COMPETITION: PICCADILLY CIRCUS


Intending entrants in the Piccadilly Circus Architectural Competition announced by The Star before it was incorporated in The Evening News, will be pleased to know that it is the intention to continue with the competition.

All the conditions given in the original Star prospectus for the competition will apply except the closing date for entries has been postponed to January 16, 1961.

The address to which entries are to be sent may also be changed. All students who have notified their intention to compete will be advised.

Students wishing to enter who have not already done so should write immediately to:

Architectural Competition,

Special Services Department,

The Evening News & Star,

Carmelite House, London, E.C.4.

Architects' Journal, 1st December, 1960 


Open to architectural and planning students, and organised by The Evening News & Star, the first prize of £300 has been awarded to the entry by K. C. Soo, C. K. Togobo and R. Westmaas; the second of £200 to the scheme by J. F. Hannam and J. L. N. Pegrum; and the third of £100 to the design of G. B. Noble and Shirley E. Noble. The assessors were E. Maxwell Fry, C.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., Edward D. Mills, C.B.E., F.R.I.B.A., and Noel Moffett, B.Arch., A.R.I.B.A., A.M.T.P.I., who also highly commended the entries by Edward Hardy, Jnr., Terence Charles Stewart, Digby C. Bridges and Antony Evans, and Terence Jenkins and Peter Ellenthorpe. All these designs, together with a selection from the remaining entries, will be on show at the Building Centre from 2 p.m. on Friday February 24 until March 10.

Architects' Journal, 16th February, 1961, pp. 255-266