Unlike the two earlier editions of the Building Beauty Awards, awards organiser the Royal Fine Arts Commission Trust has pre-announced the individual category winners from which the overall victor will be chosen later this month.The four practices competing for the top prize all won their individual categories, namely: building; little gem; public space; and engineering.The winner of this years Building category is the Faith Museum at Auckland Palace, designed by former Stirling Prize-winner Nall McLaughlin Architects with Purcell and completed in 2019. The museum received an RIBA National award earlier in the year.AdvertisementWinning the Little Gem category, meanwhile, is Lynch Architects addition to Westminster Coroner's Court addition which opened this summer and was recently covered by the AJ.Previous editions of the prize involved shortlists for the four categories with the winners of these, as well as an overall winner, all announced on the night.The AJ understands that the 12,000 cash prize on offer to winners in 2022 and 2023 was connected to Ballymore's sponsorship of the awards, and that this has ended after a two-year deal. The cash prize was the biggest in UK architecture.The Building Beauty Awards were set up in 2021 to advocate for design excellence in architecture and the built environment. Former winners include Tintagel Castle in Cornwall by William Matthews and Laurent Ney for English Heritage (2022) and Bayside Apartments in Worthing, Sussex, by Allies and Morrison for Roffey Homes (2023).The awards were set up at the same time the Conservative government established an Office for Place to improve building design standards and aesthetics in homes and public spaces, and promote then housing secretary Michael Goves now-axed building beautiful agenda.AdvertisementThis years ceremony will take place on 21 November at a dinner in central London.2024 category winnersBuilding Faith Museum at Auckland Palace, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, by Nall McLaughlin ArchitectsLittle Gem Westminster Coroner's Court Extension, Horseferry Road, south London, by Lynch ArchitectsPublic Space The Grand Courtyard and Pavilion at the OWO, south London, by Daewha Kang DesignEngineering: HS2 Colne Valley Viaduct, South Buckinghamshire/Hillingdon, by ALIGN JV (Bouygues Travaux Publics, Sir Robert McApline and Volkerfiitzpatrick) with Ingerop and Jacobs (engineers) and Grimshaw (architects)