The Scottish Civic Trust's My Place Awards is a unique new award
scheme supported by the Scottish Government, that celebrates good
local design and conservation as judged by local
people. A panel of four industry experts are presently
judging projects as diverse as a restored suspension bridge in
Aberdeen and a regenerated public baths in Edinburgh.
Entries have been received from across the country; from Arran in
the West, throughout the Central Belt including Glasgow, Bo'ness
and Edinburgh, to Banff in the North -East. There's
plenty of diversity and many skills are on display.
In this, its first year, a Scottish Civic
Trust My Place Award will be presented to the project that
contributes most positively to local place-making.
Chairing the judging panel, Angus Kerr, architect and trustee of
the Scottish Civic Trust, said "that the panel's aim is to
celebrate a project that has had a positive impact and offered
additional benefits in a local community." He is joined by
fellow trustee Alistair Scott, director of architects Smith Scott
Mullan Associates, Petra Biberbach, Chief Executive, Planning Aid
for Scotland and Donnie Munro, who trained in fine art and, after
huge success as Runrig's lead singer in the 80s and early 90s, is
now Director of Development at Sabhal Mòr Ostaig, the Gaelic
college in Sleat, Skye. The judges are looking for
creativity, imagination, originality and innovation.
The Scottish Civic Trust's My Place Award 2010 will be
presented at a ceremony in The Lighthouse, Glasgow on Monday 19
April 2010.