BDP - General Development - Whitehaven, Whitehaven Harbour

Date: 25 Nov 2003

The Millennium Commission is to showcase 40 projects from across the UK which it supported with funding from the National Lottery to mark the third millennium. The exhibition - called Out of Time - is to be held at the Tate Modern from 1 – 19 December (2003).

The exhibition has been created to celebrate and communicate the diverse range of schemes and projects which have been achieved with National Lottery funding and to coincide with the run-up to the Millennium Commission’s 10th anniversary.

Millennium projects are buildings or environmental projects that create a lasting benefit for the UK. To qualify for funding a project had to show public support and celebrate our heritage while taking us forward into the future.

Mike O’Connor CBE, Director of the Millennium Commission said: “Not enough people know where their Lottery money has gone. … Many of these schemes are on people’s doorsteps – we estimate that on average everyone lives only 30 miles from a Millennium Commission project.”

Included in this exhibition are four projects in which BDP has been involved. The projects are:

Renaissance of Whitehaven - the regeneration of the Georgian planned Whitehaven Harbour, where BDP was architect, masterplanner, cost consultant, landscape architect, civil, structural and services engineer and lighting designer. An image of this project is being used as one of the four that form the publicity for the exhibition.

The Glasgow Science Centre – a competition winning design for this science centre which fosters public interest and understanding of science, where BDP was architect, design team leader, and landscape architect. The titanium clad centre is now a major landmark on Glasgow’s waterfront

Manchester Millennium Quarter – where BDP designed one of the four elements which makes up the Millennium Quarter namely Cathedral Gardens: the other three elements are Urbis, Exchange Square and the Cathedral Visitor Centre. The whole was masterplanned by EDAW.

The Deep, Sammy’s Point, Hull – a visitor attraction themed on the world’s seas and oceans, where BDP was project manager for a building designed by architect Terry Farrell & Partners.

Renaissance of Whitehaven

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