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Mark Barton is an anchor for Bloomberg Television and is the network’s longest serving presenter in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
He currently hosts Bloomberg Markets He’s travelled the world to interview more Americas and Bloomberg Markets European than 10,000 newsmakers. They’ve included Close, which bring the most important presidents, princes, prime ministers, developments of the financial and business members of the US Federal Reserve and day to a global audience. most of the global business elite. Among his personal career highlights are interviews Mark began his career as an intern at with Microsoft founder Bill Gates and the late Bloomberg News in 1995. Six months later he Israeli leader Shimon Peres. was one of the five journalists who founded Bloomberg TV’s European operations in He is a true all-rounder. His professional London. interests range from politics to sport and film. His one professional regret remains not He’s played an integral role in establishing reporting from the red carpet at the Oscars Bloomberg Television as a global financial ceremony in Hollywood. and business news network. Mark has witnessed at first hand three global Mark graduated with a bachelor’s degree in recessions and covered five UK general History. He has three small children and lives elections and five US elections. in London.
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Part one Television journalism Radio journalism Domestic current affairs Radio current affairs Short feature Specialist Radio investigative Online Science
Innovation
Dinner
Part two AIB Founders Award Abdul Rahman Ramadhan Children’s factual Sport Radio creative Short form journalism TV investigative International current affairs Radio personality Television personality
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TV JOURNALISM The Children of War – BBC News Desperate Journey – PBS NewsHour Fergal Keane, Katya Adler, Rami Ruhayem, Sara Just Executive Producer Quentin Sommerville, Caroline Hawley Justin Kenny Senior Producer Morgan Till Producer Malcolm Brabant Correspondent Paris Terror Attacks – CNN Worldwide William Brangham Correspondent Jane Arraf Correspondent Trine Villeman Producer Irawan Shrine blast news coverage - Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Channel NewsAsia Chua Dan Chyi Senior Producer, Bloomberg Brexit Coverage – Bloomberg International News Francine Lacqua, Guy Johnson, Anna Edwards, Nicholas Deroose Producer, Matthew Miller, Manus Cranny, Dafydd Rees, International News Annmarie Hordern, Anastasia Ellis, Alex Kok Editor, Luke Morano, Rebecca Thomas International News Cheah Yean Ti Senior Producer, International News Myanmar Elections – Al Jazeera English Aaron Chew Executive Editor, Wayne Hay Correspondent International News Scott Heidler Correspondent Steve Lai Presenter & Senior Florence Looi Correspondent Producer, Joao Duarte Camera/Editor International News Brendan Ager Camera/Editor Steven Clark Supervising Editor, Adrian Callan Camera/Editor International News Matthew East Coordinating Producer Tay Tsen-Waye Deputy Editor, Han Thar Local Producer International News Savitha Narayanan Executive Editor, International News Water Shortage in Mandya District – NDTV Amee Enriquez Senior Producer, Maya Sharma Reporter International News D M Kumar Camera
RADIO JOURNALISM A Kurdish Syrian Refugee’s Journey to Germany The Landmine Man – Radio Sawa – SBS Azad Mohamed Aldalo Correspondent Andrew Bolton, Mayada Khalil, Heba Kassoua, Roza Germian, Nilgun Kilic, Dina Gerolymou, Margarita Vasileva, Branko Cvetojevic, Kata Kiss, Last Summer in the Sea of Umbrellas – When the Maria Schaller Tear Gas Rains – Radio Television Hong Kong Chung Wai Yee – Elsa Burmese Election Special – BBC Burmese
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DOMESTIC CURRENT AFFAIRS The Murder of Jannick - Danish Broadcasting My Son the Jihadi - True Vision Productions Corporation Peter Beard, Richard Kerbaj, Kåre Bjerglund Director Brian Woods, Simon McMahon, Alice Allen Peter Hammer Producer, writer Joakim Eggert Editing, Cinematography My Jihad – VRT Snorre Ruhe Editing, Mark De Visscher Director Cinematography Rudi Vranckx Journalist Freja Sofie Kirk Editing, Ina Maes Editor in chief Cinematography Ariane Mertens Research Kasper Helms Thorsøe Cinematography Tine Mertens Producer Mette Mohr Mortensen Research
