Following hot on the heels of its regional awards announcements a few weeks ago, the RIBA has just revealed its country-wide top pics for 2016 – the buildings that won a coveted RIBA National Award this year.
In a rigorous search for the best buildings in the country, the RIBA consulted with local and national experts and architects across the UK in order to put together the ultimate list of 46 winners for this year. This same list will act as the pool from which the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist will be drawn in about a month’s time.
As per usual, the institute’s honoured projects span a wide range of scales and typologies: from schools to housing; public and infrastructure works to commercial buildings; boutique private houses to larger developments and even an abbey.
Big international names also have a presence on the list of winners, in the form of two Oxford buildings. Herzog & de Meuron’s Blavatnik School of Government is among them, as is the late Zaha Hadid’s shimmering stainless steel Investcorp Building.
More highlights include the blue and curvaceous Drawing Studio by CRAB Studio (Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau) and Wilton’s Music Hall’s conservation and renewal in London's East End.
RIBA president Jane Duncan flagged up this year as an especially successful one for education buildings. ‘One stand-out trend from this year’s crop of winners is the huge scale of investment and ambition shown by many of the UK’s universities and colleges; almost one quarter of the winning projects (11 buildings) are in this category,’ she explains.
The RIBA awards cycle’s next step, the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist, will be announced on Thursday 14 July.
Alder Hey Childrens Hospital, Liverpool, by BDP.
Derry Avenue, Essex, by Bell Phillips Architects.
Bob Champion Research And Education Building, Norwich, by Hawkins\Brown.
51 Hills Road, Cambridge, by Gort Scott Architects.
61 Oxford Street, London, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
City Of Glasgow College by MLA / Reiach And Hall Architects.
ARK All Saints Academy and Highshore School, London, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
Banbridge Health Care Centre by Kennedy Fitzgerald Architects.
Corner House, London, by DSDHA.
Drawing Studio, Poole, by CRAB Studio.
Davenies School, Beaconsfield, by DSDHA.
Ely Court, South Kilburn, by Alison Brooks Architects Ltd and Hester Architects.
Albert Sloman Library and Silberrad Student Centre, Essex University, by Patel Taylor.
Gloucester Services by Glenn Howells Architects.
Greenwich Gateway Pavilions, London, by Marks Barfield Architects.
Greenwich Housing, London, by Bell Phillips Architects.
'Heart of the Campus', Nottingham, by Evans Vettori Architects.
Hebburn Central by FaulknerBrowns Architects.
Home, Manchester, by Mecanoo.
Laidlaw Library, University of Leeds, by ADP.
Murphy House, Edinburgh, by Richard Murphy Architects.
National Graphene Institute, Manchester, by Jestico + Whiles.
New QEII Hospital, Welwyn Garden City, by Penoyre & Prasad.
Newport Street Gallery, London, by Caruso St John Architects.
Outhouse, Forest of Dean, by Loyn & Co Architects.
Private House, Cumbria, by Bennetts Associates.
Private house, Northamptonshire, by James Gorst Architects.
Regent High School, London, by Walters Cohen Architects.
Royal Road, London, by Panter Hudspith Architects.
8 St James's Square, London, by Eric Parry Architects.
House of Trace, London, by Tsuruta Architects.
Saunders Centre, Glasgow, by Page\Park Architects.
Sir John Soanes Museum, London, by Julian Harrap Architects.
Stanbrook Abbey, York, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
The Avenue, Essex, by Pollard Thomas Edwards.
Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute, London, by Allies And Morrison and PM Devereux.
The Cheeran House, Reading, by John Pardey Architects.
The Investcorp Building, Oxford, by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Portland Collection, Worksop, by Hugh Broughton Architects.
Trafalgar Place, London, by dRMM Architects.
Turnmill, London, by Piercy & Company.
Weston Library, Oxford, by Wilkinson Eyre.
Wilton's Music Hall, London, by Tim Ronalds Architects.
Wirral Metropolitan College, Birkenhead and Wallasey, by Glenn Howells Architects.
York Art Gallery by Ushida Findlay and Simpson & Brown Architects.
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