Presented annually, these awards recognise the outstanding students of architecture from schools in the Yorkshire region.

All four regional schools of architecture take part in the awards scheme. Students from Leeds Metropolitan University, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield Hallam University and Huddersfield University are put forward by their tutors. A different panel of judges is put together each year and usually comprises a nationally renowned architect, an academic from a school of architecture outside of Yorkshire, a regional architect and a recent architecture graduate. 

 

For the first time in 2007, students from both Part 1 and Part 2 courses entered the awards we were pleased to receive a record 12 entries.  The entered schemes were exhibited during Architecture Week in June at The Round Foundry Media Centre in Holbeck, Leeds. 

The winners were announced at the RIBA Yorkshire AGM and they were presented with their prizes at the RIBA Yorkshire Awards Dinner on 16 November 2007 at Leeds Town Hall.  Certificates were handed out by Nigel Pilkington of Waring and Netts who sponsored the Student Awards for the first time this year. We are very grateful to Waring and Netts for their support.

 

The winners were:

Part one - MEDAL

Will Delaney – Kissing Sleeping Beauty: Sandside Performing Arts Centre, Scarborough, Sheffield Hallam University

Robert Sharples – A Romantic Intervention: Sandside Performing Arts Centre, Scarborough, Sheffield Hallam University

David Kent – Textile Museum in Hoi An, Vietnam, University of Huddersfield

Part one - COMMENDATION

Jonathan Shaw – A Mammal Enclosure at London Zoo, University of Sheffield

Daniel Tassell – Divers Facility on the East Coast of the UK, University of Sheffield

Part Two - MEDAL

Chris Seviour – Ideas Store, Rotterdam (The Art of Climate Change), University of Huddersfield

Part Two - COMMENDATION

Kim Winston – The Intelligent Path, University of Sheffield

The Presentation Prize went to Jonathan Shaw