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| RIBA named winners of President’s Medals 2005 and announced new Lubetkin Prize The winners of the President’s Medals Student Awards 2005 in association with Atkins were announced in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on Wednesday 7 December. These prestigious Awards promote excellence in the study of architecture, rewarding talent and encouraging architectural debate world-wide. The Awards are supported by iGuzzini, the SOM Foundation and Paul Davis & Partners Architects. Yew Choong Chan from the University of Westminster won the Silver Medal for his project "V.En. (Vertical Energy), Lea Valley, London” and Luke Pearson from the Bartlett School of Architecture won the Bronze Medal for the project "Collingwood’s Vessel: a Retirement Home for Elderly Fishermen". Jessica Hrivnak from the University of Cambridge, won the Dissertation Medal for her work "Is relative Sustainability Relevant? A Discussion of ‘In the Park’ as a ‘Sustainable’ Restaurant". Moreover RIBA Research and Development department will launch a new awards scheme – the RIBA President’s Awards for Research - to reward and encourage outstanding research in architecture carried out by PhD students, academics and practitioners. RIBA also is launching a new award for architecture, the Lubetkin Prize, from 2006. This award, the culmination of the revitalised Worldwide Awards – now known as The RIBA International Awards and run with the support of The Architectural Review - will be presented to the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member. It is named in honour of the Georgia-born architect who worked in Paris before coming to London in the 1930s to establish the influential Tecton Group. He is best known for the two Highpoint apartment blocks in Highgate and the Penguin Pool at London Zoo. The Institute is also currently on the look out for potential RIBA Stirling Prize-winners. Following on from the success of the Scottish Parliament in October, the search has started to find the best examples of new British architecture - practices up and down the country are urged to submit projects of architectural excellence into the 2006 RIBA Awards scheme. Any building in the European Union by an RIBA member, whether it be a small house extension or a new museum, is eligible to enter. The only requirements are that the projects should exhibit design excellence and should have been completed and occupied between the dates of 1 January 2004 and 2 March 2006. The call for entries for all three sets of awards closes at 5pm on 2 March 2006. RIBA Awards entries must be sent to the region where the building is situated. RIBA European and RIBA International Awards must be sent to the RIBA Awards Office in London. The presentation of The Lubetkin Prize will form the climax of the RIBA Awards Dinner, to be held at the London Hilton Hotel on Friday June 23 2006, at which the winners of the RIBA Awards, the RIBA European Awards, both eligible for The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal , and the RIBA International Awards will be presented. write your comments about the article :: © 2005 Construction News :: home page |