AJ Small Projects
Celebrating the brilliance of smaller projects
Now in the 28th year, the Architects' Journal Small Projects Award celebrates projects with a contract value of £350,000 and under to give much-deserved recognition to lower-value schemes that are often a labour of love.
This year there were more than 170 entries which have been whittled down to a shortlist of 20. The shortlist was announced and published in the special edition of Architect's Journal. The shortlisted entries for AJ Small Projects could be viewed at a month-long exhibition that opened at 6.30 pm on Wednesday, 3rd May. The exhibition was held at Morris + Company, 215 Mare Street, London, E8 3QJ.
Find out more about AJ Small Projects
Watch the AJ Small Projects Sustainability webinar, chaired by AJ sustainability editor Hattie Hartman, where the panel discuss the importance of environmental and social sustainability in the success of projects on smaller budgets.
Including the 2022 Sustainability Prize-winner, Darren Bray of Studio BAD, talking about the studio’s St Margaret’s Church community hub project and Summer Islam and Daria Moatazed-Keivani of non-for-profit organisation Material Cultures, who talked about their use of experimental materials on Block House in Somerset, which was also shortlisted for the award.
Interested in finding out more about last year's winners?
We spoke to Darren Bray, founder of Studio BAD, about what social sustainability means to him, the principles at play in the Saint Margaret's Church project and what winning the 2022 AJ Social Sustainability Prize has meant for them.
Marley also caught up with Louis Jobst and Ross Keenan, practice directors at Akin Studio about winning the 2022 AJ Small Projects Award with their hidden project - Drover's Bough.
The AJ Small Projects Award 2022 winners
2022 AJ Small Projects Winner | Akin Studio with Drover's Bough, Gwyrlodydd Farm in Herefordshire
2022 AJ Small Projects Sustainability Winner | Studio BAD with St. Margaret's Community Church, Southsea in Hampshire
2022 AJ Small Projects People's Choice Winner | Unknown Works with Brightbox, Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement in Uganda
Take a look at the winners below.
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