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Welcome to the RIBA Regional Awards issue 2022. with the most awards will have also had the highest BUILDING OF THE
After a complicated couple of years due to Covid-19, total spend, but not this year. London West does YEAR SPONSORED
the RIBA Regional Awards are back to their usual well with a spend of £676.8m compared to East’s BY TAYLOR MAXWELL
annual format. From 176 shortlisted projects, £66.1m, but it’s pipped to the post by London SMALL PROJECT OF
whittled down by the judges to 123 winners, we South East, whose seven projects amount to £730.8 THE YEAR SPONSORED
bring to you the awards in full. They offer an million. Two of those had nine-figure contract BY GAGGENAU
astonishing array of types, shapes, colours and sizes values alone (it includes the City of London), which SUSTAINABILITY
from all around the UK. surprisingly doesn’t skew the region’s cost per m2 of AWARD SPONSORED
Alongside the winners showcase, we have also average project into a chart-topping position as well BY MICHLEMERSH
brought back our awards in numbers analysis by because they are big buildings.
geographical region – excluding RIAS for Scotland, In the area of how much needs to be spent per
which are not yet announced. The region with the m2 on average to achieve a Regional Award, South Below Bart Square,
London, one of three
most awards is again East with 17 named schemes East, North West and Yorkshire lead the way in
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– it had 18 in 2019 when we last sorted by area. This cost ascending order with more than £5,000/m2. schemes to win a regional
is followed by London West with 14 and South with Yorkshire and North West are primarily influenced award, this one with
13. At the other end of the spectrum, Wales has by single projects, but South East, as you might Maccreanor Lavington
the fewest in 2022 with only two, followed by the expect, has generally pricier but not uber expensive and Piercy & Company.
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North East with three, then Yorkshire and London projects. The North East this year achieved ‘most
McLaughlin Architects
North on four – the latter perhaps exhausted still by with least’ at £1,508/m2 for the average project there. were also at the top of the
coming second overall in 2019 with 15. So, there you have it, the awards in synopsis, leader board with three
In other analysis, you might think the regions now time to delve in for a closer look. • wins each.
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WINTRINGHAM PRIMARY ACADEMY, ST NEOTS
DRMM ARCHITECTS FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE
COUNTY COUNCIL AND DIAMOND LEARNING
PARTNERSHIP TRUST
Contract value: £11m
GIA: 3615m2
Cost per m2: £3043
This pioneering building is one of the first pieces
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of social infrastructure to be built at the emerging
settlement of Wintringham, an extension to St
Neots.
Located directly on the town square, the school
creates a bold intervention at the centre of the
masterplan, with more community-focused rooms
£2,984 positioned to address this frontage. At the heart
Projects by architects Projects by architects £66.1m 17,379m2 Cost per m2 of of the school is a sheltered internal garden that is
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project visible on entry. This gives each classroom dual
aspects onto planted internal and external spaces,
and allows cross-ventilation. Around the fringes of
the school are outdoor gardens, playgrounds and
enclosed areas, conceived as extensions of the
SUTTON HOO, WOODBRIDGE NISSEN RICHARDS STUDIO FOR NATIONAL TRUST
internal teaching spaces.
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 990m2 Judges described the design as ‘demonstrating
This is an extremely brave piece of commissioning by the National Trust, which detected real imagination in maximising the utility of the
that visitors to Sutton Hoo had difficulty comprehending this deeply significant historical space’ and were impressed with its energy
HUFTON +CROW
landscape. Nissen Richards Studio’s combination of architectural design and interpretive consumption, whole-life carbon performance, and
and conservation expertise enabled it to develop a narrative walk from site entrance through the attention paid to biophilic design principles.
to the burial mounds, while also refreshing the various moments encountered along the East Sustainability Award 2022 sponsored by
way. As well as a bold new tower giving views over the whole burial mound site, its work has Michelmersh
involved a refresh of the existing visitor centre and its exhibits, and a recasting of Tranmer
House, the original house on the property. The tower is built using a rich palette of galvanised
steel panels and frame overclad with a charred larch boarding rainscreen.
ELY MUSEUM, ELY

HAT PROJECTS FOR ELY MUSEUM
Contract value: Confidential
GIA: 532m2
HAT Projects has lovingly restored
and extended Ely Museum, giving it
new life and purpose and creating a
great resource for the town.
Housed in the Bishop of Ely’s
former gaol, the historic building had
been unsympathetically altered in
the 1990s with many of its original
features lost. As part of the project,
deft stripping-out revealed what was
left of the obscured original fabric.
New interventions include an
entrance lobby accessed across
a sunny planted courtyard and an
extension created in space won
back from a council car park. This
provides a generous set of public
and administrative spaces that can
be accessed independently for wider
community use.
Clad in copper-toned aluminium,
a prominent bay window celebrates
GARETH GARDNER
the new community room and

PHILIP VILE
connects the museum back to the life

of the street below.
East Conservation Award 2022
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COPPER HOUSE, CAMBRIDGE

BUTCHER BAYLEY ARCHITECTS
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 127m2
This single storey extension to a Victorian
terrace in central Cambridge demonstrates the
creative value a good architect can bring to the
simplest project. What impresses here is that the
practice has ensured that the whole house has
MATT SMITH
been considered and integrated into a bravura

intervention. This opens up the cellular spaces of
the original dwelling into a sequence that supports
contemporary family life.
WUDUHUS, HUNTINGDON With limited means, the architect picked the
RICHARD FRASER
right elements to focus on. A strong collaboration
MOLE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT with the client helped select good materials
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 132m2 and critical areas of craftsmanship such as the
Commissioned by a retired city headteacher, Wuduhus is a new patinated copper external cladding and terracotta
tiles from the client’s native Italy.
MATTHEW SMITH
house on the edge of a Fenland village. Mole Architects designed
it to have as little environmental impact as possible, following STONE COTTAGE, BURY ST EDMUNDS Light is dropped in at tactical points,
dramatising moments like standing at the sink.
Passivhaus principles, although the house has not formally HAYSOM WARD MILLER ARCHITECTS FOR LIZ & TOM MILLER The new room opens the house up to the garden –
attained Passivhaus certification.
Contract value: £320,000 GIA: 172m2 Cost per m2: £1860 reportedly a godsend during lockdown.
An upside-down arrangement positions more
introverted spaces on the ground floor, with the kitchen, Crafted with modest resources and a degree of self-build, this architect’s
living room and bedroom located on the first floor and so family house creates a poetic new lease of life for a former four-room labourer’s FRIARS, ST IVES ALDEBURGH HOUSE, ALDEBURGH
looking out over the surrounding fens. A lift and mid-level cottage.
MOLE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT DAVID WALKER ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
power sockets have been installed in anticipation of any The crumbly, flint-walled cottage has been stabilised and retained, with new
future decline in mobility. elements sewn onto the original rooms. Interventions include a shared family Contract value: Confidential GIA: 402m2 Contract value: Confidential GIA: 245 m2
Well-detailed larchboard cladding combined with a butterfly room running across the back of the house at a half level up from the cottage’s This is a great example of sympathetic yet This 10-year, self-confessed ‘labour of love’ reinvents an unpromising 1960s bungalow on
roof and celebratory rainwater pipe offer a light-hearted ground floor, opening up the house to views of the surrounding landscape that it progressive conservation. Taken on as something of the edge of Aldeburgh’s golf course.
reference to the local farm building vernacular. A rainwater had formerly turned its back on. Two new ‘cabins’ and a bathroom provide space a rescue project, this grade II listed, 16th century The result conjures up Nordic modernist traditions as well as something of the
harvester and several other water conservation features, along for the family’s adult children. house has been beautifully restored to reveal its architect’s native California, while also amplifying the unusual setting of the house itself.
with a garden with vegetable plots, exemplify the owner’s aim of Judges commended the project’s energy performance as well as the rich and varied history, with areas of mending and Cellular interior divisions were stripped out to make a surprisingly generous sequence
achieving a self-sufficient, lifetime home. attention given to the selection of low embodied carbon materials for both new intervention clearly visible. Mole Architects of spaces pivoting around an entrance courtyard. The original roof hips were removed to
East Small Project of the Year 2022 sponsored by Gaggenau structure and finishes, including reclaimed bricks and flint blocks. has also added a wholly contemporary addition as simplify the roof form and ‘lean it’ towards the surrounding rural context and away from its
an effective foil. This provides a set of spaces – suburban origins.
kitchen, garden room and master bedroom – that The assured succession of domestic internal spaces is mirrored by a set of outside
BLUE SKY BARN, NORFOLK
are complementary but quite different in character ‘rooms’ with planted and raised beds, as well as a workshop and garden room. A fabric-
31/44 ARCHITECTS WITH TAYLOR MADE SPACE from the original house. first approach uplifts the building envelope’s thermal performance, with renewable energy
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT Designed to Passivhaus standards, the provided by photovoltaics and an air source heat pump.
Contract value: Confidential dwelling’s enhanced building fabric ensures a
GIA: 440m2 measured energy performance that addresses
the RIBA 2025 benchmark. The project’s
Blue Sky Barn started out as a luxurious weekend most significant carbon reduction credential,
DAVID BUTLER
house that became, over the Covid crisis, a however, was the strategy to restore the derelict
permanent family home. The design has been able house, extending its life and adding value to the
to adapt and mature to support that shift from surrounding community.
holiday to everyday living.
The new house has been created by re-using
the steel frame of an existing agricultural shed. Its
enhanced fabric includes timber panels that cloak
the structure at high level to present an inscrutable
character to the outside. Inside, an in situ concrete
frame supports the primary bedroom suite above
a pool.
Judges praised the engaging and unusual
design strategies that have produced a scale of
space that sometimes surprises.
While re-use of the barn provided embodied
carbon benefits, the operational energy strategy
takes advantage of the expansive surrounding site
NICK DEARDEN
TIMOTHY SOAR
to include a ground source heat pump. Mechanical
ventilation has been included only for the spa
facilities.
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CENTRAL SURGERY SAWBRIDGEWORTH HAWKINS\BROWN FOR CENTRAL SURGERY

Contract value: £1.9m GIA: 1015m2 Cost per m2: £1872
This is a very impressive project that demonstrates the benefit of a long term and committed
relationship between architect and client. The result is a bespoke primary healthcare surgery
right where it should be – at the heart of its community.
The project upgrades and extends Sawbridgeworth’s central surgery, doubling the
available area while keeping the surgery operational throughout the building work. High
quality, welcoming spaces meet clinical standards while avoiding an institutional feel, helped
by the use of well-proportioned, naturally-lit waiting and circulation spaces.
JACK HOBHOUSE
The result is a humane and calm environment for patients and staff alike, which will surely
ANDY STAGG
help to attract and retain doctors and the 30-strong support team.
The project has achieved BREEAM ‘Very Good’ and demonstrates engagement with
biophilic design principles to improve the patient experience.
CRISS CROSS HOUSE, HERTFORDSHIRE

ASHTON PORTER ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
GIA: 175 m²
A simple side extension to a Victorian farm workers’
cottage, in green belt farmland. The addition
provides two square volumes in plan: a living room,
set off from an opening in the flank wall of the house
by a glazed dégagement, and a garage. Like the gate
that links them, they are faced in charred timber
on a timber frame. The house is named for the
extension’s 12mm plywood gridshell ceiling. From
having little visual relationship with its surroundings,
it now luxuriates in views from three sides of the
new living space. It is a joyous and inventive space. A
fabric-first approach uplifts thermal performance
and includes an air source heat pump; it was
the best performing domestic project from the
region’s shortlist for water use efficiency. Reduced
embodied carbon and construction efficiency were
helped by significant use of timber for structure and
cladding, and offsite manufacture.
STUDIO NENCINI, NORWICH

steel reinforced natural
ALDER BRISCO (NOW BRISCO LORAN AND
JAMES ALDER ARCHITECT) FOR PRIVATE CLIENT hardwood doors
Contract value: £95,000 entrance doors
GIA: 60m2 Cost per m2: £1462
internal feature doors
This simple, single-storey house extension exudes a
sense of great calm, demonstrating that delight can garage doors
be found even in the most modest of projects.
The clients, two artists, commissioned Alder
oversized doors
Brisco with project architect Thomas Brisco to
create an art studio opening onto an enlarged
passive house
kitchen to replace a garage on the side of a certified doors
Victorian house. A well as delivering the new spaces,
the project rediscovered the gracious spirit of the made and designed in UK
original house, which had been obscured by later
additions, and better reconnects house and garden.
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BRENTWOOD PREPARATORY SCHOOL, BRENTWOOD
COTTRELL & VERMEULEN ARCHITECTURE FOR BRENTWOOD SCHOOL
A new preparatory school continues Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture’s fruitful, 15 year
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relationship with Brentwood School in Essex.
The latest project takes on a collection of existing structures and spaces, adding two
significant new buildings into the mix. A sheltering spine threads together the disparate
buildings, sometimes manifesting as a canopy, sometimes as an arcade.
A new teaching block provides a reception to the preparatory school, with specialist
teaching spaces on each of the upper two floors around a central hall. Supporting ancillary,
ANTHONY COLEMAN
circulation and storage spaces are cleverly tucked into the plan. The teaching block’s sister
building provides a multi-purpose hall, with an independent sheltered entrance that allows for
community use. MAGDALENE COLLEGE LIBRARY, CAMBRIDGE
Each building is beautifully crafted with bold and playful colours and motifs, and a
NIALL MCLAUGHLIN ARCHITECTS
materials palette referencing other buildings around the site.
FOR MAGDALENE COLLEGE
GIA: 1525m2
Briefed to create a college library with a lifespan of
400 years, Niall McLaughlin Architects has risen
to the challenge with this deft and inspiring temple
to learning.
The library combines loadbearing brickwork
with an exquisitely detailed horizontal engineered
timber structure to establish a lofty, surprisingly
vertical space. The design has been strongly
influenced by the requirements to passively light
and naturally ventilate the spaces, leading to the
inclusion of distinctive roof lanterns and stack
effect ventilation chimneys.
An extraordinary sense of space pervades, like
inhabiting a hugely luxurious treehouse. As with the
best of the city’s many libraries, a great diversity of
spaces to read and work is established.
The library demonstrates exceptional
engagement with environmental design principles
and is one of the top submissions for energy
performance and whole-life carbon considerations.
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Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1230m2 The NW2 Participation Building shows how even the most unpromising municipal locations
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Nearly two decades after its first project for can be brought back into a proper civic dialogue. Located on the top layer of a spiral car park
Churchill College, Cottrell Vermeulen Architecture ramp, the project establishes a series of spaces for community engagement and performance.
has completed three further residential buildings A pleated gold roof canopy and black rubber-clad walls enclose a central public arena, giving
as part of the college’s plan to enlarge its graduate shelter to the forecourt of the New Wolsey Theatre and creating the conditions for public
quarter. performance and other events in the round.
The resulting scheme showcases the practice’s The jury commended Sarah Holmes, chief executive of the New Wolsey Theatre, for seeing
experience with graduate housing with great the potential of the scheme and ensuring it happened. This project packs a punch, transforming
virtuosity. A convincing, almost urban space is an unpromising part of Ipswich into a place which is gathering interest and energy.
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Contract value: Confidential GIA: 4,570 m²
The first part of a move of the University’s engineering faculty from its current central location
to the West Cambridge site. Evident to visitors arriving at reception is the testing laboratory, LOADBEARING HYGIENE PROMOTING
featuring an extraordinary metre-thick concrete testing slab, isolated on dampers. Ancillary 133 kg/m2 ANTIBACTERIAL SURFACES
laboratories include one focussed on reducing concrete’s carbon content. Wrapped around
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introducing expressed diagonals to form storey-deep trusses rather than carbon intensive
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5 THE LYTH BUILDING, SOUTHWELL, NOTTINGHAM DERWENT VALLEY VILLA, BELPER
MARTINE HAMILTON KNIGHT

