Recently, the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust unveiled the winners of its 2022 Building Beauty Awards at a glittering ceremony at Bloomberg European Headquarters in the City of London, with prizes presented by Lord Foster of Thames Bank O.M. The awards, sponsored by Ballymore, celebrate buildings, engineering structures and urban landscaping schemes that add beauty to Britain’s built environment. The judging panel was led by Stephen Bayley Hon FRIBA, Chairman of the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust and one of Britain’s foremost design critics.
Tintagel Castle Footbridge, designed by Ney & Partners and William Matthews Associates for English Heritage, took the overall prize of £10,000, as well as winning the Engineering category, and will now represent the UK in the race to be crowned the world’s most beautiful new building at the World Architecture Festival in Lisbon on 02 November.
Additional winners of the night also included Peter Barber Architects’ McGrath Road in the Building category, Tonkin Liu’s Tower of Light and Wall of Energy in the Little Gem category, while the Illuminated River by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands and Leo Villareal Studio for the Illuminated River Foundation took the crown for most beautiful Public Space.
The event was a huge success, with attending media from publications including Architects’ Journal, Country Life, ELLE Decoration and Dezeen, among others. News of the inaugural Building Beauty Awards has been featured in titles including the Mail Online, The Times, Dezeen and Architects’ Journal, to name but a few.
