Finalists will fight it out for AYA glory
Building Design has today announced the shortlists for its 2020 Architect of the Year Awards.
Hundreds of entries have been whittled down to the finalists shown below. They include big names such as Alison Brooks – shortlisted in two categories; housing and individual house architect – plus Morris & Company, Grimshaw, Populous and BDP.
The finalists also include smaller but highly respected architects such as Dow Jones, Moxon and Bell Phillips as well as emerging practices.
The Young Architect of the Year Award (YAYA) – whose previous winners have gone on to great things – will this year be contested by Al Jawad Pike, Beasley Dickson, Bradley Van Der Straeten, Bureau de Change, DROO, KLA, Office S&M and Spratley & Partners.
The finalists were announced during a whole day of action on the Building Design website which also included three panel discussions with leading practitioners on social value, how to capitalise on an AYA win - and how to survive a recession.
Thomas Lane, chair of the judging panel, said this year’s new Social Impact Award had attracted a lot of interest from practices following Building Design’s Designing Social Value campaign which was launched last year in recognition of the growing importance of this area.
Alongside trophies for work in all the main sectors, there are also awards for the best employer, client and architectural leader.
Watch the AYA shortlist announcements here
>> Architect of the Year Award shortlists announced (part 1)
>> Architect of the Year Award shortlists announced (part 2)
>> Architect of the Year Award shortlists announced (part 3)
”The quality of submissions was first-rate,” said Lane. “We were pleased to see entries from a good mix of well-established practices and some AYA newcomers. It’s been fantastic to see people who haven’t entered before putting through some exceptional work.”
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 Annalie Riches, founding director of Mikhail Riches, Julia Barfield, director of Marks Barfield Architects, Patrick Bellew, principal at Atelier Ten, Rab Bennetts, founder of Bennetts Associates, Mary Bowman, partner at Gustafson Porter & Bowman, Kay Hughes, design director at HS2 Ltd, Colm Lacey, chief executive of Brick by Brick, David Rudland, principal at Urbed and Building Design’s urbanism columnist, Liz Smith, head of architecture at Purcell, and Phil Tait, head of development at British Land.
>> From last year: Jamie Fobert: ‘Our AYA win feels like a new beginning’
The 2020 AYA shortlists
Young Architect of the Year (YAYA)
Al-Jawad Pike
Beasley Dickson
Bradley Van Der Straeten
Bureau de Change
Droo
KLA
Office S&M
Spratley & Partners
Housing Architect of the Year
Alison Brooks Architects
Conran and Partners
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
HTA
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Morris & Company
Simpson Haugh
Stitch
Retail and Leisure Architect of the Year
David Morley Architects
Faulkner Browns
JM Architects
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Maccreanor Lavington
Populous
Pozzoni
Woods Bagot
Refurbishment Architect of the Year
3DReid
Broadway Malyan
Buckley Gray Yeoman
John Robertson Architects
Levitt Bernstein
MICA Architects
Spratley & Partners
Squire & Partners
Individual House Architect of the Year
Alison Brooks Architects
Alma-nac
Annabelle Tugby Architects
Fletcher Crane Architects
Marek Wojciechowski Architects
McGonigle McGrath
McLean Quinlan
Selencky Parsons
Architectural Leader of the Year
Jude Barber, Collective Architecture
Jo-Anne Cowen, Jo Cowen Architects
Simone de Gale, Simone de Gale Architects
Christopher Lee, Populous
Kirsten Lees, Grimshaw
Sally Lewis, Stitch
Julia Park, Levitt Bernstein
Shevaughn Rieck, Farrells
Education Architect of the Year (Nursery – 6th form)
Architype
Child Graddon Lewis
Cottrell & Vermeulen
HKS
Levitt Bernstein
NVB Architects
Penoyre & Prasad
Scott Brownrigg
Higher Education Architect of the Year
Atkins
BDP
Bond Bryan
Cottrell & Vermeulen
Faulkner Browns
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Grimshaw
Penoyre & Prasad
Infrastructure Architect of the Year
Arup Architecture
Landolt & Brown
Useful Studio
Interior Architect of the Year
BDP
David Kohn Architects
Gensler
Gregory Phillips Architects
Proctor & Shaw
ID:SR Sheppard Robson
Soda Studio
TP Bennett
Sustainability Architect of the Year
Architype
Bennetts Associates
HTA
Small Project Architect of the Year
Bradley Van Der Straeten
Fletcher Crane Architects
Gibson Thornley Architects
Mizzi Studio
Pad Studio
William Green Architects
Office Architect of the Year
AHR
Bennetts Associates
Buckley Gray Yeoman
Fletcher Priest Architects
Gibson Thornley
Moxon Architects
Sheppard Robson
TateHindle
Public Building Architect of the Year
Bell Phillips
Bennetts Associates
Chris Dyson
Dow Jones
Glenn Howells
Haverstock
Hoskins Architects
Pilbrow & Partners
Public Realm Architect of the Year
Acme
Atkins
BDP
Churchman Thornhill Finch
HTA
Nex
PRP
We Made That
Best Architect Employer of the Year
Assael Architecture
Atkins
HKS
HLM
Jestico & Whiles
Matt Architecture
MSMR Architects
TP Bennett
Social Impact Award
Atkins
HTA Design
JTP
Mikhail Riches
Pollard Thomas Edwards
RCKa
Squire & Partners
Turner Works
Architectural Client of the Year
Hartlepool Borough Council
London Borough of Sutton
Maggie’s Centres
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