£2,813 EVANS VETTORI ARCHITECTS FOR NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY BLEE HALLIGAN FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Projects by architects Projects by architects £23.44m 7,040m 2
Cost per m2 of
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 2155m2 Contract value: Confidential GIA: 407m2
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project
The Lyth Building sits elegantly within its context of listed buildings and The design of this newbuild family house has risen to the
landscapes, giving a centre and focus to the burgeoning campus of Nottingham opportunities of the immediate landscape in a relaxed and
RAVINE HOUSE, CHESTERFIELD Trent University (NTU). assured manner, offering a frame for living that is full of variety.
CHILES EVANS + CARE ARCHITECTS The new building provides teaching, research and office accommodation The house has been deliberately pulled apart, pinning the
for NTU’s school of animal, rural and environmental sciences. A main entrance entry court and guest wing in the south east corner, while pushing
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
leads to a south-facing courtyard sheltering between two wings. These are the main living spaces to the north west. In doing so the plan is
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 410m2 aligned with the orientation of their listed neighbours to open up the angle of orchestrated as a series of axial routes that always end in framed
Designed in 1967, this quirky experimental house the courtyard and catch more sun across the day. Open cloistered galleries views of the landscape beyond.
lacked both central heating and insulation. This provide sheltered circulation, saving embodied carbon and energy in use and This includes a promenade from entry all the way to a
exemplary renovation and extension integrates shading south and west flanks. spectacular willow seen beyond the main living room, passing
sustainable practice with respectful yet inventive Crystalline roof forms give all the main teaching and social rooms scale through garden courts on either side of the glazed link that
renewal. The architect, especially project architect and spatial interest. The structure of glulam and cross-laminated timber is fully separates the wings.
Claire Kemp, has taken the clients on a journey of expressed throughout. It is a house full of circuits, with options that clearly delight
discovery, tracking construction details back to the young family.
the influence of Frank Lloyd Wright, an early use of East Midlands Client of the Year Award 2022
double glazing, and mid-century modern furniture
and fittings. Painstaking research led to restoration
or replacement of fittings and furnishings. The new
garden room is one of the most enjoyable spaces in
the house, fitting easily into the copper clad angles
and undulating glazed bays of the original design. A
geothermal borehole, solar panels and MVHR along
with high performance insulation, triple glazing and
an airtight skin reduced energy consumption and
moved the house off the mains gas and water supply.
East Midlands Project Architect of the Year Award
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East Midlands Sustainability Award 2022
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THE PARCHMENT WORKS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE ADA BELFIELD CENTRE AND BELPER LIBRARY, BELPER, DERBYSHIRE
WILL GAMBLE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT GLANCY NICHOLLS ARCHITECTS FOR DERBYSHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
This delightful rear extension to a grade II-listed Victorian house is full of surprises, with the This enlightened project combines a residential care building for the elderly
incorporation of a disused cattle shed and the ruined walls of a historic parchment factory. with a new public library, with both sharing a courtyard and public cafe. In doing
Instead of demolishing the ruin as initially intended, the architect discretely inserted new so, it revives a derelict backland former chocolate factory within Derwent
living rooms and a bedroom as a lightweight skin inside the ruined walls, leaving the massive Valley Mills Unesco World Heritage Site, and connects it back to the energy of
stone and brick remains to dominate the external expression. the high street.
The jury enjoyed the rich variety of experiences available in such a small extension, where The design team re-used as much of the found structure, facades and
each room and external area offers many different ways to use this part of the house. Of fabric as they could, making significant embodied carbon savings. Both library
particular note is the elegance of material junctions in all places where new and old meet. and residential care uses re-inhabit the red brick shell, while the entry corner
The architect has combined inventive re-use of existing structures with reclaimed and of the library building is expressed as infill in local Stanton Moor stone.
DUG WILDER
upcycled materials to create an exemplar of conservation practice. Judges praised the project as a pragmatic and quietly bold enterprise
East Midlands Conservation Award 2022 that has addressed each of the social, environmental and economic facets of
East Midlands Small Project of the Year Award 022 sponsored by Gaggenau sustainable design, while improving urban connections.
RIBA Regional Awards 23
North East
North East
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Gaggenau presents
A Statement of Form £22.71m 42,165m2

£1,508
7 -11 June 2022
Projects by architects Cost per m2 of
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project
Milan Design Week

SHEPHERDS BARN, COUNTY DURHAM
JILL TATE
LEAP FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 174m²
This barn conversion involved an aspiration for a
home that ‘touched the earth lightly’, within existing
planning constraints. The judges were particularly
impressed that it is the North East’s first certified
Passivhaus retrofit and achieves zero carbon
status, with significantly better operational energy
and embodied carbon figures than RIBA Climate
Challenge targets for 2030.
The structure is formed from panels of
prefabricated engineered timber I-beams inserted
into the barn, giving fresh and airy spaces and an
airtightness 60 times that required by the building
DAVID CADZOW
regulations. Reclaimed materials were used where
possible. An accessible ground floor extends the
useful lifespan of the home. Land around the house
enhances biodiversity – and half of it has been
offered to a local community group.
NEWCASTLE CIVIC CENTRE,
This is a home with a heart.
North East Client of the Year 2022
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
North East Sustainability Award 2022 sponsored FAULKNERBROWNS ARCHITECTS
by Michelmersh FOR NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL
NORTH BANK, NORTHUMBERLAND
GIA: 41,806 m² Cost per m²: £526
ELLIOTT ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT George Kenyon’s grade II listed Newcastle Civic
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 185m² Centre is one of the 1960s’ finest examples of
public architecture. The refurbishment brief was
An edge-of-village family home draws on the local
for a more prominent public entrance and to resolve
vernacular with a steeply pitched roof, elegantly
circulation and security issues without undermining
proportioned form and unlaboured interfaces
its architectural integrity of the original. Frameless
between unfinished larch cladding and natural zinc
glass encloses the stripped-back ground floor
roofing. Orienting the house south towards views
colonnade. Offices have been refurbished and
over the valley minimizes its impact on neighbours
reordered. The brick-faced entrance arches now
in this conservation area and protects the main
provide a new reception area, public café, seating
Our immersive installation awaits. An aesthetic design experience garden from the prevailing wind. Inside is a dramatic
and meeting pods. They have been lit, with all
interconnected living space, drawing one’s eye to
exploring the balance and tension of competing elements. celebrate the roof form. Simple passive strategies
services delivered from the floor to avoid any ceiling
Exhibited at Villa Necchi Campiglio during Milan Design Week. maintain temperatures throughout. A crafted,
mountings, and there is careful detailing between
old and new. A full building services overhaul has
MARK SIDDALL
contemporary response with the client at its heart.

And you are invited. North East Conservation Award 2022
helped reduce energy consumption by 30% as the
refurbishment sensitively celebrates the existing
North East Small Project of the Year 2022
architecture and artworks.
sponsored by Gaggenau

North West
North West
GILBERT MCCARRAGHER
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SEAN CONBOY
NICK DAGGER
£5,150 LANCASTER CASTLE, LANCASTER SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS GALLERY, MANCHESTER POOLEY NEW BRIDGE, PENRITH
Projects by architects Projects by architects £34.29m 14,084m2 Cost per m2 of
BDP FOR DUCHY OF LANCASTER CARMODY GROARKE KNIGHT ARCHITECTS
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 9000m2 FOR THE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY FOR CUMBRIA COUNTY COUNCIL
BDP’s work to bring the grade I listed Lancaster
THE FRATRY, CARLISLE Castle into public use provides a masterclass Occupying a 19th century warehouse and a former Pooley Bridge’s sole crossing over the River
FEILDEN FOWLES FOR CARLISLE CATHEDRAL in sensitive restoration. The oldest parts of the goods yard below a disused railway viaduct, the Eamont was swept away by floods in 2015 – an
Contract value: £2.49m GIA: 185m2 Cost per m2: £5,313 castle date back to the 12th century, and the Special Exhibitions Gallery at the Museum of economic catastrophe for the village as well as a
restored buildings were constructed as a prison Science and Industry provides space for temporary psychological blow. Knight Architects worked with
Once a monastic dining hall, the Fratry is an imposing adjunct to more than 200 years ago, remaining in that role displays and a characterful foyer that sets up the community to shape its replacement, giving
the cathedral. Its exemplary transformation combines discerning until as recently as 2012. new routes through its campus. At the entrance local people confidence in its structural stability
conservation and an ingenious extension. The refurbished A detailed condition survey took a year to full-height panels of back-lit fibreglass harmonise and sensitivity to a World Heritage Site.
Fratry Hall now hosts events and has an education space in its complete. The phased programme of works has with the hues of vaulted brickwork but provide Springing from abutments of local stone,
vaulted undercroft. The low-profile extension handles movement so far seen seven buildings given a new purpose a delicate counterpoint to its weight. Extensive the ensemble of in-situ concrete and naturally
between them, frames a courtyard and accommodates a café. – including exhibition space, retail and a café – works were needed to make a thermally stable weathering stainless steel crosses the river in
It is rich in references to the historic building, from the bronze and seven more made weather tight, all while gallery that meets international standards. New a single 40m span, so no piers sit in the water.
diagrid structure of the stair tower to CNC-cut sandstone walls facilitating the continued use of onsite court walls incorporate hygroscopic mass to reduce the Railings are minimal to ensure transparency and
with windows set in pointed arches. Project architect Ingrid Petit buildings. need for dehumidification, and low-energy services allay fears that solid sides would be an obstacle to
fully embraced the role of master builder, interrogating every New interventions are subtle, elegant and are co-ordinated to maintain visual simplicity. future floods. The combination of innovative design
detail – subtle manipulation of depth and shadow and the grain of enhance the historic setting with carefully chosen Intelligent design has made a sustainable, and community engagement has delivered an
each piece of stone. Continuing the tradition of craftsmanship at materials and meticulous detailing. accessible addition to the museum and reawakened elegant piece of infrastructure which feels part of
the cathedral, it is sophisticated, sensitive and uplifting. North West Conservation Award 2022 the buildings’ industrial splendour. the place, and one with embedded social value.
North West Project Architect of the Year Award 2022
THE OLD LIBRARY, LIVERPOOL

OMI FOR LISTER STEPS
GIA: 983m2
Cost per m2: £3100
After 100 years in use, Tuebrook’s Carnegie
library closed in 2006 and fell into disrepair.
THE WELCOME BUILDING, SALFORD Its resurrection as a charity-run community
HODDER & PARTNERS FOR THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY hub safeguards the much-loved structure and
generates great social value from a limited
budget. There is something for everyone – a
With a forest of tree-like columns supporting a timber diagrid roof, the light-filled nursery, homework space for teenagers, a café
Welcome Building makes an uplifting entrance to RHS Garden Bridgewater, and an events hall – and a delightful sense of
newly opened on the 63ha Worsley New Hall Estate. The long, low larch-clad ordered chaos in the eclectic mix structured by an
pavilion has a dramatic yet sensitive presence in the landscape. It accommodates intelligent plan.
ticketing, retail, a café and a garden centre that can shrink or expand in response Sensitive restoration has preserved the
to seasonal demand, as well as office ‘pods’ that can be dismantled without building’s character, and additions are both
disturbing the main structure. Foundations prepared for a future extension give sympathetic and playful: within one large hall offices
additional flexibility. are in a faceted mezzanine on slender columns,
Sustainability was a central concern, addressed by natural ventilation, preserving the volume of the original room; a small
PETER COOK (2)
PAUL KARALIUS
rainwater harvesting, a green roof and ground -source heat pumps. Canopies ceramic-clad extension echoes tilework in the
and the oversailing roof shelter outdoor spaces and blur the boundary between original building; and a slide leads from the first
the building and gardens. floor to an outdoor play area.
North West Sustainability Award 2022 sponsored by Michelmersh North West Client of the Year Award 2022
South
South
CATHERINE HUGHES BUILDING, OXFORD
NIALL MCLAUGHLIN ARCHITECTS FOR SOMERVILLE COLLEGE
GIA: 2,080m²
Externally, this scheme manages to strike the delicate balance between
a carefully considered and cleverly modelled response to context, and
a clear architectural identity and consistent language of its own. Using
a blend of hand-laid red brick and lime mortar, the apparent modularity
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and pared back detailing of the metal window assemblies, and the
hard-edged volumetric set-backs at high level, mediate between small
scale streetscape and larger scale university buildings. Between these
worlds, there is also a rather enjoyable mini-courtyard, with a view
through new gates to the street life beyond. The brief for 68 bedrooms
and the site proportions dictated the level of spatial efficiency that is
£3,209 granted by double-banked corridors, but the number of single-aspect
Projects by architects Projects by architects £160.39m 43,524m2 Cost per m2 of north-facing rooms has been reduced as much as possible. It is also to
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project the architect’s credit that parts of the CLT structure have been exposed
in the circulation spaces.
LOVEDON FIELDS, KING’S WORTHY

JOHN PARDEY ARCHITECTS WITH BBA ARCHITECTS MASTERS FIELD DEVELOPMENT, OXFORD
NICK KANE (2)

FOR HAB HOUSING NIALL MCLAUGHLIN ARCHITECTS FOR BALLIOL COLLEGE
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 5,650m² Contract value: Confidential GIA: 8,173m²
Lovedon Fields was part of the client’s objective to achieve a This family of eight low-rise brick buildings of student
dramatic change in design quality in rural housing developments, rooms plus a cricket pavilion is a significant addition to
and in the commercial context of mass housing it is no mean the edge of urban Oxford along a curving streetscape. It
feat to have achieved as much as it has. There are good basic also represents the development of a sophisticated visual
ingredients – mixed tenure including 40% affordable dwellings and constructional language which allows for the degree
and shared ownership; a variety of apartments, terraces and of repetition and subtle variation. The gaps between the
detached houses; timber frames; and green public space. The buildings create visual porosity between the street and the
layout is structured around a street and a triangular green and cricket pitch. The stacked timber roof inside the cricket
creates a good balance of order and informality. Unusually, about pavilion is a compelling set piece. Fourteen bedroom types
two thirds of the site is a wildflower meadow. External massing are arranged in clusters around shared social spaces. The
and composition of the houses are simple and unfussy, and the elevational composition of the blocks uses repetition and
mixture of a buff/grey brick with timber cladding is well-judged. A variation, which also underpins the constructional approach,
successful feature on some houses is the timber-slatted garage with CLT for load-bearing structure and brick-faced
creating a continuous street, and providing a generous first floor precast piers and lintels for self-supporting facades. The
terrace connecting street, garden and open land beyond. very careful detailing, high quality materials and controlled
execution create a real sense of craft. Particular praise to
project architect Holly Galbraith.
South Project Architect of the Year 2022
PUSH-PULL HOUSE, AMERSHAM ISLAND REST, ISLE OF WIGHT

