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Winners announced in A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Awards for Architecture 2014
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Resilient Towns and Dramatic Designs scoop awards in annual A&DS and RIAS Scottish Student Architecture Awards
The winners of the annual Architecture and Design Scotland (A&DS) and the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) Scottish Student Awards for Architecture were announced at a ceremony held at The Lighthouse, Glasgow, on Thursday 17th July.
The awards – now in their 12th year – aim to recognise the talent of student architects and are awarded in a number of categories. Winning projects included an exploration of inner town living in Peterhead in Scott Sutherland School of Architecture Student Andy Stewart's project "Resilient Towns (Re)inhabiting town centres" which scooped the RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best 5th year student. The Judges commented that his project "is a powerful scheme with significant gravitas. […] This elegantly communicated proposal would generate a revitalised community through buildings which are both welcoming and appropriately civic."
Rebecca Goodson, of Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (ESALA) was the winner in the Architecture and Design Scotland Award for Best 3rd Year Student category for her project "Capturing Ephemeral Phenomena – Dalmarnock Civic Theatre Glasgow" which judges described as "An outstanding piece of work" for its "sustainable use of materials, long term returns from energy saving and perhaps, most important, social sustainability".
Architecture + Design Scotland Urban Design Award went to Stanislava Delieva of Strathclyde University for her project Setting the Scene – Govan Graving Docks, which was described as "an uplifting and visionary approach with consistently strong ideas. […]This presentation starts with big ambitions and builds up from there."
Architecture + Design Scotland Sust. Award for Sustainable Design was awarded to Jonathan Phillips, Roseanne Knight and Stephanie Sharpe, from ESALA for their project Towards an Integrated Garden City: A proposal to re-frame the post-industrial infrastructure Manchester, while Rebecca Goodson also picked up the RIAS Drawing Award.
Following the awards ceremony the winning entries will be on display in The Lighthouse, offering a rare opportunity for the public to see the best work of students from all of Scotland's Schools of Architecture together in one space.
Speaking about the Awards, A&DS Chair, Karen Anderson, said;
A&DS is delighted to continue to collaborate with RIAS to highlight the high quality of work from the best students from Scotland's schools of architecture. A&DS aims to support emerging practitioners and these awards and the supporting exhibition, allow visitors to see the high standard of architecture emerging from our schools of architecture.
RIAS President, Iain Connelly, commented:
Scotland has a proud tradition of architectural excellence. Our annual student awards mark the extraordinarily high standard of architectural education in Scotland. Students from throughout the world come here and Scotland's five schools of architecture are major contributors to the evolution of architecture throughout the world.
The full list of 2014 winners and commended entries are:
The RIAS Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best 5th year student
Winner: Andy Stewart – Scott Sutherland School
Resilient Towns (Re)Inhabiting Town Centres, Peterhead
Initially built as overspill housing, Peterhead has experienced decades of residential development that has continuously progressed further from the town centre. The 'copy and paste' architecture on the periphery of the town has created generic, mono-functional communities that have left the town centre detrimentally neglected.
This thesis addresses the notion of a resilient town and refocuses the attention on inner town living as a means of changing the perception that suburban living is superior to that of the town or city.
Judges Citation:
Combining Scandinavian and Scottish architectural approaches, this is a powerful scheme with significant gravitas. It simultaneously addresses important issues about urban density, while providing a walkable, human-scaled, beautifully articulate proposition which greatly enhances the attractiveness of the harbour area and strengthens the town itself. This elegantly communicated proposal would generate a revitalised community through buildings which are both welcoming and appropriately civic.
Commended:
Douglas Walker – ESALA
This proposal combines careful, new build, interventions which are cleverly woven into the existing fabric. Delivering new life within areas of dereliction, a combination of technologically innovative and traditional approaches, albeit with a modern twist, produces a highly attractive and convincing scheme.
