Category Archives: Awards

National Preservation Awards

The National Preservation Awards honor the very best in preservation. Each year, the National Trust for Historic Preservation presents a select number of major awards. The Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award recognizes an individual’s outstanding lifetime achievement in the preservation field.  The Driehaus Preservations Awards recognize and celebrate the country’s best preservation projects—projects that highlight cutting-edge preservation approaches or technologies. These exclusive awards, given at the National Preservation Conference, serve to educate and inspire and raise the visibility of the preservation movement.

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The Mausolus Essay Prize

The MMT have launched a call for entries for the Mausolus Essay Prize, with a deadline of 30 April 2015

To encourage the study and appreciation of historic monuments, the Mausolea and Monuments Trust (MMT) is inviting entries for the Mausolus Essay Prize, to be presented in 2015 in memory of our late Fellow Thomas Cocke, a former Chairman of the MMT, who was passionately interested in the evolution of church architecture. The £250 prize and publication in the journal of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust will be awarded by a distinguished judging panel whose members include Carolyn Cocke, Chair of the Mausolea and Monuments Trust, Fellows Roger Bowdler and Gavin Stamp, Gabriel Byng, editor of Mausolus, and Frances Sands, of Sir John Soane’s Museum.

Essays may be on any subject relating to mausolea or monuments, including, but not limited to, head stones, ledger stones, cemeteries, churchyards and other types of memorial. They may concern objects in Britain or abroad, of any time period. Essays must be no longer than 3,000 words (not including footnotes and bibliography) and can be illustrated with up to five figures. The footnotes and bibliography must be in ‘Chicago’ style. The deadline is 30 April 2015 and entries should be sent to Dr Gabriel Byng.

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Visiting Fellowships, Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, 2015-2016

The Princeton-Mellon Initiative in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities is pleased to announce three available fellowships for the 2015-16 academic year. There will be two Mellon Fellows hired for the entire year and one Distinguished Mellon Fellow brought to campus for a semester (which can be extended to a year’s residency with outside, non-Princeton support). Mellon Fellows may be from any discipline. We seek applicants with outstanding intellectual, literary, and visual talents who demonstrate an abiding interest in multi-disciplinary work focused on the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and the humanities.

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The RTPI Awards for Planning Excellence 2015 are now open for entries. Highlight – Celebrate – Inspire

The Awards for Planning Excellence highlight exceptional examples of planning and celebrate the contribution that planners and planning make to society.

In 2015 we are recognising outstanding projects in the following categories:

Excellence in Planning to Create Economically Successful Places
Excellence in Planning for Community and Well-Being
Excellence in Planning and Design for the Public Realm
Excellence in Planning for the Natural Environment
Excellence in Planning for Built Heritage
Excellence in Planning to Deliver Housing
Excellence in Plan Making Practice
Excellence in Decision Making in Planning
Excellence in Planning to Deliver Infrastructure
We are also looking to recognise and award exemplary individuals, teams and practices in the following categories:

Young Planner of the Year
Planning Consultancy of the Year
Small Planning Consultancy of the Year
Local Authority Planning Team of the Year
Employer Award for Excellence *

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Apprenticeships and Stone and other heritage crafts (UK)

QEST apprenticeship – worth up to £18,000 – and better still, these are now open to anyone 16 or over, and institutions can apply without having a named apprentice. The apprenticeship can run over a number of years.

This is the second year that the Heritage Crafts Association has worked with generous funders to produce a unique set of awards specifically for traditional crafts. And our funders have been even more generous this year; we have almost £100,000 (£99,500) in bursaries and awards which is the most there has ever been for heritage crafts.

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Creative & Cultural Skills Awards 2015: Celebrating unsung heroes across the sector

Nominations for the Creative & Cultural Skills Awards are now open. Celebrate exemplary individuals, organisations, apprentices and interns in the creative and cultural industries.

The Creative & Cultural Skills Awards recognise those who have demonstrated a commitment to passing on skills and improving routes into work for young people.

Deadline for all nominations is 5pm on the 19th December 2014.

Awards will be made in the following categories:

  • The Design Skills Award
  • The Music Skills Award
  • The Craft Skills Award
  • The Jewellery Skills Award
  • The Cultural Heritage Skills Award
  • The Theatre Skills Award
  • The Training Provider of the Year Award
  • The Apprentice of the Year Award
  • The Intern of the Year Award

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The Luigi Micheletti Award

The Luigi Micheletti Award is focused on contemporary history and its scientific heritage, industrial and social development. This Award was established in 1996 by the Micheletti Foundation of Brescia and a leading expert on industrial archeology and museology Kenneth Hudson, for the recognition of excellence in the specific field of science and industry museums in Europe. They can participate in science museums, technical and industrial applications. Today’s Prize is open to history museums in the 20th century (social, political, military) to reflect the broader scope of activities of the Micheletti Foundation and is managed jointly by the Foundation and by the European Museum Academy .

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Georgian Group Architectural Awards

Entries are invited for the twelfth annual Georgian Group Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills.

These unique awards, covering the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, recognise excellence in the restoration of Georgian buildings. Awards are also given to the best new Classical building and to the best new building in a Georgian context.

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The Planning Awards 2014

The Planning Awards celebrate outstanding achievement in planning work by local authorities, consultants, developers, lawyers, voluntary and neighbourhood groups and all the other key players in the planning system.

The Early Bird entry deadline is 27th August.

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British Council

The British Council, through its Connections through Culture programme in India, is offering travel grants for non-national museums to travel to India. The aim of the scheme is to enable UK non-national museums to build and develop institutional links, to share skills and to create joint projects or exhibitions with museums in India. Each grant is sufficient to cover the total cost of a week-long visit to India. The grant scheme is open to all non-national museums in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

For further details and an application form, contact Jane Weeks, Museums & Heritage Adviser, British Council jane.weeks@britishcouncil.org.

The deadline for applications is 18th July 2014 and travel must be undertaken by 28th May 2015.

Morphos – sustainable empires

Deadline May 20, 2014
 

Architects/designers are invited to take part in the festival submitting panels, video-architecture works, photos, installations and scale models, about the theme ofsustainability. We imagine a future in which sustainable thinking will be the common ground of every cultures’ architecture expressions, and the hybridization of social and cultural realities will represent the new frontier of our lives.

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2014 Brick Awards

The Awards recognise excellence in design and construction using brick. Each year hundreds of entries are submitted and 17 prestigious trophies and more than 100 certificates are issued to the successful projects. The architect/designer, brick manufacturer and specialist brickwork contractor are all acknowledged on each project.

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The AJ Retrofit Awards

The AJ Retrofit Awards recognise and celebrate design excellence that prolongs and improves the life of the built environment.

The awards cover twelve categories from civic and community to offices, and cultural buildings to hotels and leisure. This year we have included a new category for international innovation which recognises excellence in retrofits carried out to buildings outside the UK.

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The ATF Training Award 2014

The award aims to recognise excellence in the fields of learning, training and professional development and is open to archaeological organisations, individuals, partnerships and collaborative projects throughout the United Kingdom, whether paid or voluntary. This year, ATF will be presenting two Awards, one aimed at organisations and a new Award specifically aimed at individuals. The aim of the Individual Award is to recognise individual archaeologists (whether paid or volunteers) who have made an extraordinary contribution either to their own training and development or through their support for the training of others.

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