CULLINAN STUDIO FOR PRIVATE CLIENT STROM ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 503m² Contract value: Confidential GIA: 184m²
Push-Pull House is both confident and unassuming, a sophisticated Humble in the wider landscape, this composition is
formal statement that is also well-scaled and contextual. It is a pleasure ordered but relaxed, controlled and yet seemingly
to visit a building that is such a resolved three-dimensional composition. effortless in detail. The building is long, low-slung
There is clarity and rigour in both plan and section, as well as delight in black box, anchored to the ground at one end, while
the rich spatial experience at the heart of the house. The combination of at the other the bedroom wing sits on a series of
‘push-pull’ in plan, the butterfly roof in section and the use of clerestory slender steel poles on small concrete foundation
glazing, brings secondary sources of daylight into many of the rooms pads. The main living space had to face north
without overlooking the neighbours. Of special note is the long sloping towards the views out over the harbour and the
span of exposed CLT over the main living spaces, which feels really Solent, so a well-judged small south-facing garden
JIM STEPHENSON (2)
present, and provides a rare example of the integration of material, avoids the pitfalls of a single-aspect living space. The
structure and space. The CLT structure also sequesters CO 2 , and modest steel frame was designed by the engineer-
NICK HUFTON
although designed around eight years ago, the project meets RIBA client, with a pre-cambered beam over the main
operational energy targets for 2025. windows to the living space to create a column-free
South Sustainability Award sponsored by Michelmersh span without locally increasing the beam size.
South
TREADGOLDS, PORTSMOUTH
PHIL BOORMAN
PRITCHARD ARCHITECTURE
FOR JOHN POUNDS COMMUNITY TRUST
Contract value: £273,800 GIA: 238m² Cost per m2: £1150
Treadgolds is a continuing tale of urban decline and
resurrection, giving new life to spaces behind the
Victorian shopfronts of an ironmonger that closed in
1988. The first phase of a step-by-step community-led
renewal created a courtyard garden, and the second
has seen the low-budget renovation of a warehouse to
provide a hall for events. The listed structure was a time
capsule, with tools left in place. They have been preserved
along with the character and texture of the restored
historic fabric, with raw brick walls left uncleaned.
DIANE AUKLAND
Retention of original character is the project’s most
PETER LANGDOWN
significant achievement. Distinct interventions include

robust timber-framed glazed screens looking into a
disused workshop where it is hoped that the architect can
continue to do so much with so little.
GHT – GOD’S HOUSE TOWER, SOUTHAMPTON THE STORY MUSEUM, OXFORD
PURCELL FOR A SPACE ARTS PURCELL WITH RAMBOLL UK AND EXHIBITION DESIGNERS LED
Contract value: £1.34m GIA: 540 m² Cost per m²: £2,481 BY RFK ARCHITECTS AND TOM PIPER FOR THE STORY MUSEUM
The new entrance created to mark the public access grade 1-listed God’s
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 2,062 m²
House Tower feels as though it has always been. For the first time in several Three diverse buildings including a 1930s telephone exchange
hundred years the public can now access GHT and a new route has been
ANDY MATTHEWS
and 19th century house have been combined to make a
created through the building which allows everyone to experience its rich permanent city-centre home for the Story Museum, an unusual
history, as well as occupation by charity a-space arts. Connections through institution that previously existed in virtual form, visiting schools
floors and layers of time are a theme. The 1960s additions have been to celebrate stories told in every form. Visitors entering its
stripped away, retaining only better elements (such as tower staircase, central courtyard via a former carriageway are instantly
parquet floors and handrails). This layering creates a dynamic tension transported to a make-believe world, with facades painted to
BARTON FARM, WINCHESTER that enables the new additions a little more liberty of expression. The new resemble a cloudy sky or wrapped in galvanised steel stairs and
HCC PROPERTY SERVICES FOR HCC CHILDREN’S SERVICES café spaces and reading nooks, located where the old meets new, create walkways leading to a timber-clad passenger lift that recalls
moments of serendipity. There are real moments of joy within this building
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 2,215m² a treehouse. A dished concrete floor hosts public events and
that are delightful. resolves changes in level between buildings, where judicious
Barton Farm is another exemplar from the Hampshire County Council stable, adaptations improve access and energy performance. Much
and it continues the tradition of simple, self-effacing school buildings. The plan of the fabric and original character have been preserved while
is clear and simple with the main entrance and communal rooms facing west allowing fantastical displays by nine exhibition designers to sing.
towards what will become the public square for the surrounding development.
From here two wings extend, framing a well landscaped playground. Fifteen
classrooms are broken into blocks of three, which open onto play areas to the
south. The orientation is mediated by canopies that create generous thresholds
THAMES HOSPICE, MAIDENHEAD KKE ARCHITECTS FOR THAMES HOSPICE Contract value: Confidential GIA: 5,344m²
for outdoor teaching and play. There is an elegant clarity to the building in A hospice has to negotiate many practicalities and regulations, and it has been done here with conviction that should
section – circulation and offices are single-height, whereas exposed lightweight be compatible with good design and delight. This scheme creates some lovely spaces in which to live and die, which
steel trusses in the classrooms create a generous roof space, allowing cross overcome negative connotations. The building is a weave of circulation spines, clusters of patient rooms, work
ventilation and north light. These roofs also lend a rural vernacular appearance spaces and landscaped courtyards. It strikes a balance between breaking down a large institution into a composition
when seen from afar, reflecting the location on the edge of Winchester. of smaller informal elements and a reasonably compact and workable plan. Many rooms have a strong connection to
the landscape. The energy and commitment of the client lead, Debbie Raven, played a key role in its success.
KEITH EVANS
South Client of the Year 2022
STÅLE ERIKSON
South
SENSE THE
JIM STEPHENSON (2)

SPACE INSIDE.
CHRISTOPHER CORNWELL
INTRODUCING THE ORBIT TRISENS

ST EDWARD’S SCHOOL – OLIVIER HALL AND CHRISTIE CENTRE, OXFORD
TSH ARCHITECTS FOR ST EDWARD’S SCHOOL A REVOLUTIONARY REVOLVING-SLIDING DOOR
Contract value: £18,441,946 GIA: 3,995m² Cost per m²: £4,616
Space for assembly, performance, learning and teaching and an opportunity to complete the
large Victorian quadrangle around which the school was planned. The stone-clad gable of the
library firmly establishes the corner of the quad, and mirrors the existing stone chapel. The
three pitched roofs and gable ends of the L-shaped Christie Centre echo the existing formal
language across the site, whereas the oval mass of Olivier Hall clearly denotes its status as a
place of communal assembly. Its geometry embraces and includes the warmth of the acoustic
timber panelling. The reading room on the top floor of the library has also been conceived with
ambition, its character defined by the oak glulam structure of the roof, and a rooflight at its WEST DOWNS CENTRE, WINCHESTER
apex that casts a play of light and shadow over the diagrid framework below. DESIGN ENGINE ARCHITECTS
FOR UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER
COHEN QUADRANGLE, EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD GIA: 7,500m²
ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS FOR EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD Cost per m²: £4,667
Contract value: £29.25m GIA: 5,040m² Cost per m²: £5,804² Situated on an arterial route through Winchester,
An S-shaped building that accommodates a complex brief on a constrained site in a the West Downs Centre is a gateway to the
conservation context with ambition and vigour. The clear diagram is designed around a university campus on both sides of the road.
rich spatial sequence at ground floor. This is apparent on arrival, with a picture window to Designed to make a statement, its bold composition
an outdoor courtyard and amphitheatre, and a hard-to-resist view through a glazed CLT of three distinct geometric forms around a calm
ALISON BROOKS ARCHITECTS
arcade. The journey through the linear site leads to the ‘Learning Commons’ connecting courtyard garden is enlivened by a strong material
to both courtyards. Another theatrical arcade – this time in concrete – leads to an event palette incorporating knapped flint, Corten steel
room, with its dramatic ‘scoopy’ roof that channels a band of south light onto the north and zinc. A five-storey rectangular teaching block
wall. The lower ground floor includes a triple-height café facing back to the amphitheatre, provides a backdrop to a circular auditorium and
and an archive. Stacked above this are three to four storeys of living and learning space. triangular library which frame the entrance from
Extended mansard roofs are defined by a two-tone chequerboard pattern of stainless steel the street. Circulation spaces and large open-
rainscreen shingles. The project is a bold and lively addition to the Oxford college typology. plan areas are robust and flexible, with exposed
concrete structure and services. A more tailored
approach distinguishes facilities such as an intimate
contemplation space and the intense, steeply-raked
auditorium, creating an enjoyable range of spatial
experiences that are revealed over time.
THE NEXT-GENERATION
ENTRANCE SOLUTION
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experience when entering a building. This is the revolving door re-engineered
to perfec�on.
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Claywood
House
Organised over two storeys, Claywood House is a new
contemporary, 5-bedroom home in Hampshire that has been
created to meet the needs of a wheelchair dependent client.
Designed by architecture studio, Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt,
the 750sqm, low-carbon home focuses on accessibility and
functionality without compromising on visual excellence.
Originally managed by R Durtnell & Sons Ltd before being client-

completed, Claywood House is located within the grounds of the
client’s previous home. Following the decision to split their two-
acre grounds in half, the clients requested their new home be
designed in complete contrast to their former residence.
To juxtapose the original red brick gothic home complete with

turrets, Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt proposed a stunning modern
home with floor to ceiling windows, timber cladding and striking
linear brickwork.
In partnership with Taylor Maxwell, Ayre Chamberlain Gaunt

looked to specify an earth-tone long-format brick to harmonise
with the green landscape and woodland surroundings.
Combined with a light-coloured mortar, this brickwork creates
a clean, uniform appearance that accentuates the horizontal
aspects of the project.
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South East
South East
SIR SYDNEY CAMM SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY,
CLAREMONT FAN COURT SCHOOL, SURREY
FLETCHER CRANE ARCHITECTS FOR CLAREMONT
FAN COURT SCHOOL FOUNDATION
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1,600m²
This classroom block is on a grade I listed estate.
The route into the site follows a fall in the ground
level, and the new building contrasts this with a
strong horizontal roof line supported by a sober,
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two-storey, dark brick colonnade. Two floors of
bright, well-equipped classrooms and laboratories
are linked by top-lit broad passages, and a
generous, double height foyer space.
The axial stair through the building may
£5,027 become a principal route into school as the
Projects by architects Projects by architects £30.47m 6,380m2 Cost per m2 of masterplan develops, and the building’s upper
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project level opens onto a terrace facing a workshop clad
in expanded metal. This building has a technical
directness suited to its function, and a quiet
theatricality in the way its glazed wall makes the
NICK KANE
MORLANDS FARM DUTCH BARN, HENFIELD SEABREEZE, CAMBER SANDS, EAST SUSSEX
workshop and its machines and users appear
SANDY RENDEL ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT RX ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT almost like actors on a stage – a drama of making.
Contract value: £496,000 GIA: 219m² Cost per m²: £2,265 Contract value: Confidential GIA: 178m²
This home sits within 3.2ha of public prairie gardens. The conversion of the Dutch Barn took This project is experimental and delightful – and
advantage of planning rules that allow conversion of agricultural buildings outside traditional pink! It has been designed to withstand the harsh AISHER HOUSE, SEVENOAKS SCHOOL, KENT THE MITCHELL BUILDING AT SKINNERS’ SCHOOL, TUNBRIDGE WELLS
development boundaries. Through careful detailing and research into materials, the building coastal environment while still embracing the TIM RONALDS ARCHITECTS FOR SEVENOAKS BELL PHILLIPS ARCHITECTS FOR THE SKINNERS’ SCHOOL
retains the feel of the original ‘black wrinkly tin’ barn, while the large, abstractly-positioned light-hearted pleasures of the English seaside. SCHOOL FOUNDATION Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1,187m²
windows give a contemporary look that speaks of the ways that such barns are patched over Seabreeze can only be accessed – and could only
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 2,367m² Bell Phillips Architects has chosen to create a quietly urbane building that speaks to the
time. The real magic is upstairs. Rough-sawn timber stairs lead to a single large space with a be built – by driving along the beach. The house is
great curving vaulted ceiling which follows the shape of the roof, a space that feels grand and a simple shape, an abstraction of its neighbouring This boys boarding house combines a skilful forms and materials of nearby red brick Victorian Gothic revival buildings while mediating
yet also intimate and warm. A final flourish encapsulates the project’s joyful nature: a cylindrical buildings. The simplicity is enhanced by the response to a complex brief with a confident piece between the wider town and school life. It is L-shape in plan, with a tall gable at each end: one
weathering steel tower, suggestive of grain silos, that is both public viewing platform and, at omission of gutters and window ledges which catch of placemaking. Split into three pavilions, it echoes facing town, the other overlooking the playground. Simple geometric forms are softened
night, a secluded private terrace accessed across a bridge from the house. the sand. Windows are flush with the external faces the form and scale of the listed Victorian villa that by the gentle red brick, and enlivened by with a sawtooth brick motif, creating a play of light
South East Client of the Year 2022 – and it is here the experimental aspects come into it sits in front of. Bespoke T-shape ceramic tiles and shadow that echoes the surface decoration of its antecedents. Inside it culminates
South East Small Project of the Year 2022 sponsored by Gaggenau play: the building has been externally finished in were developed for the facade, giving a cadence in the dramatic top floor library with a timber lined ceiling following the steep pitch of the
trowelled microfibre concrete to create a sealed of light and shade similar to that of the villa’s stone roof. Flooded with natural light, this space creates a wonderful learning environment. The
external envelope. Excellent detailing and space walls. Facilities are spacious and comfortable, and buildings respond to the relationships between the oldest buildings, while reordering and
planning means that the small size of the building linked by generous communal spaces, the latter enhancing the school campus.
is focussed on harmonising the activities inside occupying most of the ground floor. Staff share
with the spectacular setting. This is a naughty-but- the building, and the design cleverly allows their
TIM RONALDS ARCHITECTS

nice gem. ‘houses’ to feel independent. The boarding house
seeks to use sustainable approaches: the structure
is of CLT, on a thin concrete raft, which minimises
embodied carbon: the house is all electric, has
MVHR ventilation systems and its heat comes from
an air source heat pump.
RICHARD CHIVERS (2)
KILIAN O’SULLIVAN
36 RIBA Awards
South East
GUILDFORD CREMATORIUM,
GODALMING, GUILDFORD
HAVERSTOCK FOR GUILDFORD CREMATORIUM
GIA: 748m² Cost per m²: £8,256
The thoroughness of the design process is evident
in the careful orchestration of the mourners’
journey, avoiding functional aspects intruding on
the experience. It creates a world of colonnades
and garden courts, beneath a strong horizontal
roof datum. The walls and columns that rise to meet
this roof have a solemnity and seriousness: defining
routes, bounding spaces and filtering views. The
beauty and delicacy of the excellent landscaping
and planting act as a counterpoint. As mourners
approach the main chapel building, the great datum
of the roof forms a sheltering canopy and frames a
view into a garden court. Turning from here into the
chapel, this datum is dramatically broken through
by a dynamic geometric roof, with natural light
filtered through the ribs of the timber structure.
In its own abstracted way it is mediating our
understanding of life and death.
SIMON KENNEDY (2)
COBHAM DAIRY, KENT PURCELL ARCHITECTURE FOR THE LANDMARK TRUST

