Now in its sixth year, the AJ Student Prize provides a unique platform to showcase the next generation of talent, from architectural schools across the UK.

Every RIBA-accredited UK school is invited to select their top student's project in the undergraduate and postgraduate category, as well as the sustainability award, designed to raise the importance of integrating sustainable design into the foundation of architecture.

As founding partner, Marley believes in recognising and celebrating some of the best upcoming student talent from UK universities.

The Prize is an extension to the ways we already work alongside AJ and the universities across the country to support the thousands of architectural students who train here.  

Mehul Ashok Jethwa

Postgraduate Award Winner

De Montfort University

Project: Resilient Horizons: Safeguarding Suffolk's Historic Coastal Villages from Climate Change

Arada Chitmeesilp

Undergraduate Award Winner

University of Edinburgh

Project: Zero-Kilometre: Leith Urban Croft Food Hub

Shan Wei Chew

Sustainability Award Winner

University of Bath

Project: Udaipur Plastic School

Yousuf Khalil

Postgraduate Award Winner

University of Cambridge 

Project: Urban Canopies

Joe Russell

Undergraduate Award Winner

The Bartlett

Project: Tightening the Green Belt

Elle Thompson (left) & Ali Francis (right)

Sustainability Award Winner

University of Sheffield 

Project: Re-housing Manchester 

Oliver Skelton
Undergraduate Award winner 

Architecture student, University of Nottingham

Project: Making Do

"The judges felt this project has a strong social agenda and thought the narrative around grass roots development should be celebrated"

Postgraduate Award winner 

Architecture student, London Metropolitan University 

Project: Rigorous Simplification: Self Build

Sustainability Award winner 

Architecture student, Bartlett School of Architecture

Project: The Earthen Land Registry

"Judges described this project as both ‘provocative and brilliant’. They praised the scheme for being courageous and for how its robust process has been represented, stating that it is a necessary part of the innovation to step out of one’s comfort zone."

Oliver Rash

Highly Commended winner

Architecture student, Oxford Brookes University

Project: The Mechanically Powered Brewer, Norwich

"Judges described this project as very poetic and really enjoyed the atmospheric images and impressive range of imagery that Olly had put together"

Eugenia Kakli
Undergraduate Award winner 

Architecture student, University of Strathclyde

Shawn Adams

Postgraduate Award winner 

Architecture student, Royal College of Art

Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir

Sustainability Award winner 

Architecture student, University College London

Tatiana Light
Undergraduate Award winner 

Architecture student, Cardiff University
Project: The Town Architect

"Tatiana's project is simultaneously heroic and understated. It subverts the language of conservation and planning to create new spatial possibilities and complexities. It presents a new way of working as an architect, opportunistic rather than reactionary; a project that is contextually in tune, but unapologetic in its departure from conventions." 

Michael Corr, Tutor.

Courtnay Ives & Yiting Zhou
Postgraduate Award winners 

MArch, University of Manchester
Project: Rochdale Bath House

"Courtnay and Yiting have used their complementary skills and abilities to explore and explain every architectural solution in rich, rigorous detail. Their work epitomised the sensitive, creative application of architectural intervention within a historic setting." 

Morgan Hone
Sustainability Award winner 

MArch, Canterbury School of Architecture
Project: Growtown

"Morgan's analysis of the technologically driven productivity achievable under the Dutch system is far more compelling than merely returning the land to fields, resting as it does on clear precedent and an understanding of the potentials of the extant service grid. A modest proposal, which eschews formal rhetoric for strategic rigor, it has a elegiac character, retaining key elements of Detroit's past while situating them in an optimistic future, which chimes with the city's industrial heritage."