Judging - Awards & Competitions
British Construction Industry Awards 2024
The BCIA celebrates the best of the best across the construction and infrastructure industries, not just in what our industry achieves in terms of the projects we deliver, but the incredible vital impact we have on the health, wellbeing and prosperity of communities and the country as a whole. That is the context in which our judges debated and interrogated projects and initiatives that have had a lasting impact on society and they agreed entrants broke new boundaries and reached new heights that other professionals can aspire to and learn from.” Gavin Pearson, editor of New Civil Engineer.
Residential Project of the Year, this year’s winner was Marylebone Square and Bluebird was highly commended.
Building Design, Architect of the Year Awards 2024
The BD Architect of the Year Awards (AYAs) are an annual celebration of the best work from architecture practices. The awards are presented by Building Design and recognise the best work of an entire practice, rather than just an individual building.
In the 20th anniversary of these Awards, Yemí was invited to join the judging panel for three categories.
One Off Small Project Architect of the Year (WINNER: Tikari Work)
Young Architect of the Year (WINNER: Brisco Loran)
Public building architect (WINNER: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios )
RIBA - Neave Brown Award
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road wins Neave Brown Award for Housing 2022
Given in honour of social housing pioneer, Neave Brown (1926-2018), the annual award recognises the UK’s best new affordable housing.
Located on London’s Kingsland Road, this hybrid scheme skilfully combines a community-led school with 68 apartments on a compact urban site. The deliberately dense housing block – which includes 68 rented homes, 50% of which are offered below market rates – frees up the maximum footprint for the school, whilst also providing a substantial baffle from noise and emissions from the neighbouring busy road.
The development is owned by an affordable housing charity which primarily focuses on housing key workers. 333 Kingsland Road operates a tenure blind arrangement, whereby 50% of apartments are available below the average market rent.
The 2022 Neave Brown Award for Housing jury was chaired by Partner at Pollard Thomas Edwards, Kaye Stout; Architect and Senior Development Manager at Meridian Water (Enfield Council), Yemí Aládérun; and Neave Brown family representative, Professor David Porter.
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All images: Nick Kane & Henley Halebrown
Barbican Renewal
Image credit : Max Colson
Image credit: Max Colson
Image credit : Max Colson
A new vision for a global icon
A collaborative design team led by architects Allies and Morrison and Asif Khan Studio, has been selected to deliver a multi-million-pound renewal of the Barbican Centre.
The project will preserve the iconic building’s original architectural vision, provide new opportunities for the Barbican’s diverse community of artists, audiences, and partners, and boost the building’s accessibility and environmental performance.
The winning design team were chosen by panellists including:
· Yemí Aládérun, architect and development manager
· Lisa Burger CBE, Former Joint Chief Executive, National Theatre
· Margot Heller OBE, Director, South London Gallery
· Dr Judit Kimpian, architect and environmental design expert
· Dr Neal Shasore, Chief Executive & Head of School, London School of Architecture & Trustee, The Twentieth Century Society
RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship
Image credit : Foster and Partners
Image credit : Foster and Partners
The twelfth RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship was awarded to Steven Hutt of University of Greenwich for his proposal, ‘East of Eden’.
The jury was chaired by Lord Foster and comprised Ben Derbyshire then RIBA President, Farshid Moussavi, Founder of Farshid Moussavi Architecture, Spencer de Grey and Narinder Sagoo of Foster + Partners and Yemí Aládérun
Inside Housing Development Awards 2021
The Inside Housing Development Awards offer an opportunity to celebrate the very best residential developments across the UK.
Throughout the challenges of the pandemic, the housing sector proved its resilience; striving towards more sustainable solutions and undertaking projects that put the needs of the communities they serve above all else.
Yemí was one of a number of industry experts chosen to judge the awards. She also presented three award trophies on the day for Best development team (London, South & Rest of UK)
Top: Cambridge Investment Partnership
Bottom left: London Borough of Southwark New homes development team
Bottom right: Gentoo affordable development team
The AJ Architecture Awards 2021
The AJ Architecture Awards recognise excellence in UK architecture across a range of categories, from School & Housing Projects to Landscaping and Leisure. Winners of the awards are published in a special edition of the Architects' Journal.
Yemí was on the judging panel for new-build project completed for less than £500k total construction cost.
Top left: TYPE architects collecting their award for Redhill Barn the winning scheme in the ‘Project under £500k’ category
Top right: Yemí announcing award winner for ‘Project under £500k’
Bottom: All the winners if the 2021 AJ Architecture awards
Brick by Brick
Housing for a better world competition
Brick by Brick in collaboration with Blueprint for All (previously known as The Stephen Lawerence Charitable Trust) ran a competition to find bold and thought provoking ideas to explore how housing design could change in support of a better world.
As well as wanting the best design for local communities, proposals were required to be feasible for local delivery. Practices were encouraged to focus on an outer London location such as Croydon and address the realities of delivering housing across multiple sites of varying scales, identifying efficient ways to deliver viable schemes. As well as taking into account organisational structures, such as planning and procurement, that steer the delivery of housing.
Watch the live final judging of the competition above
Winning practice: Jas Bhalla Architects
Shortlisted practice: Kristofer Adelaide Architecture
Other shortlisted practices: Architecture Doing Place, Gbolade Design Studio, McCloy + Muchemwa & NimTim Architects
Black Professionals in Construction Awards
Yemí was invited to be one of the industry leading judges for the first BPIC Awards celebrating excellence across numerous fields. Taking place in December 2021, award categories include: Best Industry Institute Programme, Best Apprenticeship Programme, Industry Role Model, Best Community Project, Inspiring Diversity Champion and others.
