The winners of the annual Scottish Student Awards for Architecture have been announced.

Congratulations to Sam Wilson, a graduate of the University of Dundee, who won the RIAS (the Royal Incoropration of Architects in Scotland) Rowand Anderson Silver Medal for best 5th year student, with judges remarking: "Well-established and conventional approaches are strongly challenged in these drawings and a strong and convincing new architectural voice emerges."

The RIAS Drawing Award was given to John Kennedy from the University of Strathclyde for work that "went well beyond simple notions of well-drawn buildings", and Jack Taylor from the Mackintosh School of Architecture scooped the A+DS (Architecture and Design Scotland) award for best third year student with his design of "A Writer’s Retreat".

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Michal Scieszka and Dale Smith from the University of Strathclyde won the A+DS Sust. Award for Sustainable Design. Their project, entitled Moving Kiruna, drew judges' praise for the way it "explored social and urban sustainability issues".

The awards, run jointly by A+DS and RIAS, are now in their tenth year.

Winners were announced at a ceremony at The Lighthouse in Glasgow and winning entries will be on display there from the end of July.

Organisers said the exhibition would be "a rare opportunity for the public and profession to see the best work of students from all of Scotland’s schools of architecture together in one space".

RIAS president Sholto Humphries, one of the judges, said the awards mark the "extraordinarily high standard of architectural education in Scotland".

(NE)