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Architect chosen by UPP will “challenge the way it thinks” about student housing.

Seven architects have been shortlisted to pitch ideas for the next generation of student housing design that is inspiring with high sustainability credentials and reflects a new emphasis on student mental health and wellbeing.

Mark Shaw won the Architect Pitch in 2017 and was invited by developer HB Reavis to work on a new commercial building in Farringdon. It was later appointed to work on all the common areas in the building, including a gym, bar, café and auditorium.

Adam Tyson is Managing Director of Asset Management at student accommodation infrastructure provider UPP, leading the delivery of its construction projects and strategic asset management. Here he explains why purpose-built student accommodation is ready for a shakeup

Jennifer O’Donnell, director of Glasgow-based practice O'DonnellBrown, won the Architect Pitch in 2020 impressing the panel with a series of self-initiated projects. Here she explains what happened next.

This category was added to the awards in 2021 to recognise the increasing amount of action taking place in the built environment, addressing issues such as diversity, inequality, disability rights and the climate emergency

Rachel Sayers is an architect and partner in Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios where she heads their Equality and Diversity Group. She is a judge for the Archiboo Awards inaugural Activism Award What do understand by the term activism? Personally I think strongly held values is at the root of all activism....

Ewa Effiom is an architect currently working for Gort Scott. He is a judge for the Best Use of Video category...

Mike Stiff co-founded London-based practice Stiff + Trevillion in the early 1980s. He is a judge for the Best Consultants category...

Grant Gibson is a journalist and a former editor of Blueprint, RIBA Journal and Crafts magazine. He launched his podcast Material Matters in 2018, which won the Best Podcast category in 2020. He is a judge for the category this year...

Joy Nazzari on the importance of lunch and why the property industry has to rewrite its story...

With social media it’s all about creating content and being consistent so there’s content on a weekly basis. The way we use Instagram is as a window into our practice – we concentrate on showing the process behind the projects. Every Thursday people have to upload at least two images...