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RIBA Awards 2013 Winners
Royal Institute of British Architects – Prize Winners – Architects
13 Jun 2013
Best new buildings – 2013 RIBA National and EU Award winners are announced
RIBA Awards 2013 Building Winners
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has revealed the winners of the 2013 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorously-judged awards for architectural excellence. RIBA National Award winning buildings set the standard for good architecture; these are projects that go beyond the brief and exceed the client’s expectation. The shortlist for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year will be drawn from the 52 RIBA National and EU Award winners (43 buildings in the UK and 9 buildings elsewhere in the EU).
Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland building:
photograph © Phatsheep Photography
This year’s award winners range from the UK’s northernmost arts centre in the Shetlands down to Redruth in Cornwall. From a beautifully-crafted chapel in the back garden of an Edinburgh townhouse to the innovative yellow-roofed Ferrari Museum in Italy, from M&S’s new ‘green’ flagship store in Cheshire to the National Trust’s dynamic new visitor centre at the Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland. Well-known ‘star’ architects and smaller architecture practices, some who have never won an RIBA award before, will now be battling it out to make it onto this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist for the best building of the year.
Museo Casa Enzo Ferrari Modena, Italy
photograph © Andrea Morgante
One third of this year’s UK winners are exceptional education buildings, from small nursery schools to major university campuses. Some of the last Building Schools for the Future (BSF) schools have made the grade this year with winners including St Alban’s Academy in Birmingham and Kingswood Academy in Kingston upon Hull, whose ingenious use of limited space has created exceptional and inspiring facilities for students, not to mention bully-deterring toilets.
Though excellent projects have been delivered at the extreme ends of the scale – notably the 242 hectare Olympic master plan and a small contemporary house in the ruins of the 12th century Astley Castle in Warwickshire – this year’s awards are revealing a notable squeezed-middle, with fewer medium-scale projects amongst the winners, both public and commercial. Many of the winners are publicly, charity or foundation funded, with only one commercial office building in the form of Quadrant 3 on Regent Street in London.
photo : Iwan Baan
It is pleasing to see some of the best housing winners for some time – the redevelopment of the Brutalist Grade II listed 1960s Park Hill estate in Sheffield, the intelligent Newhall Be suburban development of 84 homes in Harlow and pocket-sized developments in London on difficult sites such as the eight large multi-generational housing association homes on Beveridge Mews in Stepney Green and the highly-detailed private houses at Church Walk in Stoke Newington. These are excellent examples of what new housing developments should be delivering.
Speaking today, RIBA President Angela Brady said:
“Risk-taking is not for the faint-hearted in recessionary times, but amongst this year’s crop of truly exceptional buildings, I am delighted to see such a variety of projects doing just that. From Jesmond Gardens, an open-plan primary school in Hartlepool with rooms divided simply by acoustic curtains, and the mould-breaking North London day-care hospice modeled on an over-sized house to appeal sensitively to its patients, to the Hive in Worcester, the first library for shared use by both the public and a University.
University of Aberdeen New Library
photo : Adam Mørk
There are more delights in the list: some of the highest quality housing we have seen for some time and many projects from Eastside City Park in Birmingham to Heartlands in Cornwall are a sign that even in hard times the public realm has not been ignored.
It is good to see that sustainability is at the heart of so many of these winners – most clearly perhaps where, encouragingly, a major client has championed it, as in the case of M&S in Cheshire.
Most notably though this year’s RIBA National Awards features a selection of really exceptional schools and education buildings, places that properly invest in the future for their pupils – their awards show their ambition to improve our school stock; there may not be too many award-winning schools to come for some time.”
