Highly commended and finalists, 2014 Student Design Awards
The projects presented by the 12 finalists in the competition were the products of a considerable amount of work undertaken throughout the students’ final academic year.
The impressive entries combined timeless types of architectural representation, such as hand sketches and physical models (model-making is still evidently a much-appreciated and enjoyed craft) with contemporary modes of digital production. Some of the large-scale renderings deserved space on a gallery wall – the scale and detail of the images was certainly proportionate to the ambition of the concepts they illustrated.
John Walsh, 2014 Student Design Awards booklet
As is usual, the finalists in the Student Design Awards seem to have taken to heart Daniel Burnham’s injunction to make no small plans. And why not? If you can’t think big when you’re a student, when there are no constraints upon imagination, then you’re perhaps unlikely to make much of a difference in later life.