Architecture and Design Scotland Award for Best 3rd Year Student
Winner: Rebecca Goodson – ESALA
Capturing Ephemeral Phenomena – Dalmarnock Civic Theatre Glasgow
The ephemeral qualities of colour enable one to see the occurrences of daily natural phenomena in a new light. The perception of colour and light interactions are under continual flux. The theatre project explores the idea of civic, and the ability architecture has to create a sense of place by capturing these fleeting moments.
Both Models, drawings and particularly colour are intelligently used to interpret this scheme. Great care has been applied to producing an appropriately urban contextual response, well worked out and thoughtfully addressing the street. The sustainable use of materials, long term returns from energy saving and perhaps, most important, social sustainability are here in abundance. An outstanding piece of work.
Marta Ascenso – Mackintosh School of Architecture
While the tower is highly visible within its rural setting, it imposes a small footprint upon the landscape. These eloquent drawings demonstrate great sensitivity in their rendering of a highly intelligent and well thought through internal layout, most apparent in the elegant section.
Jack Baker – Mackintosh School of Architecture
The contrast of natural materials and concrete is particularly strong with the materiality of the building providing a secure but welcoming internal environment. The building's spaces are extremely well delineated and intelligently considered.
Megan Grierson – Strathclyde University
The adaptive re-use of historic structures is among the most sustainable approaches in contemporary architecture. This scheme carefully balances the provision of entirely new uses with the retained fabric of an iconic building, rightly recognised and here appropriately exploited as a signal object within the landscape.
Architecture + Design Scotland Urban Design Award
Winner: Stanislava Delieva – Strathclyde University
Setting the Scene – Govan Graving Docks, Glasgow
The project was initiated as an exploration of the methodology of practising traditional scenography and its interrelationships with architecture's physicality and design of urban locations. The city is a vast, multi-layered set presenting us with endless siting options. The neglected industrial ruin of Glasgow's Govan Graving Docks is imagined as a vibrant performing arts venue in a scenic river park.
This is an uplifting and visionary approach with consistently strong ideas. Vigour, lack of restraint and unfettered ambition, some aspects of which are wholly untempered by practicality, come together in a paradoxically credible approach to an area of the city which could benefit hugely from this stimulus. This presentation starts with big ambitions and builds up from there.
Highly Commended:
Jonathan Phillips, Roseanne Knight & Stephanie Sharpe – ESALA
Drawing inspiration from the precedent of New York's High Line, this proposal is underpinned by highly credible green infrastructure. Very believable and pragmatic interventions are overlaid upon the green route strategy to deliver a very positive and practical new solution for the city.
Artom Tsapkov, Louise Patterson & Hannah Beatty – University of Dundee
Good research and succinct analysis combines with an acute sense of place to strengthen the existing urban fabric. This project works with the grain of the place and the existing hierarchy of routes, avoiding inappropriate architectural 'bling'.
Architecture + Design Scotland Sust. Award for Sustainable Design
Towards an Integrated Garden City: A proposal to re-frame the post-industrial infrastructure, Manchester
The project aims to reconnect Castlefield with the urban grain of Manchester through the reframing of the disused Great Northern Railway Viaduct into an active street, infusing it with building programme and open space – 'The Brownway'.
This excellent project has sustainability at its very core. Re-working industrial age infrastructure to create a green route generates the context for intervention, including appropriately scaled and carefully designed housing.
Andy Stewart – Scott Sutherland School
Re-building dense, walkable urban fabric utilising a highly energy aware materials approach, delivers benefits to both individual inhabitants and a more cohesive community.
Commendation:
Rebecca Goodson – ESALA
"Combining careful and appropriately scaled new build with the adaptive re-use of historic fabric, this sensitive and intelligent approach to re-making the city delivers sustainability in its materials and energy conservation. It also helps build a sustainable community."
The RIAS Drawing Award
This superb suite of drawings uses a number of different techniques, traditional and contemporary, to communicate a complex set of proposals, elegantly and attractively. The use of colour is particularly powerful, immediately engaging the viewer and thoroughly persuasive.
