Young Architect of the Year

Eilidh Izat

Gold Award

Eilidh is one of Scotland’s brightest and most sought-after young architects. She is devoted to working in Scotland and making buildings that have a particular poetic and material quality, that reference cultural heritage in a contemporary manner and have an emotional effect on their users. Eilidh’s interest in architecture is as a built art form. She designs slowly and intuitively, allowing a building to develop a voice of its own during the process. Her quiet championship of local and natural […]

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Paulina Naruseviciute

Nomination

Paulina Naruseviciute is an Architect working in BDP’s Glasgow Studio, who’s has made a prominent contribution to many BDP projects, as well as Glasgow’s award-winning schools’ portfolio over the last 9 years. After gaining her master’s in architecture from The University of Strathclyde in 2015, Paulina’s passion and drive for sustainability led to her co-founding Urban Restart, an art and architecture collective that aimed to activate untapped potential in vacant places and spaces through creative construction methods. Notable projects include […]

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Chris Wotherspoon

Nomination

Chris’ route to becoming an architect wasn’t entirely linear, he began his career as a site labourer then an apprentice joiner before embarking on a diploma in Construction Management. This course ultimately led him to study at both Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura del Vallès in Barcelona and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow where he graduated with M(Arch) in Advanced Architectural Design with International Studies in 2014. As an architectural assistant, Chris worked client-side with the organising committee for […]

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