After a century of dereliction James Wyatt’s dairy has been sensitively adapted as a one bedroom holiday
let. The star of the show is the restored double-height dairy space. Now a sitting room and dining room,
this space is enlivened by the play of light through the stained glass windows of the clerestory, and by views
through the colonnade towards the buildings of Cobham Park – now a school. Great care has been taken,
including a new copper roof for out-of-sight areas, and the restoration of the building’s unusual painted slate
cladding – thought to have been designed originally to keep the dairy cool. Such commitment is rare and to
be celebrated, especially as it has resulted in a building that can now be enjoyed by a wider public.
South East Conservation Award 2022
www.marstonandlanginger.com 01730 826900

JOHN MILLER (2)
Passionate about all that grows

South West & Wessex
South West
WINSFORD COTTAGE HOSPITAL, DEVON
BENJAMIN+BEAUCHAMP ARCHITECTS FOR LANDMARK TRUST
Winsford Cottage Hospital was designed by CFA Voysey and served the
community for most of the 20th century. It had suffered from unsympathetic
adaptions and driving rain off the nearby Atlantic coast. Much of the building’s
fabric needed renewal, especially the roof, while the building’s integrity had
been lost through the addition of a day room, partitions and finishes such as
vinyl flooring. A deep understanding of the building’s heritage significance
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was developed through archival research and an invasive condition survey.
A detailed and sensitive restoration has been achieved, largely due to the
architect’s involvement from the outset, the knowledge and experience of the
ADRIAN STENNING
Landmark Trust, and a committed local community group’s involvement. The
result is a thorough and beautiful conservation project which has restored the
£3,945 soul of the handsome original building.
Projects by architects Projects by architects £33.18m 9,844m2 Cost per m2 of

South West & Wessex Conservation Award 2022
South West & Wessex Client of the Year 2022
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project
UWE BRISTOL SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING, BRISTOL
WILL PRYCE
AHR FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND (UWE) THE RED HOUSE, SHAFTESBURY DAVID KOHN ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: Confidential Contract value: Confidential GIA: 252m²
GIA: 8,500m² This new brick house in rural Dorset is a playful take on the farmhouse, full of references,
A complex brief draws together many previously disparate engineering beautiful details, and consideration for the owners, present and future. Many of its signifiers
disciplines. The efficient plan brings performance benefits and a new identity are exaggerated and the bold green eaves, doors and windows give it an eccentric identity.
to the campus. It has a generous civic presence thanks to the inset entrances, The ground floor enfilade plan is cleverly ordered by the storage cores, creating an informal
exaggerated loggia and views into the workshops. Finishes are durable but connected series of spaces, unified by the material approach and beautiful end-grain larch
and the building has cores around the atrium perimeter, allowing flexibility wood-block parquet. The house is compact and well-proportioned with consideration given to
and adaption for the 4,000 users. The layout reflects the pedagogical and future adaption. Internally, there are many subtle but inventive formal moves around the gables
philosophical drivers, engendering collaboration, broadening access to and eaves, which play out to give a baroque quality. This is a project full of delight and invention,
engineering and promoting inclusivity. The whole building can be read from the pragmatism, and eccentricity along with knowing references, formal and informal gestures.
atrium with direct views into the heavy workshops, a ‘maker space’, specialist
laboratories, teaching and breakout spaces. The project’s success is in the
DIANE AUKLAND
quiet architectural legibility and connection to learning and research, resulting

in a bustling environment full of inspiration from the activities within. Special
praise to project architect Hira Silverthorne-Teirney.
South West & Wessex Project Architect of the Year 2022
CREEK HOUSE, FEOCK, CORNWALL

SETH STEIN ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Looking west over a creek, this simple, elegant
family house intelligently hides the hard-working
requirements of a home to provide a serene
environment. Despite its extensive footprint, the
scale works within the landscape, aided by the
trees, tones of the Cornish slate and western red
cedar cladding and the positioning of the principal
volumes into the bank. The massing and volume is
largely hidden from the approach and a deliberate
separation of parking returned much of the plot to
green. A balance is achieved between the verticality
and volume of the living space with the more modest
and horizontal accommodation wing. Natural light
is played with throughout. This is a sophisticated,
KNICK KANE
minimalist house optimising the coastal location,

views and light, which has been meticulously
detailed and delivered.
South West & Wessex
GUY SARGENT
GREAT BROCKERIDGE, BRISTOL
CASA ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 203 m²
INGRID RASMUSSEN (2)
Extension and renovation of this 1960s house

has transformed its performance, usability
and identity. Simple and economic design
moves include remodelling the street elevation,
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CRAWSHAW ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
extending the upper ground floor, adding a
steeper roof pitch, forming a new ground
floor entrance and over-cladding in blue-black
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Staffordshire tiles and bricks. Efficient use of
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 117.50 m²
space accommodates dogs, children, bikes and
The new library is a delicate jewel of a project, beautifully and inventively inserted into storage through bespoke inbuilt joinery which
an old cattle shed. A series of curved oak frames runs the length of the library, creating was prefabricated using CNC technologies.
calm and order while providing a beautiful and simple celebration of the books. The Daylight is brought in using light wells and the
frames subtly reference the cattle stalls, and further meaning and allegory is imbued beautiful new timber stair to reach the deepest
through the skins of the building. In plan, the barn is ordered by a central high nave and spaces in plan, while many corner rooms are
pair of aisles in the form of a classical library. Three rooflights interrupt the barrel vault, dual aspect with fine views. A tactile interior
while the oak frames provide a flexible framework on which tables and benches perch.
This project clearly benefited from a long-term architect/client relationship. The result
material palette contrasts with the utilitarian
exterior. This is an exemplar refurbishment
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West Midlands
West Midlands
5
Shortlisted projects
Projects by architects
with offices in the region
Projects by architects
from outside the region
£47.09m
Total cost of projects
20,980m2
Total GIA
£2,816
Cost per m2 of
average project
HANDOVER AGENCY
DANIEL HOPKINSON
THE UNDERCROFT LEARNING CENTRE,
WORCESTER CATHEDRAL, WORCESTER
TOM BIRD
ACANTHUS CLEWS ARCHITECTS FOR DEAN &
CHAPTER OF WORCESTER CATHEDRAL
Contract value: £1.325m WINTER HOUSE, BURTON-ON-TRENT HONEY AND WALNUT HOUSE, BIRMINGHAM MILL LODGE, LEAMINGTON SPA
GIA: 415m² Cost per m²: £3,193 SCOTT DONALD ARCHITECTURE INTERVENTION ARCHITECTURE LTD MICHAEL KENDRICK ARCHITECTS
Exquisite detailing and light-touch intervention
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT FOR PRIVATE CLIENT FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
have breathed life into the damp vaults of Contract value: Confidential GIA: 544.00 m² Contract value: Confidential GIA: 195m² Contract value: Confidential GIA: 75m²
Worcester Cathedral, creating a versatile venue Net internal area: 497m² Deft interventions have transformed this This one-bedroom home makes excellent use of a
for the whole community. Identifying a section of
Wrapped in dark render, slate and black powder- humble 1970s bungalow, enhancing its outward slender site in a conservation area. It succeeds in
Victorian vault enabled access to be opened up.
coated metal, Winter House recedes from view appearance and unlocking space within. The making life easier for an environmentally concerned
Technical challenges associated with archaeology,
behind protected trees that encircle a 0.4ha plot architect remodelled the roof and introduced a elderly couple, while not compromising on design
environmental conditions and ensuring the former
within a conservation area. A mostly solid facade to parapet to give sharper definition to the street quality.
monastic refectory cellar maintained its integrity
the street gives privacy, but the house opens up on facade, which is echoed in a full-width brick The hard-working layout has one main room
made a colossal task – and one that has been
the garden side. Long expanses of unobstructed extension to the rear. per floor and no corridors. Accessible features –
expertly executed, while dramatically improving
glazing create fluid connections to the landscape, The new roof also allows generous, open such as level thresholds, stair balustrade detailing
the venue’s performance. The new floor zone is
enabled by complicated transfer structures that spaces inside, where a hard-working plan divides which doubles as a secondary handrail, and an
used to distribute services. Cleverly hidden vertical
are neatly concealed. In lieu of a conventional the house into three zones: living areas in the extra-wide landing which is flooded with light for
ducts within door jambs help make the electricity
brief the architect was given details of the client’s middle, with bedrooms and utility spaces to either the occupants to use as a reading space – will help
easily rewirable. The Learning Centre presents
impressive art collection, which informed the side. Suspended ceilings were removed to reveal maintain independence for elderly parents, with the
a timeless sense of purpose and custodianship in
position of walls and the character of light-filled the sloping roof form, and the cramped interior now support of family close by.
the intelligent use of a forgotten space. Decisions
spaces. Relaxed interiors are warmed by natural feels bright and spacious. The centrepiece is a lofty A clever intervention for a pocket of
were meticulously thought through with rigour,
materials. With architect-designed furniture family room, complete with a children’s mezzanine abandoned land, with genuinely thoughtful
consistency, purpose and pragmatism that puts the
and seamlessly integrated services that show formed in birch plywood. Honey-toned flooring and references to the area’s architectural traditions,
cathedral at the heart of everyday life.
meticulous attention to detail, this is a beautifully bespoke walnut joinery lend texture and warmth, it has emerged as a resilient, contemporary
West Midlands Conservation Award 2022
crafted home. and give the house its name. neighbour and a light and airy home.
West Midlands Client of the Year 2022
ONE CHAMBERLAIN SQUARE, BIRMINGHAM

ERIC PARRY ARCHITECTS FOR MEPC /ARGENT
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 19,751m²
This office is the first building of the Paradise Masterplan in Birmingham’s
city centre. Active and permeable ground floor spaces, occupied by a mix
of uses, contribute to an open civic space. It is overlooked by a generous,
sinuous perimeter roof terrace. The curved form of the building responds
to its 360º aspect, providing a dynamic form which – with the richness of
the twice-fired glazed faience fins – continually changes with the light and
the position of the observer. Facade components were designed to reduce
ANDY MARSHALL (2)
waste with a minimum number of profiles used. Cores and floorplates of

DIRK LINDNER
the base building allow for future tenant fitouts, including of services for
the installation of commercial kitchens and plant space to allow increased
cooling system provision to all floors.
Yorkshire
Yorkshire
MAGGIE’S YORKSHIRE, LEEDS
HEATHERWICK STUDIO FOR MAGGIE’S, LEEDS
Maggie’s is a charity providing practical support
to cancer patients. The sloping site for its centre
at St James’s University Hospital was one of few
green spaces on campus. In compensation, the
building’s roof forms giant planters for trees and
shrubs, which cascade down glazed facades. Its
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structure adds to the organic effect: three timber
cores sprout irregular, overlapping timber
canopies like giant toadstools.
The project’s whitewashed wood makes
a friendly counterpoint to austere hospital
£5541
buildings. Inside, the cores contain counselling
£38.97m 9,832m2
rooms and frame generous open spaces on
Projects by architects Projects by architects Cost per m2 of different levels. Warm, practical materials are
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region from outside the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project used with superb attention to detail: sinuous
brass strips in the cocoa-coloured screed
HUFTON AND CROW

demarcate spaces; visitors gather at bespoke
cork tables in the kitchen.
LEEDS FOOTBRIDGE Homely and peaceful, this is a building with
real heart and soul.
GAGARIN STUDIO WITH DP SQUARED FOR CITU GROUP DEVELOPMENTS
Straddling the River Aire, the 50m Leeds Footbridge connects two residential CARNEGIE SCHOOL OF SPORT, LEEDS THE ALICE HAWTHORN , YORK
areas in the city’s low-energy Climate Innovation District, and also carries
SHEPPARD ROBSON DE MATOS RYAN FOR MR AND MRS RICHARD HARPIN
pipework for the district heating network. Wholly constructed from Corten
steel, it is low maintenance, recyclable and will subtly adjust in colour and
FOR LEEDS BECKETT UNIVERSITY Contract value: Confidential GIA: 905m2
patina with age. Its eye-catching sculptural form is composed from 16 different Contract value: £30.4m The Alice Hawthorn is the last remaining pub in the village of Nun Monkton. New local
laser cut balustrade profiles, arranged to suggest concertina folds – a highly GIA: 5,086m2 Cost per m2: £3,665 owners aimed to secure its future by adding guest bedrooms within the listed inn and
effective device creating a sense of movement and interest from all angles. in three new buildings around a grass courtyard on its former car park. Inspired by the
Set among neoclassical neighbours on the
Detailing is handled with aplomb. Structural ribs under the deck are exposed, informal character of adjacent farmyards, the well-proportioned ensemble is at ease with
Headingley Campus, the Carnegie School of Sport
and co-ordinate with the chamfered deck edge and the enveloping balustrade its rural setting. Materials are robust and agricultural: larch, wire-brushed concrete and
brings facilities previously dispersed among five
to make an honest structure which is equally satisfying when viewed either from corrugated steel. Rooms are simple, unfussy and exude quality, with exposed frames of
separate buildings under one spectacular roof – a
the towpath beneath or from the riverbank. Douglas fir complemented by well-chosen soft furnishings. Warm touches include artwork
complex brief answered with great confidence,
by local schoolchildren. British-grown timber, a ground-source heat pump and high levels of
earning Alex Smith the Project Architect of the Year
airtightness earned it an EPC ‘A’ rating and helped secure the regional Sustainability Award.
Award. Specialist labs, gyms and lecture theatres
Yorkshire Client of the Year 2022
with bespoke furniture that encourages group work
Yorkshire Sustainability Award 2022 sponsored by Michelmersh
are in two wings flanking a central glazed atrium,
which widens towards a view of a running track.
Its stair and ceiling are bright red, in counterpoint
to monochromatic teaching areas, and hint at the
ANDREW HEPTINSTALL
piece de resistance above: an 80m indoor track
sitting atop the building like a huge periscope. The
bold building cements the university’s status as a
leading light in sport, and is not afraid to shout it
from the rooftops.
Yorkshire Project Architect of the Year 2022
ANDREW HALL
NICK HUFTON
RSAW Awards 47
Wales
See.
A continuous
concept from door
to room with
Wales
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perfection in terms
of the material,
form and surfaces.
More than merely
functional: a design
concept that we
Projects by architects 977m2
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region Total GIA
also fully
KYLE PEARCE (2)