Chemsex – VICE Kids in Crisis – Eric Starling Productions for William Fairman Producer/Director Channel 4 Max Gogarty Producer/Director With thanks to: The Wave project, Invictus Al Brown Exec Producer Trust, Sarah Fisher, Pete Russell and Dr Annette Kevin Sutcliffe Exec Producer Schlosser Jacqueline Edenbrow Exec Producer Christopher Ecclestone Narration Daniel Harle Composer Dr Howard Fine Consulting Psychologist Martha O’Kane Production Manager World Sport Presents: They’ll Never Walk Alone Rachel Hooper, Aaron Black Production Team – CNN Worldwide Lisa Magee, Rory Tinman Production Team Bill Galvin Senior Vice President Paul Howard Production Team Sports Programming Nick Phillips Original Music Sheri England Executive Producer (Featuring Bernard Butler) Don Riddell Correspondent Seamas McCracken Photography Samantha Bresnahan Producer and Writer Oli Adams Additional Camera Ashley Bateman Video Editor Ka-boom Post-production Will McConnell Dubbing Mixer Jim Agnew Colourist and Armed in America – Police and Guns/Faith and Online Editor Guns – PBS Rory Toher Research Lincoln Square Productions for PBS Gillian Callan Assistant Producer/ Camera Bradley Manning Film Editor Sam Collyns Executive Producer Alison Millar Produced, Directed, Filmed
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RADIO CURRENT AFFAIRS Listening to the Bones - BBC World Service ISIS: Young, British and Radicalised – Snappin’ Valeria Perasso Producer & Presenter Turtle Productions Alejandro Millán Producer Neil Trevithick Editor Flying for Your Life - Life and Death on the East Asian Flyway – ABC and BBC World Service Alvin Hall Goes Back to School – Ann Jones WNYC & Public Radio International Andrew Luck-Baker Alvin Hall, Rupert Gardener, Dana Roberson, Jennifer Parsonage Vince Fairchild
Corruption K: Cristina in the Dock – An Age of Our Own: War Times - 70th Radio Mitre S.A Anniversary Commemoration of the End of WWII Marcelo Bonelli – Radio Television Hong Kong Martín Aguirre Zoe KWOK Tsz-shan Producer Mandy CHEUNG King-ying Producer Melissa CHEUNG Pik-yin Narrator The Swedish Ambassador’s Guide to Eurovision – Ingrid TSANG Mei-kuen Translator The Documentary - BBC World Service Pian PANG Ka-shin Translator (Japanese) Nicola Clase Presenter Glenda LAM Ka-yu Executive Producer Jo Fidgin Producer Richard Knight Editor
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SHORT FEATURE Horrors in the Faroe Islands - Combined Artists – Great Immigrants – The Pride of America – Blue Carte Blanche Chalk Media Dan Dews Audio Final Mix Greg Moyer Executive Producer Claudia Garb Editor Rob Finch Director John Webb Presenter Eléonore Hamelin Producer Michael Duffett Producer Logan Burruss Assistant Producer Wynand Grobler Managing Editor Jason Greene Assistant Camera Amalia Christoforou Managing Editor Rob Finch Director of George Mazarakis Executive Producer Photography, Editor Greg Snider Assistant Editor Dan Quintero Assistant Editor On Assignment – Vicky’s Story - ITV News/ Brooke Herbert-Hayes Assistant Editor MediaZones.net Rebecca Sell Assistant Editor John Ray Reporter Natalie Fay Executive Producer Delilah Jeary Series Producer Dateline: Kids Gone Wild – SBS Television in association with Paul Martin at World News & Features Amos Roberts Video Journalist Andy Rex Camera Alex De Jong Story Producer Mark Hawtin Editor Marianne Borowiec Additional Camera Nicky Russell Smith Producer David Potts Story Editor Natalie Wright Producer Bernadine Lim Executive Producer
Winners – BBC World Service Right to Fight – The Guardian Global Video Unit, BBC World Service Zara Hayes, Noah Payne-Frank, Ken Macfarlane, Richard Sprenger and Charlie Phillips
