Are you a student or architecture educator? The AT Awards Student Prize is free to enter – submissions must be complete by 23rd June.
Docklands Heronry by Yuen Wah Williams from The Bartlett School of Architecture. Developed as a response to the announcement that Canary Wharf tenants were choosing not to renew their 25-year leases, the project focuses on strategies for regeneration including re-use, urban greening, social housing and the University of Research, Retrofit and Re-Use.
Sponsored by VMZinc, the award for the best student project celebrates proposals that tackle the challenge of adapting an existing building and/or explicitly address issues of adaptability, flexibility and building performance over time.
Shortlisted students will be invited to present to a high-profile jury at a day of live crits on 17th September in central London. This will be an excellent opportunity to showcase their project and presenting skills to industry leaders and to network with a wide range of architects and associated professionals.
The winning project will be announced at the Awards party on November 13th at Space House in London – a Grade II-listed, 1960s Brutalist landmark designed by Richard Seifert and recently refurbished by Squire & Partners for developer Seaforth Land – alongside the winners in the other categories, and will be published in a special awards issue of Architecture Today and across our digital and social media channels.
Yuen Wah Williams, winner of the 2024 Architecture Today Awards student prize receives her award from Architecture Today Editor Isabel Allen at a party at Battersea Power Station, and talks about what she hopes to do next.
Previous winners have made a splash in practice. Alexandra Frances who, together Elle Thompson, won the 2023 student award with Rehousing Manchester – The Carbon Conscious Collective, a project they produced while at the University of Sheffield, is now on the Architecture Today Awards Committee. Now an architect at Bennetts Associates, she appeared in the most recent issue of Architecture Today alongside Bennetts Associates director Peter Fisher discussing the practice’s approach to materials use. Elle Thompson is currently working at dRMM, while Yuen Wah Williams is working for renowned designer and artist Yinka Ilori.
Find out more about the 2025 Architecture Today Awards and start your entry here.
University of Sheffield students Alexandra Francis and Elle Thompson from the University of Sheffield present their project to the jury at the 2023 live finals.