Feel.
PRIVATE HOUSE, SWANSEA, WALES LOYN+CO FOR PRIVATE CLIENT GRANGE PAVILION, CARDIFF, WALES
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 357m2 BENHAM ARCHITECTS & IBI GROUP FOR GRANGE PAVILION CIO
This is a larger replacement house that has been relocated to maximise its
Contract value: £1,396,476 GIA: 620m² Cost per m2: £2,252
setting. It sits in a magnificent standing of mature pine trees within an AONB, Four years were invested in community engagement before
high on the coastline offering views to the sea. The stone and timber building Benham Architects and IBI Group put pen to paper at Grange
hugs the site, embracing varying levels with a building line that twice steps Pavilion, Cardiff, which has resulted in an impressive and
back to soften into the landscape. The entrance is marked by a stone plinth and collaborative project. The building is a new multi-functional
glazed two-storey atrium planted with trees and palms – a centrepiece for the community facility that replaces a bowls club. Its materials
clients who are keen gardeners. Internally, a linear plan has rooms feeding off a palette of glass, patterned weathered steel, timber cladding
central corridor. Sliding doors and large glazed areas offer fluidity, openness and brick responds well to its functionality and economy of
and create flexibility, as well as a light-filled house that connects inside and out. means. The garden wall and pitched roofs take their cue from
the neighbouring terraced houses and park. Inside, the pavilion
entrance opens onto a protected inner garden that offers an
attractive safe space and there are three large activity rooms,
Gira Esprit,
including one with a timber floor for dance/exercise. The building is
Gira System 106, bringing huge social value to users, and is delightful and generous,
Gira pushbutton especially for the tight budget.
sensor 4 in bronze. RSAW Client of the Year 2022
Available in other
variants.
giraltd.co.uk
CHARLES HOSEA (2)
Gira / System design

48 RSUA Design Awards 49
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland
5
KERI-LEIGH KEARNEY
£3,510
Projects by architects £60.91m 15,854m2 Cost per m2 of
Shortlisted projects with offices in the region Total cost of projects Total GIA average project
HOUSE IN THE GLEBE, BALLYMENA
MARSHALL MCCANN ARCHITECTS
NORTH WEST MULTI MODAL TRANSPORT HUB, HOUSE BALLYSCULLION, BELLAGHY FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
AIDAN MCGRATH
DERRY, NORTHERN IRELAND MCGONIGLE MCGRATH FOR PRIVATE CLIENT Contract value: Confidential GIA: 232.5m2
CONSARC DESIGN GROUP FOR TRANSLINK Contract value: Confidential GIA: 562m2 This cost-effective, four-bedroom home provides
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1732m2 House Ballyscullion within Ballyscullion Park
a model for sustainable rural dwellings, delivering
excellent energy efficiency and low consumption in
This project has cultural, economic, environmental sits on the shores of Lough Beg, mid Ulster. The
a piece of architecture which is sympathetic and a
and social sustainability at its core. The 1873 listed park was established in the late 18th century
pleasure to be in. The new timber structure house
structure is one of the finest examples of Northern for a dwelling which was never completed. A
ALTNAGELVIN ACUTE HOSPITAL – NORTH WING DEVELOPMENT, LONDONDERRY is hidden from the road by an old stone barn and
PAUL LINDSAY
Ireland railway architecture. Falling into disrepair later 1840s house commands the demesne,
HALL BLACK DOUGLAS FOR WESTERN HEALTH & SOCIAL CARE TRUST dilapidated cottage. The clachan-like gathering
after bomb damage in the 1970s, it was placed on overlooking the lough. This client bought 40.5ha
of buildings creates a distinct sense that the new
the Buildings At Risk register but has now been of the listed parkland and has built the home Contract value: £42m GIA: 12,850m2 Cost per m2: £3,268 addition, in the style of an Irish Long House, belongs
brought back to life, with every opportunity taken over 10 years. It is deferential, taking the form
The North Wing development is a new addition to Altnagelvin Acute Hospital that has taken a disparate where it is. Its placement and projections have been
to unobtrusively reduce carbon emissions. The of agricultural outbuildings with handmade grey
set of buildings, including a recent cancer centre and a 1960s tower block, and deftly tied them carefully considered for views over Lough Foyle
quality of the stonework restoration, particularly the bricks and zinc roof. The absence of formal
together. It creates a three-storey main hospital entrance with distinct civic quality, clad in a white and the Binevenagh Mountains. There is humility to
decorative carvings, is impressive, while the graceful gardens gives the sense of the house embracing
granite rainscreen that issues a clear welcome to all, while providing healthcare accommodation for the architecture, while internally it is relaxed and
steel roof, now double-glazed, stands as a wonderful the parkland, with the relationship working
144 people. Vertical timber louvres and worn-yellow brick soften the glazed facade and give warmth to homely. The beautifully crafted plywood stairs,
act of preservation and enhancement. Other thermal both ways as inside there is a connection to the
the light. Accessible courtyards off the main thoroughfare offer oases of calm and bring in daylight and cladding and kitchen cupboards bring cosiness to
upgrades were achieved through secondary glazing, outdoors at every turn. What could be viewed as
nature. Bedrooms are arranged in 8-bed clusters that maximise lines of vision from the staff base to the open plan layout which basks in natural light.
roof and floor insulation and wall drylining. a little austere from the outside has a wonderful
facilitate patient observation. The building is an uplifting place for staff and rich in healing potential. RSUA Small Project of the Year 2022
RSUA Sustainability Award 2022 warmth inside, and it is beautifully detailed.
RSUA Living Places Award 2022 RSUA Client of the Year 2022
RSUA Conservation Award 2022 RSUA House of the Year 2022
ÁRAS UÍ CHONGHAILE/JAMES CONNOLLY

VISITOR CENTRE, BELFAST
MCGURK ARCHITECTS FOR FÁILTE FEIRSTE THIAR
Contract value: £761,377
GIA: 476m2 Cost per m2: £1,600
This community building and visitor centre on the
Falls Road aims to deliver for visitors the legacy of
James Connolly, the Irish republican, socialist and
trade union leader, who lived nearby. The project
adapts and extends a Victorian end-terrace that
had undergone many modifications since its original
use as housing. A Corten steel extension to the
existing structure has an intricate perforated image
of Connolly’s face. Packed inside are a bilingual
museum, café, library, office and a space for meeting,
learning or exhibiting. It is a fine demonstration
FERGAL RAINEY
of what can be achieved through re-use. Project
TONY MOORE
architect Fergal Rainey is to be commended.

RSUA Project Architect of the Year 2022
RSUA Integration of Art Award 2022
London
London
100 BISHOPSGATE, CITY OF LONDON
ALLIES AND MORRISON WITH ARNEY
FENDER KATSALIDIS FOR THE 100
BISHOPSGATE PARTNERSHIP
EAST Contract value: Confidential
NORTH GIA: 133,719m2
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4 Shortlisted projects The 100 Bishopsgate development
Shortlisted projects comprises three mixed-use office
£32.75m buildings: a 40-storey tower, a lower
£331.84m Total cost of projects podium block, and a neighbouring
Total cost of projects building, all connected with public
11,438m2 realm interspersed with trees,
WEST 70,901m2 Total GIA planting, and a green wall. The
Total GIA tower’s twisting form is distinctive,
14 £2,786 its plan flaring downwards from a
Shortlisted projects £3,144 Cost per m2 of rectangle at the crown to a wider
Cost per m2 of average project parallelogram at its base. The overall
£676.8m average project impression of the development is that
Total cost of projects of clarity, simplicity and legibility.
Inside the tower, which houses the
184,716m2 largest column-free floorplates in the
JASON HAWKES
Total GIA City, the layout can be immediately
SOUTH EAST understood.
£4,490 7
Dynamic and sensitive, simple yet
Cost per m2 of complex, this is a tour de force.
SOUTH WEST Shortlisted projects
average project
10 £730.82m PITCHED BLACK, BROCKLEY

Shortlisted projects Total cost of projects
GRUFF ARCHITECTS FOR GRUFF ARCHITECTS
£210.19m 208,642m2 Contract value: £600,000 GIA: 152 2 Cost per m2: £3,947
Total cost of projects* Total GIA
Pitched Black is the family house of one of the Gruff Architects directors.
58,443m 2 £3,879 The site posed many logistical challenges. Located in a conservation area, this
former builder’s yard is awkwardly shaped, bounded on one side by a railway
Total GIA Cost per m2 of
cutting and surrounded by neighbours. However, the building responds well,
average project
£2,859
cunningly modelled and articulated to avoid overlooking and overshadowing
while capturing views wherever possible.
Cost per m2 of A distinctive black-clad upper floor and roof sit on a plinth of blond
average project* bricks, their scale and form cleverly concealing the extent of accommodation
* Figures omits BFI Riverfront project
within.
The main elevation is orientated northwards over the garden and enjoys
100 LIVERPOOL STREET, CITY OF LONDON views over the wooded cutting. Despite having seemingly windowless elevations
MAX CREASY
HOPKINS ARCHITECTS FOR BRITISH LAND and a basement, the house is surprisingly full of light.
The ingenuity, care, thoughtfulness and collaboration required to deliver
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 67,649m2 this innovative family home are evident throughout.
This refurbishment transforms a 1980s office
building with deep floor plates into a high-quality, ARTIST’S STUDIO, STEPNEY
flexible commercial building fit for the 21st century. MARTIN EDWARDS ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Its approach to reuse demonstrates clear strategic
thinking, keeping what could be salvaged, unpicking
what could not, and adding what was necessary. This project adds an upper storey to an existing house, providing its
The design retains the foundations and much artist owner with an uplifting new studio. Externally, the addition is
of the original steelwork, and adds three new office clad in charred and oiled ash, embellished on the flank elevation by
floors with extensive terraces. The cores have a diagonal copper rainwater pipe. A rear terrace is shaded by the
been moved to create a new elliptical atrium at extended timber slatted side elevation and pergola.
the building’s heart. A sinuous glazed facade has Inside, the studio is accessed via a robust, mill-finished steel
replaced the original cladding. The building achieves staircase with perforated treads. The new double-pitched roof is
a BREEAM Outstanding rating and is British Land’s set diagonally across the studio space to align exactly east-west,
first net zero carbon development. Client and enabling the structure to frame a perfect north light. Reuse and
CHARLES HOSEA
design team evidently worked together very closely, recycling are evident throughout, including the repurposing of the
FRENCH+TYE
JANIE AIREY
adjusting the brief along the way to produce the original roofing boards as the studio floor. New and old co-exist
best outcome. This is a truly impressive project. comfortably, the disparate parts combining to present a raw, natural,
London South East RIBA Client of the Year 2022 and carefully detailed whole.
London
ROYAL WHARF PRIMARY SCHOOL, SILVERTOWN

FEILDEN CLEGG BRADLEY STUDIOS FOR OXLEY
HOLDINGS
Contract value: £9,500,000
This joyful and inspiring two form entry school
commands an important urban site at the heart
of the Royal Wharf masterplan and community.
Externally, the tall porticoed entrance does
justice to its civic setting, while honey-coloured
brick, playful windows, and decorative
metalwork hint at the fun to be had inside.
Arranged with classrooms over three
storeys, the internal layout is clear and legible.
At the heart of the circulation is an amphitheatre
of stacked seating, used variously as a theatre,
meeting place, or somewhere to sit. Incidental
break-out spaces for non-curriculum learning
are distributed around the building.
All the spaces are light and airy, radiating
a real sense of happiness and freshness
throughout. When the jury visited, pupils were
engaged and well behaved, and seemed to be
enjoying their new surroundings.
Glazing Vision are technical
PLUMSTEAD CENTRE, PLUMSTEAD LB SOUTHWARK SILS 3, PECKHAM experts in the design,
JIM STEPHENSON (3)
JIM STEPHENSON (3)

HAWKINS\BROWN FOR ROYAL BOROUGH OF GREENWICH TIM RONALDS ARCHITECTS FOR LONDON
manufacture and supply
Contract value: £11,800,000 GIA: 2329m2 Cost per m2: £5,067 BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1800m2 of precision engineered,
This project refurbishes a grade II-listed early 1900s library building and significantly
extends it with new facilities for sport, fitness and the performing arts. In doing so, this LB Southwark SILS 3 is a Pupil Referral Unit for
architectural glass rooflights.
previously underused asset has been transformed into a lively and successful community children who have typically been excluded from We have one of the most
amenity buzzing with activity. New and old have been cleverly combined in terms of both the
building’s use and its design details, and there are some delightful touches including local
school. The new building is inviting – comfortable, experienced, specialist design
light, spacious and airy – while also being secure
children’s stories and shelves of library books on the glass. Mindful that needs might change and tough. The atmosphere is one of simplicity teams in the industry, so
over time, spaces have been kept flexible and adaptable. and calm. whatever your concept might
The original building has been remodelled to accommodate a range of library spaces, Throughout, the material palette is mellow and
meeting rooms, play and multi-functional spaces. The new extension offers gym facilities, a the detailing elegant. The outside is uplifting, with
be, Glazing Vision can make it
dance studio, badminton courts, rooms for hire and a ‘book mountain’ staircase. near-white brickwork, stone window surrounds a reality.
The restoration has revealed and reinstated many original features including barrel- and a latticed parapet. Inside, oak floors, maple
vaulted skylights, original parquet flooring, mosaic tiling, and Edwardian ironmongery. joinery and purpose-designed pine acoustic
London South East Conservation Award 2022 ceilings confound institutional stereotypes.
The plan is clear and legible. Classrooms and
study spaces are generous, with large picture
windows affording views over the playground
and adjacent park. The building has achieved a
BREEAM Excellent rating.
Certainly, such an optimistic and special
environment can only improve the life chances of
its students.
things are
looking up.
JACK HOBHOUSE
[email protected]
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London
THE POST BUILDING, HOLBORN

ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS FOR
BROCKTON EVERLAST & OXFORD PROPERTIES
This mixed-use scheme comprising office, retail and
residential space remodels a colossal Royal Mail
sorting office that had lain vacant for over 20 years.
Constrained by ‘mail rail’ tunnels beneath, the
ingenious design retains as much of its structure SIR MICHAEL UREN HUB, WHITE CITY
JAMES NEWTON
as possible, with mezzanines stitched between
ALLIES AND MORRISON FOR IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON
existing double-height floors, and new terraced
upper storeys. The building’s industrial history
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 18,150m2
is celebrated in facades of glass and stainless Providing state-of-the-art labs for biomedical science and engineering
steel panels set in patinated steel frames, and in research, this 13-storey tower fills a challenging triangular plot and presents
structures inserted within that evoke machinery. £X,XXX a strong front to the elevated Westway. It was funded by the late Sir Michael
Hanging decks curve through office spaces like Cost per m2 of Uren, who pioneered the use of GGBS to make low-carbon cement –
conveyor belts. The aesthetic is carried through to average project referenced in the elegant veils of concrete fins that shade the two long facades.
TIMOTHY SOAR (3)

cores, toilets and signage. With significant public As end-users were not all known at the outset the building had to be flexible.
realm improvements that include new urban routes Its plan is beautifully clear, with plant stacked at the thin end of the plot to
and an accessible roof terrace, the reinvigorated service individual floors, labs located close by and offices at the widest end of
landmark enriches the cityscape and creates a the triangle. High ceilings and big windows mean all spaces are well lit, with
strong sense of place. fantastic views over the White City campus.
PETER GEUNZEL
WOODS QUAY, TEMPLE
BERE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
HAWLEY WHARF, CAMDEN
ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS FOR LABTECH
GIA: 385m2
Contract value: £200m GIA: 44,700m2 Cost per m2: £4,474
Set on a pontoon between Cleopatra’s
Located on the north bank of the Regent’s Canal, Hawley Wharf
Needle and Waterloo Bridge, Woods
is a masterplan-led redevelopment of an under-utilised part of
Quay is a new dining and entertainment
Camden Market. The architect has delivered a diverse range of
venue at the embarkation point for
buildings, squares and pedestrian routes through the site, which
river cruises operated by the client,
includes two lines of active railway arches. Attractions for visitors
and a home for its fleet. Replacing a
are clustered close to the canal, with community-orientated
pub-boat, the floating building responds
buildings to the north. Each building has its own character and
PICTURE CREDIT EDGE
respectfully to its surroundings –

skilfully responds to its context, with material selections and
unassuming but quietly confident. An
detailing enriched by references to Camden’s industrial past.
elevation of charred timber faces the
The scheme delivers considerable social value, providing a new
embankment, only revealing the interior
school and social housing in a central London location. Great
when the doors are open. From the
placemaking has been achieved by integrating new spaces and
shore, a biodiverse sedum roof is also
buildings that will be useful and delightful for many years to come.
visible at low tide. Visitors entering via
a gangway find a well-planned space
with pebble terrazzo floors that allude
to the river’s shingle beaches, and a
warm, tactile palette of materials: oak
structure, wood-wool board ceilings and
timber linings. With three elevations fully VICTORIA HOUSE, BLOOMSBURY
SANDS END ARTS & COMMUNITY CENTRE, FULHAM
RORY GARDINER
glazed, however, the Thames remains the HUTCHINSON & PARTNERS FOR LABS GROUP
MÆ ARCHITECTS FOR HAMMERSMITH & FULHAM COUNCIL star attraction.
Built for an insurance company, the neoclassical Victoria House has undergone
Marking the entrance to South Park, the Sands End Arts & Community Centre comprises many changes since it was built in the 1920s – notably the meeting pods
several connected pavilions arranged around Clancarty Lodge, a disused building converted suspended in lightwells by Will Alsop. Many of these layers of history are
to exhibition space as part of the project. Serving a diverse community who were engaged preserved in its latest reincarnation, which sought a harmonious relationship
in the design process, the welcoming, accessible facility provides a cafe, changing rooms between the old and the new. Providing 25,000m2 of offices along with retail and
and flexible events spaces. Distinctive monopitch roofs were inspired by glasshouses that hospitality spaces, the scheme reinstates the main entrance from Bloomsbury
previously stood on the site – modest and intimate around a central courtyard, but rising to Square, with a newly accessible route to a public bar in the triple-height central
double-height by the park boundary. Their orientation plays a big part in reducing the carbon hall. New travertine, terrazzo, patinated brass and oak all complement the original
DAN GLASER
cost, as do materials: CLT and glulam frames with green-stained timber panelling inside, architecture. Workspace is served by new glazed circulation spines, and designed
and honey-toned bricks comprising 60% recycled material, laid on their sides to reduce the for flexibility with exposed services. Enhancing the character of the listed building,
required quantity. Sustainable, inventive, and delightful. new work is honest, well-considered and elegant.
London
MEWS HOUSE, SOUTH KENSINGTON BREAKERS PLACE, NOTTINGDALE, NOTTING HILL

CREATIVEMASS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT ALLFORD HALL MONAGHAN MORRIS
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 69 m2 FOR ADENA PROPERTY INVESTMENTS
This ambitious refurbishment of a two-storey mews
house in South Kensington dexterously reworks a GIA: 8,320 m² Cost per m²: £3,125
tiny building to good effect. The property’s wedge-
Breakers Place forms part of the mixed use
shaped footprint had significant constraints,
Nottingdale Campus on a site once occupied by
only 1m wide at its narrowest and bounded by
industrial units, car parking and goods yards. It now
adjacent properties and garden walls on three of
TARAN WIKHU
provides 5574m2 of commercial office and retail
its four sides. The architect extended upwards
in its George Building and a nine-unit residential
and down. A new roof structure and rejig of the
JIM STEPHENSON
building. The new buildings drop in scale to mediate

upper floor level freed up space to insert a partial
SIMON UPTON
between the earlier phases of the masterplan and
TOM GRAHAM
roof-lit mezzanine above the kitchen leading to a
housing to the east. The George Building is split
mini terrace. A new, full, basement level creates CROMWELL PLACE, SOUTH KENSINGTON
into two wings, running from north to south on the
space for a well-lit second bedroom with an ensuite
bathroom. The design is robust, well-considered
site. At the main entrance a striking red metalwork BUCKLEYGRAYYEOMAN FOR SOUTH KENSINGTON
staircase and reception desk welcome visitors, ESTATES
and elegant throughout, from the glazed screens on
HOUSE IN PRIMROSE HILL MEWS HOUSE RETROFIT, NOTTING HILL NOMAD, COVENT GARDEN while upper-level offices are accessed via a bright,
the relocated staircase to the careful flush detailing Contract value: £16.5m GIA: 4431m2 Cost per m2:
JAMIE FOBERT ARCHITECTS PREWETT BIZLEY ARCHITECTS EPR ARCHITECTS FOR BOW STREET HOTELS top lit core with robust, tactile and elegantly
of doors, giving a sense of openness without
detailed exposed concrete and brick surfaces £3724
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT compromising privacy. FOR PRIVATE CLIENT Contract value: Confidential GIA: 8,856m2 (concrete has a 40% GGBS cement replacement). Extending across a terrace of five listed
Contract value: Confidential Contract value: Confidential The residential block bookends the development,
Bow Street magistrates’ court and police station townhouses in South Kensington, Cromwell Place
GIA: 480m2 GIA: 195m2 sitting comfortably with three dual-aspect flats per
had seen many failed attempts at redevelopment is an innovative hub for the art world, providing
since their closure in 2006, and the two grade- level. A local café has been reintroduced facing the rentable gallery, office and storage space for
The comprehensive transformation of this Renovations to an end-of-terrace mews house
II-listed Victorian buildings were on the Heritage newly pedestrianised route. gallerists and dealers. New interventions sit
Victorian house in Primrose Hill has been achieved in Notting Hill produced an 82% reduction in
with few alterations to its outward appearance energy consumption, exceeding the RIBA’s 2025 at Risk Register. Their conversion into a 91- comfortably alongside carefully restored existing
– new extensions are subtle, respecting the targets for new-build houses even though its room luxury hotel took impressive effort and spaces and period features: staircases with
character of the street. Inside, the house has two conservation area setting precluded measures commitment. ironwork balustrades, ornate plasterwork and
distinct parts. Bedrooms on the upper floors are such as photovolatic panels. External walls were Key moves include the insertion of a glazed baroque-style mirrors. Non-original additions were
accessed by a generous curved walnut staircase. lined with moisture-permeable insulating plaster, roof over a courtyard to make a restaurant, the removed to make way for interlinking corridors
A separate concrete staircase within a slender and new sash windows that use efficient framing and construction of new guest wings around it, and the along the rear facades, allowing the houses to
side extension leads to family rooms on two new evacuated glass get close to the performance of excavation of two basement levels for plant. Much of remain intact. A black metal-clad gallery pavilion
floors below ground, open to lightwells at the front triple glazing. The house is all-electric, with an air- the original fabric was retained and celebrated: the occupies the rear gardens, with climate-controlled
and rear. There, a beautifully conceived sequence source heat pump and mechanical ventilation with courtroom is now an event space, and the scheme storage underground and a roof form inspired by
of spaces is characterised by generous floor- heat recovery in winter. The embodied carbon cost incorporates a public museum telling the story nearby mews houses. The clean, minimal extension
TIMOTHY SOAR
to-ceiling heights and a soothing, harmonious of the retrofit will be offset by operational savings of the buildings, complete with prison cells. The makes a striking counterpoint to the 13 townhouse
assemblage of robust materials: exposed concrete in three years. Interiors were confidently reworked fit-out has been carried out with verve, overlaying galleries. Sensitive, legible and well executed, the
DAVID BUTLER
columns and beams, and travertine walls to an around a beautiful timber staircase, visible through the characterful spaces with colourful, exuberant scheme gives new life to under-used buildings and
atmospheric, light-dappled pool. Meticulous glazed screens on the middle floor. Well used fixtures and finishes. creates significant cultural value.
detailing extends to walnut joinery and bespoke throughout, it is an exemplary family home with
Bauhaus-inspired light fittings. outstanding energy efficiency.
245 HAMMERSMITH ROAD, HAMMERSMITH
SHEPPARD ROBSON FOR LEGAL & GENERAL
INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT REAL ASSETS /
MITSUBISHI
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 36,382 m2
TREE HOUSE, EALING This bold new office building packs a punch on
FLETCHER CRANE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT delivering civic functions and social value. The
brief was for ‘an inspiring work environment
that connects occupiers, fosters collaboration
Completed on a relatively modest budget, this new house and maximises productivity, with green spaces
in a suburban conservation area in West Ealing replaces an for building users and the public’. The architect
unsightly garage and general dumping ground. The site was has delivered on all these fronts. Set back from
acquired and developed by a client living in a neighbouring Hammersmith Road, the development creates a
property, who wanted to improve the streetscape and make new streetscape fronted by three new retail units at
a place to live in the future. The somewhat constrained plot ground level as well as the building’s main entrance.
generated a massing of simple volumes and a rich, split-level The facades are striking, with red, angled, anodised
interior arrangement. Cavity walls are made of load-bearing aluminium cladding panels. Inside, the double-
brick, with the upper floors and roof made from LVL timber height lobby includes a public café and co-working
LORENZO ZANDRI
joists and the lower floors of in-situ cast concrete. With the spaces. Office floors cater for all types of tenants,
JACK HOBHOUSE
structure left exposed internally, the architect has created from companies in the life sciences to the tech
a subtle and harmonious connection between light, well- sector. A public plaza to the east is intended to
proportioned rooms and brick-walled courtyard gardens on catalyse further public realm enhancements as
two levels. neighbouring buildings are developed.
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HACKNEY SCHOOL OF FOOD, HACKNEY
HEIKO PRIGGE
SURMAN WESTON FOR LEAP FEDERATION
& CHEFS IN SCHOOLS
GIA: 59m²
A noteworthy scheme and much-needed kitchen
school for all pupils in Hackney, an inspiring place to
teach children how to grow, cook and eat food, while
also serving as a community hub and for corporate
events to help finance the operation.
A derelict school keeper’s house and garage
have been transformed imaginatively with value THE LIBRARY HOUSE, HACKNEY
for money fully interrogated. A large high-level
MACDONALD WRIGHT ARCHITECTS
window to the street gable allows north light in
and advertises the school’s presence. Internally,
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
the space has been cleared of divisions, forming Contract value: Confidential
a cathedral of food complete with a ‘cauliflower GIA: 84m²
ceiling’, of fire-treated spray foam. Old finishes
This is a small but perfectly formed home. The
and scars are left. Timber cement board across
exterior effortlessly references the neighbouring
JIM STEPHENSON
surfaces holds the space together. This is designed
Edwin Cooper’s Library and adjacent terraces.
to support utility with many moments of delight with
The architect, who was also the client, has paid
the budget largely concentrated at child height.
exceptional attention to detail, from physical to
London Small Project of the Year 2022 sponsored
operational. The materials chosen are robust and
by Gaggenau
MARK ANTHONY FOX

textural, designed to be easy to maintain between SIDEWAYS HOUSE, FOREST GATE LEEP ARCHITECTS FOR MARCUS LEE
tenants.
Contract value: £287,000 GIA: 155m² Cost per m²: £1,852
Despite being only 4m wide it feels spacious
HACKNEY NEW PRIMARY SCHOOL AND 333 KINGSLAND ROAD, HACKNEY with semi-circular staircase library, providing both An experimental flexible home, capable of easy adaption between home, office, or a separate studio
HENLEY HALEBROWN FOR DOWNHAM ROAD LTD. (JV) delight and function. Just inside the front door, the flat. This flexibility is cleverly afforded by the vertical unheated circulation space or winter garden.
interior is shielded from the street by a moveable As the accommodation can be locked off at each level, the staircase is easily adapted to become a
Contract value: £26m GIA: 8,500m² Cost per m²: £3,059
storage unit which doubles as a seat. common shared space. This makes for an interesting typology of building and is an ingenious urban
Hackney New Primary School is an sculptural pink brute, punctuating a The house meets all the RIBA’s 2030 energy response to a tight site.
busy junction with a certain civic pride. The school was enabled by a new targets despite having been designed before The building expresses a pleasing clarity and simplicity. It sits comfortably in its rugged local
housing block, on a single tight urban site. It size challenges educational the targets were set. It is exceptional in this context and deploys an uncomplicated, quasi-industrial material palette of masonry load-bearing
and environmental norms, with the elimination of internal corridors regard. The post-occupancy evaluation report walls, untreated steel staircase, exposed screed and open joist floors. The external facade is
forming an inner world of a closely knit courtyard and classrooms around demonstrates the lessons learnt and proof of its contextually sensitive. And while the local area demanded a certain level of security, the solution does
a courtyard. operational capability. Its performance is truly not feel overly closed. An excellent fabric-first approach to reducing energy consumption is reflected
The homes will be ultimately 100% affordable housing with a inspirational. In summary, divine! in the low predicted energy use.
penthouse quality, wide vistas and generous outside spaces sheltered
by a robust concrete loggia. Its 10 storeys are served by an octagonal
oculus staircase. The facade is delightfully high-quality, with a solid
LEYTON HOUSE, WALTHAM FOREST
FERNANDO MANOSO
street presence. The apartment building touches the pavement in a well-
mannered way, with a welcoming colonnade giving space to the public MCMAHON ARCHITECTURE FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
realm and a sense of place to the shop fronts. Contract value: Confidential GIA: 188m²
This is conceptually rigorous and notable architectural response.
This house challenges preconceptions about what
is appropriate as a bookend to a short terrace
of 1960s houses in a predominantly two-storey
Victorian context. A creative design response
to planners’ requests has endured through to
completion. The setback at first-floor level helps
with scale on the street and brings light into the
plan. Contextually, the choice of brick at street level
and timber above, at window openings and chimney
termination detail, all sit together as a coherent
and robust ensemble. Although the plot is small,
the home feels light and spacious. Shifting planes
at each floor level have allowed the creation of
internal courtyards and linear rooflights, which add
a further dimension. A unifying clay plaster finish
flows from room to room and floor to floor, subtly
changing colour and gradually descending in ever-
NICK KANE (2)
deeper earthy tones, bringing a touch of Mexico,

the owners’ other home. This is a house tectonically
rich with structure, textural materiality and colour.
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Power of the plan
YORKTON WORKSHOPS, HACKNEY

