Winners will be announced at live AYA dinner on October 14
Building Design announces the shortlists today for its 2021 Architect of the Year Awards.
The entries have been whittled down to the finalists shown below. They include Hopkins, Allies & Morrison, Cullinan Studio, McLean Quinlan and Feilden Fowles.
One of the strongest categories this year was housing, a reflection of the importance architects place on providing the best possible homes for current and future generations. Practices shortlisted for this award include Bell Phillips, Pitman Tozer, Maccreanor Lavington, Coffey Architects, Henley Halebrown, Flanagan Lawrence, Pollard Thomas Edwards and Child Graddon Lewis.
Chair of the judges Thomas Lane said: “It has been a challenging year for the profession, so it was refreshing to see some superb entries. The strength of the housing sector was reflected in the high quality of the schemes put forward and public building and refurbishment also saw some excellent entries. I am looking forward to the awards in October and celebrating in person with the best people in the industry.”
Alongside trophies for work in all the main sectors, there are also awards for the client and architectural leader of the year. These shortlists will be announced soon.
The Architect of the Year Awards, run by Building Design, are the only awards that reward architects for a consistent body of work rather than one-off projects.
The judging panel this year includes Stuart Cade of last year’s Gold Award winners, Mica, the V&A’s director of design, estate and public programme Pip Simpson, Matthew Wells, director of Techniker structural engineers and a visiting professor at Aarhus School of Architecture, and Stefanie Rhodes of past YAYA winners Gatti Routh Rhodes.
ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR 2021 SHORTLISTS
PUBLIC REALM
HTA Design
Atkins
East Architecture Landscape Urban Design
SUSTAINABILITY – sponsored by Kingspan
Hewitt Studios
Child Graddon Lewis
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Cullinan Studio
PUBLIC BUILDING
Carmody Groarke
Curl la Tourelle Head Architecture
Feilden Fowles
Haverstock
HLM Architects
IBI Group
INDIVIDUAL HOUSE – sponsored by Duravit
McLean Quinlan
McGinlay Bell
HollandGreen Architecture
Fletcher Crane Architects
McLaren Excell
Turner Works
Coffey Architects
YOUNG ARCHITECT
TYPE
IF_DO
Gbolade Design Studio
EBBA Architects
HOUSING ARCHITECT
Bell Phillips Architects
Pitman Tozer Architects
Maccreanor Lavington
Coffey Architects
Henley Halebrown
Flanagan Lawrence
Pollard Thomas Edwards
Child Graddon Lewis
REFURBISHMENT
Collective Architecture
HollandGreen Architecture
Atkins
Hopkins Architects
Richard Griffiths Architects
Purcell
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Burwell Architects
OFFICE
Stiff+Trevillion
AHR
Stephen George + Partners
Hutchinson & Partners
Squire & Partners
Coffey Architects
Gibson Thornley
Saunders
HIGHER EDUCATION
Associated Architects
AHR
Atkins
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
IBI Group
Allies and Morrison
Sheppard Robson
Burwell Architects
EDUCATION (NURSERY TO 6TH FORM)
AHR
Atkins
Fletcher Crane Architects
HKS Architects
Lungfish Architects
IID Architects
INFRASTRUCTURE
BDP
Moxon
INTERIOR
Buckley Gray Yeoman
GT3 Architects
HTA Design
Atkins
Space Group of Architects
Cousins & Cousins
SODA Studio
SOCIAL IMPACT
Mae
Atkins
BPTW
HLM Architects
Jan Kattein Architects
Harrison Stringfellow Architects
Turner Works
Squire & Partners
ARCHITECTURAL EMPLOYER – sponsored by Haines Watts
Buckley Gray Yeoman
HTA Design
BPTW
JTP
HLM Architects
Harrison Stringfellow Architects
tp bennett
Assael Architecture
Architectural Client and Leader of the Year will be announced shortly. Watch this space.
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Topics
- AHR / Aedas
- Allies & Morrison
- Architect of the Year
- Assael
- Atkins
- BDP
- Civic
- Coffey Architects
- Cullinan Studio
- Cultural
- Designing Social Value
- Education
- Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
- Feilden Fowles
- Henley Halebrown
- Heritage
- Higher education
- HKS
- Hopkins
- Housing
- Housing
- HTA
- IBI Group
- Infrastructure
- Interior design
- Interiors
- International
- International
- Landscaping
- Maccreanor Lavington Architects
- Mae
- Offices
- Places
- Primary education
- Refurbishment
- Research and manufacturing
- Retail & Leisure
- Secondary education
- Sheppard Robson
- Social value
- Soda Studio
- Squire & Partners
- Sustainability
- TP Bennett
- UK
- Young Architect of the Year