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SPECIALIST It Ends with Murder – The Body in the Freezer – The Special Needs Hotel – Lambent Productions Danish Broadcasting Corporation Mark North Produced, Directed Sebastian Ottenstein Director, Editor and Filmed Dror Kacinsky Cinematographer Oli Sloane Produced, Directed Peter Hammer Producer, Writer and Filmed Annabelle Draper Producer Amanda Baxter Editor The Sound Man – Africa24 Media/Camerapix Paul Bolton Editor Abdul Rahman Ramadhan Ollie Tait Executive Producer Chip Duncan Emma Wakefield Executive Producer Robert Huck Abigail Adams Executive Producer for Moses Muiruri GroupM Entertainment Karen Bonnici Executive Producer for GroupM Entertainment Foreign Dispatches – Boxing in Britain – Channels Television Doris Okenwa She Was Called Tatiana – Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty Inna Denisova, Peter Kosikhin and Andrey My Nigeria – Basketmouth: Trash Talking – Kostyanov of RFE/RL’s Russian Service. Al Jazeera English Brian Tilley Director Tim Wege Cameraman A Single Step – Voice of America Tamsyn Reynolds Editor Beth Mendelson Senior Executive Steven Markovitz Producer Producer Tasmin Ranger Production Manager, Abigail Tannebaum Sharon Supervising Producer Big World Cinema Deepak Dobhal Editor/Producer Bose Oshin Production Manager, Monte Hatcher Art Director Big World Cinema Carol Slatkin Senior Editor Ingrid Falck Executive Producer, Roger Hooper Music Al Jazeera English Gary Jaffe Audio Larz Lacoma Colour Correcting Leon Staskiewicz Colour Correcting
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RADIO INVESTIGATIVE The Unfinished Story of Fighting FGM in Egypt Documentary on One: The Case That Never Was – BBC – RTÉ Radio 1 Ali Gamal Reporter Frank Shouldice and Liam O’Brien Ahmed Hussein Studio Manager
Should Boxing be Banned? – ABC (Australian File on 4: Tennis – Game Set and Fix? – BBC/ Broadcasting Corporation) Buzzfeed Nance Haxton Simon Cox Presenter Paul Grant Producer David Ross Editor The Sunnah of Muhammad – BBC Adel Soliman Claire Press The Mysterious Magnate and Moldova’s Missing Richard McIlroy Millions – Assignment - BBC World Service Tim Whewell Reporter Simon Maybin Producer The Rise of New Drugs and Challenges Facing Bridget Harney Editor Modern Anti-Narcotics Policies – Radio Taiwan International
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ONLINE The Indigence Scale - ZDF – German Television China’s Science Revolution – BBC News Marion Böhm Webstory Editor Rebecca Morelle Author Julia Kiehne Webstory Editor Xinyan Yu China Producer, images Carsten Behrendt TV-Author (it was her idea) Marcus Niehaves TV-Author Richard Kenny Videos Frank Durst Design Paul Kerley Online Production Michaela Waldow Design Stephen Mulvey Text Editor Manfred Gördes Webmaster
6x9: A Virtual Experience of Solitary Confinement Children Deported: Farida – Flimmer Film – The Guardian Ragnhild Sørheim Director Benjamin Langeland Cinematographer & Editor CNNMoney Investigates Maria Duval – CNN Christer Fasmer Executive Producer Worldwide & Cinematographer Reported and written by: Senior investigative Arne Daniel Haldorsen Cinematographer writers Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken Øystein Frøyland Cinematographer Edited by: Nicole Ridgway and Lex Haris Anders Nybø Cinematographer Videos shot and produced by: Contessa Gayles, Thorvald Nilsen Producer Jordan Malter and Lou Fogila Christer Fasmer Executive Producer Graphics and Illustrations: Tiffany Baker, Megan Olav Øyehaug Composer Pendergrass and Sofia Ordonez Thomas Angell Endresen Sound design Web development: Stephany Cardet and Carlos Hernandez
Back in Touch: Stories of Love, Loss and Reconnection in post-Ebola Sierra Leone India’s Menstruation Man – Al Jazeera English – On Our Radar in partnership with New Dirk Dilson Director & Producer Internationalist Henryk Ditze Cameraman Paul Myles Director, Producer, Dirk Gilson Cameraman and Camera Work 1st Edit Davide Morandini Editor Yasir Khan Executive Producer David Hill Web Design & Final Edit Laurence Ivil Assistant Producer, Ziad Ramley Assistant Producer Photographer Hazel Healy Associate Producer Paula Hämäläinen Production and Web Design Coordinator Jake Leyland Production Assistant and Researcher May Abdalla Consultant 19 Sound Music
