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Awards of the Week Leica Oskar Barnack Award 2026photographyDamir FaizulinLeica Oskar Barnack AwardDamir Faizulin is this year’s winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award. In his award-winning series, Preserving Nature as Preserving Ourselves, the photographer turns his lens to the mountains of Dagestan in the North Caucasus, southern Russia. His powerful images document ongoing transformations—the arrival of tourism and modern architecture, alongside the gradual neglect of traditional structures and local culture—while simultaneously celebrating the raw, breathtaking beauty of the region. They vividly capture how fragile the balance between humanity and nature truly is. Image: Preserving Nature as Preserving Ourselves © Damir FaizulinAbout the Leica Oskar Barnack Award RIBA Stirling Prize 2026architectureLion Green RoadRIBA Stirling PrizeLion Green Road by Mary Duggan Architects with RUFFARCHITECTS wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2026, the UK's most prestigious architecture award. Lion Green Road offers an innovative approach to high-density suburban housing, combining privately-owned and socially rented homes for Croydon Council. Replacing a former car park on a challenging, sloping site that varies in height by eight metres, the development has a landscape-first approach using generous planting, winding paths and shared outdoor spaces to soften the density and create connections between homes and residents. Inside, dual-aspect homes maximise daylight and natural ventilation, while carefully resolved geometries make the most of a complex site. Image: Mary Duggan Architects (design) with RUFFARCHITECTS (delivery), Lion Green Road, London, United Kingdom, 2023. Photo: Lorenzo Zandri.About the RIBA Stirling Prize RIBA International Prize 2026architectureGreen Field Factory of Karupannya Rangpur LimitedRIBA International PrizeThe winner of the RIBA International Prize 2026 is Green Field Factory of Karupannya Rangpur Limited, Bangladesh, by Nakshabid Architects. The rug factory offers an alternative model for factory design and operation. Green Field challenges traditional workplace environments whilst creating new opportunities for its predominantly female workforce in Rangpur. It sets itself apart from a manufacturing context that has historically faced international scrutiny over poor working conditions and unsafe environments. In an effort to challenge these conventions, long-term collaborators Nakshabid Architects and Karupannya founder, Shafiqul Alam Selim, set out to question ingrained social hierarchies of the workplace and reimagine what a factory could be. Image: Nakshabid Architects, Green Field Factory of Karupannya Rangpur Limited, Rangpur, Bangladesh, 2019. Photo: Hasan Pranto.About the RIBA International Prize Prix de la mode du monde arabe 2026fashionAyham HassanTalent émergentFor the second edition of the Prix de la mode du monde arabe, this year’s Prix Talent émergent was given to Ayham Hassan. A 2025 graduate of Central Saint Martins, he has since exhibited at designer Dries Van Noten’s foundation in Venice and been featured in publications such as Vogue, i-D, and Dazed. Through his brand, the designer has developed a practice deeply rooted in the craftsmanship of Palestine and Lebanon, in collaboration with local embroiderers and artisans. Blending a reverence for traditional techniques with a contemporary aesthetic, Ayham Hassan preserves heritage while innovating, as his silhouettes explore clothing as armor—both a refuge and a symbol of resistance. Image: Ayham Hassa, IM-Mortal Magenta — the colour that doesn’t exist collection. © Niklas HazeAbout the Prix de la mode du monde arabe The Barragán PrizearchitectureJunya IshigamiThe Barragán PrizeJapanese architect Junya Ishigami is the inaugural laureate of The Barragán Prize. Named for renowned Mexican architect Luis Barragán, the prize is a collaboration between La Cuadra, a cultural space outside Mexico City occupying a compound designed by Barragán and his protégé Andrés Casillas, and fashion brand Bottega Veneta. Junya Ishigami's work reconsiders the boundaries between architecture and landscape, inside and outside, openness and enclosure. Shaped by climate, nature, culture, and human experience, it seeks environments that do not yet exist—spaces in which different conditions coexist and form what he describes as a “new outside.” Image: junya.ishigami+associates, Zaishui Art Museum, Ri Zhao, Shandong, China, 2023. © Arch-ExistAbout The Barragán Prize K21 Global Art Award 2026artJulia PhillipsK21 Global Art AwardJulia Phillips is the winner of the K21 Global Art Award 2026. Julia Phillips primarily works with ceramics and metal, creating sculptures reminiscent of functional objects. Her works are metaphors for social and psychological experiences, metaphors that are both mechanical and bodily, and that typically focus on experiences of power relations between individuals or between an individual and an institution. Recently, Phillips has turned her focus towards the inside of the body, portraying organs and growths as well as references to the medical environment to challenge perceptions of subject-object relationships within the care industry. Image: Julia Phillips, Oppressor with Soul, In Treatment & Suppressor with Spirit, In Treatment (detail), 2020. Ceramic, stainless steel, and nylon hardware. © Julia Phillips. Photo: Achim Kukulies.About the K21 Global Art Award Frieze London 2026artOkiki AkinfeDasha Shenkman Focus FundNew for Frieze London 2026, the Dasha Shenkman Focus Fund is an acquisition scheme facilitated by the Contemporary Art Society to purchase a work from the fair’s Focus section. The inaugural winner is Okiki Akinfe, for her powerful figurative painting Fame is a Gun, along with a lightbox work and a preparatory drawing, showing on the Ginny on Frederick stand; these works will now enter the collection of Abbot Hall in Kendal. Okiki Akinfe draws on the traditions of underpainting, leaving sections of the canvas exposed and retaining the faint grids and measurements used to build an image to foreground the process of painting and looking. Across her practice, she draws on art history, popular culture and personal experience to explore Black identity, Britishness and the stereotypes through which people are perceived. Image: Okiki Akinfe, Fame is a Gun, 2026, oil on linen, 110 x 200 cm. Courtesy the artist. Photo: Corey Bartle-Sanderson.artElla FleckCamden Art Centre Emerging Artist AwardLondon-based artist Ella Fleck has been announced as the winner of the 2026 Camden Art Centre Emerging Artist Award. She won for her solo presentation in the Focus section with Los Angeles-based gallery Ehrlich Steinberg. Titled training material (aria), Fleck's new sculptural installation was developed from sustained research in which the artist trained as a ‘chatter’ in an OnlyFans ‘parasite company’, a third-party agency managing subscriber communications. Such agencies (often operated transnationally by men) generate revenue for female creators by performing intimacy through scripted conversation and impersonation. Image: Ella Fleck, training material (aria), 2026, installation view at Frieze London 2026 with Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles. Photo: Dominique Croshaw.About Frieze London PAD London 2026designPAD London PrizeThe 2026 PAD London Prizes have been awarded. VOENA gallery, exhibiting at the design fair for the first time, received the Stand Prize. jousse entreprise presented a table by Marc Newson entitled Chop Top (c.2006) which won the Contemporary Design Prize. Heavy and fragile, the red glass table rests on an aluminum structure whose extremely delicate welds embody Marc Newson’s now-iconic design language. The Historical Design Prize was awarded to the Kronen (Crown) sofa (1967) by Flemming Agger from the gallery Meubles et Lumières. Images: PAD London 2026. VOENA gallery stand. Marc Newson, Chop Top table, c.2006. Flemming Agger, Kronen sofa, 1967.About PAD London Hire Your Future! Eyes on Talents is the international Talent Place that connects influential brands to talent.​View this email in your browser 

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