THE LOWRY CELEBRATES 10 YEARS OF AWARDS

From ‘Building of the Year’ to ‘Best visitor Attraction’, The Lowry has won or been shortlisted for over 30 different awards ranging from design and construction to tourism and PR campaigns. This is in addition to 179 Manchester Evening News Theatre award nominations, 41 wins and their Horniman award for outstanding services to theatre. Accolades for The Lowry range from a Museum and heritage award for excellence for its exhibition programme, to taking the number one spot for the most comfortable theatre seats.

DESIGN and CONSTRUCTION
Apr 2000 CELEBRATING CONSTRUCTION AWARD
National as well as regional winner of the Celebrating Construction Achievement Award.

Jan 2001 INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS MERIT AWARDS The Lowry Footbridge highly commended by the Institution of Civil Engineers, North Western Association, in its 2001 Merit Awards.

Jan 2001 UNITED STATES INSTITUTE FOR THEATRE TECHNOLOGY
The Lowry has received an Honor Award from the United States Institute for Theatre Technology and the 2001 Architecture Awards.

Jun 2001 STRUCTURAL STEEL DESIGN AWARDS 2001
The Lowry was Commended.

Jun 2001 BUILDING OF THE YEAR AWARD
The Lowry was named Building of the Year by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust. The Lowry won the prize on its architectural merits, but also because of its profound social significance. It was described by Lord St John of Fawsley, chairman of the RFACT as a “joy to see and fun to go into as well as user-friendly, welcoming and bright”.

Sep 2001 REGIONAL WINNER RIBA STIRLING PRIZE

Oct 2001 VICTORIAN CITY DESIGN AWARD
This Manchester Civic Society award is for a modern development that embodies the 19th century philosophies that shaped Manchester but in a manner contemporary to the new millennium.

TOURISM
Nov 2000 SILVER UNICORN AWARD – Highly Commended
The British Guild of Travel Writers Highly Commended The Lowry for its Silver Unicorn Award 2000 for the Best Tourism Project in the UK at attracting tourists and benefiting the local community and environment.

Oct 2001 NWTB - BEST VISITOR ATTRACTION OF THE YEAR - GOLD
The North West Tourist Board awarded The Lowry Visitor Attraction of the Year 2000

Oct 2001 NWTB – TOURISM & THE ENVIRONMENT AWARD - SILVER
The Lowry was awarded a Silver award for Tourism & the Environment 2000 by the North West Tourist Board in recognition of The Lowry’s work with its immediate community.

Sept 2004 MANCHESTER TOURISM AWARDS 2004
The Lowry website, www.thelowry.com, received a commendation in the awards which recognise levels of investment in quality and outstanding contributions to tourism.

Feb 2006 MANCHESTER TOURISM AWARDS 2006
The Lowry was awarded Business Tourism of the Year award 2006 which recognizes the high level of dedication to business tourism.

THEATRES
Dec 2000 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
The Lowry won the special Manchester Evening News HORNIMAN AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING SERVICES TO THEATRE and converted 4 of its 13 nominations in 7 categories to awards: BEST DANCE (Adventures in Motion Pictures, The Car Man); BEST OPERA (Psappha, Mr Emmet Takes a Walk); BEST ACTRESS IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Anne-Marie Duff, Shared Experience, A Doll’s House); and BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Royal National Theatre, The Oresteia).

Dec 2001 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 14 nominations in 8 categories, The Lowry won 3 awards for: BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Pilot Theatre, Lord of the Flies); BEST DANCE (Birmingham Royal Ballet, The Nutcracker) and BEST COMEDY (Dave Gorman, Are You Dave Gorman?).

Dec 2002 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 15 nominations in 6 categories, The Lowry won 4 awards for: BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Clwyd Theatr Cymru’s To Kill A Mockingbird); BEST DANCE (Dance Theatre of Harlem’s Triple Bill); BEST VISITING ACTOR (Timothy West in ETT’s, King Lear)) & BEST VISITING ACTRESS (Diana Quick in ETT’s Ghosts)

Dec 2002 CLASSIC FM
The Lowry won a “Red F Award” for its outstanding contribution to building new audiences for classical music and the arts in the North-West. Dec 2002 CITY LIFE AWARDS Peter Kay’s performance at The Lowry was awarded ‘Best Comedy Gig’ of 2002

Dec 2003 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 19 nominations in 8 categories, The Lowry won 5 awards for: BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Northern Stage Ensemble’s 1984); BEST DANCE (Paul Taylor Dance Company’s Triple Bill); BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (George Costigan and Matthew Kelly in Of Mice and Men); BEST ACTRESS IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Karen Drury in Brief Encounter); BEST COMEDY (Peter Kay).

Dec 2004 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 22 nominations in 7 categories, The Lowry won 6 awards for BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Donmar Warehouse’s Henry IV); BEST DANCE (Play without Words); BEST MUSICAL (Taboo, the Boy George musical); BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Ian McDiarmid, for his role in Henry IV from Donmar Theatre; BEST OPERA (Il Tabarro and The Dwarf from Opera North’s Eight Little Greats Season); & BEST COMEDY (Bill Bailey).

Dec 2005 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS Of its 21 nominations in 9 categories, The Lowry won 3 awards for BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (This Is How It Goes from Donmar Warehouse); BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Ben Chaplin in This Is How It Goes) and BEST PERFORMANCE IN A STUDIO PRODUCTION (Alexander Campbell in Private Peaceful)

Dec 2006 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 17 nominations in 7 categories, The Lowry won 5 awards for BEST INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION (Slava's Snowshow), BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Sir Ian McKellen in The Cut), BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (The Cut from Donmar Warehouse), BEST SPECIAL ENTERTAINMENT (Swan Lake On Ice) and BEST DANCE (Edward Scissorhands).

