The female partners of Barcelona collective Lacol have been awarded the Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture at this year's W Awards for women in architecture.
Lacol members Ariadna Artigas, Anna Clemente, Eulàlia Daví, Cristina Gamboa, Laura Lluch, and Núria Vila were selected in recognition of their work for co-operatives across the Catalan capital.
The Moira Gemmill Prize is awarded annually by the Architects' Journal and The Architectural Review in celebration of international up-and-coming designers, under the age of 45, as part of its W Awards.
Previous winners of the award, which is given in honour of late V&A design director Moira Gemmill, include the founders of vPPR, Mexican architect Rozana Montiel and Gabinete de Arquitectura's Gloria Cabral. Above: the La Comunal workspaces in Sants. Top image: a portrait of the Spanish collective Lacol
Spanish collective Lacol was established in 2009 and has a team of 14 designers. Its women members were selected for the award from a shortlist of four other architects, including the founder of Creative Assemblages, Nerea Amorós Elorduy, DK-CM's co-founder Cristina Monteiro and Verónica Villate, who co-founded Mínimo Común.
Among the collective's most notable projects in Barcelona is a housing scheme called La Borda and a co-operative workspace named Coòpolis.
It has also overhauled a 20th-century industrial complex in the Sants neighbourhood to create La Comunal, a complex containing workspace for sev...