Practice was surprise winner over rival finalists including Foster & Partners, Hopkins and RSHP
Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects has triumphed over some of the UK’s most high-profile architects to win a competition to design a dog kennel.
The practice pipped the likes of Foster & Partners, Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners, Hopkins and Stanton Williams to secure victory at yesterday’s Barkitecture competition, part of theGoodwoof dog festival held over the weekendat Goodwood House in West Sussex.
BPR’s entry, Bonehenge, also saw off a submission by Apple’s former chief design officer Jony Ive and his business partner Marc Newsom to win the tightly fought contest, which was judged by a panel stocked with star names including Grand Designs presenter Kevin McCloud and comedian Bill Bailey.
The timber kennel, designed for Illy, a blue roan cocker spaniel currently serving as BPR’s health and welfare officer, is encircled by a ring of dog-bone shaped balusters and features a domed skylight.
McCloud said the design “ticked all the boxes”, adding that it was “light and airy and principally wholly sustainable”.
The kennel is also net water positive, with a catchment dish on its roof designed to funnel into a dog bowl at the entrance, while its oval shape was inspired by the cocker spaniel breed’s habit of circling before settling down to rest.
It sold for £2,500 in a charity auction following the judges’ decision yesterday afternoon, going towards more than £30,000 raised by the competition for the Dog’s Trust.
设计团队在一份联合声明中说:“我们真的很高兴，因为有很多杰出的建筑师参与进来。”“20位建筑师能够想出如此广泛有趣的解决方案，这是非常了不起的。”
But the team admitted: “Our client Illy is less than enamoured that her home was sold off - we must quickly make Bonehenge Mark 2.”
Foster & Partners’ entry, a geodesic timber dome which was designed by a team including practice founder Norman Foster, sold for £4,600. RSHP’s Star Wars-inspired Dog Pod sold for £1,000 while Hopkins’ brutalist Le Dogular was snapped up for £700.
斯坦顿·威廉姆斯(Stanton Williams)的作品《Nook》既包括一把椅子和一张边桌，还包括一个出售零食的开口，以1500英镑的价格拍出，而伊夫和纽森的作品《来自爱》则以3800英镑的价格拍出。
The top-selling kennel was furniture designer David Linley’s Venice-inspired Doge House, a gothic plywood “palazzo” which sold for £6,000 following a flurry of bids.
Other practices to take part in the contest included Henning Stummel Architects, Hawkes Architecture, Haysom Ward Miller Architects and Lincoln Miles Architecture.
Events at the festival also included storytelling sessions read by Anne Robinson and Downton Abbey star Hugh Bonneville, and a 50m dog race with contestants including tennis player Johanna Konta and her dog, Bono.
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