Philip Webb award

Father of Arts & Crafts architecture and SPAB co-founder Philip Webb was born on 12 January 1831.

Three great projects are up for our Philip Webb Award, which recognises schemes that sympathetically revitalise a historic building.   

SPAB Philip Webb Award for budding architects whose schemes revitalise neglected historic buildings

New awards will join our exisiting ones in a celebration of old buildings and the people who champion them.

Our Philip Webb Award recognises design that sympathetically revitalises a historic building for a new use. This year's winning scheme to reimagine disused buildings in Nottingham city into an arts centre was by Jess Tyson.

Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19 to its format this year, the SPAB’s Philip Webb Award drew a record-breaking number of entries, with 31 schemes received from individuals or teams who, between them, represent 19 schools of architecture across the UK.   

Two architecture graduates have jointly won the SPAB's the Philip Webb Award for schemes proving that with imagination and sensitivity you don’t need to demolish historic buildings.

Three architecture graduates have won the SPAB's the Philip Webb Award, for their separate schemes proving that with imagination and sensitivity you don’t need to demolish historic buildings.