The international awards are organised by RIBA Journal and sponsored by Origin, the British manufacturer of bi-fold and residential doors, windows and blinds. The awards were presented at a ceremony in London. Entrants were judged on their original thinking, leadership, collaborative approach and hard work by a panel of judges that were once Rising Stars themselves. This was chaired by the RSA’ s Matthew Taylor; Lucy Tilley, associate director at Adjaye Associates; Maria Smith, founder of Interrobang; Patrick Bellew, principal at Atelier Ten; Gus Zogolovitch, managing director of Inhabit Homes; and Eleanor Young, executive editor of RIBAJ. It was the judges’ task to pick a shortlist from a pool of talented UK designers which was then cut

further to an elite cohort:‘ The RIBAJ Rising Stars of 2016.’ This year’ s list included:

• Ed Dale-Harris stood out for his work on a primary school in an Ebola-affected region of Sierra Leone.

• Dan and Max Zielinski won first prize with their plans to reimage Paris as part of the Living Cities design competition by putting in new electric transport.

• Brendan Sexton is leading the way on BIM-related practice and research.

• Shireen Hamdan has been trailblazing in major sports venues in the Middle East.

• Philip Graham is an entrepreneur passionate about Libya, who has led pioneering research into alternative forms of housing delivery.

• Alex Scott-Whitby, founder and director of ScottWhitbyStudio, is responsible for a team that can lay claim to a diverse range of projects including a new palace in the Middle East and a homeless shelter in London.

• Bethan Knightson, one of Hampshire County Council architects, is working on historic buildings such as Winchester Cathedral and Whitchurch Silk Mill.

• Rhys Jones is a successful project architect, tutor and mentor, whose talent shows the most in his extracurricular work, such as 2012 pavilion for music festival the Secret Garden Party. He also won with Jestico + Whiles and Canterbury School of Architecture.

• Tszwai So was commissioned to design the Belarusian Memorial Chapel in North London, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and spent a year researching the vernacular timber churches of Belarus.

• Steven Kennedy is recognised for his stellar architectural work while working on an extensive botanic garden masterplan in the Middle East.

• Charlotte Knight is a young architectural assistant at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios who took on two projects in her free time, The Observatory and Pea Soup House.

• Eliot Postma led the design team for the Bombay Sapphire Distillery and has been leading the Heatherwick Studio team for design at all scales at Google’ s‘ Terra Firma’ campus at Mountain View, California.

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