CASSION CASTLE ARCHITECTS WITH PEARSON LLOYD FOR PEARSON LLOYD
Contract value: £1.25m GIA: 504m² Cost per m²: £2,480
Yorkton Workshops epitomizes what can be achieved when design professionals
come together. Cassion Castle, acting as both architect and main contractor,
amplifies the success of the approach, demonstrating the benefits of being able
to react quickly to findings on site. The refurbished building is a palimpsest alive
with historical references, richly layered with the lives and preoccupations of
its occupants over the years. The clients, as contemporary designers, very
ST JOHN’S CHURCH, HACKNEY much continue the line of the makers who previously occupied the space. The
THOMAS FORD & PARTNERS WITH JOHN PAWSON FOR PCC OF ST tapestry of old and new has been carefully choreographed into a cohesive
JOHN AT HACKNEY whole, with longevity and flexibility embedded in the space planning. There has
Contract value: £4.1m GIA: 1,948m² Cost per m²: £2,105 been consideration of future proofing, regarding overheating with a natural
ventilation strategy and the creative use of thermal mass. This is exemplary as a
St John’s has regained its wow! Externally St John’s is a collaborative, circular economy project of character.
quintessential neo-classical Georgian parish church. What lies
within, however, is a true diversification of an Anglican place of
worship into a centre for the arts and a world-class music and
events venue. All in a minimalist Georgian interior, stripped of
later alterations and with subtle new interventions. These include
a permanent stage within the nave. A new, coherent five-storey
insertion accommodates community kitchen and back of house.
New storage walls wrap around the church’s perimeter clad in
dark stained vertical oak fins. This wood stain has been extended
across the bars, floors and balcony seating. The effect is striking,
contrasting with the flat white walls and columns. The client’s
clear passion and dynamism shines through. In its shifting of the
narrative use of the church, and enabling so much celebration and
outreach, it is truly impressive.
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BFI RIVERFRONT, SOUTHBANK THE HOXTON, SOUTHWARK ORCHARD GARDENS, ELEPHANT PARK
CARMODY GROARKE FOR BRITISH LIFSCHUTZ DAVIDSON SANDILANDS PANTER HUDSPITH ARCHITECTS FOR LENDLEASE
FILM INSTITUTE (BFI) FOR ENNISMORE Contract value: £80m GIA: 23,700m2 Cost per m2: £3376
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 940m2 Contract value: Confidential Comprising 228 homes and 2,500m2 of retail and cultural
Carmody Groarke has delivered a
GIA: 14,106 m2 spaces, Orchard Gardens is an entire city block and a major
new identity and welcoming entrance component of the regeneration of Elephant & Castle. Designed
The Hoxton, Southwark, is a slender,
as part of a refurbishment of the to be viewed as a cluster of buildings, it wraps around a sunny
16-storey building, integrating 192
British Film Institute’s Southbank communal garden, with sophisticated and playfully contrasting
hotel rooms, restaurants, bars and
home. A grand canopy of cast scales and heights ranging from five to 19 storeys. The vibrant
function rooms alongside 4,000m2
fibreglass now glows boldly like composition of these elevations enhances the quality of place-
of flexible co-working office space. At
a cinema screen, announcing the making around the site, creating an approachable neighbourhood,
street level, the project creates an
building’s presence among its resonant of historic groups of buildings that have developed over
active frontage to Blackfriars Road. At
neighbouring arts venues. The time, without appearing contrived. Despite the development’s
the top, the building is crowned with a
intervention exposes the gigantic scale, the facade treatment provides character and variety to
winter garden, a restaurant, and a sky-
concrete rib structure of the the clusters of homes, mirroring the rhythm of nearby Georgian
bar with panoramic views over London.
underside of Waterloo Bridge which and Victorian terraces. Judges felt that this was an exceptional
The hybrid brief emerged through
arches above, making it visible from exemplar of a dense, residential-led, mixed-use scheme.
a number of iterations and different
the ground and first floors. A revised ownerships. To accommodate any
layout modernises the hospitality future changes in the programme, the
spaces at pavement level as well frame is designed with few columns and
as providing a new bar and first common floor to ceiling heights. From
OSKAR PROCTOR
floor terrace. The interiors of the a distance, the form of the building and
new rooms are deliberately dark, articulation of the facades is bold and
brooding, and atmospheric. Judges unapologetic, yet a closer look reveals
praised the project as an exemplar fine brick detailing. The robust, pared-
of a modern intervention that back architecture creates a clear
PAUL RIDDLE
subtly enhances the appreciation, identity and a sense of timelessness, PEVERIL GARDENS AND STUDIOS, SOUTHWARK
experience and understanding of a adding clarity and legibility to a
complex and layered heritage setting.
SANCHEZ BENTON ARCHITECTS WITH GABRIEL KURI AND NIGEL DUNNETT FOR
complex street scene.
LONDON BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK
Contract value: £369,000 GIA: 672m2 Cost per m2: £549
This project showcases the ambition of both design team and client in
retrofitting an unloved brutalist structure, located on the edge of the Bricklayers
Arms roundabout, for wider cultural benefit. Sanchez Benton – in collaboration
with artist Gabriel Kuri – has transformed the disused garage and podium
terrace into a flourishing public walled garden and ground level artist studios to
PANTER HUDSPITH ARCHITECTS

support a thriving arts community. Three large openings were punched through
the first floor slab, one for a public stair to the garden, the second for a large
central skylight for the arts centre below, and the third for a new mature tree
to grow through and provide shade. The choice of materials and reuse of the
original garage features and finishes creates a light, characterful and joyful set
of inside and outside spaces for a variety of adaptable uses, in large part thanks
to project architect Carlos Sanchez.
London Project Architect of the Year Award 2022
198 CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND LEARNING, BRIXTON

CARVERHAGGARD FOR 198 CONTEMPORARY ARTS AND LEARNING
This cost-effective retrofit and upward expansion creates an exemplary range
of new spaces for 198 Contemporary Arts & Learning, a community-led visual
arts organisation in Brixton. The single storey concrete ‘shop’ has been retained
and refurbished with two new timber-framed storeys built directly onto the
existing structure. The new addition is treated as a ‘big house’, influenced by
local corner buildings and public houses. The silhouette and materials reflect
both the brutalism of the neighbouring 1960s estate and the brick and stucco
FRANCESCO RUSSO
panels of the Victorian terraced houses opposite. The ground floor has been
stripped back to its concrete structure, with new openings cut into cross-
LUKE HAYES
walls to make an enfilade of generous galleries. The first floor hosts affordable
workspace for activists, artists and a team of community nurses, while a studio
on the second floor hosts education and outreach activities.
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DITTON HILL HOUSE, SURBITON

SURMAN WESTON
FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
GIA: 264m2
This new-build suburban house
successfully blends vernacular
mock-Tudor and industrial
aesthetics into a unique and
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CAN FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
Contract value: £220,000
Mountain View is a bold and colourful
transformation of a semi-detached Edwardian
house. The project weaves together highly
personal motifs and themes. A scene in the film
Trainspotting, for example, inspired the ruined
walls and columns that mark the transition between
the old house and new extension. The mountain of
the rear extension roof references images of the
Matterhorn Bobsleds Ride at Disneyland under
construction, while the exposed laser-cut trusses
in the extension are a nod to high-tech architecture.
The semi-derelict house has been fully upgraded
both spatially and thermally, creating an extra
bedroom on the reconfigured first floor as well as a
rear extension. The house feels coherent, liveable
JIM STEPHENSON (2)
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Contract value: £23.5m
GIA: 5400m2
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Cost per m2: £4352
Positioned in the gardens of the grade I listed home
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth Palace
Library is a new home for the Church of England’s
consolidated archives. The library is thoughtfully
located on the edge of the site to minimise its impact
on the gardens, while still creating a landmark
tower. At the heart of the building is the set-piece
reading room. Other elements include the archive
stores and at the very top, an events space with
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and compelling piece of civic architecture that
reframes the centuries-old relationship between
church and state.
IBSTOCK PLACE SCHOOL REFECTORY, ROEHAMPTON

MACCREANOR LAVINGTON FOR IBSTOCK PLACE SCHOOL
With its criss-cross glulam structure crowned with glazed lanterns,
this grand refectory has become the heart of the Ibstock Place school
campus. Maccreanor Lavington’s carefully crafted design replaces
existing piecemeal facilities, trebling floor space on the same footprint
with the help of basement and mezzanine levels. The new building
provides three linked volumes housing a hall, servery and kitchen
that can cater for up to 500 pupils and staff at a time. The ceiling is
supported by cross laminated timber panels to the outside and inset
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oak linings to the inside, producing a feeling of grandeur akin to a

banqueting hall, combined with comfortable, acoustically controlled
conditions. Soft stock brick and plain clay roof tiles reference the
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GIA: 61,581m2
Barts Square transforms a 3.2-acre site between
Smithfield and the Museum of London, with 236
homes, 237,000ft² of offices and 21,000ft² of
retail set around landscaped open spaces and a
pedestrianised high street. New buildings offer
a contemporary reinterpretation of the existing
fabric, informed by historic plot widths and
the architectural qualities of retained historic
structures. Strategic alterations to the street
pattern make a permeable urban quarter that
feels well-balanced, welcoming and secure. A
collaborative approach creates natural, unforced
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diversity: architects Maccreanor Lavington and
Piercy & Company designed two building facades,
and Gross.Max delivered an appropriately
restrained landscape design. From the proportions
ALEX UPTON
of the blocks to the deep window reveals, the

evidence of care and attention to detail at every
scale sets this huge project apart.
KILN PLACE, CAMDEN
PETER BARBER ARCHITECTS FOR LB CAMDEN
BELLE VUE, BELSIZE PARK Contract value: Confidential GIA: 1300m2
MORRIS & COMPANY FOR PEGASUS LIFE At Kiln Place, Peter Barber Architects shows
Contract value: Confidential GIA: 7848m2 how local authorities can provide sensitive new
high-density public housing without the demolition
Belle Vue is a retirement community comprising four interconnected of existing homes. Taking on the least desirable
buildings which frame a sequence of landscaped courtyards and parts of a Kentish Town estate – a parking lot, a
gardens. Its form deals with the constraints of a challenging site disused plant room, a bin store – it has delivered
– neighbours include the Royal Free Hospital, a school and a nursery 15 family homes that create obvious benefits not
– and responds to a varied architectural context. Efficient plans only for their occupants but for other residents
forego long corridors and maximise the number of corner or dual too. The roof of one creates a terrace for an
aspect units. Naturally lit shared circulation serves 60 flats with existing flat; another home improves access to
generous inset balconies. Communal roof terraces provide stunning a neighbouring block and shared green space.
views. Super-insulated facades contribute to impressive energy Homes are designed to high energy standards,
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performance. Tumbled brickwork suggests a satisfying solidity, with a ‘fabric first’ approach, and are intricately
PETER BARBER
amplified by a playful array of chamfered window reveals; subtle planned to deal with unusual site constraints.
articulation of the facades creates depth, shadow and a domestic Setbacks, soft corners and playful fenestration
scale. Large but not institutional, the complex exudes compassion, are full of personality and have a subtly humanising
warmth and an underlying sense of calm. effect on the modernist estate.
ST JOHN STREET, CLERKENWELL

EMIL EVE ARCHITECTS FOR PRIVATE CLIENT
This light-touch, low-carbon renovation of a historic warehouse
uses high-quality sustainable materials to create a three-bedroom
apartment with a warm and tranquil atmosphere. Throughout
the apartment there is a very enjoyable play between the old and
the new. Exposed brickwork and concrete columns harmonise
beautifully with oak herringbone floors, clay plaster walls and white
oiled timber. A wide hallway with sliding doors at both ends brings
light deep into the plan and reveals the impressive scale of the
MARIELL LIND HANSEN
original building. A central service pod contains storage, a toilet

and a birch ply kitchen. The new interventions are conceived as
independent elements, with joinery and ceramic surfaces detailed
to give each a distinctive identity. With well-judged material and
spatial choices, this is a very accomplished piece of work.
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We put
– virtual design – climate action
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one thing
above all, A NUTS AND BOLTS
INCLUSION OVERHAUL
Buttress Architects has always been a purpose-
driven business, and equity, diversity and inclusion
‘We are removing hard-to-underand
legalese and rethinking how we talk
you
BUTTRESS – EDI – is important to us. We operate within a
ARCHITECTS quality assurance framework which ensures that
about things’
we amend our practices regularly, but every so often
you need to dig a bit deeper.
Now we are revising all our standard documents,
policies and procedures – more than 150 in total –
which have accrued organically over the years and
don’t necessarily reflect who we are. Some apply
only to our 70 staff, but many have a wider audience.
A working group of volunteers from both our
Manchester and Leeds studios is conducting
a systematic audit. With diverse backgrounds
they bring multiple perspectives. We are not EDI
experts but aim to highlight potential issues, and
seek advice from external consultants as required.
Some are quick fixes – looking at title blocks on
drawings to ensure they are legible, for example.
We refer to good standards for things like website
accessibility, which cover font size and colour
contrast. Rewriting the staff handbook is the
biggest task, taking weeks. Language is important,
and we are removing hard-to-understand
legalese and rethinking how we talk about things
like gender. At the same time we are replacing
prescriptive policies on, for example, flexible
working, with looser behavioural guidelines.
That will all be in place by the autumn but
the work will continue to evolve as the world
does. Beyond the direct benefits of making the
practice more inclusive the exercise is building
organisational self-awareness, and helping us to
better articulate our personality and values. •
Chithra Marsh, associate director, and Stephen
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Opportunities
The metaverse: a
virtual opportunity
Bloomberg recently estimated the market to be
worth $800bn. But what is the metaverse and
why is is becoming a new frontier for architects?
Pamela Buxton reports
Business, clients Design, construction

