After presenting to a panel of expert judges from across the industry, joint projects by Grant Ayers and Emily Dance and another by Zoe Reber and Rebecca Beer were selected as the joint winners of this year’s John Malyan Award.

The other students who presented to the judges were Lauren Francis, Amber Whetter, Jamie Wilkes and Audrone Rutkauskaite.

For this year’s competition, which is open to any colleague who is still in training from across the architectural and urbanism spectrum, the students were set a brief that was designed to elicit a conversation about current social and community issues. The aim was to make proposals for urban sites that could provide an opportunity to engage a community that could have become disconnected in the digital age.

“As ever we had a fantastic response from our students who came forward with an array of thoughtful and creative ideas that covered current social agendas such as reviving the town centre, addressing unused spaces in 1960s housing developments, the regeneration of Canary Wharf, reviving the railway arches in Digbeth and the reuse of a disused power station in New York.

“The result was a lively and thought provoking dialogue that started to generate avenues of research and ideas beyond the limits of the competition. The two winning teams will have the opportunity to take their ideas further and both Broadway Malyan and the judges would support a future agenda to bring the ideas to a wider audience.”

Russ has been a visiting tutor/critic at the University of Portsmouth and Kingston University Schools of Architecture, and is currently serving as a trustee with ‘action-learning’ housing charity Commonweal Housing. He is also a speaker/mentor with the Speakers 4 Schools charity.

Lorraine is Head of Architecture at the University of Reading, UK. She is also the author of Representational Techniques and Construction and Materiality in the Basics Architecture series. Lorraine’s areas of interest include: Academic teaching and learning environments in Higher education, Representation and drawing techniques, Urban design and masterplanning, Innovative Materials in the interior environment an Housing relating to aspects of lifetime homes- live work environments- mixed use developments.

Darren added: “I was very honoured to be invited to judge the 2018 John Malyan Award for Broadway Malyan. I was incredibly encouraged, yet again that the young creative people in our industry are very passionate, energised about how they can play an important role of shaping communities and solving the fundamental challenges of the 21 Century, by engaging with social and political issues.”