PRIZEWINNING STUDENTS and AWARDS 2009
3D REID
3D REID architects held their fourth annual practice-run student competition. This rewards Part 2 graduates for their excellence in concept and design. Supported by the Architects Journal this is fast becoming one of the most prestigious end of year competitions. Joseph Murphy won the category 'AJ Peoples' Choice Award' 2009. (£100 and a book).
APS AWARDS SCHEME
In this relatively new award from the Association for Project Safety (APS), Mairi Laverty and Keith McGregor (5th year students) won the 3rd prize of £400. The key aim of the APS is to share best practice in construction health and safety.
THE CITY OF GLASGOW EIMEAR KELT AWARD FOR ARCHITECTURE 2009
This top Prize is awarded by Glasgow City Council for the best project submitted by a student at Strathclyde or the Mackintosh.
Gordon Jack has won this year's medal. The panel of judges included the President of the GIA, the Glasgow City Design Advisor, the Projects Director and a Councillor. Gordon's project, "From Abandonment to Establishment, transitions in the post-industrial landscape, Amsterdam' was descrided as superbly presented. The judges felt it demonstrated a confidence in dealing with complex urban challenges set in a 'blighted' industrial area of Amsterdam. It proposed an urban design framework and building strategy to progessively regenerate the area from 2009 until 2030, and impressed with its volume of research and analysis to back these proposals.The medal presentation will take place in the City Chambers later in the year.
WOMEN IN PROPERTY - Regional Award 2009
Helen-Anne Love, Year 3, has been announced as regional winner of the Association of Women in Property (WiP) National Student Awards 2009. Helen-Anne wins £500, free membership of the Association upon graduating and the opportunity to participate in the WiP mentoring programme, whereby a mentor will support them in their early career. The awards, (this year sponsored by Construction Skills, the Homes and Communities Academy, Byrne Group and Argent) were launched in 2007 to mark the 20th birthday of the Association. Women in Property is running the scheme for the third successive year, with 40 Universities involved. Helen-Anne will now go head to head with winners from eight other regions across the UK in a national final for a prize of £1,000 as the ‘Best of the Best’, which takes place at Claridge’s in London on 22nd September. Helen-Anne said, “This is great news. Winning the regional award will help me so much in terms of giving me opportunities I wouldn’t have had before to develop my skills and experience.” Anne Mackay Reid, regional Chairman Central Scotland Branch of WiP, said, “We are delighted for Helen-Anne. This is a tough competition with the brightest and most impressive students in her field coming forward.
The NORTHERN DESIGN COMPETITION 2009
Alastair Cassell won the Architectural Design Prize and Helen-Anne Love and Michal Scieszka were runners up.
INCLUDE 2009
Robert White attended the biennial Include 2009 and won their award for Best Poster. His poster, “Designing a visible city for visually impaired users”, is an innovative mixture of visual and tactile information to make it as accessible as possible to people with varying visual abilities.
THE CHINESE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT AWARD
Fei Chen has won the 'National Award for outstanding non-government funded Chinese overseas students, 2008', from the Chinese central government and will be awarded the prize of 5000 USD.
THE ROYAL SCOTTISH ACADEMY 2009
Standard Life Investments / RSA Award
Fiona Beveridge (one of our Masters’ students) won the Standard Life Investments/RSA Award (£500) at the
Royal Scottish Academy’s New Contemporaries. This is a new and curated annual exhibition which focuses on the finest emerging artists & architects in
Scotland. Fiona's was an excellent presentation and again our work is way beyond the other schools in intellectual content if not in pure architecture; a view echoed by the judges’ comments.
THE GLASGOW INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS AWARDS
UNDERGRADUATE
GIA 2nd Year Design Prize (£100) This is an award made to the best student in second year assessed on the basis of a portfolio of work throughout the year.
Award: PETER HARFORD-CROSS Commendation: SOFIA AHLBERG/ANDERS NORMAN
GIA 3rd Year Design Prize (£100) This is an award made to the best student in a particular project in the third year, usually the main project of the year. The project is selected by university staff.
Award: YAP WEI LEONG Commendation: GAVIN JOHNSTON
GIA 4th Year Design Prize (£100) - Best Student in a Particular Subject This is an award to the best student in Design in final year, part 1: it usually goes to a fourth year student, the assessment being based in the major project of the year.
Award: DAVID BUCHAN Commendation: PAUL MANN
The J.B. WILSON Prize (£100) This
is an award made to the best student in first year assessed on the
basis of portfolio work throughout the year. This alternates per annum
with the T.L. Watson Prize of the same value.
Award: ROSS BAYNHAM Commendation: MARSHALL INGLIS/GREIG PIRRIE
POST GRADUATE AWARDS
Professor Charles Gourlay Memorial Prize (Book Token for £25): MICHEAL HOLLIDAY Awarded to a meritorious student in the final year of the course in Architecture and to the best student of Building Aspects of the course in the same year.
