The Architecture Drawing Prize (TADP) was established in 2017 to celebrate and showcase the art and skill of architectural drawing in multiple formats.
Entries are drawn from around the world from architects, designers and students, with winning entries exhibited at Sir John Soane's Museum in London and highlighted at the World Architecture Festival in Miami this November.
This year, the competition stepped away from dividing entries into categories, instead judging entrants’ work on an overall basis. However, Architecture BSc student Jason Wang was awarded the Hand-drawing Prize for his sectional drawing from his project 'Dockyard X'.
Winners
Hand-drawing Prize: Dockyard X: Reclaim, Research, Resurrect
by Jason Wang (Architecture BSc, UG06, Year 2)
This project reimagines decommissioned naval components into an experimental hydrofoil hub that fuses maritime heritage with innovation, exploring how humans can reclaim presence and purpose amid machine-dominated environments.
The Lost Boys: It's OK to Cry - Composite Drawing (Plan, Section, Perspective, and Axonometric)
by Erhang Wang (Engineering and Architectural Design MEng, 2025)
This project proposes an architectural response to the 2004 Morecambe Bay tragedy—a memorial, RNLI station, and survival training pool in Blackpool—that educates coastal communities, commemorates lost lives, and explores resilience through emotionally and temporally driven design.
The Tales of Liminality
by Anna Pang (Architecture March, PG12, 2025)
The Tales of Liminality reinterprets Venice through a 12-panel screen that weaves the city’s silk heritage with transnational histories, challenging Eurocentric urban narratives and highlighting the fluid, intersecting cultural influences along the Silk Roads.
Gossips: Phantoms of Deconstructivism and Postmodernism
by CJ Lim, Professor of Architecture and Urbanism
This diptych critiques architecture’s entanglement with social media, AI, and ideological posturing, using contrasting methods to expose how critical theories and stylistic rivalries can become self-serving myths rather than rigorous discourse. The work was created collaboratively with a83 Gallery New York.
Super-Mega-Ruralistic
by Mark Smout, Professor of Architecture and Landscape Futures
Super-Mega-Ruralistic is a speculative design project that transforms industrial landscapes into elevated, adaptive agricultural systems integrating ecological restoration, climate resilience, and energy-responsive crop modulation, visualised through a hybrid triptych that conveys both structure and atmospheric light.
Image credit: Smout Allen with a83 Printers