Blueprint Awards 2017: The winners

Judges

David Adjaye Principal, Adjaye Associates

David Adjaye
Principal, Adjaye Associates

Recently knighted,David Adjaye was born in Tanzania and his influences range from ‘contemporary art, music and science to African art forms and the civic life of cities’. He formed Adjaye Associates in 2000 and has completed a wealth of internationally acclaimed projects. He has taught at the Royal College of Art and Architectural Association in London, and has held professorshipsat the universities of Pennsylvania, Yale and Princeton and is the JohnC Portman Design Criticin Architecture at Harvard.

Kate Goodwin Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator, Royal Academy of Arts London

Kate Goodwin
Head of Architecture and Drue Heinz Curator, Royal Academy of Arts London

Kate Goodwin oversees a programme of events and exhibitions at the Royal Academy, which stimulates a debate about architecture and its intersection with the arts. She curated the exhibition Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined, (2014) at the Royal Academy and Inside Heatherwick Studio, which toured East Asia (2015–16) for the British Council.She was awarded a RIBA Honorary Fellowship in 2016 for her contribution to the profession.

Roz Barr Director, Roz Barr Architects

Roz Barr
Director, Roz Barr Architects

Roz Barr heads up her eponymous studio with ‘a commitment to the careful crafting of architectural solutions through a process of making’. Set up in 2010, the practice has a growing and diverse portfolio in the UK and abroad within the private and public realm, and commercial and cultural sectors. Roz Barr has taught at the Architectural Association, and the Bartlet in London. She is on the RIBA International Validation Panel for Education andin 2013 was elected vice-president for Education at the RIBA.

BahadirKayan Chairman, Turkish ceramics

Bahadir Kayan
Chairman, Turkishceramics


Bahadir Kayan has been the Turkishceramics chairman for seven years and is chairman of the Board of Glass, Cement, Ceramics and Soil Products Exporters’ Union and general manager of Bodur Property Development. He studied Business Management at Istanbul’s Bog?azic¸i University, with an MSc and PhD in the same subject at Vienna University. He returned to Turkey joining Evonik Degussa as country manager for sales and marketing of porcelain, glass, ceramics and producer goods. He joined Kale Group in 2002.

Ben van Berkel Founder / Principal, UNStudio

Ben Van Berkel
Founder / Principal, UN Studio

Ben van Berkel studied architecture at the Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam and at the Architectural Association in London.In 1988 he and Caroline Bos set up the architectural practice UNStudio in Amsterdam, extending their theoretical and writing projects to the practiceof architecture. Current projects include the design for Doha’s Integrated Metro Network in Qatar, the Raffles City mixed-use development in Hangzhou and the Canaletto Tower about to open in London.

Tina Norden Director, Conran + Partners

Tina Norden
Director, Conran + Partners

Tina Norden joined Conran + Partners in 1997 and is an interior designer and architect with a diverse portfolio stretching across many contexts and continents, from hoteland restaurant design to high-end residential. She began working in Asia over 18 years ago completing projects such as Hotel Icon, Mandarin Oriental, PMQ, Roppongi Hills and FutakoTamagawa. She is currently working on two new Park Hyatt hotel projects in Jakarta and Auckland, as well as several boutique hotels across Europe.

James Dilley Head of ID / Hospitality, Jestico + Whiles

James Dilley
Head of ID / Hospitality, Jestico + Whiles

James Dilley leads the hospitality and interior design studio at Jestico+ Whiles with particular expertise in the designof hotels, as well as restaurants, clubs, specialist retail and cinemas, amassing over 20 years of experience in this sector. Dilley is currently leading the Jestico + Whiles teams on hotel projects both in the UK and internationally including Malta, Marrakesh, Berlin, Amsterdam and Tbilisi, with an exciting new W Hotel in Edinburgh currently in design.
Dominique Price Director, M Moser Associates

Dominique Price
Director, M Moser Associates

Dominique Price is an award-winning architect and academic practitioner based in San Francisco, founder of ‘SI\SA’, an independent soft architectural integration initiative, and director of M Moser Associates where she has global reach to over 15 offices. Price previously worked at Will Bruder Architects and Studio Gang Architectsand has led designs of soft urbanism hybrids for clients such as Airbnb, Rocketspace and Visa, as well as schemes for culture-conscious universities and developers.

Andre´ Fu Founder, AFSO

Andre´ Fu
Founder, AFSO

Andre´ Fu graduated from Cambridge University in 2000 and founded AFSO before returning in 2004 to his native Hong Kong. He has produced aseries of internationally recognised hospitality interior architecture projects, including the Upper House Hotel in Hong Kong and the waterfront Fullerton Bay Hotel in Singapore. Broader work includes Lane Crawford Shoe Library, oneof the biggest shoe boutiques in the world.He has also recently set up the Andre´ Fu Living brand.

Ole Scheeren Principal, Bu¨ro Ole Scheeren

Ole Scheeren
Principal, Bu¨ro Ole Scheeren

Ole Scheeren is a German- born architect, renowned for his highly innovative buildings. At the helm of Bu¨ro Ole Scheeren, he designed The Interlace, lauded World Building of the Year 2015, and has the Guardian Art Center in Beijing, the DUO Tower in Singapore and MahaNakhon in Bangkok due to open this winter. While previously a partner at OMA, he designed the Prada Epicenters in New York and Los Angeles, and the groundbreaking, angular, CCTV media headquarters in Beijing.

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