We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2024 Galvanizing Awards. Judges awarded the following projects for outstanding interpretations of what galvanized steel can offer the built environment.

GAGA 2024 winners

Jubilee Pool Penzance by Scott Whitby Studio. Copyright Jim Stephenson

2024 Architecture Award Winner

The winner of the 2024 architecture award is Scott Whitby Studio for Jubilee Pool, the largest of only five surviving sea water lidos in the UK, and an important part of the built and social fabric of Penzance.

Scott Whitby Studio has transformed the pool into a year-round community hub through a careful process of preservation and sensitive contemporary interpretations of the low sweeping Art Deco design. One of the most important interventions is a geothermal well that has been sunk down 410m to heat the water and maintain temperature with a very low carbon footprint. By capitalizing on natural energy, they were able to create the UK’s only heated sea water pool, ensuring the project will become an attraction with national significance and therefore act as a catalyst for the regeneration of this incredible town.

Highly commended – Architecture Award

BARD were commissioned to design a high quality garage structure adjacent Windyhill, replacing a c. 1980s car port. Windyhill was the first prototype house design from world renowned Scottish architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh and is his last remaining project that is still used for its original purpose.

The process required careful observation and analysis of Mackintosh’s design intentions; leading later to our assistance in the restoration of a number of elements across the property inside and out.

2024 Sustainability Award Winner

The winner of the 2024 Sustainable Award is MMAs with St James’ Farm.
Where the terraced streets of St. James’ in West Belfast meet the Bog Meadows nature reserve, a piece of vacant, publicly owned land was identified by local people as a potential community resource. This proactive group of residents decided to put the space to use as an urban farmyard, cultivating some crops and introducing a few livestock. The group was initially offered funding from the council for several shipping containers, at which point MMAs offered initial pro-bono time to help develop a more appropriate vision to spend the money on.

2024 Engineering Award Winner

The engineering award went to The Spencer Group for Connel Bridge.

The Grade B-listed structure links the villages of Connel and North Connel, near Oban Scotland; spanning Loch Etive. The project involved designing, constructing and installing a 240-metre-long walkway along the full length of the bridge. The project began in January 2022 and was completed for BEAR Scotland, a service provider in the Scottish roads maintenance sector, on behalf of Transport Scotland. The new walkway has a design life of 50 years and is cantilevered off the east side of the bridge. The 2-metre-wide walkway extends out up to 4.5-metres around the tower legs, negotiating the complex shape of the structure and allowing pedestrian access throughout planned works to replace the entire deck over the coming years. Read more about Connel Bridge.

2024 Art Award Winner

The 2024 winner of the art award is Nicol Wheatley for The Beithir.
The Beithir is a 120-metre-long artwork with an amazing, sculpted head. It has been formed from the spare earth from the landscaping of the site. This formed earth has been covered with ferrocrete and will be mosaiced over the next five years. It is the creation of Nichol Wheatley, a renowned Scottish artist who is known for his paintings and mosaic work. Nichol has served as the artist curator for the Stockingfield art project since 2021. Together with Alasdair Hamilton, the senior project manager for Scottish Canals they were keen to investigate the idea that a large iconic artwork might contribute to both the civic identity and the perception of a local district.

2024 Detail Award Winner

In the detail award category, the judges singled out The Southmere Boat Club by Architecture 00. The Southmere Boat Club was delivered as part of Peabody’s ongoing £225million regeneration of South Thamesmead, which provides new homes, workspace, leisure and recreation opportunities.
YMCA, the Boat Club operators, whose mission includes creating opportunities for transformative impact on young lives in their communities, see the potential of sports and leisure in supporting young people, increasing their confidence, motivation and physical skills. The primary training and education focus will be for schools and youth centres locally and further afield to learn to sail and kayak.

2024 Duplex Award Winner

The 2024 duplex award went to VPPR for Camden Market Canopy.

The Camden Market Canopy hosts a new bar that is perched alongside a Grade II* Listed Horse Hospital and a railway. The lightweight structure has been delicately positioned above the historic built fabric of the Stables Market, on the corner of two busy streets. The design draws on the heritage of its location, with an undulating steel pattern, and acts as crown, signaling North London’s newest hotspot. Bespoke V-shaped columns reference horse stable design, alluding to the history of the site and highlighting the north corner of Camden Market.

2024 Winners of the Galvanizing Awards