MacEwen Award 2024

Inclusion, sustainability, strengthening communities, tackling economic deprivation... architecture can address these burning issues – has yours? Submit your schemes that support the common good by 2pm Wednesday 1 November

Have you completed a project that has been particularly inclusive? Perhaps one that provides something extra for the community? Or one that is really sustainable and good for the planet? Any kind of project that tackles one of the pressing social, economic or environmental issues of our time? If you have, the MacEwen Award 2024 is awaiting your entry. RIBA Journal is on the lookout for the latest projects which have gone above and beyond in architecture for the common good.

The RIBAJ MacEwen Award was launched in 2016 to discover and celebrate architecture with a greater purpose that perhaps took that bit more effort but that has reaped more various rewards. Each year the award has grown and developed. We’ve always been flexible as to what ‘common good’ can mean – entrants show us as the context of architecture changes. But at their core, the awards are about architecture that is responsible and acts in the wider interest. In 2023, the winner was Scott Whitby Studio’s Jubilee Pool, which saved a historic lido in Penzance. The practice was involved in raising awareness, funding and sparking community involvement, as well as designing a new café, community space, restoring the historic building and turning a portion of the sea pool into a year-round swimming area through geothermal energy.

Entries could, however, enliven a street, create a wonderful sense of place, or tackle world issues, for example, yet should do so with dignity and joy. The award brings together the biggest projects with the tiniest; well-known practices with up and coming; national schemes with local.

https://www.ribaj.com/buildings/enter-now-macewen-award