Alison Brooks Architects has been named studio of the year while Gad Line+ Studio has won the title of emerging architecture studios of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020.
Based in the UK, Alison Brooks Architects was selected from a shortlist of six studios, which was determined by our jury of 25 leading figures from the world of architecture.
Chinese architecture studio Gad Line+ Studio beat four other emerging studios to win the award.
Alison Brooks Architects' projects include Athena, Eddington in Cambridge. Image is by Paul Riddle
The winning studios were revealed at the Dezeen Awards 2020 architecture show, which was streamed on Dezeen on 23 November.
The interiors and design studio category winners will be revealed on 24 November and 25 November. Alison Brooks Architects named studio of the year
The architecture jury, which consisted of London-based Sally Mackareth, Mariam Kamara of Studio Masomi, Alexandra Hagen of White Arkitekter, Penda China's Sun Dayong and Issa Diabaté of Ivory Coast-based Koffi Diabate Architects, chose London-based Alison Brooks Architects as the winning architecture studio of the year.
They said that the practice is "conscious and questioning, and adopts a public interest approach" and that "this is the direction we want architecture to move towards".
"A groundbreaking practice with great ethos ? particularly the way that they question both norms and the profession itself," they further explained.
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