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Awards for At-Bristol
Since opening in July 2000, At-Bristol
is proud to have won several prestigious awards:
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Car Park Star award from The AA (2005)
At-Bristol's Millennium Square
car park features in a list of the top 10 UK car parks.
"With brilliant bright lights and gaily coloured paintwork
features, this building is the night club of car parks. This joint
never sees daylight; it is completely subterranean...
"I like the overall feeling and the ambience. So many of the
car parks I saw didn't score highly at all. It's refreshing
to find such a good one...
"There's a serious point, too. The study shows where you're
least likely to have an accident or make an insurance claim." -
Kevin Beresford. |
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Motoring enthusiast
Kevin Beresford, was asked by AA Insurance to
grade the nation's best car parks from a shortlist of 35.
Telegraph news link
Car Park Stars (from The AA)
Finalist, Large Visitor Attraction of the Year -
South West Tourism Excellence Awards (2005/6)
Explore-At-Bristol was chosen by South West Tourism as a finalist in
these prestigious annual awards, one of the major events in the travel
and tourism industry's calendar.
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Yahoo
website of 2004
At-Bristol's website Your amazing brain
www.youramazingbrain.org has won Yahoo's best educational
website of 2004.
The year’s top ten were chosen by a judging panel of independent
experts, selected for their knowledge of the internet. The Yahoo!
Search team narrowed the ten best sites down from a shortlist
selected throughout 2004. Click here
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Best Disabled
Facility - Group Leisure Awards 2004
Voted for by the readers of Group Leisure Magazine, the award of
Best Disabled Facility recognises At-Bristol's commitment to
providing full Access for All to all our exhibitions, events and
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Deputy Prime Ministers Office 'Safer Places: The Planning System and
Crime Prevention' report
At-Bristol is detailed as a successful case study -
click here to read the full report [PDF] (At-Bristol is mentioned
throughout the report, however pages 73 and 74 have the main write
up).
Family Attraction of the Year - The
Good Britain Guide 2001
The Good Britain Guide 2001 states that
a visit to
At-Bristol
‘easily
fills a whole day. Best of all is the re-created tropical rainforest,
with free-flying birds and butterflies. Do arrive early if you want to
see it all.’
Urban Design -
The Civic Trust Awards (April 2002)
At-Bristol's
innovative buildings and Open Spaces
received this award which recognises the significant contribution that
At-Bristol has made to the development of the city.
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Best New Attraction
for Groups, Runner Up - Group Travel Organiser Magazine 2001
Beating a host of other top
quality UK attractions and just pipped at the post by London
Eye, At-Bristol has shown that it is a really world class
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Large Attraction of the Year - England
in Excellence Awards South West (Nov 2001)
Established by the English Tourism Council, the England in
Excellence Awards programme is one of the major events in the travel
and tourism industry's calendar. At-Bristol was named ‘Large
Attraction of the Year’ by South West Tourism.
Tourism for All - England in Excellence
Awards South West (Nov 2001)
At-Bristol are proud to have won this
award from South West Tourism, which recognises our policy of access
for people of all abilities (see section on
Access).
Bristol Civic Society Environmental
Awards (Nov 2001)
The Bristol Civic Society rewards improvements
to the local environment and the imaginative use of buildings no
longer needed for their original purpose.
Explore, Wildwalk and the IMAX®
Theatre show how the sensitive regeneration of old buildings (a
derelict railway goods shed and a Victorian leadworks) can enhance a
development and retain Bristol's heritage.
Millennium Square - Bristol Civic
Society Environmental Awards (Nov 2001)
Millennium
Square includes unique artworks and areas suitable for live
entertainment while complementing the rich architectural heritage of
the historic harbourside.
Instalment of the Year Award - AV
Magazine (Oct 2001)
We won this award for the interactive
exhibits in both
Explore
and Wildwalk
(installed by DJ Willrich Ltd). The magazine states that the ‘AV
materials make science accessible to a wide range of public, including
those with special needs’.
RIBA Award for Architecture - Royal
Institute of British Architects (June 2001)
The
Explore-At-Bristol
building designed by Wilkinson Eyre was one of two innovative
buildings in Wessex rewarded with the coveted RIBA Awards for
Architecture. The judges said ‘this building is an exciting
advertisement for the museum and it is to be commended not only as
architecture, but also for a significant contribution to the public
realm’.
Secure Car Park Award - Avon and
Somerset Police (Oct 2000)
As part of a nationwide initiative, the
award recognises the spacious and well-lit design of the underground
parking facility and the safe and hospitable environment it offers
visitors.
We were also a
finalist in the Best Provision of Group Facilities category of the
Group travel Organiser Magazine 2002; and finalist
in the ADAPT Trust Access Award which honours excellence in access provision to
arts and heritage buildings for people
of all abilities (Oct 2001).
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