Portsmouth University Students' Union was the outright winner of the Best New Building for 2003. Designed by Hawkins\Brown, winners of a competition, it's a sparkling new club with four food outlets, five bars, a 1600 capacity night club, offices and shops.

Art in the Park, the brilliantly creative hub at the corner of Victoria Park in the former park keeper's lodge is the winner of the Best Restoration prize. This pretty building in random stone with red brick quoins, paired lancet windows and red tiled roof has been through some rough times - used for night sleepers, or lying empty, and frequently set on fire.

Two buildings are commended in the Best New Building category: New Downland Housing Association's new houses on the Milton Canal towpath at Gurney Road, and Rosie's Wine Bar in Elm Grove, Southsea, which has a lovely new garden and garden restaurant designed by Ed Caush, ingeniously fitted onto vacant land.