The RIBA announces the winners of its 2014 National Awards
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It's been only a few weeks since we reported on the winners of the highly anticipated RIBA London Awards and the time has already come to announce their countrywide siblings, the prestigious RIBA National Awards.
Hailed as the precursor to the prestigious Sterling Prize award for best building of the year - drawn from a National Awards shortlist and announced in October - these prizes herald both buildings on British soil and projects realised abroad in the special RIBA EU Awards category. The latter ranges from BIG's Danish Maritime Museum to Vienna University's Departments of Law and Central Administration by CRAB Studio.
The selection is wide, spanning from large-scale public and commercial buildings to smaller scale private houses, but a strong theme emerges for civic buildings and public spaces that bring architectural excellence to their local communities. The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth by Wilkinson Eyre architects with Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will, the London Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid and the Birmingham Library by Mecanoo, are among the UK-based highlights.
Judged and presented locally, the RIBA awards are a prominent annual distinction that covers categories such as housing, arts & leisure, education & community, office & commercial, civic and public buildings. Now we await the crowning glory: the Sterling Prize.
Hargood Close housing in Colchester, by Proctor and Matthews.
St George's Chapel in Great Yarmouth, by Hopkins Architects.
The London Aquatics Centre, by Zaha Hadid.
The JW3 centre in London, by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
The Shard in London, by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.
The London Library, by Haworth Tompkins.
The Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, by Haworth Tompkins.
The Manchester School of Art, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Police Service of Northern Ireland Memorial Garden in Belfast, by Hall McKnight.
Cliff House on the Isle of Skye, by Dualchas Architects.
House No.7 on the Isle of Tiree, by Denizen Works.
Scottish Water - The Bridge in Glasgow, by Reiach and Hall Architects
Brighton College Boarding House, by Allies and Morrison
Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft, by Adam Richards Architects.
Red Bridge house in East Sussex, by Smerin Architects.
The Novium in Chichester, by Keith William Architects.
John Henry Brooks Building in Oxford, by Design Engine Architects.
The Mary Rose Museum in Portsmouth, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects with Pringle Brandon Perkins + Will.
The Architecture Archive house in Somerset, by Hugh Strange Architects
The Wilson Cheltenham Gallery and Museum, by Berman Guedes Stretton.
The Officer's Field Housing in Dorset, by HTA Design
Poole Harbour Second Crossing, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
Porthmeor Artists' Studios and Fishermen's cellars in St Ives, by Long and Kentish Architects.
The Lee Building in Bath, by Fielden Fowles Architects with Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Waverley School in Birmingham, by AHMM.
Library of Birmingham, by Mecanoo
Manor Works in Sheffield, by Architecture00.
Seizure Gallery at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, by Adam Khan Architects.
The special RIBA EU Awards category hails projects realised abroad. Winners include: Baakenhafen Bridge in Hamburg, by Wilkinson Eyre Architects.
Danish Maritime Museum in Hesingor, by BIG.
Extension at Joachimstrasse 11 in Berlin, by David Chipperfield Architects
Lenbachaus in Munich, by Foster + Partners.
Marseille Vieux Port, by Foster + Partners
Metrostation Kraaiennest in Amsterdam, by Maccreanor Lavington.
Musiktheater in Linz, by Terry Pawson Architects.
Library and Learning Centre in Vienna, by Zaha Hadid Architects.
Nuovo Centro Civico in Scandicci, by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
The Blue Planet in Kastrup, by 3XN.
Vartov Square in Copenhagen, by Hall McKnight.
Vienna University Departments of Law and Central Adminstration, by CRAB Studio
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture & Environment Director at Wallpaper*. She trained as an architect at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and studied architectural history at the Bartlett in London. Now an established journalist, she has been a member of the Wallpaper* team since 2006, visiting buildings across the globe and interviewing leading architects such as Tadao Ando and Rem Koolhaas. Ellie has also taken part in judging panels, moderated events, curated shows and contributed in books, such as The Contemporary House (Thames & Hudson, 2018), Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020) and House London (2022).
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