The rural setting is rendered in a soft palette with fine line drawing emphasising the sensitivity of the building itself. It is thoroughly appropriate that the medium so elegantly aligns with the message.
Stanislava Delieva – Strathclyde University
Powerfully rendered, its tendency towards the bleak, uplifted by touches of delicacy and humour, this is a visually arresting and beguiling set of drawings. To operate within such a dark palette, yet render such positivity, takes very particular skill.
Demonstrative of a considerable affinity with the place, these drawings indicate a tremendous command of the medium. The delineation of both context and new build interventions is handled beautifully.
This year's A&DS and RIAS Student Awards Exhibition will be on show in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, from 18th July until 28th September. The awards are supported by the Scottish Government and RIAS Insurance Services.
This year's judges were:
Angela Brady PPRIBA Hon FRIAS.
Iain Connelly, RIAS President
Ian Gilzean, Principal Architect, Scottish Government
Lori McElroy, Director Sust., Architecture and Design Scotland
The 2014 A&DS and RIAS Student Awards Exhibition will be on show in The Lighthouse, Glasgow, from 18th July until 28th September 2014, after which it will travel to the participating schools of architecture.
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Data transfers under the threat of terrorist attacks
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris and elsewhere have created an atmosphere of insecurity and fear among the citizens of the main European capitals. They have also highlighted the necessity for more effective tools at European level in the fight against terrorism and the prevention of future attacks in the European soil.
By: J. Scott Marcus, Georgios Petropoulos and Bruegel Date: December 15, 2015 Topic: Innovation & Competition Policy
In doing so, these incidents have also reawakened a long-simmering debate as to how best to reconcile these national security requirements both with individual privacy rights that we as Europeans hold dear, and with legitimate commercial use of personally identifiable data. The tensions among these three objectives are palpable, and have only intensified with the growing threat of terrorism and the growing value of personally identifiable data.
Data privacy implies restrictions on the free movement of data. Conversely, commercial efficiency in the digital world seems to require data flows that are restricted as little as possible. Intelligence services also have reason to want data to flow freely – in the absence of data flows, their surveillance would be undermined.
In particular, the recent decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) invalidating the Safe Harbour agreement between EU and US is legitimate in terms of protecting the privacy of Europeans, but at the same time raises the risk of "balkanisation" of data (notably between the US and the EU), with likely negative consequences on the digital economy.[1]
There is unlikely to be a simple, ideal solution at European level. What is likely needed are pragmatic compromises, solidly grounded in a clear understanding of the underlying tensions that we are trying to reconcile. To date, a clear understanding has not always been in evidence.
The economic value of data
Data is often referred to as the "oil of the 21st century". Data has an economic value that affects online platforms and their clients, namely, companies and consumers. Online platforms act as intermediaries that collect data from consumers and sell advertising slots to companies. By analysing the data they receive by consumers, they can design effective and personalised advertising strategies for the companies' products and services. In this way, companies are more successful in placing their products, and consumers receive better recommendations based on their individual interests – potentially a "win-win" situation, or Pareto improvement.
The benefits from the use of personally identifiable data to the sector are manifest. The funds generated by such advertisements are the main source of revenue for platforms such as Google and Facebook.[2]
The benefits to the individual, and through spill-overs into the broader economy, are more easily overlooked, as are the benefits in internal efficiency to multi-national organisations. For example, Netflix provides personalised recommendations for movies and shows based on users' explicit taste preferences and ratings, viewing history, or friends' recommendations. These personal data are gained through both Netflix's own service and from data provided by social networks such as Facebook. The consumer arguably benefits.
At the same time, concerns over potential misuse of consumer data are not misplaced. Consumers are not always aware of how their data can be used by online platforms. As the New York Times have pointed out in their influential article "Facebook Is Using You"[3], past experience has shown that "… you might be refused health insurance based on a Google search you did about a medical condition. You might be shown a credit card with a lower credit limit, not because of your credit history, but because of your race, sex or ZIP code or the types of Web sites you visit."
