The RIBA London winners for 2014 are revealed

The RIBA's regional awards are an exciting moment in the capital's annual architecture calendar and as they are widely seen as a hint to the even more eagerly anticipated RIBA Stirling Prize, announced later in the year, we have more than one reason to feast our eyes upon this year's worthy winners.
The 33 winning projects span smaller scale work, including private houses, and large-scale developments such as the Shard by Renzo Piano and the London Aquatics Centre Zaha Hadid. 173 entries led to 64 building nominations in categories that include Commercial, Education and Community, Arts & Leisure and Housing.
The awards' special categories are a big moment during the ceremony. The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre for the London School of Economics by O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects has won the top honour of RIBA London Building of the Year. More winners include practice RCKa, awarded Emerging Architect of the Year; Caruso St John, which scooped the conservation award (in partnership with the English Heritage) for its work at the Tate Britain Millbank Project; and 6a, which picked up the Small Projects Award for its Tree House private house.
Finally, London-based practice Haworth Tompkins takes home the prestigious London Architect of the Year gong for its numerous and high quality projects in the UK capital. These have included eye-catching projects such as the Shed at the National Theatre and the Clothworkers' Centre for the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Haworth Tompkins won the RIBA London Architect of the Year Award for projects including the V&A's Clothworkers' Centre for the conservation of textiles and fashion.
The Shed, also by Haworth Tompkins.
The London Library, by Haworth Tomkins.
TBG Youth and Community Centre by RCKa won the RIBA London Emerging Architect of the Year Award.
The RIBA London English Heritage Award for Preserving the Historic Environment went to the Tate Britain Millbank project by Caruso St John Architects.
The RIBA London Small Projects Award went to 6a Architects for Tree House.
Hopkins Architects won the London Sustainability Award for the Brent Civic Centre.
The RIBA London Client of the Year Award went to London Borough of Hackney Local Education Partnership with Mouchel Babcock for The Garden School by Gollifer Langston Architects.
dRMM Architects won an award in the Housing category for WoodBlock House.
Alison Brooks Architects also won an award in the Housing category for Lens House.
Jamie Fobert Architects won an award in the Housing category for Luker House.
Henning Strummel Architects won an award in the Housing category for The Workshop
vPPR Architects similarly won an award in the Housing category for Otts Yard in North London.
Maccreanor Lavington won an award in the Housing category for Saxon Court and Roseberry Mansions.
David Chipperfield Architects won an award in the Commercial category for One Pancras Square.
DSDHA also won an award in the Commerical category for Alex Monroe Studio, Snowsfields.
Amin Taha Architects similarly won an award in the Commerical category for Golden Lane.
Julian Harrap Architects LLP won an award in the Commercial category for High Street 2012 - Historic Building Conservation Scheme.
Also awarded in the Commercial category was Pascall + Watson & Jacobs' Blackfriars Station redevelopment.
John McAslan + Partners won an award in the Commerical category for the King's Cross Station redevelopment.
Jestico + Whiles also won an award in the Commercial category for the Thameslink Programme - Borough Viaduct Project.
The Renzo Piano Building Workshop won an award in the Commerical category for The Shard
Penoyre & Prasad won an award in the Education and Community category for the Sir Ludwig Guttmann Health and Wellbeing building.
Hayhurt and Co.'s Pegasus Academy won an award in the Education and Community category.
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios also won an award in the Education and Community category for Drapers Academy.
Duggan Morris Architects won an award in the Education and Community category for Ortus.
Walters & Cohen Architects won an award in the Education and Community category for The Arts Centre at The Lady Eleanor Holles School
Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands won an award in the Arts and Leisure category for JW3.
Zaha Hadid Architects also won an award in the Arts and Leisure category for the London Aquatics Centre.
David Walker Architects won an award in the Arts and Leisure category for Milton Court, The Heron.
Hawkins/Brown won an award in the Arts and Leisure category for Oily Cart.
Allies and Morrison won an award in the Arts and Leisure category for Rambert.
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Ellie Stathaki is the Architecture Editor 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) and Glenn Sestig Architecture Diary (2020).
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