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Jamie Fobert has been named Architect of the Year at BD鈥檚 prestigious annual awards.

The architect was presented with the Schueco Gold Award for best of the best by comedian Hugh Dennis at a ceremony at the Westminster Park Plaza Hotel in central London tonight.

The practice, which also scooped the award for Public 好色先生TV Architect in a hotly contested category, was praised by the judges for setting a 鈥渂enchmark against which everything else has to compete鈥�.

Fobert鈥檚 entry presented four projects: the National Portrait Gallery, for which it has just won planning, Kettle鈥檚 Yard in Cambridge, Charleston in Sussex and the extension at Tate St Ives, which the judges dubbed a 鈥渟lam dunk鈥�.

The judges praised the forensic detail he goes into and his 鈥渢enacity in building slowly and carefully鈥�.

鈥淗e is a single practitioner who is punching above his weight,鈥� they said. 鈥淗e beat OMA and other really big hitters to land the National Portrait Gallery.鈥�

Other big winners included Sadie Morgan, who was named Female Architectural Leader, a brand new prize this year.

And Gatti Routh Rhodes, founded in 2013 by Richard Gatti, Tom Routh and Stefanie Rhodes, is the latest emerging practice to be crowned Young Architect of the Year, holding aloft BD鈥檚 coveted YAYA trophy.

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This year鈥檚 judges, chaired by BD鈥檚 Thomas Lane:

Andy Groarke, co-director of last year鈥檚 Gold winner Carmody Groarke

Sally Lewis, director of Stitch

Andrew Pryke, managing director of Bam Design

Alan Stanton, principal director of Stanton Williams

Mark Middleton, partner at Grimshaw

Bernadette Cunningham, director of Thornsett Group

Michael Tsoukaris, group manager of Southwark council鈥檚 design and conservation team

Mark Skelly, founding director of Skelly & Couch

Elizabeth Hopkirk, assistant editor of BD