MEDALS

MEDAL AWARD SERIES

NARRATIVE, CREATIVITY, ENVIRONMENT, HUMANITY, HAND SKILL + AFFINITY AWARD

Works recognised for specific approaches, purpose, agendas, attributes or skills

NARRATIVE MEDAL ADRIAN YU

Recognising outstanding works which excel in conveying strong narratives and wider dialogues through its medium and beyond its visual representation. The award recognises the most accomplished visual story-tellers, those that have achieved great levels of communication through critical, subtle or emotive visual narratives.

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The Repository for Metropolitan History by Adrian Yu
Winner of the Narrative Medal 2025
University of Toronto, Canada
Behind the reconstructions, the Repository for Metropolitan History contains a continually-expanding facility to archive the seemingly endless cycles of creative destruction propagated by the growing metropolis. Here, the rubble and fragments of buildings are collected and sorted, indexed through historical documents such as photographs, newspapers, and drawings – salvaging their lost stories, and reconstructing their implicit and unrealized realities. Utilising a combination of conventional and digital tools, the lost buildings of the metropolis are laboriously reassembled for exhibition, where they shall undoubtedly acquire new meaning and narratives.

CREATIVITY MEDAL JACK OATEN

“We strongly believe that creativity incites creativity. We need creativity and creative thinkers to shape a more interesting world.” - Archisource
The Creativity Medal recognises standout works and makers that are pushing boundaries in innovative representations, to designs with originality and creative flare.

Now and 100 Years by Jack Oaten
Winner of the Creativity Medal 2025
Kingston University, UK
This project reused the pile foundations of a decomissioned power station to create a wholesale market for London.
This drawing imagines the afterlife of the project redrawn through a modified 3D printer ender 3v2 converted into pen plotter to resemble a Piranesi etching, entirely coded through Grasshopper scripts redrawing a twinmotion render with AI character additions in midjourney 4

ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD BRUNO ZGANJER SRAM

Recognising standout works which demonstrate approaches, agendas or design awareness to the environment. Judges will be recognising those that display exemplar qualities in their environment design approach to its social, human and sustainable impact.

Interior Perspective of Annamaria Gas Platform by Bruno Žganjer Šram
Winner of Environmental Award 2025
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Hand drawn interior perspective of an off-shore gas platform revitalization project. A maze of recycled elements found floating in the sea (plastic) is used a a new habitat for off-shore living.

HUMANITY MEDAL MICHAEL LEWIS, LUKE MACNAB + ANDY WARDROPE

Recognising standout works which demonstrate approaches, qualities to agendas that centre around designing for positive human experiences.
The Humanity Medal has been created to build awareness of how users feel in the built environment recognising social impact, design interest, experiential characteristics, awareness of the impacts to users, to the emotive and creative qualities translated through design.

Bridging Home by Michael Lewis, Luke Macnab & Andy Wardrope
Winner of the Humanity Medal 2025
United Kingdom
A detailed sectional perspective through the ‘Bridging Home’ – a competition entry for a microhome and research hub located on a bridge perched above a river below. The drawing is primarily hand-drawn, supported by 1:5 details drawn in Microstation. The drawing is based on a 3d model built in SketchUp. The overall composition was prepared in Affinity Photo and text and annotations added in Affinity Publisher

HAND SKILL MEDAL BHAGYASHRI KHANDARE

Judged by Narinder Sagoo MBE, Art Director, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners
The Hand Skill Medal recognises works that demonstrate outstanding skill in hand communication and exemplar hand drawn techniques. The judge Narinder Sagoo MBE wants to recognise the ‘power of the pen’ and the importance of hand drawing as a fundamental skill within the design process.

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Urban Heights: Stippling Amsterdam’s High-Rise Facades by Bhagyashri Khandare
Winner of Hand Skill Medal 2025
India
This stippling drawing, created in one-point perspective over six months, captures the depth and rhythm of Amsterdam’s high-rise architecture. Millions of ink dots shape the facades, emphasizing intricate window details and structural precision. The controlled stippling technique enhances contrast, creating a dynamic play of light and shadow that draws the eye toward the vanishing point. Inspired by the city's evolving skyline, this piece reflects both the technical mastery of architecture and the patience required in stippling—where every dot contributes to a sense of scale, depth, and perspective.

The Hand Skill Medal was selected by Narinder Sagoo MBE, Art Director, Senior Partner at Foster + Partners

AFFINITY AWARD CATALINA CABRAL-FRAMIÑAN

The Affinity Award 2025 is in collaboration with Affinity creative software
Recognising standout works created using the Affinity creative suite as key software within the creative process. The Award spans all types of drawings and digital mediums recognising standout works across illustrative, collage, to digital hand drawings created in any style, showcasing those that have truly excelled with their use of Affinity creative software.
This Medal was selected by the Affinity creative team.

Wanna Play? by Catalina Cabral-Framiñan
Winner of the Affinity Award 2025
University of Miami, United States
Insulae proposes a new model for development in Miami based on maintaining the existing standard lot sizes and inspired by the Palazzinas of Rome. The project creates a standardized model of design and showcases the vast flexibility in design on a square 100’x100’ site, allowing for the “plugging in” of different unit types and layouts. The narrative drawing showcases the Tetris-like nature of the design, showing how different units can be inserted into the basic square volume using a few of the 100+ variations and permutations that were created for the project. Different facade types sheathe the basic massing, creating a shade-providing facade for the wraparound balconies as well as providing aesthetic variation in the different buildings.

The Affinity Award 2025 was selected by the Affinity creative team