2024 EAA Awards for Architecture

CONSERVATION & HERITAGE AWARD

WINNER

GRAS

PRESTON TOWER, DOOCOT & GARDEN

JUDGES COMMENTS
”The judges were impressed with the winning project’s commitment to the wide societal, spatial and environmental consequences of its careful decision making.  From astute analysis to carefully mediated interventions this project insists upon and expands what it might mean to consolidate and conserve a heritage asset in our contemporary context.

From sustainable sourcing to sensible sequencing, community engagement to contractor co-production, the judges collectively felt that this project excelled in relating the micro to the macro, across scales and between stakeholders. Treating each move as an informed component of a cohesive and far reaching strategy, the winner provides precedent for, and evidence of, a tangible method for further consolidation and repair. With a methodology akin to a kind of darning, the project stitches in new material and novel approaches, opening that which might otherwise close, insisting on its present and future vitality.”