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SCIENCE Next Human - Korean Broadcasting Systems Vital Signs with Dr Sanjay Gupta – The End of (KBS) Polio – CNN Worldwide Mr LIM Sehyeong Dr. Sanjay Gupta Correspondent Mr LEE Jaehyuk Elisa Berkowitz Executive Producer Ms LEE Jiyun Sheri England Executive Producer Samantha Bresnahan Producer Brent Swails Producer Nova – Iceman Reborn – WGBH John Austin Editor Bonnie Brennan Writer, Producer Peter Rudden Photographer and Director Kari Lennox Graphic Artist David Murdock Writer Paul Marengo Editor Vincent Liota Editor Secrets of the Brain – TERN International Paula Apsell Senior Executive TERN International Marjolein Duermeijer and Producer Laura Hornikx Julia Cort Deputy Executive Lambent Production Producer Mary Hui Production Manager Chris Schmidt Senior Producer Ollie Tait Executive Producer A NOVA Production by Bsquared Media for WGBH Emma Wakefield Executive Producer Boston in association with ARTE France John Kent Series Producer James Buchanan Series Producer Matt Pothecary Producer IT Figures - Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Channel NewsAsia Nathaniel Walters Producer Dr. Jack Lewis Presenter
Warmer – ABS-CBN Corporation
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CHILDREN’S Heart&Soul – 1440 Productions Checker Tobi – Explains the Refugee Crisis: Why Ash Koek Director Do So Many People Take Refuge – Bayerischer Kristy Fuller Producer Rundfunk Lynda Morgan Writer Checker Tobi is a production of megaherz film Naomi Davis Editor und fernsehen commissioned by the Bayerischer Rundfunk. Franz X. Gernstl Producers Big Band Clan - RTVE Radio Televisión Española Fidelis Mager Fandiño Lousa Executive producer Birgitta Kaßeckert (BR) Editing RTVE Santiago Andreas M. Reinhard(BR) Direction
Matanglawin: Lakbay Liwanag - Hawkeye: Know Zone – The Mediae Company Journey of Light – ABS-CBN Corporation Loubna Malik Director Alejandro “Kuya Kim” Atienza Host Charles Ouda Presenter Regina Reyes Head Integrated News Janet Kirina Presenter and Current affairs Jack Kibedi Presenter Dondi Ocampo Head Current Affairs Damaris Irungu Presenter Boyet Agustin Program Head Onyango Owino Presenter Infotainment and Mercy Muriuk Editor Public Affairs Sarah Wanaga Editor Maritoni Esperida Executive Producer Patricia Gichinga Series Producer Robert Recaido Associate Producer David Campbell Executive Producer Grace Sucgang Segment Producer and Writer Shane Escaño Researcher Allan Navales Researcher
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SPORT Rugby World Cup Final – New Zealand v Australia Channel 4 Formula 1 – Whisper Films – ITV Sport Richard Carr Director Paul McNamara, Mark Demuth, Phil Heslop, David Sunil Patel Executive Producer Francis, Roger Pearce, John Watts, Pauline Dalziel- Mark Wilkin Programme Editor Smith, Pauline Hamilton, Tim Goodden Steve Aldous Assistant Editor Juli Porter Head of Production Richard Gort Creative Director FA Cup Final 2016 for BT Sport – Sunset+Vine Tim Hampel Producer Gary Frances Executive Producer Deborah Creaven Production Manager Dylan Jane Producer Jamie McIntosh Production Jamie Oakford Match Director Coordinator Rob Levi Presentation Director Kate Waller Archive Producer Sarah Warnock Production Manager Allan Handley Production Accountant Dax Wood Digital Producer
2015 Tour de France – SBS Television Mike Tomalaris Host Catherine Whelan Executive Producer Stuart Randall Executive Producer Ken Shipp Director of Sport
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RADIO CREATIVE FEATURE Sounds to Illustrate Dreams: The Lullaby – Korean Growing Up Without a Dad – BlokMedia Ltd Broadcasting Systems (KBS) Peter Shevlin Mr LEE Jewon Claire Clottey Mr PARK Chunki DJ Target Mr KIM Hongbeom Rebecca Maxted Andy Worrell
America’s Mosques – A Story of Integration – Overtone Productions The Battle of Britain at 75 - TBI Media with Tharik Hussain Presenter Snappin’ Turtle Productions Adam Fowler Producer Anna Scott-Brown Executive Producer Documentary on One: High Heels and Horses – RTÉ Radio 1 Little Volcanoes – White Stiletto Frank Delaney Tim Desmond
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SHORT FORM JOURNALISM VTM News – Train of Hope – Medialaan Syria: Witness to an Air Strike – CNN Worldwide Romina Van Camp, Regina Haenen Clarissa Ward Correspondent Salma Abdelaziz Producer Bilal Abdul Kareem Cameraman Death of a Farmer: House of Distress – NDTV Fiona Sibbett Editor Maya Sharma Reporter D M Kumar Camera Chibok Schoolgirls: Proof of Life – CNN Worldwide ZIB100 – ORF Nima Elbagir Correspondent Armin Wolf, Felix Schatz, Miriam Reichel, Stephanie Busari Producer Patrick Swanson Sebastiaan Knoops Photojournalist
Brussels Divided: Molenbeek after the Terrorist Labour Protests in Paris – Ruptly GmbH Attacks – The Guardian Lorena Gonzalez Producer Iman Amrani and Alex Healey Lucas Léger Camera
