Awards and Prizes

The directors have won three Europan competitions for housing led regeneration; 1999, 2001 and 2005. Participation in Europan enabled the practice to establish itself in 2002 with a clear position on architecture’s role in supporting social engagement through the relationship between buildings and the public realm. We have maintained our contribution to a European platform of design and debate when in 2003 we won the Flemish Government sponsored competition for new housing and a public space in Gistel, Belgium (currently progressing to planning submission in 2009). In 2005, following the completion of Amnesty International UK’s new headquarters in Shoreditch (winner of Hackney Design Award in 2007), the practice was selected for the AJ/Corus 40 under 40 exhibition and were runners-up in Building Design’s Young Architect of the Year Award. In 2008 our Bankside Urban Forest public realm framework was commended in the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards for regeneration and masterplanning.

Our work has been included in exhibitions in Geneva, Leige, Dordrecht, Milan, London, the Sao Paulo Biennale in 2003 and at the New York Centre for Architecture as one of six practices in New Practices London, August 2007. Our work was exhibited at the 2008 Venice Architecture Biennale, in the British Pavilion; Home/Away, 5 British architects build housing in Europe. We will have our first solo exhibition at the British School in Rome as part of the London – Rome: New Architects programme in mid November 2009.