Election Court, Annual Service and dinner at Pewterers Hall

one of the many charters of a very old livery company

examples of fine craftsmanship

John E C Dyson is invested in the Livery by Master Wilkey

certification of the event

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The 2012 Drawing Prize

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*Vivat, vivat Cornwall!

The winners of the Jonathan and Victoria Ball* Award, the Drawing Prize for 2012 were:

RIBA Part 1 winner; Samantha Horn of London Metropolitan University

The Touqan Palace, a ruined 17th Century fortified palace in Nablus, is proposed as the public epicentre (incorporating community spaces and artists’ studios) of a network of interventions across the city. The interventions increase connectivity and facilitate existing activities at roof top level. Rooms added to existing buildings in the Old City provide a place to stay for cultural and ethical tourists, creating the possibility for cultural exchange and providing an income for local families.

and RIBA Part 1 'runner-up'; Oscar Plastow of Kingston University

56 Artillery Lane is a fine example of a Georgian East London merchant's building. It was built  around 1690 on land that was previously a weapons practice ground. Later, in the 1750's, the buildings were transformed into luxury shops in the Rococo style by Huguenot silk merchants, protestant settlers from France.

An A1 pencil drawing

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RIBA Part 2 winner; James Decent of London Metropolitan University

The drawing illustrates a proposal of a new building within the estate of Hardwick in Derbyshire. It was important that the drawing conveyed the landscape of trees and parkland. The topography staggers up a natural embankment before levelling at a flat plateau. The existing Elizabethan houses known as Old Hardwick Hall and New Hardwick Hall form a skyline on the plateau edge. The new building sits between these halls, mediating them in scale and proportion.

and RIBA Part 2 'runner-up'; Haiwei Xie of the Royal College of Art

The B.R.I.C House

The drawing shows an integration of architecture and landscape, which is the result of The B.R.I.C House proposal --- an alternative housing strategy, centred around the idea of a “public living room", for the Chelsea Barracks site in Westminster. Employing “family tree urbanism” as an organisational strategy, houses are located around an organic water-scape that is based on a rigorous analysis of the culture of the B.R.I.C nations. The intention is to create a high-quality but low-price, high-density but low-rise housing development aimed at a diverse and multi-cultural society.

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