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TV INVESTIGATIVE ISIS: The British Women Supporters Unveiled – Selling Northern Ireland – BBC Northern Ireland Channel 4 Spotlight Poppy Begum Reporter Mandy McAuley Reporter Melanie Quigley Editor Chris Thornton Producer Robin Barty-King Head of Production Mary McKegney Producer Joanna Potts Producer & Director Darran Marshall Assistant Producer David Henshaw Executive Producer Gwyneth Jones Deputy Editor Jeremy Adams Editor
101 East: Murder in Malaysia – Al Jazeera English Mary Ann Jolley Reporter & In premiera cu Carmen Avram - VIRUŞI ÎN SISTEM Producer –S.C Antena 3 S.A Parkaran Krishnan Producer Carmen Avram Producer Matt Bamkin Cameraman Denisa Morariu Reporter GSP, Mark Dobbin Cameraman A3 News Dept Andy Mees Editor Mirela Neag Reporter GSP, Mavourneen Dineen Senior Producer A3 News Dept Sharon Roobol Executive Producer Cristian Tamas Cameraman Adi Robe Video Editor Zsolt Lenard Video Editor Nisman - Radio Televisión Española RTVE Marius Robu Video Editor José Antonio Guardiola Script & Director Susana Jiménez Realization & Deputy Director Fukushima Disaster, When East Japan was a Step Gil Vicente Image & Sound behind Annihilation. – TBS Television Juan Lage Image & Sound Javier Mula Edition Ana Pastor Producer Sexual Violence, Social Media and Society – CPAC Lourdes Calvo Producer Kimothy Walker and Sarah Stevens Paco Diaz Graphics Sergio Ojeda Design’s Graphic Isabel Garcia Leal Sound
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INTERNATIONAL CURRENT AFFAIRS Wedding Day – deMENSEN Undercover Asia - Children of Cybersex Dens - Barbara Boels Executive Producer Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Channel NewsAsia Sandy Debecker Producer Sarah Macdonald Executive Producer Hanne Baeyens Producer (MAKE Productions Pte Ltd) Bieke Pilen Editor-in-chief Sian Kevill Executive Producer Jeroen De Greef Director (MAKE Productions Pte Ltd) Lieve Blancquaert Host, Photographer Kate Blewett Director & Producer (MAKE Productions Pte Ltd) Hazel Thompson Director of Our World – The Killing of Farkhunda – BBC Photography Zarghuna Kargar Reporter (MAKE Productions Pte Ltd) Sara Afshar Producer Sara-Ann Yumi R Assistant Producer Maryam Masih Location Producer (Channel NewsAsia) Elissa Mirzaie Camerawoman Mok Choy Lin Commissioning Editor Gordon Watt Editor (Channel NewsAsia) Kavita Puri Executive Producer
We Love Gaza – RT Children on the Frontline: The Escape – An ITN Vyacheslav Guz Story Editor & Production for channel 4 in association Producer with ZDF and WGBH Aleksandr Panov Director John Keyes Production Manager Stanislav Guryanov Cameraman Anthony Wonke Executive Producer Leonid Mikhailov Video Editor Chris Shaw Executive Producer Gennady Spirin Video Editor Stephen Ellis (A.C.E) Co-Producer & Editor Andrey Vasyutkin Video Editor Marcel Mettelsiefen Fimed, Produced & Dmitry Borzenko Video Directed Editor Ksenia Prasolova Music Director Allow me to Die – SBS Television Oksana Chudnenko Editor Brett Mason Video Journalist Calliste Weitenberg Producer Bernadine Lim Executive Producer Kaos Hatti – Kos Adasi - Zehra Yilmaz for TRT Jonathan Challis Additional Turkish Radio Television Producer Merel Bocken Fixer Micah Mcgown Story Editor Simon Phegan Story Editor
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RADIO PERSONALITY Georgina Godwin RJ Viny – Viny Agrawal Clair Urbahn Viny Agrawal Chris Grimes Priyadarshan Garg Sam Impey Viplove Gupte Wei-Dong Ling
TV PERSONALITY Tim Sebastian – DW – Deutsche Welle Chloe Cho - Mediacorp Pte Ltd, Tim Sebastian Host Channel NewsAsia Monika Martin Editor & Producer Chloe Cho Presenter and Shani Rozanes Editor & Producer Executive Producer Don Mac Coitir Editor & Producer Investor Insights Simon Young Editor & Producer and Start-up Asia Joel Stonington Editor & Producer Chubby Jayaram Senior Producer Francis Suyak Editor & Producer Investor Insights Caroline Schmitt Social Media Editor and Producer Peter Craven Team Leader Talk Start-UP Asia Katharina Kroll Executive Producer Tan Lek Hwa Executive Producer Start-UP Asia Enette Ngoi Producer Barkha Dutt – NDTV Start-UP Asia Aisyah Mohd Nooh Producer Start-UP Asia Manus Cranny – Bloomberg Jillyn Koh Director Anastasia Ellis Start-UP Asia
Hala Gorani – CNN Worldwide Ros Atkins – BBC