The 43 UK buildings that have won an RIBA National Award
SCOTLAND
1. The Chapel of Saint Albert the Great, Edinburgh by Simpson and Brown
photograph © Chris Humphreys
2. Forth Valley College of Further & Higher Education, Stirling by Reiach and Hall Architects
photograph © Keith Hunter
3. Mareel Lerwick, Shetland by Gareth Hoskins Architects with PJP Architects
photograph © Phatsheep Photography
4. University of Aberdeen New Library / Sir Duncan Rice Library by Schmidt Hammer Lassen
photo : Adam Mørk
5. Linsiadar 4, Vig, Lewis by Studio KAP Architects
photograph © Keith Hunter
NORTHERN IRELAND
6. Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre by Heneghan Peng
photo : Marie-Louise Halpenny
7. The MAC, Belfast by Hackett Hall McKnight
photo : Christian Richters
NORTH EAST
8. Jesmond Gardens Primary School, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 by ADP
photograph © Andrew Heptinstall
NORTH WEST
9. Chetham’s Music School, Manchester, M3 by Stephenson: ISA Studio
photograph © Daniel Hopkinson
10. M&S Cheshire Oaks by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson
photograph © Paul White
11. MMU Business School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio
photograph © Hufton+Crow
12. St Silas CofE Primary School, Blackburn by Capita Symonds
photo : Capita Symonds / Nick Guttridge
YORKSHIRE
13. Park Hill Sheffield, by Hawkins/Brown and Studio Egret West
photograph © Daniel Hopkinson
14. SOAR Works, Parson Cross, Sheffield by 00:/
photograph © Lynton Pepper
15. Kingswood Academy, Bransholme, Kingston upon Hull by AHMM
photo © Rob Parrish
WEST MIDLANDS
16. Astley Castle, Nuneaton, Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann
photograph © J Miller
17. Eastside City Park, Birmingham by Patel Taylor
photograph © Patel Taylor
18. St Alban’s Academy, Birmingham by dRMM
photograph © Edward Shaw
19. The Hive, Worcester by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
photograph © Hufton+Crow
20. Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham by Glenn Howells Architects
photograph © Paul Miller
EAST
21. House in Hunsdon – Crowbrook, Ware, Hertfordshire by Knox Bhavan Architects
photo © Dennis Gilbert
22. Newhall Housing, Harlow, Essex by Alison Brooks Architects
photo : Paul Riddle
SOUTH WEST / WESSEX
23. Chedworth Roman Villa, Yanworth, Gloucestershire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
photograph © John Dawson
24. The Forum, University of Exeter by Wilkinson Eyre
photograph © Hufton+Crow
25. Heartlands, Redruth by Stride Treglown
photograph © Simon Burt Photography
SOUTH
26. Chapel at Cuddesdon by Niall Maclaughlin
photograph © Niall Ferguson
27. West Wing, Said Business School, Oxford by Dixon Jones
photograph © Paul Riddle
28. Stowe Gardens Visitor Centre, Buckingham by Cowper Griffith
photograph © Peter Cook
SOUTH EAST
29. Jerwood Gallery, Hastings by HAT Projects
photo : Ioana Marinescu
30. Colyer-Fergusson Building, University of Kent, Canterbury by Tim Ronalds Architects
photo : Christian Richters
LONDON
31. Akerman Health Centre, by Henley Halebrown Rorrison
photo © Ioana Marinescu
32. Hayes Primary School, LB Croydon by Hayhurst and Co
photo © Kilian O’Sullivan
33. Slip House Brixton by Carl Turner
photo © Tim Crocker
34. Beveridge Mews, Stepney Green Estate, Hannibal Road, E1 by Peter Barber
photo © Morley von Sternberg
35. Ironmonger Row Baths, Norman Street, London, EC1 by Tim Ronalds
photograph © Morley von Sternberg
36. Olympic Energy Centre, King’s Yard, Olympic Park, E9 by John McAslan
photo : Hufton & Crow
37. Olympic Masterplan, E20 by Allies and Morrison
photo : Jason Hawkes
38. Lauriston School, Rutland Road, E9 by Meadowcroft Griffin/MLA
photo © Tim Soar
39. Church Walk, N16 by David Mikhail
photo : Tim Crocker
40. Montpelier Community Nursery, Brecknock Road, N19 by AYA
photo : Nick Kane
41. North London Hospice, Barrowell Green, N21 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
photo © Tim Soar
42. UCH Cancer Care Centre, WC1 Hopkins Architects by Hopkins
photo © Anthony Weller
43. Quadrant 3, Air Street, W1 by Dixon Jones with Donald Insall Associates
photo © Paul Riddle
The 9 RIBA Award buildings in the EUROPEAN UNION
1. Frederiksberg Courthouse, Copenhagen, Denmark by 3XN
photo : Adam Mørk
2. Sorø Art Museum, Denmark by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
photo : Jens Lindhe
3. Pierresvives, Montpellier, France by Zaha Hadid Architects
photo : Iwan Baan
4. MBA Building, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France by David Chipperfield Architects
photograph © Simon Menges
5. House on Mount Anville, Dublin, Ireland by Aughey O’Flaherty Architects
photograph © Louise Halpenny
6. University of Limerick Medical School and Pergola Bus Shelter, Ireland by Grafton Architects
photograph © Dennis Gilbert
7. Enzo Ferrari Museum, Modena, Italy by Shiro Studio
photograph © Studio cento29
8. Hoflaan House, Rotterdam, Netherlands by Maccreanor Lavington
photograph © David Grandorge
9. Municipal Auditorium of Teulada, Alicante, Spain by Francisco Mangado y Asociados
photo © Juan Rodríguez
The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The prize will be presented on Thursday 26 September at Central St Martins in London.
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