RECOGNITION

AWARDS

Selected awards and honors recognizing work across design, sustainability, and architectural representation. This includes international competition first prizes from Buildner’s Unbuilt Awards, Architizer’s A+ Awards and Archisource’s Drawing of the Year. These are alongside scholarships and institutional distinctions including Harvard GSD’s Full Dean’s Merit Scholarship and the HDR Design Scholarship.

Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize Shortlist
Harvard University
2026
Shortlisted for the 2026 Plimpton-Poorvu Design Prize.
View
>
Belle Fellowship Shortlist
Harvard University
2026
Harvard GSD nominee for the John Belle Fellowship.
Unbuilt Award First Prize (€20,000) Winner
Buildner
2025
Awarded Buildner’s Large Scale Unbuilt Award Top Prize (€20,000) for an unbuilt project.
View
>
Unbuilt Award Student Prize (€5,000) Winner
Buildner
2025
Awarded Buildner’s Large Scale Unbuilt Award Student Prize (€5,000) for student work.
View
>
Architizer Visionary 100
Architizer
2025
Named to Architizer’s Visionary 100 list, recognising emerging voices in architecture and design.
View
>
Architizer A+ Awards Vision Best of Year Winner
Architizer
2025
Winner of Architizer’s A+ Awards Vision “Best of Year” for an overall top-ranked vision-category entry.
View
>
Architizer A+ Awards Vision for Reuse & Renovation Winner
Architizer
2025
Winner of Architizer’s A+ Awards Vision for Reuse & Renovation for a project focused on adaptive reuse.
View
>
HDR Scholarship Winner
HDR
2025
Recipient of the HDR Scholarship, awarded for design excellence and academic merit.
Drawing of the Year First Prize Winner
Archisource
2023
Winner of the top prize (worth $15,000) in Drawing of the Year beating ‘thousands of entrants from 95 countries’.
View
>
Dean’s Full Merit Scholarship
Harvard University
2023
Merit-based monetary gift in excess of $200,000. Awarded to individuals deemed by admissions to have the highest potential.
Architects’ Journal Student Prize Winner
The Architects’ Journal
2022
Winner of The Architects’ Journal Student Prize for best student design project in the UK.
View
>
AJ Student Prize Nominee
The Architects’ Journal
2022
Nominated for The Architects’ Journal Student Prize and shortlisted among selected student projects.
View
>
RIBA President’s Medal Nominee
Royal Institute of British Architects
2022
Nominated for the RIBA President’s Medals, a major UK student architecture award programme.
View
>
Bartlett Medal Winner
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
2022
Awarded the Bartlett Medal by The Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) for best design work in graduating cohort.
View
>
Henry Pearson Gates Prize Winner
The King's (The Cathedral) School, Peterborough
2019
Awarded the Henry Pearson Gates Prize for highest academic achievement in graduating cohort.
JOE
RUSSELL
ARCHITECTURE

Pages

HomeGalleryProjectsAwardsNewsAboutContact

Contact

LinkedInEmailPhone
Copyright © 2026 Joe Russell. All rights reserved.