THE president of the Royal Institute of British Architects is one of a number of speakers in the Island for Jersey Architecture Week, which starts today.
Sunand Prasad and the Bailiff, Sir Philip Bailhache, will be opening the large timber exhibition in Weighbridge Square at 1 pm today and Mr Prasad will be speaking about his first impressions of the Island at 6.30 pm tonight at the Town Hall.
The RIBA president will also be judging the Schools Chair competition at 4 pm in the Town Hall. Architecture Week, which runs until Friday, finishing with the Design Awards, is a biennial event organised by the Department of Planning and Environment and the Association of Jersey Architects.
The president of the Association of Jersey Architects, Mike Waddington, said: ‘This year’s theme is Keeping Jersey Special and the speakers, seminars and walking tours aim to get Islanders debating the impact which architecture has on our lives and on our Island. Good, sustainable architecture is fundamentally important to keeping Jersey special.
• Picture: Trainee engineer Martin Fry and iQ director Tim Evans install iMac computers into the timber exhibition in Weighbridge Square ready for Architecture Week. Picture by Rob Currie (00586910)
