The ADAPT Trust Access Award is for excellence in accessibility, to demonstrate that good design automatically includes good access facilities for people of all abilities.
Presented for the first time in 2001.
Geographical Limits of Award : UK and EU
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work.

2003 winner: The Space, a centre for dance and drama at Dundee College, by Nicoll Russell Studios.

The AJ First Building Award - in association with Robin Ellis Design and Construction.
This prize goes to the best example of a first stand-alone building by a British architect practising within the European Union.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work.

The award is judged by a panel comprising:
Barrie Evans, Buildings Editor of the Architects' Journal; Robin Ellis of Robin Ellis Design & Construction; and Alex de Rijke of de Rijke Marsh Morgan, winners of the 2003 AJ First Building Award.

In-Between, a contemporary take on the traditional terrace built between existing houses in North London, designed by Annalie Riches, Silvia Ullmayer and Barti Garibaldo, has won this year's AJ First Building Award in association with Robin Ellis Design & Construction.

The long established British Construction Industry Awards which recognise overall excellence in the design, construction and delivery of buildings and civil engineering have been further enhanced by a new category for 2001 - The Prime Minister's Better Public Building Award.
In 2001 Tony Blair endorsed an accolade that celebrates the excellence achieved both in design quality and procurement practices - the Prime Minister's Award for Better Public Building.
The project had to have been completed since 1 January, 2003, and come into use by 31 January, 2004.

The Award is open to any project commissioned by or on behalf of central or local government or by a grant-aided organisation, regardless of size and budget.
Our judges look for high standards in design, construction, delivery and operational performance.
Also, the building project must be first-class in terms of financial management, procurement method, and social and environmental value. Please see the previous three years' winners and finalists for a further understanding of what makes a good public building.
The PM's Award is a special category within the British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA). It is jointly sponsored by the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Office of Government Commerce (OGC).

Enter your project in the BCIA - and note its eligibility for the PM's Award on the form. All the projects shortlisted for the BCIA that fulfil the relevant criteria are automatically put forward for the PM's Award.

Supported by the Crown Estate (http://www.crownestate.co.uk/index_4.shtml) the Crown Estate Conservation Award This prize is presented to the best work of conservation that demonstrates the successful restoration and/or adaptation of an architecturally significant building.

The award is judged by Richard Griffiths, conservation architect; David Pickles, Senior Architect in the Conservation Department of English Heritage; Giles Worsley, architecture critic of the Daily Telegraph; Roger Bright, Chief Executive of The Crown Estate; and Tony Chapman, RIBA Head of Awards.

HOK International Limited were the Crown Estate Conservation Award winners 2004 for the conservation of The King's Library at the British Museum, built by Sir Robert Smirke between 1823 and 1827 to house the Royal Libraries of George II and George III, and the first completed part of his grand design for the new building of the British Museum.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work

This award is intended to make the general public aware of the importance of such clients in the creation of fine buildings. It is fully supported by the Architecture: Visual Arts Department of the Arts Council of England. The prize is a work of art, commissioned by the client, to the value of £5000. In 1999 the award was made to the Marylebone Cricket Club for the series of fine buildings they have commissioned at the headquarters of English cricket, in 2000 the recipient was the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work.

This prize, fully supported by the RIBA Journal, is given in recognition of the importance of sustainability in architecture today. The prize is made to the building which demonstrates elegantly and durably the principles of sustainable architecture.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work.

The Stephen Lawrence Prize, sponsored by the Goldschmied Trust, is intended to give greater prominence to the creativity demonstrated on smaller projects. It is awarded to the architect of an RIBA Award-winning building costing less than £200,000. The Prize, introduced in 1998, commemorates Stephen Lawrence, the black teenager planning to become an architect whose life was taken in South London in 1993, and supports the charitable trust set up in his name. The winning architect receives £5000.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work.

