Creative Spaces for the 21st century

A design competition for schools, with a prize of £50,000, was launched last week on the first day of NCW by designer Wayne Hemingway.
The Creative Spaces competition, developed by CITB-ConstructionSkills, the sector skills council for the construction industry, involves 11 to 14 year olds redesigning their classrooms for the 21st century.
The winning school will receive £50,000 to bring their designs to life and 12 regional winners will each receive £3,000.
CITB-ConstructionSkills chief executive Peter Lobban said: "The idea behind the competition is to give pupils a taste of the excitement of working in construction and encourage them to be tomorrow's high-flying architects, managers, carpenters and bricklayers."
Creative Spaces fits in with the Key Stage 3 Design and Technology curriculum. The curriculum support materials that accompany the competition include modules on research, analysis and computer-aided design and activities that bring construction and design into the classroom.
So far, 250 schools have registered their interest in the competition. The deadline for completed submissions is 2 April 2004 and judging of the final designs will take place later that month.
Hemingway will be on the judging panel with architect David Adjaye.