Awards
Showcased by Cabe as a model of inclusive design and exhibited at Somerset House as part of the Mayor's 100 public spaces exhibition
Winner of the European Prize
for Urban Space 2008
Nominated for the Mies van der Rohe Award, 2008
muf Team
Katherine Clarke, Liza Fior, Alison Crawshaw, Mark Lemanski, Sarah Whiting
Time Frame
The square was commissioned in January 2005 and delivered in 3 phases.
Phase 1:
Completed September 2007
Phase 2:
Completion August 2009
Phase 2:
Completion December 2010
Budget
£2 million plus £3,00,000 for commissions outside the main contract
Client
Redrow Regeneration Ltd on behalf of the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham
Contractor
Ardmore Construction ltd
Contract types
Phase 1: JCT 1998 Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractors Design
(JCT98wCD) plus amendments
Phase 2: JCT 2005 Design Build Contract (DB05) including revision 1: 2007 plus Amendments
Consultants
Barking Town Square public realm was delivered through a number of separate
contracts, each with an independent team of consultants. muf worked with these
simultaneously in different roles.
Permanent Art Commission (Phase 1):
Designer, muf architecture/art LLP
(lead consultant)
Structural engineer: Atelier One
Phase 1 Public Realm:
Architects of the public realm:
muf architecture/art LLP (lead consultant)
Architects of the adjacent buildings: AHMM
Services engineer: Atelier Ten
Structural and civil engineers: Buro Happold
Phase 2 Public Realm:
Architects of the public realm:
muf architecture/art LLP
Architects of the adjacent buildings, AHMM (lead consultant)
QS: DBK
Structural and civils engineer:
Beattie Watkinson
Services engineer: Atelier Ten
Services engineer (post transfer of services): CPC
CDM, Tweeds
Arborcultural consultant:
Arups Landscape (sub-consultant to muf)
Horticultural consultant:
Julie Bixley (sub-consultant to muf)
Commissions outside the main contract
Coordinator: muf architecture/art LLP
(lead consultant)
Literary consultant: Urban Words,
Yemisi Blake
Product design: Platform Two,
Royal College of Art
Graphic design: Axel Feldmann, Objectif
Internet sources
‘muf is enough’, Jay Merrick, Independent Newspaper
'Barking Town Square', Igloo, 9 June 2008
Books and magazines
‘Barking Town Square’ in, RIBA Awards 2011, Christine Murray, Rory Olcayto and others, Architects Journal vol. 233 no. 22, 2011 June 16
‘Barking Town Square’ in, Architecture 11: RIBA buildings of the year, Tony Chapman, (London : Merrell, 2011)
‘Barking Town Square, Barking & Dagenham, London (muf)’, by Claes Sorstedt and Anna Baldini, AD profile: 197. Architectural Design vol. 79, no. 1, 2009 Jan./Feb. p. 22-23
‘Specifier’s choice: Barking Town Square; Architects: MUF’ by Sutherland Lyall, AJ Specification 2007 Jan., pp. 14-21
‘Regenerating Barking’ by Kieran Long, Architects Journal vol. 226, no. 9, 2007
Sept. 13, p. 23-35
‘Exhibition. Barking: a model town centre’, Joshua Bolchover (On the exhibition curated by MUF and Kieran Long which was at the Barking Learning Centre 12-27 September) Architects Journal vol. 226, no. 12, 2007 Oct. 4, p. 10
‘Barking town square, London', A+T Collective Spaces: In Common 3, no. 27, 2006 Spring p. 40
‘Barking Town Square, Barking’ in Gritty Brits: new London architecture, Raymund Ryan (Pittsburgh : Carnegie Museum of Art, 2006)
The Architectural Assemblage: A Dialogical Investigation of Barking Town Square, Thomas Bernard Kenniff UCL PhD, 2013
'Identity in Peripheries: Barking and its Others', Thomas Bernard Kenniff
in Peripheries, R Morrow and G Abdelmonem (eds), (Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012) pp.40-53.
'Barking Town Square', Regeneration & Renewal, 21 September 2007
'The Regeneration of Barking Town Square', New Start, 9 March 2008
'Barking', A10 (Netherlands), March 2010
'Town Square: The Toast of Europe', Barking & Dagenham Recorder, 8 March 2008
'European Prize for Public Urban Space 2008', Topos, June 2008
‘Square Dancing at Barking Central’, Ellis Woodman, Building Design, 27 November 2009
