Grafton Architects with Modus Studio have been announced the overall winners of the AR Future Projects awards, along with RADDAR and Nomos who have been highly commended
The Anthony Timberlands Center for Design and Materials Innovation in Arkansas, designed by Grafton Architects with Modus Studio, is the overall winner of this year’s AR Future Projects awards, as well as picking up the award for Education.
Itself a lesson in timber construction, the building aims to educate new practitioners and inspire the use of wood in construction, consolidating the prominence of Arkansas in the timber industry.
Anthony Timberlands Center in Arkansas, US by Grafton Architects with Modus Studio for Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design
The winners were selected by a panel of judges, including urbanist, entrepreneur, and director of The City, Zahira Asmal; co-founder of independent UK-based development company Arrant Land, Duncan Blackmore; and Jorge Pérez-Jaramillo, architect and urban planner, based in Medellín.
The judges described the Anthony Timberlands Center as a ‘tremendously accomplished piece of architecture, and a great building in which to learn about timber technologies’, as well as a ‘fascinating progression of Grafton’s work away from concrete’.
On 8 June, the winning and highly commended architects will present their projects at zero-carbon property event FOOTPRINT+ in Brighton. Find out more
The project is joined by two highly commended buildings: the Kaya Medical Campus in Burkina Faso by Nomos – which won the Civic and community category – and the renovation of the Pacaembu Stadium and Sports Complex by RADDAR and Progen in Brazil, the winner in the New and old category.
Civic and community winner and overall highly commended: Kaya Medical Campus in Kaya, Burkina Faso by Nomos for Morija Association Humanitaire
Pacaembu Stadium and Sports Complex, São Paulo, Brazil by RADDAR and Progen for Allegra Pacaembu
Alongside the future project categories, the awards include three further prizes for projects that will never be built, judged by AR editors Manon Mollard and Eleanor Beaumont. This year’s competition entry prize is awarded to Nea Paphos Mosaics Shelters by Sela-Jaymes Architect and Gort Scott while Alex Knowles, taught by Keith McAllister and Jane Larmour at Queen’s University Belfast, wins the student prize for A Treatise on Palimpsest. The inaugural sustainable research and design prize goes to Biogenic Construction: Furry Architecture, by the Danish Centre for Industrial Architecture (CINARK).
Competition entry prize winner: Nea Paphos Mosaics Shelters in Nea Paphos, Cyprus by Sela-Jaymes Architect and Gort Scott
Student prize winner: A Treatise on Palimpsest by Alex Knowles, taught by Keith McAllister and Jane Larmour at Queen’s University Belfast
Sustainable research and design prize winner: Biogenic Construction: Furry Architecture by Centre for Industrial Architecture (CINARK), Copenhagen, Denmark
The full list of 2023 winners is below:
- Civic and community Kaya Medical Campus in Kaya, Burkina Faso by Nomos for Morija Association Humanitaire
- Commercial mixed use DOXS in Berlin, Germany by GRAFT Architects for Trockland Management
- Cultural regeneration York Minster Centre of Excellence for Heritage Craft Skills in York, UK by Tonkin Liu for York Minster
- Education Anthony Timberlands Center in Arkansas, US by Grafton Architects with Modus Studio for Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design
- Hotels and leisure Cais in Florianópolis, Brazil by Studio MK27 for Unique MCA
- Housing Barney in Lillehammer, Norway by ASAS Arkitektur for Nordlys Management
- Infrastructure Trondheim Central Station in Trondheim, Norway by Arkitema for Bane NOR Eiendom and Trøndelag Fylkeskommune
- New and old Pacaembu Stadium and Sports Complex, São Paulo, Brazil by RADDAR and Progen for Allegra Pacaembu
- Offices Bosch Denmark Headquarters in Ballerup, Denmark by Arkitema for Bosch
- Regeneration and masterplanning The Phoenix in Lewes, UK by Periscope, Human Nature and Kathryn Firth (Arup) for Human Nature
- Tall buildings C6 in Perth, Australia by Fraser & Partners for Grange Development
- Overall winner Anthony Timberlands Center in Arkansas, US by Grafton Architects with Modus Studio for Fay Jones School of Architecture + Design
- Highly commended Kaya Medical Campus in Kaya, Burkina Faso by Nomos for Morija Association Humanitaire
- Highly commended Pacaembu Stadium and Sports Complex, São Paulo, Brazil by RADDAR for Allegra Pacaembu
- Competition entry prize Nea Paphos Mosaics Shelters in Nea Paphos, Cyprus by Sela-Jaymes Architect and Gort Scott
- Student prize A Treatise on Palimpsest by Alex Knowles, taught by Keith McAllister and Jane Larmour at Queen’s University Belfast
- Sustainable research and design prize Biogenic Construction: Furry Architecture by Centre for Industrial Architecture (CINARK), Copenhagen, Denmark
