Scissorum-In-Memoriam

Weekly Newsletter 09 September 2022

This Week Merchant Taylors’

writes Samay Kachalia (4ths): I was excited to see an opportunity in the Easter holidays to design a community centre, organised by the Mace group, whom I knew had constructed the Shard in London. I got to work planning different designs until I found one that worked for me. I interviewed a number of library users in Greenhill Library, Harrow, to gain an understanding of what people would expect a community centre to look like and to provide for them. This helped me to adapt my original design so it was back to the drawing board! I

sent the final design off to Mace and found out around the end of April that I was the runner up, which I felt very proud of as this was a national competition. I was invited to the Mace site in Stratford where the BBC Music studios are being constructed and the new Victoria and Albert Museum – it was inspirational to see a typical day on a construction site with many sub-contractors working together managed by Mace to achieve a goal. After my experience, I was interviewed by the Harrow Times newspaper and Northwood news magazine, and I appeared in both!

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