Dec 2007 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 17 nominations in 7 categories, The Lowry won 1 award for BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (The Seafarer from National Theatre).

Dec 2008 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 25 nominations in 9 categories, The Lowry won 7 awards for BEST INTERNATIONAL PRODUCTION (Chinese Acrobatic Swan Lake, from the Guandong Acrobatic Company); BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (Black Watch, from the National Theatre of Scotland); BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Andrew Buchan, in The Man Who Had All The Luck) BEST DANCE (Don Quixote, from Kirov Ballet); BEST ACTRESS IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Michelle Terry, in The Man Who Had All The Luck); BEST MUSICAL (West Side Story); BEST OPERA (Macbeth, from Opera North)

Mar 2010 PRIDE OF MANCHESTER AWARDS 2008 - 2009
Best Venue for the Lyric theatre, as voted by the general public.

Dec 2009 MANCHESTER EVENING NEWS THEATRE AWARDS
Of its 18 nominations in 7 categories, The Lowry won 2 awards for BEST VISITING PRODUCTION (The Cripple Of Inishmaan, Druid Theatre Company); BEST ACTOR IN A VISITING PRODUCTION (Aaron Monaghan in The Cripple Of Inishmaan).

Mar 2010 PRIDE OF MANCHESTER AWARDS 2009 - 2010
Best Venue for the Lyric theatre, as voted by the general public.

OTHER AWARDS
Dec 2000 CITY LIFE AWARDS
Manchester’s magazine, City Life, gave the accolades of Best New Building and Best New Arrival to The Lowry whilst the artist Liam Spencer, whose sell-out show was part of the opening season of exhibitions at The Lowry Galleries, was runner up to Badly Drawn Boy as Mancunian of the Year!

Jan 2001 HI-LIFE DINERS CLUB AWARD
Steven Saunders at The Lowry was voted ‘Best Newcomer’ in the Restaurant of the Year awards. Oct 2001 BEST IN-HOUSE PR CAMPAIGN The Institute of PR awarded the Royal Mail their NW Cream award for their Cats & Dogs competition in conjunction with The Lowry. Lorraine Whitehouse, Director of Communications for Royal Mail comments: “We were delighted to win the PR Week award, which wouldn’t have been possible without the partnership and excellent co-operation with The Lowry. In many ways it was a joint creative effort which generated around 10,000 entries from children across the entire North West.”

Oct 2002 ROSES DESIGN AWARDS
Designers’ Northcross won a Roses Design Award for their retail design of the shop at The Lowry. The award, sponsored by Pilkington, was for the Best Public Interior Apr 2003 BIG DIFFERENCE AWARDS Felicity Goodey, The Lowry’s Chairman was shortlisted for a Lifetime Achievement award for her work in championing the Salford project since its conception

May 2004 MUSEUMS & HERITAGE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
The Lowry was presented with the ‘Best Temporary exhibition’ award for The Impossible View? exhibition and catalogue. This explored L S Lowry’s preoccupation with the panoramic view, placing his work within a broad historical sweep of art from the sixteenth century to the present day.

Aug 2004 NATIONAL LOTTERY
Helping Hands Amazing Space Award (a project which has transformed a publicly accessible place) The Lowry reached the final shortlist of 3 projects for this award

Oct 2004 WATERSIDE BUSINESS AWARDS – Best Leisure Attraction
The Lowry has been presented with a silver award in the Best Leisure Attraction category, which was voted for by the public through waterscape.com throughout summer ’04.

May 2005 BRAVO! BUSINESSS AND CULTURE AWARD
The Lowry and Barclays Bank plc won the Bravo! Business and Culture award for the Best Community Investment Partnership, for their sponsorship of the venue’s major community production, Love on the Dole.

May 2006 THE ROSES ADVERTISING AWARDS 2006
BJL, The Lowry's creative agency won the Silver award for Best Outdoor Campaign for Rock, The Lowry's exhibition of photography by Jane Bown. BJL also won the Bronze award for Best 6, 4 or Smaller Sheet Poster for the Morrissey poster, relating to the above campaign.

Jan 2007 THE STAGE’S ONLINE POLL
The Stage magazine’s online poll to find out who provides the best and the worst seating in theatres has found the seats at The Lowry, Salford Quays to be the most comfortable in regional and fringe theatres. In the results published on Thursday 4 January, The Lowry’s seating has been praised as “plush and well padded” taking number one spot with the Millennium Centre, Cardiff the closest runner up.

Mar 2007 HOLLIS SPONSORSHIP AWARD
The Lowry and UMBRO win the Hollis Arts Sponsorship Award of the Year award 2007 for One Love: The Football Art Prize

Apr 2007 BRAVO BUSINESS & CULTURE AWARD
The Lowry and UMBRO win Bravo’s Arts & Business partnership award for Brand Identity for One Love: The Football Art Prize

Nov 2007 CIPR NORTH WEST AWARD
SKV Communications won the Gold award (not for profit sector) for their PR campaign for The Lowry’s exhibition The Myth of the North generating coverage surrounding new research about the north/south divide.

Dec 2007 NATIONAL BUSINESS CALENDAR AWARD
Lowry 2008 30x30 Grid Calendar won the Best Museum or Art Gallery title for 2008 in the retail category.

Mar 2008 CIPR PRESIDENT’S GRAND PRIX AWARD
SKV PR for The Lowry's Myth of the North won the award for best not-for-profit PR campaign of 2007

Nov 2009 CIPR PRIDE AWARDS 2009 NORTH WEST
Weber Shandwick won the gold award for their Express Yourself media relations campaign in the Best campaign £10k and under category