Wen, who is a Bachelor of Design and Master of Architecture graduate from the University of Melbourne, said, “Being able to convey such ideas and a captivating narrative through drawing had been the aim from the beginning. This project meant a lot to us because the broader intention of the drawing was to use architecture to challenge traditional oriental stereotypes about our Chinese heritage.”
Fitzroy Food Institute by Samuel Wen and Michael Ren has been named the overall winner of the 2022 Architecture Drawing Prize. Awarded by the World Architecture Festival, Make Architects, and Sir John Soane’s Museum, the winning drawing was selected from the three winners of the prize’s main.
The shop had been the anchor store at the Grand Central shopping centre, which sits above Birmingham New Street station and was completed in 2015 by Ryder