Finalists in the Architecture Today Awards made the case for their projects before our expert panel and live audience on Monday. Winners will be announced in February 2023.
Catherine Burd, Sarah Allan, Roger Harrabin and Marion Baeli consider finalists in the Residential, Mixed Use & Retail and Religion & Culture categories.
All 31 finalists presented their projects to the Architecture Today Awards jury at a live event held on Monday 7 November at 15Hatfields, the home of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health (CIEH) in London.
Each team put forward the case for its project, which – at a minimum of three years old – could demonstrate how it had stood the test of time, through a strong track record for delivering on environmental, functional, community and cultural ambitions. A focus on presenting evidence of building performance and post-occupancy evaluation, and rigorous questioning by our expert jury, drew out the shared learning that is essential to our journey towards a net-zero construction industry – and at the heart of the ethos of the Architecture Today Awards.
Finalists in the Education, Healthcare and Transport, Infrastructure, Landscape & Public realm categories were judged by RIBA President and AHMM director Simon Allford, Nana Biamah-Ofosu of Studio NYALI, AKTII co-founder Hanif Kara, Argent Related chair David Partridge and Peter Bishop, former director of Design for London. The panel was chaired by Architecture Today Awards editor Isabel Allen.
Nana Biamah-Ofosu, Hanif Kara and Simon Allford were among the judges for the International, Hospitality, Sport & Leisure and Workplace categories.
Finalists in the Residential, Mixed Use & Retail and Religion & Culture categories were judged by a panel made up of Deyan Sudjic, Director Emeritus of the Design Museum, Marion Baeli of PDP, HTA and former RIBA president Ben Derbyshire, former BBC environmental analyst Roger Harrabin, and Sarah Allan, Head of Architecture at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Catherine Burd, founding director of Burd Haward Architects, was the chair.
Sarah Allan was one of the judges of our Residential, Mixed Use & Retail and Religion & Culture categories.
Finalists in our International, Hospitality, Sport & Leisure and Workplace categories presented to a panel of judges formed of Amin Taha of Groupwork, Grosvenor development director Heather Topel, Perkins&Will sustainability director Asif Din, Arup carbon and climate lead Matt Kennedy and Farshid Moussavi of Farshid Moussavi Architecture. Writer and urbanist Lee Mallett chaired this jury.
The judges regrouped as a whole yesterday to deliberate and select the winners of nine categories behind closed doors.
Simon Allford, RIBA president and AHMM director, rounded off the event with a speech.
The winners – one for each of our nine categories – will be announced at a private reception in February 2023.
A detailed building in use study on each of the winning projects will be published in a special issue of Architecture Today, and recorded presentations by all 31 finalists will be made available on the Architecture Today website as part of our commitment to learning from buildings that have stood the test of time.
The inaugural Architecture Today Awards are sponsored by Amtico, Schüco and SIG Design and Technology.
