Five young architecture studios based in the Big Apple have been selected for this year's New Practices New York awards, set up to promote the city's best up-and-coming talent.
Agency?Agency, MABU, NHDM, Only If Architecture and PRO have all been named as 2018 winners of the awards, which are awarded biennially to studios headquartered in New York, which launched 10 years ago or sooner.
The honourees were announced last week at the city's Center for Architecture, which organises the awards with the American Institute of Architects' New York (AIANY) chapter.
They were selected by a jury that comprised Beatrice Galilee of The Met's architecture and design department, Jeffrey Inaba of Inaba Williams, Andre?s Jaque of Office for Political Innovation, Hilary Sample of MOS Architects, Rosalyne Shieh of Schaum/Shieh and Dezeen's US editor Dan Howarth. The theme of this year's awards was Consequences, and entrants were asked to demonstrate ways in which they were thinking about the environmental, urban and social impacts of their work.

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The jury looked at whether the firms are pushing boundaries of architecture in three main discourses ? aesthetical, social and disciplinary ? and chose winners that showed they were covering at least in two of these categories, if not all.
All the studios put forward work of different scales, along with self-initiated research pro...