HCS reveals winners of its sustainable architecture prize 2022
Hasan Rinchhdiwala’s submission for the HCS Sustainability Award
Huddersfield Civic Society has announced joint winners of its annual Peter Stead Award.
The award, organised in association with the University of Huddersfield Department of Architecture and 3D Design, is presented to the student who, in the opinion of the judges, produces the best project focussing on the issue of sustainability.
Two projects were considered to be of outstanding quality but since they covered such different issues it was decided that the £200 prize should be shared between the two.
Hasan Rinchhdiwala’s project focussed on issues relating to climate, housing and poverty in India while Harry Hunter dealt in detail with the retrofitting of a primary school in a suburb of west Leeds.
Judges Sylvia Johnson and Gideon Richards analysed projects submitted by seven students representing three different degree programmes (undergraduate architecture, postgraduate architecture and undergraduate architectural technology). The judges were impressed by the high quality of research, technical understanding and well-illustrated and articulated presentations.
The Peter Stead Award, is named after the designer, architect, writer and innovator responsible for some of Huddersfield’s most remarkable post war houses and long-time member of the society, who died in 1999.
Farnley Hey, his Bauhaus-inspired house built near Farnley Tyas in the 1950s, was recognised as a revolutionary concept and awarded a medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Nicholas Pevsner described it as “one of the best post-second world war houses in England.”