The Schrems case and Safe Harbour agreement between the EU and the US
The Safe Harbour agreement between European Union and the United States dates back to 26 July 2000 and facilitates the ability of businesses to move personal data collected in Europe to servers in US[4] (for instance, a social-media profile or payroll information) on the strength of guarantees provided by US authorities to provide an adequate level of data protection. To date, more than 4,000 companies have used Safe Harbour for data transfer[5].
On 26 June 2013, Austrian privacy activist and Facebook user Maximilian Schrems filed a complaint against Facebook, arguing that his personal data is not adequately protected when it is transferred to the US from Europe because Facebook makes the data available to the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), for which the Safe Harbour protections are either unavailable or irrelevant.[6]
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on 6 October 2015 that the Safe Harbour agreement with the US is invalid because it does not ensure adequate data protection, a fundamental principle of EU data protection.
This decision put an end to a practice that had been used extensively for fifteen years, not only by US-based online platforms but also by multi-national corporations and by European online start-ups and service providers.
High-tech giants that need to transfer data have resorted to a range of work-arounds. For instance, Deutsche Telekom agreed to act as data trustee for Microsoft customer data collected in Germany and Europe,[7] while Microsoft itself will increase its operations using its Dublin data centre. Among the other cloud builders, Google[8] and Amazon already operate major data centres in Dublin, while Facebook[9] and Apple[10] had announced plans to build major server farms in Ireland even before the Schrems decision. In addition, several US-based firms have rushed to put in place model contract clauses that the European Commission advocates as a means of enabling them to transfer data to the US.[11]
How effective these measures will prove to be remains to be seen. Ensuring that European data remains in Europe might possibly enable US-based firms to offer cloud services to Europeans, assuming that the firms can offering convincing assurances that the data will not be subject to surveillance; however, it does not solve the data transfer issue for data that truly needs to be transferred.
The model clauses would appear to be at best a weak and temporary circumvention of the ECJ's decision in the Schrems case, since US-based firms cannot and presumably will not avoid making the data available to US intelligence services, and will be prevented by US law from informing surveilled entities and individuals that they have done so. The decision in the Schrems case, after all, had nothing to do with commercial privacy practices – it was all about government surveillance for purposes of national security. This cannot be governed by private contract. Given that Safe Harbour has already been invalidated, it seems unlikely that the ECJ in a subsequent case would permit the model clauses to stand.
Even if the current work-arounds were to prove to be sustainable, they would effectively increase economic transaction costs (i.e. overhead costs of doing business) significantly for the firms that are forced to use them, thus effectively throwing sand in the economic gears of both the US and the EU.
Terrorist attacks lead to short term pressure for enhanced surveillance
In the past, terrorist attacks have often led to calls in the short term for authorities in the Member States to intensify surveillance, even at some sacrifice to the rights of the individual, and to collaborate closely with one another in exchanging data. In the longer term, there tends to be a return to normalcy as surveillance is relaxed in order to better comply with the fundamental rights of citizens.
For example, in light of the major attacks in the underground of Madrid in 2004 and the London bombings in 2005, the EU launched the Data Retention Directive in 2006 which required the providers of publicly available electronic communications services and networks to retain traffic and location data belonging to individuals or legal entities for up to two years. In April 2014, however, the ECJ concluded that the Directive interferes with fundamental rights of EU citizens and violates the right to protection of personal data.
A similar oscillation is visible in regard to airline Passenger Name Record (PNR) data, and to SWIFT[12] records of financial transfers. A balance is sought between national security and privacy concerns, but the pendulum swings over time as the perceived threat level waxes or wanes.
Conclusions and Suggestions
The use and transfer of personally identifiable data can have large benefits for society – not only for platforms that use and sell the data, but also for the individuals that provide it, and for the broader digital economy.
