The work on display celebrates an incredible year of design and research projects, focusing on those graduating from the undergraduate course (year three) and the postgraduate MArch course (year six). It also includes work from the urban planning, urban design and landscape courses.
Hand and digital drawings, models, installations and material prototypes can be observed, where students have explored proposals that benefit local communities, and environments. The exhibits engage with heritage sites, regenerate existing structures, repair industrial landscapes and provide bottom-up planning to improve community engagement.
Senior Associate Architect Dan Burn, who lends his time beyond the FaulknerBrowns studio to lecture at the university and also leads the ‘Material Change’ Studio FBA for master’s students, was invited to address this year’s graduates before the show opened.
This year, our postgraduate/MArch design studio took on the theme of re-use. Students explored how Newcastle transformed in the 60s and 70s, honing in on sites along the city’s eastern edge, adjacent to and severed by the central motorway. Their projects reimagined existing structures with bold, inventive ideas—breathing new life into concrete relics and stitching them back into the fabric of the city. Where new materials were needed, the focus was on low-carbon, natural choices that support a more sustainable future.
We’re thrilled to see two of our students now nominated for student prizes: Ollie Williamson for the Architects’ Journal Student Prize, and Matteo Hunt Carafelli for the RIBA Silver Medal.
The exhibition is now open to view Monday-Friday, 9am-5pm, until 30th June. Find out more information: Degree Show 2025 - School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape - Newcastle University
