Sheffield Design Awards

A few highlights from last week's Awards Ceremony. Over 160 guests joined us at the Millennium Gallery. It was wonderful to meet and chat to all of those involved - architects, contractors, clients, sponsors - in this year's amazing projects. Did you get to take home one of the coveted plaques? Photos of the winners soon! Photos: Thomas Husbands Music: Graham Jones and Pete Moxley Plaques: Gregory & Tesseras Blacksmiths Certificates: NORTHEND 3D PRINT SOLUTIONS LIMITED Thanks to our Welcome Drinks sponsors: BDP (Building Design Partnership Ltd) Paul Bedwell Town Planning Altro Limited Altitude HLM Architects ; to our patron, Corin Mellor, for welcome gifts for the early bird guests, courtesy of DAVID MELLOR DESIGN LIMITED Thanks to our Headline sponsor: SQUARE KITCHENS & BATHROOMS LIMITED

What an amazing evening we had last week at the Sheffield Design Awards 2024! Thank you to everyone who attended and made the ceremony so special, we hope you enjoyed yourselves. If you didn't manage to make it to the ceremony, all of the winners are now listed on our website, check them out here: https://lnkd.in/eqrrd8Pz Thanks also go to our headline sponsor - SQUARE KITCHENS & BATHROOMS LIMITED.

What a wonderful evening last Thursday celebrating the Sheffield Design Awards! A massive congratulations to all the winners (which you can read about here: https://lnkd.in/e4UMhNGP), especially Heart of the City 2 which won for Outstanding Project of the Year👏🏿! It was truly inspiring to see the positive impact this project has had on the city and its people. Thank you to Mike Brown, Leanora Simmonite, and the rest of the incredible SDA committee for all they do to promote, celebrate, and spotlight design in Sheffield, and thank you to my fellow judges Nicola Rutt, Kate Dore, and Simon Chadwick for making this such an enjoyable and unforgettable experience! I cannot wait to return as a judge in 2026🥳. - #designawards2024 #sheffield #SDA2024

Vote now for People’s Choice prize in 2024 Sheffield Design Awards! This week, a panel of architecture experts will be travelling around South Yorkshire to visit shortlisted entries in the 2024 Sheffield Design Awards. The public will be able to vote for their favourite in the People’s Choice Award poll, which opens today. The shortlist for the Sheffield Design Awards 2024, in association with Square Kitchens & Bathrooms Limited, is now out. The Awards celebrate the best in design in the built environment across Sheffield and South Yorkshire. Explore the incredible projects that made the cut this year at the Sheffield Design Awards website and vote now for the People’s Choice Award from among all the shortlisted entries. The entry with the most votes will receive the coveted ‘People’s Choice Award’ at a glittering Awards Ceremony at Sheffield’s Millennium Gallery in November. The shortlisted entries this year include creative home extensions, sensitive heritage renovations, welcoming public spaces, and state of the art commercial buildings. The judges will visit locations with views of the rolling South Yorkshire countryside, large scale regeneration in Rotherham, and urban settings in Sheffield’s Heart of the City. This week, our panel of national expert judges will be visiting each of the shortlisted properties and selecting the winners in eight different categories. Head judge Nicola Rutt said “The standard of entries this year has been incredibly high. I can’t wait to visit the shortlisted projects.” The People’s Choice poll opens on Tue 1 October and closes on 31st October. To view the entries and cast your vote, please go to https://lnkd.in/eqrrd8Pz.  #sheffieldissuper #sheffield #sheffielddesign #sheffielddesignawards #southyorkshire #southyorkshiredesign #southyorkshirearchitecture #sheffieldarchitecture #conservation #regeneration #openspace #residentialarchitecture #openspacedesign #landscapedesign #interiordesign RIBA Yorkshire

🎉 Exciting News! 🎉 The shortlist for the Sheffield Design Awards 2024 in association with SQUARE KITCHENS & BATHROOMS LIMITED is out! 🏆✨ Check out the incredible entries that made the cut and celebrate the best in design innovation in South Yorkshire. Explore the shortlisted projects here: https://lnkd.in/eqrrd8Pz #SheffieldDesignAwards #DesignExcellence #InnovationInDesign #2024Awards Which entry are you most excited about? Let us know in the comments! 👇

