We unveil the 2015 RIBA London Award Winners
In a ceremony that celebrated the best of London's new architecture, the winners of the 2015 RIBA London Awards were announced earlier tonight at the capital's National Theatre's Temporary Theatre.
In the 38-strong list of winners - which you can browse through above - there's something for everybody: gorgeous private houses, such as the stylish Fitzroy Park House by Stanton Williams and Pear Tree House in South London by Edgley Design, the dramatic restoration of Friends House by John McAslan architects, the glamorously revamped Kings Cross Square and Gianni Botsford's tiny White on White north London house extension. From office buildings to schools and cultural projects, this list has it all - London's best and boldest new building designs.
Exciting young architecture practice vPPR scooped the RIBA London Emerging Architect of the Year Award for Vaulted House. More special awards included: the Sustainability Award, which went to Bennetts Associates for 5 Pancras Square; Project Architect of the Year, won by Rob Naybour of WestonWilliams+Partners for Paddington Integrated Project; Small Project of the Year Award, Dallas Pierce Quintero for Courtyard House; and Historic England Award for Constructive Conservation, gone to Peter Barber Architects for Employment Academy.
The evening closed with the announcement of the London Building of the Year, awarded to Architecture 00 for The Foundry, the transformation of a former shoe polish factory into a Social Justice and Human Rights Centre; while London Architect of the Year went to Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands, and Client of the Year to Foyles.
The London award recipients will now join the winners from the other UK regions, forming the pool from which the highly coveted Stirling Prize and Manser Medal shortlists will be selected later in the year. This is only the beginning.
5 Pancras Square by Bennetts Associates.
5 Pancras Square by Bennetts Associates
10 New Burlington Street by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.
10 New Burlington Street by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Ashmount Primary School by Penoyre & Prasad
Bonhams by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Bonhams by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Brentford Lock West by Duggan Morris Architects
Brentford Lock West by Duggan Morris Architects
Burntwood School by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Courtyard House by Dallas Pierce Quintero
Courtyard House by Dallas Pierce Quintero
Darbishire Place by Niall McLaughlin Architects
Donmar Dryden Street by Haworth Tompkins
Donmar Dryden Street by Haworth Tompkins
Employment Academy by Peter Barber Architects
Employment Academy by Peter Barber Architects
Fitzroy Park House by Stanton Williams
Fitzroy Park House by Stanton Williams
Foyles by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Foyles by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Friends House by John McAslan + Partners
House In Wapping by Chris Dyson Architects
House In Wapping by Chris Dyson Architects
John Roan School by John McAslan + Partners
Kew House by Piercy & Company
Kew House by Piercy & Company
King's Cross Square by Stanton Williams
King's Cross Square by Stanton Williams
Levring House by Jamie Fobert Architects.
Levring House by Jamie Fobert Architects
Mint Street by Pitman Tozer Architects
National Theatre, NT Future by Haworth Tompkins.
National Theatre, NT Future by Haworth Tompkins
National Theatre, NT Future by Haworth Tompkins
NEO Bankside by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
NEO Bankside by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Netherhall Gardens House by Woollacott Gilmartin Architects
Netherhall Gardens House by Woollacott Gilmartin Architects
Paddington Integrated Project by WestonWilliamson+Partners
Paddington Integrated Project by WestonWilliamson+Partners
Pear Tree House by Edgley Design
Pear Tree House by Edgley Design
Queens Apartments by Stiff + Trevillion
Queens Apartments by Stiff + Trevillion
Ravenor Primary Expansion by Seymour Harris Architecture
St Mary of Eton Church Apartments and Community Rooms by Matthew Lloyd Architects.
St Mary of Eton Church Apartments and Community Rooms by Matthew Lloyd Architects
St Paul's School Science Building by Nicholas Hare Architects
St Paul's School Science Building by Nicholas Hare Architects
Tabernacle Street by Piercy & Company
Tabernacle Street by Piercy & Company
The Foundry by Architecture
The Foundry by Architecture
The Foundry by Architecture
University campus for Hult International Business School by Sergison Bates Architects
University campus for Hult International Business School by Sergison Bates Architects
University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building by heneghan peng architects
University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building by heneghan peng architects
Vaulted House by vPPR Architects
Vaulted House by vPPR Architects
Waddington Studios by Featherstone Young Architects
Waddington Studios by Featherstone Young Architects
White on White by Gianni Botsford Architects
White on White by Gianni Botsford Architects
William Perkin Church of England High School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
William Perkin Church of England High School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
William Street Quarter by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
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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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