AWARDS
The RIAS encourages best practice through a range of awards covering buildings of all scales.
These awards are an important way of bringing Scottish architecture before a wide audience and to generate keen interest and debate in the design realm. The RIAS awards are launched every year and are open to all practices in Scotland. A shortlist of entries is prepared and these are then visited by the judging panel.
The culmination of the competition is usually an annual awards dinner and ceremony.
The Stirling Society of Architects Design Awards
Based on the RIAS Awards template, the annual SSA Awards are open to architectural practices throughout Scotland but only for projects completed within the Stirling Chapter Area (Clackmannan, Falkirk and Stirling).
The award for the best project outwith the Chapter area is applied to buildings designed by an architect whose practice is in the Stirling Chapter area.
Entries are judged by a visiting panel who also decided which category of award was given to the best projects. The winning entries are then announced at the SSA awards ceremony.
2025 Award Winners:
Regeneration Award – Rosebank – MLA (Photographer: Ross Campbell)
Conservation Award – Clackmannan Tolbooth – Austin-Smith:Lord
Award Winner – Grianan – Cameron Webster Architects
Award Winner – Grianan – Cameron Webster Architects
Award Winner – Greenwood Avenue – Hearth Architects (Photographer: Ross Nixon)
Commended – Station Road – Moving Still Architecture
Award Winner – Gap-Homes, Stirling – O’DonnellBrown
Ambassador Award – Abhainn – PaperIgloo
Ambassador Award – Abhainn – PaperIgloo
2024 Award Winners:
Conservation Award – Borestone Place – Ally Croll Architect
Commended – Pottery Studio – Moving Still Architects
Commended – Heron – EOLAS
Overall Chapter Winner Award – Cornton Vale – Holmes Millar
Highly Commended – Barnacarry – PaperIgloo
Sustainability Award – Melamar – PaperIgloo
Highly Commended – Torridon – Willie Brown
2023 Award Winners:
Sustainability Award – Alloa Hub – Austin Smith Lord
Commended – 3C Arnothill, Falkirk – That Studio
Overall Chapter Winner – Campus Central – Page Park
Best Use of Wood Award – Doune Castle Bridge – Historic Environment Scotland
SSA Ambassador Award – Kingsknowe Retrofit – Paper Igloo
Commended – Skinny House, Bobby Halliday Architects
Best New Build Award – Harmless House – Ann Nisbet Studio
Best Conservation Retrofit / Extension – Origami House – Loader Menteith
