Congratulations to all the OPT Awards Winners 2023!
Thank you so much to all who submitted entries into the OPT Awards 2023, and congratulations to this year's winners! Find a full list this year's plaque and certificate winners below.
There was a buzz in the air as many Oxford people from across the city, town and gown, came together for this year’s Awards in the Garden Quadrangle at St John’s College, itself an award-winning building. William Whyte, Chair of the Awards Panel, took command of the stage and with great comic timing, entertained our guests as he brought the fifty-two projects to life. Every one of them had been visited as part of the judging and together, they made an extraordinary array of the breadth and the talent engaged in making and looking after Oxford’s best buildings and places. We were also delighted to welcome Harriet Waters, Head of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Oxford, to present this year's Green Award.
Find a full list of this year's entries and results in our OPT Awards Brochure 2023
A huge thank you to our Judging Panel 2023:
Rev Prof William Whyte,
Ms Victoria Grane,
Dr David Lewis,
Prof Elizabeth McKellar,
Ms Alice Purkiss,
Mr John Stevenson,
Mr David Streat,
Dr Geoffrey Tyack,
Mrs Liz Woolley,
Mrs Debbie Dance,
Mrs Laura Warden
Ms Shona Carr
OPT are very grateful to our sponsors Critchleys, Mathews Comfort Insurance Brokers, and Carter Jonas for enabling us to celebrate the positive contribution new projects make to Oxford’s character, streets, and communities. A huge thanks also to St John's College for hosting the OPT Awards 2023 ceremony.
OPT Awards 2023 Winners:
Building Conservation:
PLAQUE WINNERS
Old Library Refurbishment, Christ Church
Old & Laudian Libraries & the Canterbury Quadrangle, Phase III Works, St John's College
Westwood Room Refurbishment, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
CERTIFICATE WINNERS
War Memorial Library Renovation, Trinity College
The Library, Sundial House, Great Haseley
New Buildings:
PLAQUE WINNERS
Bullingdon Community Centre, Headington
The Curve, Between Towns Road
CERTIFICATE WINNERS
Benedict Building, St Helen & St Katharine School, Abingdon
Cheng Yu Tung Building, Jesus College
Duchy Fields, Bletchingdon
Low Carbon Bungalows, Marston & Wood Farm
Premier Inn, Greyfriars Court
Swailes Superlab, Osney Mead
The Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, Sherrington Road
Small Projects:
PLAQUE WINNERS
Internal Alterations and Decorations, Corpus Christi RC Church, Headington
Monuments & Memorials Project, All Souls College
CERTIFICATE WINNERS
Accessibility Improvements to the OC Tanner Building
Refurbishment of the White House Pub, Abingdon Road
Landscape & Public Realm:
PLAQUE WINNERS
Marston Community Gardening, Court Place Farm Allotments
CERTIFICATE WINNERS
Between the Sun and the Moon, Summertown
Godstow Trout Weir Replacement
Green Award:
PLAQUE WINNER
Low Carbon Bungalows, Marston & Wood Farm
CERTIFICATE WINNERS
Building Fabric & Thermal Efficiency Upgrades at Cheney School
Installation of ground source heat pumps, Liddell Buildings, Iffley Road
From conserving the best of Oxford’s past to encouraging great new projects, the Awards seek to recognise the contribution that projects, large and small, can make to Oxford’s character and communities.
There are 6 Categories, so there is something for everyone!
- Building Conservation
- New Buildings
- Small Projects
- Landscape & Public Realm
- Temporary Projects
- Green Award
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We are always on the look out for new projects in Oxford, so if you know of a project you think may make a good entry for upcoming years, please get in touch with Shona at s.carr@oxfordpreservation.org.uk.