Stirling Prize-winning architect given highest award, while 6a founders, campaigner Sam Webb, Arup engineer Jo da Silva and artist Yinka Ilori also receive honours
Stirling Prize-winning British architect David Chipperfield is head of a raft of architecture, housing and engineering figures to be recognised in the New Year’s honours list.
The honours also include a damehood for Arup engineer Jo da Silva and gongs for the founders of 6a Architects, Stephanie Macdonald and Tom Emerson, and building safety campaigner Sam Webb.
David Chipperfield has been made a Companion of Honour for services to architecture, one of the highest honours possible to bestow, and which can be held by a maximum of only 65 living people at one time.
该奖项授予那些“长期对艺术、科学、医学或政府做出重大贡献”的人，将他与播音员大卫·阿滕伯勒、前披头士乐队成员保罗·麦卡特尼爵士和建筑师罗杰斯勋爵并列。
Chipperfield’s practice, which he founded in 1985, has been nominated for the Stirling Prize seven times, winning the gong in 2007 for the Museum of Modern Literature.
His projects include the Turner Contemporary Museum in Margate, the Hepworth Wakefiled Gallery and the Kunsthaus in Zurich. Chipperfield received both the RIBA Gold Medal and the EU Mies van der Rohe Award in 2011.
Structural engineer Jo da Silva was awarded Dame Commander of the British Empire after founding a not-for-profit subsidiary of Arup set up to improve the social outcomes of projects for people in developing countries. Conferring the honour, the government said “no other individual UK engineer is so personally associated with shifting the approach of a major engineering company to prioritise social outcomes for vulnerable communities in developing countries”, and that she was an effective proponent of the “Build Back Better” philosophy of humanitarian relief.
Other architects to receive honours include the founders of 6a Architects, Stephanie Macdonald and professor Thomas Emerson, who both received OBEs, and indefatigable housing safetycampaignerSam Webbwho received an MBE for services to architecture.
LSI建筑事务所的前合伙人David Thompson也因为对诺福克地区的建筑和社区的服务而获得了英帝国勋章，他是诺福克建筑师协会的主席，以及RIBA东部地区的主席。
Artist Yinka Ilori received an MBE for services to design. With architects Pricegore, he was responsible for 2019’s colurfulDulwich Pavilion.
Artist Christopher Le Brun, former president of the Royal Academy, was knighted. Interior and furniture designer Ilse Crawford and industrial designer Tim Brown, chair of Ideo, received CBEs for services to design.
Kevin Byrne, managing director of Seymour Civil Engineering, received an OBE for services to business and skills.
In the housing sector Paul Hackett, chief executive of housing association Optivo and Ryan Kelley, chief executive of Whitmore Vale Housing Association both also received recognition with Hackett receiving a CBE and Whitmore and OBE.
The government handed out awards to 1,239 people in the New Year Honours, with 65% recognised for community work, much of it undertaken during the covid-19 pandemic.
Prime minister Boris Johnson said: “In a year when so many have made sacrifices to protect our NHS and save people’s lives, the outstanding efforts of those receiving honours today are a welcome reminder of the strength of human spirit, and of what can be achieved through courage and compassion.”
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