BDP presents Bath Urban Design Prize

BDP’s Bristol studio chairman, Martin Sutcliffe, presented the Nick Terry Urban Design Prize to the winning team from the University of Bath’s Department of Architecture & Civil Engineering at the end of year degree show on Friday 30 May.

The prize has been supported by BDP since 2009 and is presented to the best final year project by an architecture student or team of students. It honours former director and chairman of BDP, and Bath alumnus, Nick Terry (BSc General Architecture Studies 1970, BArch 1973) who died in 2008.

The winning scheme proposed a strategic masterplan for the northern waterfront in Marseilles, France.  The team, which included Samuel Clarke, Oliver Justice, Tommy Stoney and Jason Turner, explored the social, economic and spatial contexts in which they were working through models, drawings, numerical analysis and film.  From this research they developed a truly exceptional piece of urban design to transform the impoverished environment which they had encountered.  The students worked brilliantly as a team, producing a series of sophisticated and elegant propositions in a relatively short period of time.