news 2016 RIBA NATIONAL AWARDS
Rollcall of the year’s best new buildings revealed
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RIBA has announced the winners of the 2016 RIBA National Awards, claiming it to be “the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK.” The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize will be drawn from the 46 award-winning buildings. The winners include Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in
Liverpool with its striking, undulating grass roof, The Avenue, a development of 76 new homes in rural Essex which, said RIBA, “challenges the blight of uninspiring new housing estates by incorporating the character and pattern of the local town,” and the “beautifully-detailed” Gloucester Services. The new shimmering stainless steel library for the
Investcorp Building at St Anthony’s College, Oxford by Zaha Hadid Architects was another winner, as was the elegant transformation of ARK All Saints Academy and Highshore School in south London, by 2015 Stirling Prize winner Alford Hall Monaghan Morris. Other highlights include the Drawing Studio in
Bournemouth, a cave-like curved steel small pavilion, 60 new cost-effective single-storey council homes for elderly and disabled people commissioned by Greenwich Housing on the site of former garages, and the conservation and renewal of Wilton’s Music Hall a cherished Grade II* Georgian building in London’s East End. Further buildings in the list include the Saunders Centre, a new college building at Glasgow Academy, the extension
Top line from left: Alder Hey Children's Hospital by BDP (photo: David Barbour); Drawing Studio by CRAB studio (photo: Richard Bryant); 8 St James's Square Eric Parry Architects (photo: Dirk Lindner) Bottom line from left: Gloucester Services by Glenn Howells Architects (photo: Paul Miller); The Avenue by Pollard Thomas Edwards (photo: Tim Crocker); The Investcorp Building by Zaha Hadid Architects (photo: Luke Hayes)
of York Art Gallery, Regent High School’s colourful re-working of a Victorian inner-city secondary school in London, Wirral Metropolitan College and a new office building at 8 St James's Square in London. RIBA President Jane Duncan commented: “The awards
are a great indicator of UK design, economic and construction trends. 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 added: “I am pleased to see a strong selection of
schools and new housing developments amongst our winners, including new models for public housing and semi-rural development. The awards also put a spotlight on some of the smaller and unique, but no less ambitious, projects. They show that budget, location or many other challenges are no constraints to the production of superb quality architecture.” For a full list of the award winners, please visit
www.architectsdatafile.co.uk and enter ref number 65251.
Open House London 17 - 18 September 20156 London
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100% Design 21 - 24 September 2016, London
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Restaurant Design Show 27 - 28 September 2016, London
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Timber Expo 18 - 20 October 2016, Birmingham
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Surface Materials Show 18 - 20 October 2016, Birmingham
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Smart Buildings 2016 18 - 20 October 2016, Birmingham
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