AJ Architecture Awards 2024 shortlists Part 2: Heritage to School

In total, over 120 projects have been shortlisted across 20 categories for this year’s AJ Architecture Awards, the annual showcase of the very best built projects in the UK. The shortlists are being revealed over the course of this week, with the first announced yesterday [Monday 23 September].

Shortlisted in the Heritage project category are eight projects by practices including Purcell, Howells, Stanton Williams and Farrells. Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios’ major refurbishment of the listed former riding school turned Brighton Dome Corn Exchange is on the list: its impressive column-free timber ceiling having been carefully restored earlier this year.

Higher education features TODD Architects’ £17.5 million redbrick business school for Queen’s University Belfast, which is enclosed by woodland, and the major newbuild 35,000m² Marshgate, part of UCL’s new campus on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

Meanwhile in Infrastructure and transport, Tonkin Liu’s illuminated artwork on the side of one of Sunderland’s multistorey car parks has made the shortlist, adding to the practice’s growing portfolio of infrastructure and public realm projects. Studio Egret West and shedkm’s The Abour, Brent Cross West’s new station entrance, providing a gateway into the £8 billion ‘net zero neighbourhood’, is also on there.

The AJ’s neighbour, The Northcliffe – the former Daily Mail HQ off Fleet Street that has been repurposed by John Robertson Architects – has made the Refurb shortlist. And in the School category, Hawkins\Brown’s upgrades for the inner-city Central Foundation Boys’ in Old Street has made the cut – a previous neighbour of the AJ’s former offices in Shoreditch.

dMFK Architects make an appearance twice in today’s shortlists, with projects in both the Heritage and Refurb categories. Also making multiple appearances are BDP and Buckley Gray Yeoman.

The expert judges, who are in the process of visiting every shortlisted scheme, include Eleanor Fawcett of Old Oak and Park Royal Development Corporation, Biba Dow of Dow Jones Architects, Simon Sturgis and Daisy Froud.

In addition to stand-out design, the judges will consider how each project has met or exceeded its brief, how it has promoted client or community engagement and how it has excelled in the use of space or sense of place. They will also analyse what sustainability measures have been put in place. Each project must have been completed between 1 January 2023 and 31 July 2024.

The winners in the 20 categories, plus the three editorial-chosen awards, will be announced at a celebratory dinner event at a new venue for this year – Park Plaza Westminster Bridge, London – on 3 December 2024. More information can be found here.

Heritage project

• Boston Manor House by Purcell
• Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
• Hanbury Hall Courtyard Kitchen by Howells
• King’s Gate, Caernarfon Castle by Buttress
• Lots Road Power Station by Farrells with Formation Architects
• Rhodes House Transformation by Stanton Williams
• The OWO by EPR Architects
• Voysey House by dMFK Architects

Higher education project

• BIOS, Teesside University by FaulknerBrowns Architects
• Coventry University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities by BDP
• Exeter College Library by Nex
• Mary Ward Centre by AWW
• National Manufacturing Institute Scotland by HLM Architects
• Queen’s Business School Student Hub by TODD Architects
• UCL East, Marshgate by Stanton Williams

Infrastructure and transport project

• Brent Cross West Station by Studio Egret West
• Gairnshiel Jubilee Bridge by Moxon Architects
• Newport Active Travel Bridge by Grimshaw
• Sundersea Sunderland by Tonkin Liu

Refurb project

• 45 Whitfield Street by dMFK Architects
• Artesian by Buckley Gray Yeoman
• Arthur Stanley House by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• Elizabeth Garett Anderson Building by Glancy Nicholls Architects
• Granton Station by ADP Architecture
• Ice Factory by Buckley Gray Yeoman
• The Northcliffe by John Robertson Architects
• The Sans by Buckley Gray Yeoman

School project

• Central Foundation Boys’ School by Hawkins\Brown
• Gordonstoun Queen Elizabeth II Rooms by Rivington Street Studio
• New Barlby and Kensington Queensmill Schools by Perkins&Will
• Newmains & St Brigid’s Community Hub by BDP
• Thornhill Primary School by ECD Architects and Keegans

 

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