Sarah Featherstone
Sarah Featherstone (born 1966 in Barnstaple, Devon) is a British architect. Career. Her practice, Featherstone Young, is based in London and has designed projects in the housing, community, cultural, education and commercial sectors. She is also Co-Founder of VeloCity, a strategic approach to growth and placemaking, centred on a re-imagining of the English village for the 21st century. Sarah studied architecture at Kingston University London, the Architectural Association School of Architecture and The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL. Prior to setting up Featherstone Young with co-director Jeremy Young, she was a founding partner of Hudson  Featherstone Architects, and Featherstone Waugh with Andrew Waugh (1992-1995). Sarah teaches at Central St Martins, University of the Arts London (UAL), on the interdisciplinary MA Narrative Environment course, and has been a visiting critic at various UK architecture schools, including the Welsh School of Architecture - Cardiff University. She was an inaugural member of the CABE National Design Review Panel and has been an External Examiner at a number of universities including UCL, London Metropolitan University and Oxford Brookes University. She is a Civic Trust Awards judge and RIBA Awards judge and is currently on the Islington and St Albans  Design Review panels, and formerly those of Southwark and Camden. Sarah and her work have been widely featured in various media, including Channel 4's Extraordinary Escapes with Sandi Toksvig, Channel 4's George Clarke's Amazing Spaces, Channel 4's Not all Houses are Square, BBC 2's The House That £100k Built, BBC 2's The Culture Show, BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour, and BBC Radio 3's Night Waves. Awards. Established in 2002, Featherstone Young has won a number of awards, most recently RIBA Awards for Tŷ Pawb (2021), Stonecrop (2021) and Jack Windmill  (2017); AJ Retrofit of the Year Award 2019 for Tŷ Pawb (2020); and the Gold Medal for Architecture of the National Eisteddfod of Wales for Tŷ Pawb (2019). RIBA Awards have also been awarded to homelessness charity Providence Row’s The Dellow Centre in London, SERICC (South Essex Rape and Incest Crisis Centre) and Ty Hedfan, a new house in Wales. The practice was a finalist in BD Architect of the Year Award (2017) and The Architecture Foundation’s Next Generation Award (2007)and BD Young Architect of the Year Award (2006).