Competition Exhibits Designs for Urban Wildlife Habitats - Public Help to Decide the Winner

March 19, 2012 - PRLog -- identifying the most suitable and inventive concepts to tackle the challenge of creating space for wildlife in the city.


The shortlisted designs have been selected from multiple entries into an international competition, which has been spearheaded by the innovative Business Improvement District InMidtown, together with The Architecture Foundation, to find innovative designs for urban wildlife habitats.  

All visitors can view prototypes and are invited to share their opinion of the designs, with all feedback taken into account by the panel of expert judges. The panel will select the winning design in April 2012 and these will be produced and installed in green spaces and on the rooftops and terraces of businesses across Bloomsbury, Holborn and Saint Giles later this year.

For more information on the competition please visit: www.inmidtown.org  or
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2011/design-competition-inmidtown-habitats.

High resolution images available on request.  

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Notes to Editors

Information about InMidtown:
Established in 2005, InMidtown is a Business Improvement District which represents the interests of businesses in the areas of Holborn, Bloomsbury and St Giles, in order to deliver a quality working environment and a place that is desirable amongst businesses.

On 1st November 2009, InMidtown launched a five year business plan [2010-15] seeking to renew the mandate in Holborn and extend the BID to Bloomsbury and St Giles in February 2010. The mandate was successful and the major regeneration of the area has commenced, with InMidtown now the second largest BID in the UK.
A business improvement district (BID) is a public-private partnership in which businesses in a defined area pay an additional tax or fee in order to fund improvements within the district's boundaries.

The area of Holborn, St Giles and Bloomsbury is located between the West End and the City of London as the geographic centre of London and a major business, commercial and employment centre which welcomes over 200,000 employees each day.

As part of their programme of business sustainability via cost and carbon savings, InMidtown has introduced several key initiatives. InMidtown offers member businesses free recycling schemes, joint procurement on services through their bulk buying club, as well as sustainable travel initiatives in order to reach a 10% carbon reduction.

A world-first for a commercial city district, InMidtown have launched a pioneering initiative that sees the area aim to become the first ever to have zero waste sent to landfill through a system of ‘waste monogamy’. This will see just one provider managing each waste stream for all the businesses who sign up to the scheme.
For more information: http://inmidtown.org

About The Architecture Foundation

Established in 1991 as the UK’s first independent architecture centre, the Architecture Foundation is a non-profit agency for contemporary architecture, urbanism and culture. The foundation carries out a number of programs designed to facilitate international and interdisciplinary exchange, stimulate critical engagement amongst professionals, policy makers and a broad public, and shape the quality of the built environment. www.architecturefoundation.org.uk