The Dewi-Prys Thomas Award

The Dewi-Prys Thomas Award 2025 winner was announced at the RSAW Welsh Architecture Awards Ceremony at Cornerstone, Cardiff on 22 May 2025.  Seven entries were received, which included a wide range of projects from all around Wales including private houses, the restoration and repurposing of historic buildings, town planning schemes, regeneration initiatives and public art installations.

Winner:

Manalo & White for Nyth, the creative reuse of a redundant grade II-listed Victorian church in Bangor, enabling a new sustainable community use, and contributing with Frân Wen to the development of arts and culture in Wales,  

Prize: bronze medal and prize certificate

Short listed:

Newport Active Travel Bridge, Newport

Severn View Park Care Home, Portskewett 

Pentan Architects

Organised by the Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust and Royal Society of Architects in Wales

Judges

The judges for the Dewi-Prys Thomas Award 2025 were:

Jo Brekon, public art consultant and Co-director of Studio Response, winner of the Dewi Prys Thomas Award in 2023

Priit Jürimäe, architect, visiting Critic at the Welsh School of Architecture and panellist for Design Commission for Wales

Professor emeritus Nancy Edwards, former Chair of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales

Jonathan Vining; architect, urban designer, commissioner for the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historic Monuments of Wales and trustee of the Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust

Rhys Llwyd Davies (Chair): architect and Honorary Secretary of the Dewi-Prys Thomas Trust

Photograph/image credits:
Award ceremony: Eyes Open Media
Nyth: Kristina Banholzer