Neave Brown’s Winscombe Street was a very special project for him because he designed it for him and four other families to live in, which consisted of his own friends and family. It was a three-story space with five different houses, they were all laid out the same. As common with his works, they featured terraces and shared outdoor spaces. Part of the purpose was for it to serve as a prototype for future, larger projects he was wanting to complete, they were completed in 1965. Another extremely significant thing about Brown’s Winscombe Street project is that it was the first, or one of the first, projects that Brown had completed on his own.

Key housing projects by 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown

Another one of Neave Brown’s most recognized projects is Smalle Haven, also referred to as the Green Medina, which is located in the Netherlands. Neave Brown himself refers to Green Medina as one of his best projects.  This is one of his more recent and one of his last projects, especially in comparison to the last two, as it was done in 2002. A professional landscaper was brought  in to make the building appear less cold and more welcoming. It contains 73 apartments while also featuring multiple office and shop spaces.

Key housing projects by 2018 Royal Gold Medallist Neave Brown

The Alexandra Road Estate is another one of Neave Brown’s masterpieces. It is located in London, England. It was built during the 1970’s and took roughly six years to complete. The estate is comprised of around 500 houses, shops, a community center and even a school. The layout is a stepped formation that climbs up eight stories tall. The roofs are flat in order to allow residents to have an outdoor space. One of the reasons Brown’s work is so looked up to is because the effort and innovation he has delivered to public housing in the UK, where so many others just wanted to keep doing the cheap and quick option.

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The Dunboyne Road Estate was designed by Neave Brown in the 1960’s and built in London, England. It was designed to be a high density, but low rise building. It was one of the first of its kind. It featured about 71 houses in rows and was connected to a public building, which was another concept that was one of the first of its kind.  Brown himself lived in one of the houses following the completion of it.

Gold’s Gym is a place that made a very positive impact on my life years ago and continues to today. This is where I went when I first started getting into health and fitness. The building was very different than most of the other gyms in Norman or Moore. It was much bigger and open, it created a much more welcoming and open environment. The front of the building was almost entirely made of glass so I enjoyed being able to see out and look on what was going on around the gym during a workout.  I started going with my dad and he showed me the basics of working out and lifting. I began to associate it with getting to spend time with my dad and doing something both of us loved, working out. It became a place I genuinely enjoyed going to and looked forward to going to almost everyday.

Last year over spring break, my family, a friend of mine, and I all took a trip to Universal Studios. While every ride and attraction is fascinating and neat to experience, especially because of how they make everything you see in films come to life, what captured me the most was the Wizarding World of Harry Potter. While I personally have only seen short segments of one or two of the movies, and never read the books, even though I was not a super fan like a lot of people in the attraction, I was still in awe. Being there felt like being in a different world almost, or at least, definitely not in Orlando, FL. It felt like we were on a movie set or maybe even in some mystical place. My favorite individual structure was the castle, shown in the picture above, but even that does not capture how massive and magnificent it really is. The magnificence carried on as we went into the castle, as every single detailed was catered to.

Back when I was in high school I went on a trip to Boston, MA with my mom. I was ecstatic. At the time, US history had been one of the classes I was most interested in, so traveling to Boston only a few months after the completion of the course was exciting to be able to go and explore first-hand some of the places I had learned so much about in class. Standing outside of the Old South Meeting House, an over 300-year-old building, knowing how much of our history and historical events came out of that one building was mind boggling. While I would not say so much anymore, I used to be a big history buff, so that experience left such a positive and life changing impact on me, as did many of the other sights and buildings I got to go and see

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Being from Norman, I never really had the desire to attend the University of Oklahoma. I wanted to get away and go somewhere that wasn’t where I grew up. I would go to class and do the bare minimum I needed to do to get through college but it wasn’t until about half way through sophomore year that I began to really admire the architecture and buildings that were on campus. My favorite being the Biz. It wasn’t until this point that I began to finally appreciate a new found sense of pride and love in my university. Having this love for my university affected my experience here at OU in an extremely positive way. I no longer see it as the place where I’ve been basically my whole life, it is now this beautiful campus that I have the privilege to attend and something to be proud of.