourages the realisation of healthier, more active streets and spaces across the City of London.”
“The City of London has a rich history, culture and varied plethora of open spaces. Key to the City will unlock these hidden layers through the use of smart innovations and encourage more to explore the rich diversity offered by the City. Technological Innovation in augmented reality, air quality evaluation, provision of E/V charging and improved safety will be critical to unlocking the hidden layer of the City’s streets and spaces. We look forward to Key to the City playing an important role in the future development of the City.”
Peter Murray, chairman of The City Centre and New London Architecture, said: “This was a particularly hard competition to judge with so many good ideas across a really wide spectrum of smartness. We chose the Key to the City because of the way that it integrated new technologies, use of data and augmented reality with public space improvements, green strategies and the necessary infrastructure to deliver high speed wifi, bluetooth as well as the more conventional benefits of good street lighting.”
Full Shortlist
City Generators – Curl La Tourelle Architects
#FindingCityGardens – John Robertson Architects
Strawberry Smart Bench – Strawberry Energy
LOOP – Foster & Partners
St Paul’s Steps – Haworth Tompkins, Prior & Co. and Oaker
AI City – Ares Landscape Architects
Key to the City – Atkins and Schréder [winner]
Grow:City – The Edible Bus Stop Studio
Destination Bank – Broadway Malyan and John Papasian, Illustrator
Work ‘Out’! – Ireland Albrecht Landscape Architects
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