MEDAL AWARD SERIES

A series of Medal categories will recognise standout works for specific skills including: Creativity, Impact and Narrative, and attributes including: Collaborative, Practitioner and Student.

Each Medal category was judged by a unique panel of inspiring creative voices from across architecture, design and art, bringing together leading practitioners alongside emerging student talent who are shaping new conversations, leading perspectives and innovating ways of learning across the creative disciplines. Check out the jury for each medal below:

WINNER OF THE CREATIVITY MEDAL 2026

Transform by Jay Adi

Indonesia

By day, lives as a place of work — an office embedded within the rhythm of the city, opening itself to the nearby urban park. By night, it transforms.

The same architecture becomes a grand urban stage: street opera, contemporary dance, and public performances unfolding beneath its structure — raw, intimate, and powerful. An open-air opera house for the city, where art meets everyday life.

WINNER OF THE IMPACT MEDAL 2026

Pride March by Ethan Blatt

University of Miami, United States

This drawing documents the 2023 Pride Parade in South Beach, capturing the vibrant social life that unfolds within the public realm. Bursts of color spill across the streetscape as the parade transforms the built environment into a stage for visibility, celebration, and collective identity.

WINNER OF NARRATIVE MEDAL 2026

Memories of a Dead Childhood Home by Khanh Nguyen

Rhode Island School of Design, United States

I grew up in a constantly evolving space. My family turned the front of our townhouse into a small building material store, and I grew up in the back. As the store evolved, many renovations happened to the store and the house attached to it. The space, the people and things in it constantly changed. After our government decided to demolish the front of our house for a 4 lanes street, I want to make this drawing as a keepsake. But I was surprised that I could not recall the house as a whole in any point in time, and had no pictures. I only remember areas of the house that associate with me at a certain age. So I used myself as time anchors to render the space of my memory. The drawing renders the depth of the house and my memory. Zoom in.

WINNER OF THE COLLABORATIVE MEDAL 2026

Sanctuary by Okdraw Studio

Portugal

This image represents a shelter, where a rigid, protective roof transitions into a fluid, curved form to embrace the lakeside. It explores the spatial condition  utilizing transparency and organic geometry to dissolve the barrier between the domestic interior and the wild forest.

The visual language employs  a soft, atmospheric haze and tactile textures. This style was chosen to evoke a sensory response—you can almost feel the damp air and the warmth of the cedar—moving beyond technical drawing to communicate the emotional atmosphere of the dwelling.

By prioritizing environmental context over isolated form, the image deepens understanding of the cabin’s contextual integration. It illustrates how the structure doesn't just sit in nature but

WINNER OF PRACTITIONER MEDAL 2026

Pinacoteca de São Paulo by Danilo Zamboni

Brazil

This drawing is an exploded perspective of the São Paulo State Art Gallery, depicting the contrast between the original 19th century brick building by Ramos de Azevedo where my grandfather studied in the 30’s and the later intervention by architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha (1998). The multiple spaces of the museum are shown in use: visitors circulating and interacting with the museum’s collection while the viewer visualizes the relationship of the building with the surrounding area, transport system and city infrastructure. This playful approach tries to bring together both detail and broader understanding of the site. The drawing was made with pencil on tracing paper and colored with Photoshop.

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