2026 Student Design Award Winners announced.
On the 8th July we were joined by students, tutors, judges and sponsors for the 18th Annual Student Design Awards event.
71 students from 15 universities in the UK, Australia, Sweden, USA, Turkey and Israel submitted entries, with the winners announced in an awards ceremony hosted by White Arkitekter at their London studio.
The full list of winning and highly commended entries is listed below.
Huge thanks to our practice sponsors for their support – without which this event would simply not be possible.
- Ansell & Bailey Architects
- Fleet Architects
- HKS
- HLM Architects
- Hunters
- Murphy Philipps Architects
- P+HS Architects
- Ryder Architecture
This year for the first time we introduced award categories
These were:
- Acute Healthcare
- Creative Health and Wellbeing
- Mental Health
- Primary + Community Healthcare
- Public Health
Winning and Highly Commended entries were recognised in each category at both MA and BA level.
WINNER: BEST PRESENTATION
- Chloe Cooke, Master of Architecture ARB/RIBA Part 2, Year 2, Leeds Beckett University | Project: The Unplug hub
HIGHLY COMMENDED: BEST PRESENTATION
- Samah Osman, Master of Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture | Project: A’Samma Al-Ahmar
WINNER: BEST DRAWING AWARD
- Joshua Thai, Master of Architecture. University of Sydney | Project: Reassembling Care
WINNER: BEST CONCEPT AWARD
- Anastasia V Asenova, Master of Architecture MArch, Studio – ‘In-Mind’, Newcastle University | Project: Between Motion & Stillness Architecture
WINNER: JUDGES SPECIAL
- Adriana Sanchez Jerez, Master of Architecture MArch, Studio – ‘In-Mind’, Newcastle University | Project: The Healing Journey
WINNER: SUE FRANCIS SPECIAL AWARD
- Minji Kwon, Master of Architecture, University of Sydney | Project: Between Living and Care
WINNER: ACUTE HEALTHCARE – BA CATEGORY
- Lina Essam Eldin, Design Studio 4 (Year 3) Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University | Project: Yusur Healthcare
HIGHLY COMMENDED: ACUTE HEALTHCARE – MA CATEGORY
- Dilara Sabancıoğlu, Design Studio 6 (Year 4) Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University| Project: The Healing Phoenix: General Teaching Hospital in Aleppo
WINNER: ACUTE HEALTHCARE – MA CATEGORY
- Md. Shahriar Omar Sadh, Arch 604 – Independent Final Project Studio, Ball State University | Project: Advancing Patient Safety: Design Strategies to Improve Efficiency and
Infection Control in Ambulatory Surgery Centres in Bangladesh
HIGHLY COMMENDED: ACUTE HEALTHCARE – MA CATEGORY
- Minki Seol, MA Architecture Speculative Futures, Leeds Beckett University | Project: 2056 Marine Rescue Hub
WINNER: CREATIVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING – BA CATEGORY
- Jose Ward, BA Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture | Project: Mayfield Recovery Yard
HIGHLY COMMENDED: CREATIVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING – BA CATEGORY
- Zhixian Yong, BA Interior Design, Year 3, University of the Arts London | Project: Breathing with the Building
WINNER: CREATIVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING – MA CATEGORY
- Natania Sitou, Master of Architecture, University of Sydney | Project: Earthen Forms
HIGHLY COMMENDED: CREATIVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING – MA CATEGORY
- Ageng Piandel Bhakti, Master of Architecture, University of Sydney | Project: Made Ground – Headspace and Ecological Memory at Sydney Park
HIGHLY COMMENDED: CREATIVE HEALTH AND WELLBEING – MA CATEGORY
- Erin Brennan, MArch Architecture Thesis Project, Liverpool John Moore’s University | Project: The Civic Thermae
WINNER: MENTAL HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Sophie Pascoe, BA(Hons) Interior Design (onsite) level 6, KLC School of Design at West Dean | Project: Self Space – A Community Mental Health Centre
HIGHLY COMMENDED: MENTAL HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Evie Bremer-Goldie, BA Interior Design, Year 3, University of the Arts London | Project: Anchor
HIGHLY COMMENDED: MENTAL HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Holly Richardson, BA Interior Design, Year 3, University of the Arts London | Project: The Intimacy Gap
WINNER: MENTAL HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Minji Kwon, Master of Architecture, University of Sydney | Project: Between Living & Care
HIGHLY COMMENDED: MENTAL HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Sam Wimbush, MArch in Designing Architecture, London School of Architecture | Project: Designing for Mental Health
WINNER: PRIMARY + COMMUNITY HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Ella O’Brien, (BA) Architecture and the Built Environment – Part 1 Graduate, University of Nottingham | Project: The Diabetes Research and Patient Care Institute
HIGHLY COMMENDED: PRIMARY + COMMUNITY HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Lina Essam Eldin, Design Studio 4 (Year 3) Ankara Yildirim Beyazit University | Project: Yusur Healthcare
WINNER: PRIMARY + COMMUNITY HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Rebecca Goode, Master of Architecture, Manchester School of Architecture | Project: Neighbourhood of Health
HIGHLY COMMENDED: PRIMARY + COMMUNITY HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Ananya Kurada, Master of Architecture MArch, studio – ‘In Mind’, Newcastle University | Project: Re-Imagining Connections Across Dementia Care Environments
WINNER: PUBLIC HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Ella O’Brien, (BA) Architecture and the Built Environment – Part 1 Graduate, University of Nottingham | Project: The Diabetes Research and Patient Care Institute
HIGHLY COMMENDED: PUBLIC HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Eveline Edmunds, BA(Hons) Landscape Architecture and Design, Year 3, Leeds Beckett University | Project: A Breath of Fresh Aire
HIGHLY COMMENDED: PUBLIC HEALTH – BA CATEGORY
- Yung Wen Ho, BA(Hons) Architecture ARB/RIBA 1, Year 3, Leeds Beckett University | Project: Do Residuo A Forma – A Centre of Art
WINNER: PUBLIC HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Adam Williams, MArch Part 2, Northumbria University | Project: Developing Spillers Wharf
HIGHLY COMMENDED: PUBLIC HEALTH – MA CATEGORY
- Omer Shekef + Adar Mizrachi, Final Thesis Studio (Yr 5) (Masters), Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design | Project: The Living Filter – A Civic Ecology for the Recovery of the Yarkon
