Matthew Loosley Wins Student Design Competition at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Stowmarket

Matthew Loosley has won the Student Design Competition at the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts in Stowmarket. Bagging a £500 cheque kindly donated by RIBA with contributions from Martindales, Morrish, Castons and PMGoonan,  the young student has earnt the designers dream and will be working with Martindales of Cambridge to develop the winning design into the overall scheme. 

The exhibition too place over the weekend as the John Peel Centre opened up it's doors to the public. On walking in to the building for the first time, you are immediately taken back at the grandeur of the beautiful building. While not huge in size, there may well be plans to take on other nearby buildings...

Looking at the designs on display, it was amazing to see what the students had been asked to design, including a mezzanine floor inside the building to provide a workshop area, café/bar and to create a practice and performance space in the building.

I was very impressed at the exhibition and have great aspirations for this venue. Well done to everyone involved with this. Stowmarket is very lucky indeed.

See the photo gallery for pictures from the weekend.