The Prime Minister has welcomed leading architects, key members of the construction industry and other figures involved in creating Britain’s public spaces to Downing Street.
Gordon Brown told guests, who included the winners of this year’s Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) Public Building Award, that British design and architecture are “second to none”.
Speaking at the reception, the Prime Minister said:
“Everywhere I go round the world I see British architecture and I see the fruits of the great talent and ability we have in Britain, and everywhere I go round Britain these days I see the tremendous creativity of British architects and what you’re achieving in new schools, new hospitals, but also in new public as well as private buildings.”
He also met student from Eastbourne College, who won the Royal Institute for British Architect’s (RIBA) 175th Anniversary competition to design a Parliament building of the future.
The PM said:
“It is a really exciting design and it shows huge creativity amongst young people.”