Last Wednesday (4 June) more than 225 of the country's hottest young design talents crammed into a former warehouse in Liverpool to find out who had made the shortlist for the coveted AJ/Urban Splash Tribeca Infobox competition (AJ 05.06.08). Surrounded by a glittering display of models for the 112 entries, the event at the Novas Contemporary Urban Centre was described by one partygoer as the 'best gathering of precocious talent in a decade'. As the party kicked off-helped by half-pint pots of locally brewed booze - the likes of Urban Splash's Tom Bloxham (pictured above, 1), AJ editor Kieran Long (2) and Roger Stephenson (3) of Stephenson Bell mingled cheerfully with young upstarts such as shortlisted teams from Foster Lomas (4) and Black Architecture (5).
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