Top awards for architect who changed face of design

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Archiseek / UK / Scotland / News / 2006 / May 22

The architect Richard Murphy and his Edinburgh firm have swept the board with four top accolades at the Scottish Design Awards. Richard Murphy Architects won the "Best Housing Project" for the recently completed flats at Dean Bank Lane in Edinburgh for Kilmartin Homes. The firm won "Best Building for Public Use" for the Galeri arts project in Caernarfon, North Wales, which includes a 400-seat theatre, art space and café bar. The Caernarfon project also won the main award of the evening, the "Architecture Grand Prix", the first time the prize has been given to a building outside Scotland. And Mr Murphy topped the poll of readers of the architecture magazine Prospect as "Scottish Architect of the Year". The citation said: "His work has had a significant impact on a generation of architects, redefining the character of contemporary Scottish design."

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