DRAWING OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024

Works pushing the boundaries of creativity, originality and innovative representation. Undefined by process, recognising exemplar imagery across all mediums, processes and styles that have excelled in experimentation, ingenuity and confidence. Top works display a mastery of their media, narrative and purpose.

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Projective Revitalization: Architecture Prosthetics for Spare Capacity by Ewa Roztocka & Tengku Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir

Highly Commended for Drawing of the Year Award 2024

Princeton University, USA

‘Architecture is often suspended between obsolescence and permanence: demolished if considered invaluable, museumified if viewed as culturally significant. This results in immense cultural and material waste. Typical remedies fall short. Preservation inhibits accommodation of change and adaptive reuse is overly specific and myopic. The project pioneers an alternative method called 'Projective Revitalization' that resuscitates obsolete building structures by strengthening their capabilities to adapt to future change. This drawing is a 50-year projected future archive of the last office park building remaining in Neptune, NJ. It is observed as a cultural artifact of the pre-digital work era that retains value through technological adaptation.’

Lost in the fog by Romain Brunas

Highly Commended for Drawing of the Year Award 2024

France

‘Architectural renderings in fog have always fascinated me, and I find this kind of visual to be a beautiful allegory. The suggestion of an architecture by revealing it partially... Leaving the imagination to finalize the rest of the project… As often is my state of mind before starting a project.’

The Boston Snow Council - A Seasonal Snow Structure by Henry Aldridge

Commended for Drawing of the Year Award 2024

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

‘Depicted over twelve months, this image shows the growth and melting away of the Boston Snow Council, a structure that is built every year to host city politics and is formed from snow forming around infrastructures built into the plaza. It hosts campaigns and council sessions alongside a snow mass that is constantly morphed by both Bostonians and the changing environment of the city itself.

With climate change, the volume and nature of snowfall in Boston is changing. The project puts Boston politicians, who are to some extent responsible for changes to local climate and pollution, inside a snow structure. In this way, they are in a building of their own making, as the snow responds to warm microclimates or air pollution.’

Modular Building Block Group-rent-house For Care by Yuanhui Li & Shuang Liang

Commended for Drawing of the Year Award 2024

Jiangnan University, China

‘In Hangzhou, we leverage the concept of modular building blocks to pioneer affordable and sustainable housing solutions tailored for the city's young residents. Our approach allows for adaptable and customizable living spaces, designed to evolve seamlessly with individuals as they transition through various life stages.’

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