Menu and Shortlist Art Final.indd 20 24/10/2016 19:59 A brief history of LSO St Lukes A “superlative conceit” is how the biographer Hawksmoor is significant as he had worked of architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, Professor with his teacher, Christopher Wren, on some of Kerry Downes, describes the eye-catching tower London’s most famous landmarks including St above you at St Luke’s Church in London. “And Paul’s Cathedral, Chelsea Hospital, Hampton what a tower,” says The Guardian’s architecture Court Palace and Greenwich Hospital. In his own and design correspondent, Jonathan Glancy: right he built the awe-inspiring Christ Church “composed discordantly, but thrillingly, of an Spitalfields. enormous, fluted, white stone obelisk rising improbably high into low London clouds. It is St Luke’s was consecrated in 1733 but, despite its one of those towers that catch the imagination, famous architect, it began to sink within a year. a Wonderland conceit that raises smiles. It is The principal difficulty was the marshy land of crowned with a gold dragon (that cockney legend Moorfields around the church - not the most claims is a plague-carrying flea) and is among the suitable terrain for a magnificent, complex battiest; yet potentially best loved, architectural building such as St Luke’s. Despite a renovation in follies in London.” the 1870s, nothing could stop St Luke’s slow but inexorable slide into the mire. So what of the history? St Luke’s Church was commissioned in 1727 and its construction was financed by the Coal Tax.
The designers were John James and Nicholas Hawksmoor, partners who aimed to construct remarkable buildings that expressed the confident baroque artistry of Britain’s finest architects - matching their French and Italian rivals - while at the same time demonstrating the power of church and state to London’s rapidly growing, and somewhat unruly, 18th century suburbs.
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By 1959 the building had deteriorated so much The new roof and filigree steel truss and tree-like that it was declared unsafe, its roof removed. For columns that support it, mirroring perhaps the more than 30 years, the church was open to the immense live trees surrounding the building, are elements, whilst the distant views across the city independent of the old structure. to St Luke’s - north from the City of London along Some £18 million was spent on refurbishment with the market street of Whitecross Street - were the Jerwood Foundation making a grant of £1 obscured by new, broad-shouldered concrete million for which it was rewarded not only with a buildings. magnificent space but also a place in history with the naming of the performance space. It remained in this derelict state until, in the mid-1990s; the London Symphony Orchestra was Downstairs, in the hub of LSO Discovery, LSO given a grant from the UK Lottery to develop St Luke’s constantly buzzes with activity as a the orchestra’s community and education constant flow of groups makes music in the Clore programme, LSO Discovery. Room while others play Balinese gamelan and use music technology equipment in the Candide Architects Levitt Bernstein were commissioned Discovery Room. to handle the necessarily sensitive restoration and modernisation, drawing on the practice’s LSO St Luke’s is home to a range of live long experience in installing new, technically- performances, with contemporary artists such as sophisticated interiors for arts organisations Bryan Ferry, Dave Brubeck, Sting and Elton John in old buildings without compromising their appearing here. Sir Elton has described this as architectural integrity or losing their history. one of the funkiest venues in which he has ever The five-bay nave has become a giant music box, performed, while classical performers include acoustically-sealed from the outside world and Sir Colin Davis, St Johns’ College Choir and, of the hubbub of busy, noisy Old Street. course, the London Symphony Orchestra.
To ensure the integrity of Hawksmoor and James’s design, the Jerwood Hall - the central rehearsal, teaching and performance space in which tonight’s AIBs take place - is under a giant steel and timber canopy placed over and on top of the old stone walls.
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