Successful education schemes in Cambridge and Kings Cross win practice Schüco Gold Award at BD awards

Stanton Williams has been presented with the Schüco Gold Award at BD’s Architect of the Year Awards.

The practice won the architect of the year title for its work on Central St martins art school in Kings Cross and the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge. It was also named education architect of the year.

Hopkins Architects was named Sports Architect of the Year, in the most hotly contested category of the night.

Judges were impressed by the diverse portfolio of the 2012 Velodrome architect, which included the designs for two cricket stadiums in India.

Winners

  • Architect of the Year: Stanton Williams
  • Masterplanning Architect of the Year: East Architecture Landscape Urban Design
  • Office Architect of the Year: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
  • Education Architect of the Year (6th form to university): Stanton Williams
  • Public Realm Architect of the Year: Muf
  • Hotel Architect of the Year: Reardon Smith Architects
  • Refurbishment Architect of the Year: Bennetts Associates
  • Interior Architect of the Year: David Archer Architects
  • One-off Housing Architect of the Year: De Matos Ryan
  • Education Architect of the Year (nursery to secondary): Cottrell & Vermeulen
  • Housing Architect of the Year: Karakusevic Carson Architects
  • Public Building Architect of the Year: Henley Halebrown Rorrison
  • Sports Architect of the Year: Hopkins Architects

Other awards

  • Environmental Excellence Award: Sheppard Robson
  • IE Class of 2011 student scholarship: Cara Shields
  • 2011 Young Architect of the Year: Jonathan Hendry