Contemporary North Yorkshire

An exhibition of contemporary architecture across North Yorkshire was held in central Harrogate during the RIBA Love Architecture Festival 2013.

The exhibition illustrated the work of architects from Yorkshire and beyond who have found inspiration from the context of North Yorkshire to create beautiful buildings that provide pleasure to their occupants. In the design of each of the buildings, the architects have solved a problem. This ranged from the need to open a Victorian house up to its garden so that a growing family can play safely, the creation of a new entrance to a primary school provides a new focal point and identity for its pupils, to the provision of an education facility to help increase the understanding of a heritage asset.

It brought together 18 projects from across North Yorkshire.

 Rossett Drive, Harrogate by Bramall Blenkharn, Malton

 Sycamore House, Malton by Bramall Blenkharn, Malton

 Fountains Abbey Visitor Centre, Ripon by Cullinan Studio, London

 Kitchen Garden, Harrogate by Doma Architects, Wetherby

 House extension, Harrogate by Horsley Townsend Architects, Wetherby

 Hinderwell Community Primary School, Scarborough by Jacobs Architecture, Northallerton

 Private House, Follifoot by Merrell O'Flaherty Dormer Architects, Harrogate

 Private House, Wetherby by OMI Architects, Manchester

 Agricultural Centre, Harrogate by P+HS Architects, Stokesley

 New School Entrance, Hipswell CE Primary School by Pearce Bottomley LLP

  Washburn Heritage Centre, Fewston by Pearce Bottomley LLP

 Greenway, Harrogate by Sense of Space Architects, Ilkley

 1 zero 4, Harrogate by Seven Architecture, Harrogate

Harrogate Cricket Club by Seven Architecture, Harrogate 

Hellifield Peel, Skipton by Shaw & Jagger Architects, Harrogate

 Link Interchange Headquarters, Harrogate by Smith Smalley Architects Ltd, Harrogate

 Whitby Abbey Visitor Centre by Stanton Williams, London

Photographer's Studio, Lower Wharfe Valley by Wildblood Macdonald Architects, Wetherby

The aim of the exhibition was to illustrate that good design can help to create better places for us all to live, work and play, and to promote architecture to the public. 

Over the 7 days that the exhibition was open, it attracted a lot of attention and a constant flow of people viewed it.

photographs of the exhibition space in the St Peter's Church, Harrogate, designed by Pearce Bottomley Architects