B.15 Modelmaking Awards 2026 Shortlist Announcement and Longlist!

After 70 entires for this years awards we’re pleased to announce a shortlist of 20 students selected by Omar Gandhi Architects for in person judging this Friday June 5th. Thank you for everyone who took the time to include their work. Your projects will be retained as examples for current and future students.

View this years fantastic submissions document here.

Good luck to everyone who was selected, please be around on Friday evening for the awards presentation 18.00 at MMU Lowry Building!

Shortlisted students in are as follows:

William Himawan (BA2)

Prajesa Urip (BA3) Infrastructure Space

Hector Mellor (BA3) Non-Standard Habitats

Parth Jain (BA3)  Non-Standard Habitats

Aylin Rzayeva (BA3) Non-Standard Habitats

Marie Mamin (BA3), Some Kind of Nature

Anna Thomas (BA3) Continuity

Juliette Ruelland-Kennedy (BA3) Continuity

Joshua Parsons (BA3) FLUX

Zena Abu Shuqair (MA1), Research methods

Macie Jackson (MA1), Research methods

Pauline Joyce Mendoza Alviz (MA1) &rchitecture

Maream Merza (MA1) FLUX

Taras Mandziuk (MA2) &rchitecture

Finley Hartless (MA2) Continuity

Luke Ferguson (MA2) Continuity

Tianyu Zheng (MA2) Continuity

Angela Lai Ying Li (MA2) Non-Standard Habitats

Yiyue Dong MLA2

Kavya Baburaj Nair MLA2

Submit your work for the SimpsonHaugh B.15 Modelmaking awards longlist 2018

Dear 3rd, 5th and 6th year students

This years Modelmaking awards sponsored by SimpsonHaugh will be judged and awarded on June 8th at the end of year show opening.

We invite anyone who is eligible (3rd, 5th and 6th years – Individual or group projects are both valid) wishing to be considered for the awards to submit the following:

  • Project title followed by no more than 350 words explaining (A) Your project brief, location, purpose etc. (B) Your use of modelmaking, Scale, Materials and Processes you used and why.
  • 3-6 images of their work in its complete state along with 1-2 process images you might have. Only projects that will be displayed to be judged should be submitted
  • Please sent separate image and text files rather than PDF.

Submissions should be sent to scott.miller@manchester.ac.uk no later than Friday 25th May. 

Remember that the awards are judged on overall approach to making alongside the actual pieces and not necessarily for a single model. More information about the awards scheme can be found here.

We encourage anyone who has made models this year to submit their work for consideration and wish everyone best of luck.

Scott & Jim