It's just been announced that Sir Michael Hopkins has scooped the Building of the Year award for the Olympic Velodrome as well as collecting the Contribution to the Profession honour at this year’s AJ100 Awards in the UK.

Sir Michael received the prestigious peer award Contribution to the Profession, voted for by architects entered into the AJ100, while the practice’s London 2012 Olympic Velodrome scooped the Building of the Year award from among a shortlist of eight very impressive projects.

This will be the second year in a row that Hopkins has claimed the Building of the Year prize - last year, it was his design for Kroon Hall at Yale University which won the award.

The Olympic Velodrome, is one of the four permanent venues on the Olympic Park and designed for the indoor track cycling events at the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The facility was unilaterally agreed upon by judges for the prize due to its “near perfect synthesis of form and function”, as described by jury member Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects.

The jury, which also comprised Frank Duffy (DEGW) and Christine Murray (AJ editor), were particularly impressed by the beauty of the cedar cladding, the ingenious lightweight double cable-net roof, the dominance of natural light and the Velodrome's beauty in section.