Need a little more time? 👀 We're extending the deadline for entries to Sheffield Design Awards. 📅 The NEW deadline for submissions is Friday 23rd August 23:59. Full details, including judging criteria, and how to enter, are available here: https://lnkd.in/e7pkwzt2. #design #architecture #builtenvironment #sheffieldissuper #Barnsley #Rotherham #Doncaster #Sheffield #sheffieldarchitecture #sheffielddesign #conservation #regeneration #sheffielddesignawards #urbanregeneration

Our final category in this year’s awards is the Open Space category.    This will be awarded to a project that demonstrates an outstanding contribution to the public spaces in South Yorkshire’s towns and cities. It may include graffiti art, pub/shop frontages, hard and soft landscaping schemes, and planting schemes.   Here we see ‘Grey to Green’ by Nigel Dunnett and Sheffield City Council - Winner of the 2016 Open Space Award and Outstanding Project of the Year. The scheme brought colour and sustainability to inner-city Sheffield, offering a calm refuge in an urban environment. Grey to Green transformed a tarmacked area into a green public space that encourages cycling and walking. There is less than a week to go until the deadline so enter now at bit.ly/3LrPPSd  #design #architecture #builtenvironment #sheffieldissuper #sheffieldarchitecture #urbanlandscape #sheffielddesign #architect #landscaping #openspace #graffiti #shopfront #urbanplantingscheme

'Practice of the Year' - New in 2024 A new category for this year’s awards is the ‘Practice of the Year’, given to an architectural, landscape or design practice that demonstrates exceptional design work over the eligibility period. The winner is chosen from all this year's entries to the awards, with an emphasis on multiple projects completed by the same practice. (👉🏼 You can submit your entries now via https://lnkd.in/em9E3Y53 ) We have a wealth of talent across South Yorkshire (and beyond) and we hope that this award will celebrate talented designers making a positive contribution to our communities. #design #architecture #builtenvironment #sheffieldissuper #sheffieldarchitecture #sheffielddesign #architect

The second of the Residential Awards this year is for Multiple Dwellings. It is sponsored by IG Masonry Support. Judges are looking for excellence in the design of a development containing more than one dwelling and should consider place, space, and sustainability as well as aesthetic merits. We look back at brutalist favourite Park Hill flats (Phase 2) by Mikhail Riches for Urban Splash - winner of the Housing Award and the Conservation Award at the 2022 Awards. Phase 2 included the refurbishment of 195 homes plus commercial space within the Grade 2* listed brutalist housing scheme. The architects’ approach was to retain as much of the existing fabric as possible, and learn lessons from the Phase 1 development. The overall result was a high-quality refurbishment which preserves and enhances the original architecture. The judges were impressed with the strength of concept and its execution along with the sustainability approach for this brutalist concrete housing scheme of this age and status. 📅 The deadline for this year's entries is just 3 weeks away: https://lnkd.in/em9E3Y53 📸 Tim Crocker #design #architecture #builtenvironment #sheffieldissuper #sheffieldarchitecture #sheffielddesign #restoration #sheffielddesignawards #brutalist #brutalistarchitecture #ParkHillFlats #UrbanSplash #urbanregeneration #ParkHill

With 4 weeks to go until the deadline for this year’s entries, we take a look at the Conservation Award.   This is awarded to the project that best respects and enhances the original building/setting. Judges are looking for adaptive re-use of historic buildings, refurbishment and regeneration. Projects may also demonstrate an understanding of the vernacular traditions and materials of their locality. The Long Barn by Chiles Evans + Care Architects was Winner of the 2018 Conservation Award. Far from your average barn conversion, The Long Barn forms part of a wider cohousing vision committed to the restoration and reuse of a model estate farm from the early 19th century.   The judges felt the architect created a "sensitive, yet self-assured, intervention into an existing listed structure. The attention given to division and connection of space, clever detailing and imaginative materials makes for an altogether masterful composition."    If you have a beautiful conversion project you’d like to share, submit your entry by 14 August 2024: https://bit.ly/3LrPPSd   #design #architecture #builtenvironment #sheffieldissuper #sheffieldarchitecture #sheffielddesign #conservation #conservationproject #cohousing #refurbishment #regeneration #historicbuilding #barnconversion #vernaculararchitecture #traditionalmaterials #restoration #sheffielddesignawards