The Hadrian Awards is a scheme to promote the value of excellent design in the north east of England and Cumbria to promote the skills of architects in making buildings and places of purpose and distinction.
The Hadrian Awards is a biennial scheme that has been running since 1989. The next awards will be in 2009 with entry beginning in April. The only professionally assessed awards scheme in these regions, it focuses on good practice across the whole of the built environment, including architecture, urban design and landscape design.
The partners that run the awards, Northern Architecture, RIBA, Ibstock, North of England Civic Trust and the Landscape Institute, are all organisations involved in championing, supporting and promoting good design. The winning and commended schemes become flagship examples of good design that are promoted, both nationally and regionally, over the two years following the awards.
