MIXED MEDIA AWARD 2025

MIXED MEDIA, HYBRID AND ALTERNATIVE REPRESENTATIONS

Recognising works produced through the bridging of two or more media methods, which can also include physical and digital media methods; of any typology, view and in any style.

The Tales of Liminality by Anna Pang

Winner of Mixed Media Award 2025

Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL

Tales of Liminality, a 12-panel screen set, reimagines Venice by intertwining the city’s rich silk-weaving heritage with a broader, transnational history. Drawing inspiration from the Japanese rakuchū rakugai-zu paintings, the work challenges conventional perspectives of urban space, critiquing the Eurocentric frameworks that have shaped the development and remembering of cities. By tracing the dialogues between East and West along the Silk Roads, the piece highlights the fluidity of cultural boundaries and intertwining of multiple histories, offering a new lens through which to view Venice as a city of liminality.

The Garden of Broken Shadows | بستانَ الظلِ المقطوعةِ by Ali Al Omari

Highly Commended for Mixed Media Award 2025

Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

'The Garden of Broken shadows' confronts Gaza’s fractured reality along the 1950 Armistice line—a scar etched by walls, towers, and checkpoints. Time collapses here: concrete monoliths of colonial apparatus crumble into arches of resilience, while a river stitches past to future with scattered bridges. To the right, oppression’s machinery—checkpoints, barriers dissolves into voids; to the left, a tower rises, cloaked in Gazan poetry, its Arabic calligraphy a lament and a anthem. Olive and cypress roots thread through Islamic healing gardens, defiance in their growth. At the river’s end, a flame-shaped sculpture of woven text flickers—an eternal witness to Nakba’s ashes and 76 years of resistance. Inspired by Mahmoud Darwish Palestine's Poet

(Re)membering the See Monster by Eldry John Infante

Highly Commended for Mixed Media Award 2025

Philippines

This composition explores the transformation of the See Monster, a 2022 public installation by New Substance that repurposed a defunct North Sea oil platform into a regenerative structure. Despite its ideas on reuse and sustainability, the project faced public criticism, construction issues, and a short lifespan. These challenges led me to create a hybrid piece, starting with a manual illustration and reworking it through digital collaging, mirroring the project's reuse and transformation. The composition becomes both a record and a reflection, using line to examine not just the object, but the layered dynamics between design, environment, and public perceptions.

Detail Perspective Section of The Makers' Collective by Rashin Shahriman

Commended for Mixed Media Award 2025

University of Bath, UK

A comprehensive visual of the scheme, the drawing captures all aspects of the project - from architectural, structural, and tectonic, to environmental and landscaping. It showcases the main happenings inside The Makers' Collective, a workshop that facilitates the interface between the customers and craftsmen of Bristol. The building provides a year-round home for the makers of the city to work centrally and collaboratively, while being provided retail spaces that are afforded views into the working spaces; promoting the love and care that artisans pour into their work. The programme is further equipped with office space, a gallery, and an educational workshop to present to the youth a non-conventional career path.

1 The Cottages - Grade II Listed - Garden Room Kitchen Extension by Matt Witts

Commended for Mixed Media Award 2025

United Kingdom

A drawing exploring the design and construction of a modest extension to a Grade II listed cottage in Rural Suffolk. The roof flies up and out into the garden to offer relief from the low ceiling heights in the existing kitchen. In doing so a large roof light catches light over the ridge of the existing dwelling throughout the year. This drawing is a reflection and celebration of the numerous small scale and humble design projects carried out by the 'jobbing architect/designer' in rural environments.

The Changing Room by Sian Bahia

Commended for Mixed Media Award 2025

Royal College of Art, UK

In a city where personal space is a luxury few can afford, the project exposes the quiet absurdities of contemporary urban survival; a commuter turning a tube seat into a dressing room, a delivery driver grasping a moment of stillness between jobs. These fleeting adaptations, born of necessity highlight how London's brutal housing market is reshaping, not only where we live but how we inhabit the city itself.

As domestic spaces shrink and shared living becomes more spatially, economically and socially precarious, Making Room re-appropriates urban spaces by playfully questioning what, rather than who, is permitted to occupy space. Adopting the form of urban furniture's, their unassuming presence embeds itself into the streetscape.

Architecture in Translation by Ssu Kuo Lo

Special Mention for Mixed Media Award 2025

Architectural Association School of Architecture, UK

Architecture has lost its autonomy and disciplinary clarity—either subsumed by the economic logic of urbanization or turned inward into self-referential complexity. In this moment of disappearance, drawing and design become acts of inquiry, asking: how might we once again recognize architecture through new theories and tools? The diagram is not illustration but operation—a method to extract spatial logic, to cast architectural elements as agents on a gameboard. It is an attempt to act with exactitude within architecture’s inherent logic, and a call to move beyond the binary of object or field—toward both. Like the concept of lateness, it does not seek the new, but reclaims presence through a dialogue with form, time, and autonomy.

flo[re]nce by Hazem Talaat

Special Mention for Mixed Media Award 2025

Italy

This design layers a contemporary architectural collage over Fabio Borbottoni’s historic Florence painting, merging memory and place. It transforms the familiar into a new spatial dialogue, celebrating my encounter with the city’s timeless beauty.

The Basin by Álvaro Pozo Pérez

Special Mention for Mixed Media Award 2025

Universidad de San Pablo CEU, Spain

The basins, sculpting the slate stratum, foster an intimate connection between water and the human body. Encompassing cold, warm, and hot zones, these spaces go beyond accessibility, inviting physical engagement by subtly resisting movement, ensuring accessibility remains dynamic, promoting vitality rather than mere convenience.

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