Class of 2012
Class of 2012: Graduates face up to the future
Six winners shone through the trend for desolation in BD’s awards for the UK’s best diploma students
Class of 2012: Calum Paterson, Robert Gordon University
Cultural Fishing Centre is a transition point between a new development and existing industrial spaces in Peterhead, Scotland
Class of 2012: Luke Snow, De Montfort University
Towards a Carbon-Negative Britain is an alternative vision of a renewable energy plant
Class of 2012: Adam Willis, London Metropolitan University
“Culture and Cultivation” is a carefully crafted colonisation of an existing building
Class of 2012: Nina Shen-Poblete, University of Westminster
Knowledge Barter is a model of an educational institution based on a free-market utopia
Class of 2012: Daniel Hanna, Liverpool John Moores
“The Terrarium” is a poetic response to the impact of a tidal barrage on Maryport, Cumbria
Class of 2012: Emma Flynn Bartlett, UCL
Trash Can Utopia integrates waste and its technologies into its fabric
Class of 2011
Architect of the Year Awards 2011 winners
Education and sport provided the stiffest competition for this year’s awards, but the list shows there is still strong demand for practices specialising in high-end residential schemes
Class of 2011: Robert Ware, Royal College of Art
The City of London’s security system has become obsolete. Terrorism is evolving.
Class of 2011: Marianne Keating & Cara Shields- Strathclyde University
Our thesis aims to ameliorate the devastating impact of the annual cycle of flooding in Bangladesh on the physical and social fabric of rural communities.
Class of 2011: Edward Swift, London Metropolitan University
This project seeks to ask questions of the architect’s role in a large scale infrastructural project associated with current concerns over the future of energy provision in the UK
Class of 2011: Kim Bjarke, Architectural Association
The project is investigating the relationship between the original architectural object and its copies.
Class of 2011: Joe Haire, Manchester School of Architecture
A crisis of ageing looms, the baby boom generation is coming into retirement and we are living longer
Class 2011: Christopher N. Christophi, Leicester School of Architecture
A project in reaction to pressures facing the Venetian lagoon and the increasing threat of invasive algae growth, due to the nearing completion of the Lagoon’s MOSE flood gates.
Past Class of
Six graduate entries chosen for BD’s Class of 2010
BD’s annual showcase of the work of the schools’ best graduating diploma students this year spans the world with six schemes encompassing live building projects, environmental solutions and studies in regeneration.
Steven Byrne - University of Strathclyde
The project is a response developed from investigations of how architecture might react to rising sea levels with particuIar focuson coastal Bangladesh where flooding is already a major concern.
Odel Jeffries, Will Notley, Cian Mckay, Harjeet Suri, Toby Pear and Audrey Lematte - London Metropolitan University
This group of six students spent the past year working together on both live and theoretical projects in India.
Andrew David Green- Lincoln School of Architecture
A collection of 20th century novels provide the conceptual basis of Green’s thesis, where the scheme takes the form of a state university library and archive, proposed for a site in Yerevan, Armenia.
Helen Goodwin - Kingston University
The Roding Valley in east London is a diverse landscape that laces through the pilotis of the elevated M11 and plays host to high voltage lines, paddocks, football grounds and derelict munitions depots. Within this heterogeneous terrain Helen Goodwin proposes the addition of a crematorium and columbarium.
Jonathan Pickford - University of Plymouth
Jonathan’s proposal acts to stimulate economic growth, ecological sustainability, and recognises the significance of cultural identity in the regeneration of Riga’s redundant port of Andrejsala.
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Stefan Rust – Newcastle University
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Caitriona McGhee - Sheffield School of Architecture
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Christina Gaiger - University of Edinburgh
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John Brown - University of the West of England
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Khalid Saleh - University of Portsmouth
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Giles Hoeg - Liverpool School of Architecture
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James Walker - The University of Greenwich
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Lewis Critchley - Oxford Brookes
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Graeme Winestone - Liverpool John Moores
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Jonathan Schofield - Westminster University
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Sean McAlister - Dundee University
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Stefan Vara - Kent School of Architecture
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Romulus Sim – Manchester School of Architecture
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Will Guthrie - Edinburgh College of Art
