House envy? 20 extraordinary British homes in the running for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year
T
he Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year
Award, one of the UK’s most prestigious awards for a new house or extension. Among the 20 architect-designed homes
in the running for the award are a contem- porary part-house part-gallery on the beach in Brighton & Hove (The Narrow House), a Japanese inspired terraced house extension (House of Trace), and a new family home in Jersey rising from the huge granite walls of an earlier building on the site (Le Petit Fort). There’s also a beach house in Dungeness
that echoes the area’s former fishing huts, a contemporary take on a traditional lean-to in Harrogate (Contemporary Lean To) and a house in Cornwall that hovers dramatically over a cliff to take in the enviable views across the Fal Estuary (The Owers House). The 20 homes on the longlist for the award are: •Ansty Plum, Coppin Dockray •Contemporary Lean-to, Doma Architects • Contour House, Sanei Hopkins Architects
• Covert House, DSDHA • Edge Hill, Sutherland Hussey Architects • Garden House, Hayhurst & Co. • House of Trace, Tsuruta Architects • Le Petit Fort, Hudson Architects •Modern Mews, Coffey Architects • Murphy House, Richard Murphy Architects
•North Vat, Rodic Davidson Architects •Outhouse, Loyn & Co • Private House in Cumbria, Bennetts Associates
• The Cheeran House, John Pardey Architects
• The Narrow House, Sanei Hopkins Architects
• The Owers House, John Pardey Architects
• House 19, Jestico + Whiles • Private House 1109, GA Studio Architects
• Tin House, Henning Stummel Architects • Zinc-House, LJR+H Chartered Architects
The RIBA House of the Year award will be broadcast as part of a special Channel 4 Grand Designs series, presented by Kevin McCloud. Now in its second year, Grand Designs: House of the Year is to be broad- cast weekly for four weeks later in the year. Featuring a selection of properties from the longlist, it will reveal the shortlisted and win- ning homes. To see images of all the longlisted homes,
visit
www.sbhonline.co.uk and enter the reference number 75211.
The Owers House (photo: James Morris) Contour House (photo: Peter Landers)
Outhouse (photo: Charles Hosea)
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