MSA Design Awards

WINNERS OF MSA DESIGN AWARDS 2009

The Manchester Society of Architects take great pleasure in announcing the winning and commended schemes for this year’s MSA Design Awards. The judging panel collectively was very impressed with the excellent quality of presented schemes and would like to thank all those who submitted entries. It was thought overall that the standard of presentation was particularly high and it was encouraging to see a high volume of entries from all across the membership including a couple of MSA newcomers especially in this climate.

Thank you again to those who practices who submitted entries and to everyone for your continuing support of the MSA Design Awards.  Thank you also to our sponsors RIBA North West, MPG, Ceram Excel and Royal Mosa who made this event possible. Many thanks to everyone who entered this years MSA Design Awards and attended the awards evening. For a full list of winners please click on the link above. The exhibition runs at CUBE until the 9th May.

The MSA Design Awards competition is an annual event, providing the opportunity for Manchester architects to exhibit their recent work, whether as a finished building or work in progress. In previous years, this forum has attracted many high quality submissions which showcase the talent of architects in the area, many of whom have also won both regional and national RIBA awards. Support for this event comes from the practitioners themselves, who are as interesting and varied as their entries submitted. It is encouraging to see that smaller practices and solo practitioners are willing to support the event as well as the larger well - known practices who are always well represented.

The aims of the competition are:

- To promote the value of architectural design
- To raise the profile of architects and demonstrate the benefits of good design
- To demonstrate the design skills of the architect

This year, the MSA  continues the success of the 2008 exhibition, bringing the 2009 awards to CUBE with a fully curated exhibition being featured in the Spring programme of events running from the 1-9 May 2009. The 2008 awards exhibition attracted unprecedented interest from practitioners and the public alike we hope this will continue in 2009.

Refer to the Archive section of the website for listings of 2007 and 2008 winners of the MSA design awards.