N Morcos-Asaad Prize (£90): JOSEPH MURPHY Founded in 1977 by Professor Fikry N Morcos-Asaad, MArch, SM, PhD, Professor of Architecture at the University of Strathclyde. Awarded annually for excellence in Design on the recommendation of the Professor of Architecture to a student of the University of Strathclyde who is registered for the Diploma in Advanced Architectural Design (formerly the BArch degree).
Arthur Leslie Hamilton Memorial Prize (£300): MAIRI LAVERTY/KEITH McGREGOR This prize is awarded annually, (on the recommendation of the Head of the Department and subject to the formal approval of the GIA), to the student who has reached the highest standard of general excellence in his/her work in the final year for the BArch degree.
ASSA Prize for Best DMP Student (£50 in Book tokens):
LAURA BELL/MICHEAL HOLLIDAY/KEITH McGREGOR/LAURA SILVERS
GIA Final Year Parchment (£120) Prize for the Outstanding Student in Design in the Final Year Part 2: MAIRI LAVERTY/KEITH McGREGOR The assessment is based on the thesis project.
GIA Commendation: GORDON JACK ANDREW PAUL
COMPETITIONS and AWARDS
The YOUNG STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS’ International Design Competition
Our two BDE Structural Engineering finalists won both their categories. Calum Scott (currently a 5th Year BDE Structural Engineer) won the Undergraduate category and Richard Campbell (who graduated in 2007 with an MEng with distinction BDE Structural Engineering degree) won the Under 25 category.
NATIONWIDE SUSTAINABLE HOUSING AWARDS WINNERS 2009
Nationwide Building Society today (5th February 2009) announces the winners of the Nationwide Sustainable Housing Awards. This new annual design competition, launched in partnership with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), is open to all undergraduate architecture and design students. The theme for the awards is ‘Sustainable Housing in an Urban Environment’. Nationwide is confident the new competition will stimulate and reward innovative thinking about how people can live more sustainably in the future. The prizes were awarded by Wayne Hemingway of Hemingway Design, the affordable and social design specialist, at a ceremony in London on 2 February 2009.
In the New build category: Joint second prize:
Pierre Lecomte (wins £1,500)
Steven Dunn (wins £1,500
'SIX' STUDENT AWARDS
This annual exhibition and student awards, run in collaboration with the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), is a rare opportunity for the public and profession to see the best student work from Scotland’s SIX schools of architecture. These high profile awards provide an excellent chance to view the standard of student work and ideas from Scotland’s most talented, emerging young architects. SIX is part of Access to Architecture a programme of events informed by Scotland’s Policy on Architecture.
RIAS SILVER MEDAL
Winner:
James Tait (£1,200)
Urban Design Award (£1,000),
Highly Commended:
Elidh Henderson, Andrew McEwan, Martin Tarnawski
Sust. Award
Winner: James Tait
Highly Commended: Elidh Henderson, Andrew McEwan, Martin Tarnawski
The judges for this year’s awards were: Morag Bain; Project Director, ACCESS to Architecture, Arnie Dunn; President, RIAS, Ian Gilzean; Chief Architect, Architecture Policy Unit, Scottish Government, Roisin Heneghan; Heneghan and Peng, Charlie Baker; Urbed
NATIONAL DISSERTATION COMPETITION
Keith McGregor's dissertation submission for session 2007-8; 'The significance of the vernacular as a learning tool: an investigation into the role of the highland vernacular on the development and progression of rural Scotland', has been awarded a prize by the Sir Patrick Geddes Memorial Trust. The Judges commented; "The panel liked the subject chosen by Keith and appreciated his interest and enthusiasm for the importance of the vernacular in rural development. Overall his dissertation was of a high standard and, accordingly, the judges were pleased to recommend an award be made to him in Category 2a of the competition".
Jac Lister, (Dissertation Co-ordinator).
THE DEPARTMENT LEADS IN SCOTTISH APEAS EXAM RESULTS
Once more the Department of Architecture has achieved the best results in the professional examination for architects in Scotland (Part 3), placing the Department at the top of the six schools in the country. APEAS, the Examination in Professional Practice and Management is the recognised standard for registration with the ARB (Architects' Registration Board) and is the gateway to chartered membership of the RIBA (The Royal Institute of British Architects) and/or RIAS (Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland). Strathclyde, which had the highest number of candidates passing (43 from 49), achieved a pass rate of 88%, six points above the average. Of the 204 candidates sitting this year, only five achieved straight RA's, two of which were from Strathclyde. Professional Studies Advisor Colin McNeish said, "This is particularly encouraging because it means that after seven years of study (and sometimes up to 10 years), we are producing graduates and professional architects that are in great demand and highly regarded throughout the profession, not only in terms of quantity but more importantly also of quality."