The winners of the 2024 AR Future Projects awards have been announced

In a new neighbourhood on the site of Norway’s first – now decommissioned – airport, the secondary school of Tårnkvartalet will accommodate 900 students. The project by Haptic Architects and PIR2 for Bærum Kommune will also include spaces for the wider community, such as a theatre, library, sports centre and clinic, forming a civic hub. Nestled alongside retained buildings from the site’s past, including the former air traffic control tower, all new structures are designed in engineered timber on a modular grid with facades in locally reclaimed brick.

Chosen as overall winner of the AR Future Projects awards, as well as picking up the award for Education, Haptic Architects and PIR2’s project ‘sets the standard for extremely successful and beautiful educational spaces’, according to the judges. It also represents ‘a powerful precedent for how schools can serve a dual role for both education and culture’. The judging panel concluded that ‘Tårnkvartalet is a stand-out project: the life of the city condensed in a single building.’

This year, entries were reviewed by Julia King, policy fellow at LSE Cities and director of Julia King & Associates; co‑founder of Serie Architects Christopher Lee; and Chicago-based journalist and critic Anjulie Rao.

The winner is joined by two highly commended projects: the Camerich Jiaxing Factory by Neri & Hu in China – which won the Offices category – and the transformation of sintering ponds into a subterranean public park in Luxembourg by Metaform Architects and Latz + Partner, the winner in the New and old category.

Alongside the future project categories, the awards include three further prizes for projects that will never be built, judged by AR editors Manon Mollard and Eleanor Beaumont. This year’s competition entry prize is awarded to Fleurance Recomposed, a project by Mooradian Studio that disassembles and reassembles material already present on-site to create a new district in the south of France, while Eugene Tan, taught by Lilian Chee at the National University of Singapore, wins the student prize for An architecture of Co-Production on Pedra Branca. The sustainable research and design prize goes to Melbourne’s Net-Zero Future by Bates Smart in Australia.

The full list of 2024 winners:

• Civic and community Parvathagiri Market in Parvathagiri, India, by Mazumdar Bravo Architects for Rammohan Rao Errabelli and Ministry of Panchayat Raj and Rural Development
• Commercial mixed use InnHub La Punt in La Punt Chamues-ch, Switzerland, by Foster + Partners for InnHub
• Cultural regeneration Paisley Museum Reimagined in Paisley, UK, by AL_A for Renfrewshire Council
• Education Tårnkvartalet Fornebu in Norway by Haptic Architects and PIR2 for Bærum Kommune
• Hotels and leisure Termas El Jabalí in Tututepec, Mexico, by Ignacio Urquiza Arquitectos and Max von Werz Arquitectos for Grupo El Jabalí
• Housing Occupation of the Ford Factory in São Paulo, Brazil, by Studio MK27 for São Paulo City Hall
• New and old Sinterbecken in Belval, Luxembourg, by Metaform Architects and Latz + Partner for Agora
• Offices Camerich Jiaxing Factory in Jiaxing, China, by Neri & Hu for Camerich
• Regeneration and masterplanning Earls Court Masterplan in London, UK, by Hawkins\Brown and Studio Egret West for the Earls Court Development Company 
• Overall winner Tårnkvartalet Fornebu in Norway by Haptic Architects and PIR2 for Bærum Kommune
• Highly commended Camerich Jiaxing Factory in Jiaxing, China, by Neri & Hu for Camerich
• Highly commended Sinterbecken in Belval, Luxembourg, by Metaform Architects and Latz + Partner for Agora
• Competition entry prize Fleurance Recomposed in France by Mooradian Studio
• Student prize An Architecture of Co-Production on Pedra Branca by Eugene Tan, taught by Lilian Chee at the National University of Singapore
• Sustainable research and design prize Melbourne’s Net-Zero Future by Bates Smart in Australia