The annual EAA Design Awards are recognised at local and national level and are one of the main highlights of the annual EAA programme.
The Building of the Year winner, awards winners and commendations were announced at SpACE in Edinburgh, in a hybrid ‘in person’ & online awards ceremony on 28th October 2021.
Congratulations to all of our 2021 award winners, commended projects and short-listed entries.
The full results are listed below by category - click on each category image to see Winners, Commendations and Short-Listed Entries.
Thank you to all our sponsors for continuing to support us during this challenging year.
And a special thanks to our judges; Janet Archer, Scott McAulay, Joanne McClelland & John Lancaster.
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2021 Judges
JANET ARCHER
Janet has recently been appointed Chief Executive Officer for Edinburgh Printmakers. Until mid-October she is also Executive Producer for The New Real at the University of Edinburgh’s Future’s Institute.
Janet’s extensive CV includes appointments as Director of Festivals, Cultural and City Events for the University of Edinburgh, the Chief Executive of Creative Scotland, Director for Arts Council England and Director of Nexus Dance. As Artistic Director for Dance City she developed a new dance house with Malcolm Fraser Architects in Edinburgh. Janet has sat on Boards for The Saltire Society Trust and balletLORENT, as well as The Work Room, Glasgow and Audiences North East. As a dancer, she won the Cosmopolitan Dance Award and as a producer, the Digital Dance Award and the British Gas Working for Cities Award.
Janet trained at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama followed by the Rambert Academy and London School of Contemporary Dance.
SCOTT McAULAY
Scott (He/Him) is a Glaswegian climate justice activist, architectural designer, climate literacy educator, and the founder of the Anthropocene Architecture School. Since the launch of the AAS it has supported thousands of architects, students, and educators by creating educational spaces to respond to the Climate Emergency. Scott has spoken on climate action in architecture and taught Built Environment Climate Literacy at more than a dozen schools of architecture across the U.K. and internationally.
Scott shares his time between advocacy, education, and sustainable practice: co-directing the recently founded Anthropocene Projects CIC working as a Part 2 Architectural Assistant with Architype and creating opportunities to link the built environment to climate change through the AAS. He sits on the RIAS Sustainability Working Group, is a coordinator of the Architects Climate Action Network’s Carbon Literacy Working Group, and recently co-led a team for the inaugural School of Re-Construction.
JOANNE McCLELLAND
Jo’s twin passions of conservation and sustainability are shown in her work as well as memberships of the RIAS boards for both areas, and with SEDA, SPAB and IHBC. Jo is currently the Edinburgh Architectural Association (EAA) President, leading on their Edinburgh RIAS COP26 activities. She is on the Steering Group for SpACE, a COP26 pop-up Centre for Architecture Carbon and Environment.
In her day job she seeks to bridge the In Use and Strategic Definition stages of the RIBA Plan of Work through holistic analysis. Jo graduated with a First Class Degree from Edinburgh College of Art in 2005, completed an MA entitled ‘Recycling Urbanism’ in 2007 and a MSc in conservation with Heriot Watt University, with a paper entitled ‘Drivers for carbon reduction in existing buildings to meet the carbon neutral Edinburgh 2050 target.’
Jo is an Accredited Conservation Architect with the RIBA.
JOHN LANCASTER
John hails from the North East of Scotland and studied at the Scott Sutherland School in Aberdeen. As a child, he spent many weekends exploring historic buildings and many family holidays and weekend breaks in Edinburgh, both of which heavily influenced his love of architecture and Edinburgh.
After graduating in 2007, he moved to Edinburgh and has spent the following years in practice in the city.
In 2020, he became a Council Member of the Edinburgh Architectural Association and in 2021 became Joint Vice President. John is currently an Architect and Associate at Smith Scott Mullan Associates in Edinburgh.