RSUA Design Awards are postponed

September 29th, 2020

29/09/2020

The decision has been taken to postpone the RSUA Design Awards 2020 until 2021. This follows the decision by RIBA to postpone the RIBA Awards 2020.

RSUA had been working closely with the RSUA Design Awards judging panel and the architects/clients of the shortlisted projects to find a way to allow judging visits to take place in October 2020. Arrangements were close to being finalised however for the following reasons we will now be postponing:

RIBA Awards postponed and this affects the RIBA judge on our panel and the direct connection of the RSUA Design Awards into the RIBA awards UK-wide
Only one judge would have been able to undertake visits
Some shortlisted projects could not facilitate a judging visit
Uncertainty about new measures that could be introduced in the next fortnight due to the increasing number of cases of COVID-19

All projects shortlisted for the RSUA Design Awards 2020 will automatically be shortlisted for the RSUA Design Awards 2021. A gallery of images of the shortlisted buildings is available here.

2020 Shortlisted projects

Project name	Location	Architect
Rathview Mental Health Unit	Omagh	TODD Architects
Patrick Bradley Architects Studio	Maghera	Patrick Bradley Architects
Hillsborough Castle and Gardens Visitor Facilities	Hillsborough	Consarc Design Group
Carrickfergus Castle Roof Replacement	Carrickfergus	Alastair Coey Architects and Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects
Acute Mental Health Inpatient Centre	Belfast	RPP Architects, Richard Murphy Architects, Devereux Architects
School of Biological Sciences, QUB	Belfast	Scott Tallon Walker Architects and White Ink Architects
Davagh Observatory	Cookstown	ARCEN
Old Mill Court	Sion Mills	GM Design Associates
The Lanyon Building Conservation and Restoration Project	Belfast	Consarc Design Group
FLIPHOUSE	Bangor	BGA Architects