Chosen as overall winner of the AR Future Projects awards, as well as picking up the award for Education, Haptic Architects and PIR2’s project ‘sets the standard for extremely successful and beautiful educational spaces’, according to the 2024 judges. It also represents ‘a powerful precedent for how schools can serve a dual role for both education and culture’. The judging panel concluded that ‘Tårnkvartalet is a stand-out project: the life of the city condensed in a single building.’

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This scheme creates a dynamic public square that draws on the memory and physical traces of the region’s industrial history. ‘This multi-tiered public space is a creative reuse of a feature found in post-industrial cities around the world.’ Anjulie Rao, 2024 judge.

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This radical design reflects on the changing nature of the factory in a post-industrial world. Formed from repetitive, modular, structural bays, the large volume will be 288m long and 112m wide. ‘The use of a simple motif transcends scale and speaks evocatively of mass production.’ Christopher Lee, 2024 judge.

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