With a total prize fund of £3,500, the winners of the first RMJM Award for Art and Architecture were announced on Friday 5 November at the Edinburgh College of Art. The winning team, made up of Ruth Bide, a painting student, Christopher Gray and Rebecca MacDonald, both architectural students and Martine Pugh, a sculpture student, was awarded the £2,000 1st prize, sponsored by RMJM and Forth Ports PLC, for the entry entitled 'Ballet of the Steel Dinosaurs.'

The judging panel was made up of Tony Kettle, Director of RMJM (designer of the Falkirk Wheel); Scotland based artist Peter McCaughey; Clementine Deliss, curator of Future Academy; Property Director of Forth Ports PLC, Terry Smith and RMJM Architect and Urban Designer Nathan Ward. The judges found it a difficult task to choose a single winner due to the high quality of the 20 entries received for the month-long competition. Peter McCaughey commented "when thinking on what an enjoyable and fruitful day it had been I was hijacked by a memory of my own time as a student and struck by the level of collaboration and exchange between students who had not even known each other 4 weeks previously. It's tempting to turn the clock forward 10 or 15 years to wonder how these new creative partnerships might bear fruit - as the architecture students emerge to redesign our built environment and the artists our cultural landscape or vice versa! It would be great to think so."

The first RMJM Award for Art and Architecture was created in order to challenge the boundaries between disciplines and provide a focus for collaborative working between architecture and art students. This year the competition, which will hopefully developed into an annual event, was set in Leith Docks, Edinburgh, an area where RMJM is working with Forth Ports PLC in order to create a new development framework.

RMJM Director Tony Kettle commented: "The standard of entries was very high and the commitment and enthusiasm of the students was fantastic. We struggled to choose one winner from so many good works, but 'The Ballet of the Steel Dinosaurs' was the one which all the judges agreed would make a significant contribution to the regeneration of Leith Docks. It proposes the reuse of the redundant crane structures turning them into a forward looking and innovative kinetic art work on a massive scale. People from Leith and around the world would be able to interact with the structures by controlling their movements using text messaging as well as watching choreographed slow motion dance performances from as far away as Calton Hill.

We organised this competition to bring students from different disciplines together and produce something innovative and remarkable. We were not disappointed. The Edinburgh Art College worked extremely hard with approximately 80 students from the various schools within the college who to take part in the event."

The winning entry and a selection of the runners up will be displayed at an exhibition in Ocean Terminal, Leith from Monday 29th November for 3 weeks.