In the aftermath of the recent attacks and increased calls for surveillance, together with the Schrems decision that prevent transfers of personally identiable data when national security authorities might abuse it, the ability to transfer data is likely to be challenged severely.
The tension between privacy and national security surveillance is different in many important respects from the tension between privacy and commercial use of data. Notably, surveillance authorities do not expect the data that the collected, or the fact that they collected it, to become public; consequently, it will be exceedingly difficult to police or meaningfully enforce any agreement that is reached as an alternative to the invalidated Safe Harbour arrangements.
There are well documented cases where senior US officials were less than fully forthcoming in statements to the US Congress.[13] Can we reasonably expect the US to be more forthcoming with European officials than with their own Congress? Former US president Ronald Reagan often said that one should "trust, but verify". How can any agreement about the use of national security data be meaningfully verified?
It is widely acknowledged that an alternative to Safe Harbour needs to be put in place at European level, and quickly, in order to retain as much as possible the benefits of the free transfer of data, while duly respecting the need for commercial privacy.
The question that European policymakers must now confront is how to craft practical arrangements in the face of genuine increased needs for surveillance for purposes of national security, challenges to reaching an agreement with major trading partners notably including the US, and the near-impossibility of enforcing an agreement if one can be reached.
It is by no means clear how such an arrangement could be reached, but it is clear that components must include (1) cooperation at European level and with the Member States, (2) extraordinary pragmatism and willingness to compromise so as to achieve as much as is reasonably achievable, (3) setting the expectations of Europeans to realistic levels, all coupled with (4) the ambition to achieve as much protection of the privacy rights of Europeans as possible, as part of a solution that balances this appropriately with national security needs, through international negotiations.
[1] Ilsa Godlovitch, J. Scott Marcus, Bas Kotterink and Pieter Nooren (2015, forthcoming), Over-the-Top (OTT) players: Market dynamics and policy challenges, study for the European Parliament.
[2] For example, according to Facebook annual report in 2014, advertisements corresponded to the 92% of the company's revenue that year (http://investor.fb.com/annuals.cfm). Google's revenues are also mainly (more than 90%) based on advertising (https://investor.google.com/financial/tables.html).
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/facebook-is-using-you.html
[4] Under the EU Directive on Data Protection, transfers of personal data to non-EU countries are permitted only to countries that provide an adequate level of privacy protection.
[5] http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/7544e716-6b87-11e5-aca9-d87542bf8673.html#axzz3tLgVZo89
[6] This claim is based on the revelations of the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden about the NSA's PRISM mass surveillance program.
[7] See "Deutsche Telekom to act as Data Trustee for Microsoft Cloud in Germany", 11 November 2015, at https://www.telekom.com/media/company/293260.
[8] Google also operates data centres in Finland, Belgium and Amsterdam.
[9] Jason Verge, "Facebook To Submit Plans For $220M Data Center In Ireland", in Data Center Knowledge, 15 June 2015, at http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2015/06/15/facebook-submit-plans-220m-data-center-ireland/.
[10] Davin O'Dwyer, "Ireland's data centre boom set to continue", 5 March 2015, http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/ireland-s-data-centre-boom-set-to-continue-1.2126081.
[11] See "Silicon Valley fights European Court of Justice ruling with small print", The Register, 7 October 2015, at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/10/07/us_cloud_giants_privacy_brief_safe_harbour/.
[12] SWIFT is the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication.
[13] New York Times, 11 June 2013: 'At the March Senate hearing, Mr. Wyden asked Mr. Clapper, "Does the N.S.A. collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" "No, sir," Mr. Clapper replied. "Not wittingly." Mr. Wyden said on Tuesday that he had sent his question to Mr. Clapper's office a day before the hearing, and had given his office a chance to correct the misstatement after the hearing, but to no avail. In an interview on Sunday with NBC News, Mr. Clapper acknowledged that his answer had been problematic, calling it "the least untruthful" answer he could give.'
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