The £20,000 prize is awarded annually to the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British Architecture in the past year. The prize is named after the architect Sir James Stirling 1926-1992, one of the most important British architects of his generation and a progressive thinker and designer throughout his career.
Eligibility : Any building or structure (including bridges) whether new, restored, rehabilitated or converted which contains an element of executed design work
RIBA Stirling Prize 2004 http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Also/Awards_3994.html

For recently completed buildings in European countries participating in the European Copper in Architecture Campaign (excluding the UK), which are: Austria, France, Norway, Benelux, Germany, Republic of Ireland, Czech Republic, Greece, Spain, Denmark, Hungary, Sweden, Finland, Italy, Switzerland.
Winner's prize: A bronze replica of a Cycladic sculpture.

The Copper in Architecture Awards promote and reward excellence in design by architects and students, as well as craftsmanship by installers. To be eligible, all entries must incorporate cladding, roofing or other architectural elements of copper or copper alloys, such as bronze. Awards will be presented at a ceremony in London in September 2005. All winning and commended projects will feature in extensive press coverage, including a special supplement in Architectural Review. A selection of entries will be displayed at the presentation.Innovation Award
A discretionary award for projects demonstrating innovation in an area of particular relevance to current design issues. All entries, in all categories, will automatically be reviewed for this award by the jury.

Entries are judged from photographs, drawings and other material submitted, by a group selected from the following panel of architect judges:
· Laurence Bain - Bain and Bevington Architects
· Trevor Clapp - Foundation Architecture
· Peter Clegg - Feilden Clegg Bradley
· Pierre Long - de Blacam and Meagher (previous winners)
· Graeme Sutherland - The Bartlett School of Architecture
· Stas Louca - Glas Architects+Designers (previous winners)
· Gordon Talbot - Ian Ritchie Architects (previous winners)

Sponsored by the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, the National House-Building Council, the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Town Planning Institute. Awards are made at two stages: for projects of high quality where the scheme has detailed planning permission, but is not yet finished and occupied, and for completed schemes of outstanding merit.
Storia del premio
In 1947 Aneurin Bevan, then Minister for Health with responsibility for housing, announced that his Ministry would be giving annual awards for public housing design and layout. After consultation with the RIBA, awards committees were set up for each of the then four English regions, presenting one medal each for an urban and a rural scheme, except for London where the medals were for one new scheme, and one reconstruction.
The initial scheme ran until 1955, and during this period awards reflected the increasing importance of the urban reconstruction and New Towns programmes, including the first high rise developments, like The Lawns, Harlow, by Frederick Gibberd.
In 1960, the scheme was reconstituted as the Ministry of Housing and Local Government (later DoE) Good Design in Housing Awards, sponsored jointly with the RIBA. The new scheme covered both private and public sector housing, reflecting the emergence of imaginative speculative developments like the Span estate at Southrow, Blackheath, by Eric Lyons.
The next ten years showed a significant shift of emphasis away from public sector high density high rise and private sector low density low rise to compact housing schemes in both sectors, pioneered by Darbourne and Darke's Lillington Gardens, in Westminster.
In 1981 the NHBC joined the DoE and the RIBA as sponsors, to create the Housing Design Awards. The Awards became a biennial event, and the public and private sector categories were abolished, reflecting their increasing convergence, as in the private village development at Bledlow, Buckinghamshire, by Aldington and Craig.
The last ten years have seen a further shift towards diversity in housing, away from the rigid categories employed in earlier years. Mainstream housing today needs to cater for a very broad range of needs, as exemplified by the small group of homes for people with mental or physical disabilities in the heart of Westminster by CGHP Architects, and the new streamlined structure of the Awards is designed to accommodate this diversity in as flexible a manner as possible.
Schemes must be of four or more homes, may be in the private or public sector, may be new-build, conversions or renovations and must be in England or Northern Ireland. Those receiving a Project Award in one year are automatically shortlisted for a Completed Scheme Award after they are finished. The overriding criterion for both is design excellence - internal, external and in the overall layout.
Nature of Award : For Housing Projects or Completed Schemes which reflect the highest standards in Housing Design
Eligibility : Four or more houses, bungalows, maisonettes, flats or any combination of these. Schemes including non-residential uses may be entered provided housing constitutes the main element.
Award : Certificate, Plaque
Date for Applications : December/January
Date for Submissions : 28 February
Date for Announcement : July
Geographical Limits of Award - England, Northern Ireland
http://www.designforhomes.org/hda/