UCL Bartlett听School of Architecture academic wins听Stephen Lawrence Prize

Principal theme: Academic leadership

The 2015 Stephen Lawrence Prize was awarded to N委all McLaughlin Architects for The Fishing Hut.听

Set on a lake in Hampshire, the 鈥�66m虏 structure is a retreat and meeting place for fishermen, designed to give the least visual intrusion on the horizon.

Slatted panels allow the building to be closed up in winter and opened up in spring, while timber-gramed glass screens slide away, changing the hut from solid to transparent.

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N委all听McLaughlin has taught at the UCL Bartlett School of Archictecture for more than 20 years, and was appointed Professor of Architectural Practice in the academic year 2015鈥�16.

The Stephen Lawrence Prize rewards the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than 拢1 million and is intended to encourage fresh talent working with smaller budgets. It was set up in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993.

" N委all McLaughlin Architects鈥� beautifully crafted fishing hut is typical of the practice lead by our Professor of Architectural Practice.鈥澨�Professor Bob Sheil, Director, the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.

UCL Bartlett School of Architecture alumna Teresa Borsuk was also named The Architects鈥� Journal (AJ) Woman Architect of the year 2015 for her 鈥渞emarkable鈥� contribution to improving equality within her practice, Pollard Thomas Edwards.听

Through her leadership, the proportion of women on the firm鈥檚 staff has grown to more than 50 per cent. Judges felt the support she gives to women made her a role model for future generation.

Borsuk graduated from the UCL Bartlett with a Graduate Diploma in architecture in 1981.听