EMERGING ARCHITECTURE

Exhibition: Tuesday 12 June - Sunday 22 July

The Architectural Review Awards for Emerging Architecture is the biggest and best award scheme for young architects in the world and gives £15 000 in prize money. Inaugurated in 1999, it is sponsored by Buro Happold, Interface and Wilkhahn. Intended to bring wider international recognition to a talented new generation of architects and designers, the awards regularly attract over 500 entries from more than 80 countries, representing every inhabited continent.

Awards are for built or manufactured work only, and besides buildings the full range of design activity from landscapes and urban spaces to furniture and cutlery can be submitted. An immense diversity of projects, covering areas such as buildings, interiors, product design, engineering structures, urbanism and landscape, provides a fascinating snapshot of architecture's emerging generation.

This year projects on display include a handmade school in Bangladesh, a pedestrian bridge in Texas, and an experimental house in Japan. They range in size from Daloma International Airport in Mugla, Turkey by EAA Emre Arolat Architects to a 2.5 cubic metre ‘Space for Music’ in Helsinki, Finland by Martti Kalliala Esa Ruskeepää.

The Jury for 2006 was Christine Binswanger (Herzog & de Meuron, Basel), Peter Davey (Former Editor of The Architectural Review), Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham, Tokyo), Kim Herforth Nielsen (3XN, Aarhus), Benedetta Tagliabue (EMBT, Barcelona) and Paul Finch (Editor of The Architectural Review and Chairman).

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