Newsflash - We are planning a Sustainable Buildings event for 2007 - see our News page for details... What we did in 2006 The Power of Ten came to Tattersalls, Newmarket on June 20th. 2006     See our Design It Day report page! Design It Day page. This was the 10th Architecture Week, which saw ImagineNewmarket, generously sponsored and supported by a number of regional businesses, deliver a day of thinking about design in concert with a group of  West Suffolk young people. This years celebration saw ImagineNewmarket hold an event at Tattersalls in Newmarket - with staff, resources, display equipment and materials donated by our partners... Little Angels Day Nursery The Johns Practice, Chartered Architects The SmithMartin Partnership. Our generous thanks to them. Tattersalls, Europe's leading bloodstock auctioneers, generously made available their High Flyers enclosure and building, so that a group of teachers, children and carers from a number of schools in the West Suffolk cluster could attend our 'Let's Design It' Day.  Tattersalls generously allowed their 8.9 metre octagonal building, with adjoining facilities, to be used for a superb day of thinking about space, texture, design and building. Our sincerest thanks to the team at Tattersalls who helped us to deliver our event and to make it a success in such high quality surroundings. Our delivered work plan for the day is available here. The Power of Ten... Our plan is to build an Imagination Centre in Newmarket to deliver exciting and stimulating learning and leaisure to the regions young people. What the building is, does and looks like was the object our our day on the 20th June, 2006. A variety of young people came together to think about resources, to invent some new takes on the use of space and community buildings and to craft some models that could feed further consultation with the community about ImagineNewmarket. They did it brilliantly. Following a welcome and introduction to the day by Tim Young, Chair of ImagineNewmarket and with the support of a number of ImagineNewmarket committee members, the children were invited to think about what 10 might look like? What it might do and how they could represent it today? Some great ideas emerged, which were put on paper and referred back to throughout the day. Kate Lockett of the Johns Practice then led the young people through some ideas about architecture, shape and variety in buildings and how design affected the outcome of the builders work. A set of drawings and design photographs, donated by the Johns Practice informed the session. Sue Martin, of the SmithMartin Partnership, then brought all ages together for a fun, interactive story telling session on the 10 Little Pigs and their travels around the world. Sue's kit bag was laden with concrete, steel, foam, granite. wood....on and on. With enthralled listeners wondering what was going to emerge next. Younger story helpers were keen not to lose count of the pigs in the story, whilst older young people were keen to discuss the merit and contents of concrete. The morning continued with group work on individual ideas and designing plans for an Imagination Centre. The young people were able to watch a slide show of buildings and designs from around the world th stimulate their thinking and creativity. It did just that. This session, and the afternoon of crafting and modelling our designs, was professionally and encouragingly supported by Joan Weingaertner and the team from Little Angels Day Nursery. The Little Angels Team and their resources were critical in delivering the excellent models and design ideas that were created. Particular thanks to the team of young people from Thurston Community College, who supported individal groups of young people, in partnership with Little Angels staff, in the realisation of their ideas. A big thanks to them and all the Little Angels crew.