& services & technology
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS
Is the metaverse a land of opportunity

for architects? Can practices afford not
Young architects would art galleries selling NFTs, venues for
games, entertainment or business
Several leading practices are already
active. Zaha Hadid Architects has been
ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS – MEDICAL CENTER FOR
PUBG MOBILE
far. It is currently fine-tuning how the
marketplace will work and is in close
to engage in a world where an NFT (a
non-fungible token validated through
be remiss and foolish networking, or brands building social
communities or establishing retail
busy, designing a medical centre for
the PUBG Mobile video game as well
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects
Developed by LightSpeed & Quantum, Tencent Games,
contact about technical requirements
with interested architects and designers.
blockchain technology) of a house design
recently sold for $500,000 and where a
to overlook this vast outlets. Bloomberg recently estimated
that the metaverse represents an $800bn
as the Schachter NFTism virtual art
gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach and
KRAFTON Designs will need to be files that can
be navigated through – Renovi says
new NFT marketplace is being set up
specifically for architectural designs for
opportunity to make money market opportunity.
So what are the design opportunities
the virtual city of Liberland Metaverse.
BIG recently unveiled a Decentraland
This game design project evolved from the practice’s
research into spatial user-experience (UX) focussed
currently the most common file format is
gltf or glb which most programs such as
the metaverse? Or is all this merely a fun
distraction from the ‘real’ work of the
and a name for themselves for architects in a realm where they are
competing with game designers and
metaverse office for VICE Media Group,
conceived as a virtual innovation lab
parametric design. Located within the unranked mode
of PUBG Mobile’s Erangel map, the medical centre is
Rhino and Blender can handle.
Renovi will take 8% commission
physical world? others from outside architecture? for the group’s creatives to work with designed as three interlocking buildings. Each relates from any sales, with the rest going to the
NFT art dealer and media artist Baldly put, there is the potential to collaborators and clients. But architects to a possible discipline within a hospital of the future, creators. While price levels are yet to be
Kenny Schachter, who last year for those who aren’t digital natives. win real commissions to create virtual without extensive track records can also including robotic surgery and anti-ageing/longevity. set, there is likely to be a sharp contrast
commissioned Zaha Hadid Architects This isn’t helped by the terminology. environments, and also the chance to promote their designs – and get paid A central open atrium is designed to help players between off-the-shelf creations and
to design an NFT gallery, is in no doubt Metaverse is in essence an umbrella sell ready-made designs that perhaps for their work – according to Adonis navigate the building. premium level custom designs.
that the metaverse is ‘one of greatest term for a vast range of platforms – originated as speculative projects, to Zachariades, co-founder of Renovi. He Zachariades advises architects to
opportunities in history’ as an expansion among them open-source realms with buyers who may have purchased land on is on a mission to set up a niche NFT ‘dip their toes in a bit’ and explore the
of the practice of architecture. their own digital economies such as one of the many platforms. Co-branding marketplace for architects and designers potential, rather than leaving it to game
‘It’s a whole new category of Decentraland - and activities in the opportunities may exist for the biggest to sell and promote their work, and developers and other designers. He’s
architectural process. A million virtual world. Perhaps it’s easiest names and there may in future be expects this to be launched later this already noticed that some youngsters
companies are building their metaverse thinking of it as a spatial next generation potential for monetising digital twins of year. Potential clients will be those leaving university are opting to set up
environments. You have to be proactive internet or, as Space Popular prefers, a real-world buildings. Schachter sees huge buying digital land and wanting to either their own studios for metaverse work
and reach out to clients,’ he says. ‘Young practice which has pioneered virtual scope for practices to promote themselves commission a design for their venture, or straightaway rather than looking for a
architects would be remiss and foolish to architecture, the immersive internet. to clients in both real and virtual worlds buy something ready made. job with a practice.
overlook this vast opportunity to make There’s no doubting that more by digitalising their portfolio ‘in a way Renovi has launched a competition Through their training and
money and a name for themselves.’ and more companies are exploring that resembles experience of navigating for architectural designs for different sensitivity to the enfilade of how space
However the metaverse can be a how they can extend their activities space’ and, in doing so, turning it into typologies for this marketplace, which unfolds, architects are naturally well-
baffling, fast-changing place, especially into the virtual world – whether it be their own metaverse. has attracted hundreds of entries so placed to create virtual environments
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Opportunities
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for the metaverse realm, according to Above Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) has created a as a virtual online opportunity. It will
Renovi architectural advisor Stavros virtual metaverse headquarters for VICE Media help us develop our craft and develop
Group. Located in Decentraland, the office will
Zachariades, an associate at Squire opportunities in the real world. ‘
be open to the group’s businesses as a virtual
and Partners. innovation lab where teams can experiment with
Architects and teachers Space
‘We definitely hold the key to doing NFTs, Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Popular has been designing virtual
that more than anyone. We do it in the real and Web 3.0. immersive spaces for nearly a decade,
world and can do it in the virtual world.’ creating the spatial design as well as the
Without needing to be an expert, ‘back-end’ build including coding. It
a working knowledge of coding is also ZHA typically uses Maya for 3D thinks of all its work, whether physical
an asset for anyone designing in this geometries and Epic Unreal game engine or virtual spaces, as built work.
space, according to Luca Arrigo, founder to convert spaces designed in Maya into ‘For us, it’s the same job – creating
of Decentraland Architects, a practice multi-player environments with audio- spaces for whatever is needed to happen
entirely focused on 3D design and game visual communication capacities. within them. They both inform one
development projects in Decentraland, While liberated from real world another,’ says co-founder Lara Lesmes.
with work including the tallest building practical concerns, Bhooshan says ‘Virtual architecture is not a game. It’s
on that platform. there are new constraints including the an architectural assignment.’
‘Get educated and start trying. amount of ‘triangles’ that determine They have recently seen a pandemic-
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focused design, according to associate experiment. We are interested not only Grimshaw design technology director
director Shajay Bhooshan, who leads Andy Watts expects it to be ‘only a
a research team at the practice with matter of time’ before meta-projects
backgrounds in architecture, computer become more prevalent. As well as
programming and robotics. ZHA has It’s a huge opportunity to demonstrating real life architecture
been undertaking research and pilot in a virtual environment, the practice
projects ‘to grapple with the medium’ experiment. It will help us expects to help to communicate to clients
according to Bhooshan, who describes the value of the metaverse as a tool in a
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Opportunities RIBAJ SterlingOSB Zero competition
The Retreat
THE PICTURE ART COLLECTION / ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

Imagine a modern-day
escape from the world,
formed of SterlingOSB Zero,
and win £2,500 courtesy
of We Fraser (formerly
known as Norbord)
The narrators of the Decameron. Bodleian Library, MS Holkham misc 49f 5r detail. Unknown illustrator c1467.
The idea of the retreat has long been THE BRIEF DEADLINE
embedded in western culture. Take We are asking entrants to design a retreat for up to Entries should be received by 14.00 UK time on
14th century Italian author Giovanni 10 occupants, set within a landscaped setting of their Monday June 20, 2022.
Boccaccio’s The Decameron, written from choosing. This may be one or more storeys in height.
1348-53, whose plot revolves around Terraces or internal courtyards may be incorporated. TO ENTER
10 people fleeing a Florence beset by While we assume the design may be made up of a Go to ribaj.com/retreat-competition-enter
Black Death to seek shelter in a deserted palette of different materials, we would like to see Entries must include the following, laid out on no more
villa outside the city. In the safety of its SterlingOSB Zero used as the main part of the than two A3 sheets, supplied electronically as pdfs:
walled garden, each agrees to tell a story overall material strategy. How does its nature • An explanation of no more than 500 words on
each day over 10 days–- 100 in all – as a and high strength features make it integral to the the entry form, describing the design of the building,
diversion to pass the days of isolation. retreat’s design? stating clearly where SterlingOSB Zero has been
Recent events have made the premise While we do not seek to curb imagination, we used and the core ideas around the design of the
of this nearly 700-year-old text prescient. would ask you to consider the nature of SterlingOSB proposition, its siting and configuration.
Indeed, if the pandemic revealed Zero and ensure propositions reflect its material • Plans and sections explaining the nature of the
anything, it is the desire to escape the capabilities. SterlingOSB Zero used externally should building, its structure, build-up and materials used.
city and seek refuge in the country. be adequately protected with a cladding material and/ • 3D Axonometric or perspective images conveying
West Fraser is asking you to hold or insulation; this may also apply to internal finishes. the nature of the proposition.
SPACE POPULAR
that thought in mind for its seventh • Any supplementary images you consider helpful.
annual SterlingOSB Zero competition, JUDGING
The Retreat. We want you to select a site Chaired by the RIBA Journal, judges will look for NOTES
and design a country escape for up to imaginative uses of SterlingOSB Zero that best • Judging day: 6 July 2022
architectural principles: while others are SPACE POPULAR - ARQUIA/PRÓXIMA interest in 3D animation and video 10 people; one whose form and material responds to the competition brief. Pre-fabrication • The judges’ decision is final
using it to explore designs that won’t, or Design: Space Popular game design. He believes the ability have a strong, considered relationship or CNC fabrication to create novel forms will be • First prize £2,500. Three commended prizes of £500
physically can’t, be built in the real world,’ Client: Arquia Foundation to combine real-world architectural with the landscape it sits in, as well as considered. Other materials may form an integral part • No correspondence will be entered into by the
he says. Another aspect to consider is how experience with virtual design internal volumes that elicit meaningful of the proposition, but it is expected that the design organisers or judges regarding entries and winners.
to protect the intellectual property of Space Popular created a virtual event for the 2020 techniques can give architects the edge interactions between users. Which will make good use of SterlingOSB Zero. • Shortlisted entries will be notified in writing.
built work in metaverse applications. Arquia/Próxima architecture festival. With the theme over gaming designers in this realm. spaces allow small, contemplative The winning proposal in this ideas’ competition • National guidance permitting, shortlisted entries
Populous is setting up a new of Punto de inflexión (Turning Point), the festival ‘You can think in ways a game gatherings and which give exposure to will be the one that, in the minds of the judges, best will be invited to the prize-giving event in September
department to bring designs to life consisted of nine virtual rooms organised on a grid designer might not think,’ he says. the countryside? How are relationships unites practical needs of simple habitation with the • Please email questions to [email protected]
within VR/the metaverse and support reminiscent of the original physical site plan for ‘A lot of people who’ve grown up between them mediated? Inspiration may romantic qualities of the landscape it sits in, in a
the practice’s real-world projects. This Barcelona’s Ensanche district. in architecture became interested in come from a classic design or one of the considered and poetic way. The Retreat is produced in association with
may potentially, for example, lead to According to the practice, ‘each room takes the shape the first place through games, such many new Living Architecture homes West Fraser https://uk.westfraser.com/
virtual counterparts to physical designs of a urban block of the Ensanche at half of its original as Minecraft. They’re now coming – but the building must be constructed, JUDGES
for sporting and esports venues, with size, with the outside forming a street featuring full circle.’ mainly, of SterlingOSB Zero board. Kristofer Adelaide, director, Kristofer Adelaide
the potential also for shared communal abstracted versions of building typologies common in But while metaverse opportunities We place no demands on the site Architecture
virtual spaces that might become hubs the area and the inside displaying exhibition content are emerging for architects, it is still a itself, the materiality or the structure’s Timea Cooper, marketing manager, West Fraser UK
for all sports fans. in elements inspired by digital rather than physical realm of flux as well as potential. size. What we’re looking for is a poetic Stephen Proctor, director, Proctor & Matthews
The department is led by associate space.’ An arena hosted events and acted as a main ‘Currently, we wait for the market to interpretation of the brief, celebrating Debby Ray, head of design, Knight Dragon
Nayan Patel, who combines his gathering space for avatars. The festival was built in evolve,’ says ZHA’s Bhooshan. ‘Everyone the potential of a site, its internal Jan-Carlos Kucharek, deputy editor, RIBA Journal
architectural training with a keen Mozilla HUBS. is in experimental mode.’ • confi guration, and SterlingOSB Zero. •
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Climate action
Clean air action

The simple design moves that give you naturally
ventilated low embodied carbon systems with
genuinely fresh air. Andrew Lerpiniere explains
3
Sustainable 2
architecture
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6
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What is a low-embodied carbon

ventilation system? It’s a simple The key is in controlling of fresh air in winter, with heat
recovered from the exhaust air stream,
The potential energy saving, from
reduced heating requirements, and the
1 Buffer zone around atrium enables closer
environmental control of communal spaces
live and work. Not working during the
hottest two weeks of the year may be part
the supply of fresh air,

with minimum energy expenditure.
question, with a simple answer: natural is undoubtedly an energy efficient improved levels of comfort, can justify of a pragmatic solution to dealing with
2 Sun warms at high level in atrium, creating
ventilation. There are no fans with solution, particularly when compared to the increased complexity and embodied enhanced stack effect and driving natural
increasing temperatures in low-energy
bearings or electric motors, or the carbon
used in making them. All you need to do which adds an element of the simplest ‘open the window’ natural
ventilation schemes. The argument of
energy.
There are other reasons why we’ve 3
ventilation through the building.
Western elevation protected from low-angle
buildings.
is open the windows, it is about as simple

complexity course is that the uncontrolled supply of chosen to move towards hermetically Summer fun
south-westerly summer sun by adjacent
building. Rooms at northern end will require
as ventilation can be. cold winter air directly affects heating sealed buildings, especially within our It is still possible to design naturally
blinds to prevent heat build-up from early
At one time all buildings were bills and the comfort of the occupants. cities – principally noise and pollution. evening westerly sun.
ventilated buildings that work in
naturally ventilated, and we understood It’s interesting then to think about the 4 Use of stone in the building provides thermal the summer. Heat can be kept out by
how to make those buildings work, to Benefit balance future of our cities. Looking beyond mass, used in conjunction with the natural limiting glazing; just enough for good
make them comfortable, pleasant places But natural ventilation can also current congestion charging and low- ventilation to regulate temperatures and levels of daylighting, positioned to avoid
avoid the need for any mechanical cooling.
to inhabit. With the invention of cooling deliver low energy in use. The key is emission zones, vehicles of the future too much direct solar gain. Shading
5 Early morning sun on east facade provides
systems, we no longer needed to rely on in controlling the supply of fresh air. will be predominantly, if not fully, beneficial warming of buffer zones.
can keep out the sun. Creating buffer
outdoor air to provide comfort as well This adds an element of complexity, a electric. Gas-fired boilers, and combined 6 Natural cross ventilation, via the atrium, will zones can ‘protect’ the most important,
as to remove odours. Buildings could be requirement for equipment that can heat and power engines, will be phased provide good levels of fresh air throughout most used spaces. Thermal mass,
designed with great glass facades that control how air enters the building, out. The main sources of noise and and remove heat generated from internal provided with low-carbon stone, will
loads.
could never have been made comfortable such as automatically operated vents pollution will be much reduced and one cool overnight and deliver that cooling
7 Low level automatic vents linked to and
with natural ventilation. that are linked to carbon dioxide day will no longer exist. Outdoor can controlled by CO2 and temperature sensors.
back into the building by day. And the
The days of throwing cooling at sensors and temperature sensors. Such then truly be considered ‘fresh’. 8 Glazing limited to that needed to provide use of controlled natural ventilation,
the problem are largely behind us. The sensors would be carefully positioned to On the other hand, global warming good levels of daylighting, positioned to avoid with carefully designed cross ventilation
drive towards reduced energy use and monitor conditions in the occupied zone, means that we will have increased direct solar gain. enhanced by natural stack effect.
9 Shading to keep out the summer sun. Meeting
sustainability has taken us in a different typically at head height, and connected temperatures. Part of the solution may Designing and delivering naturally
room protected from high angle summer sun
direction: highly insulated, extremely to a central building management be that we move out of the city to cooler by corridor set back, prevents overheating.
ventilated buildings can deliver low
airtight buildings that require much less system so that operation can be climes during the summer. Lockdown Low-angle winter sun allowed to penetrate to carbon on all fronts, and be beautiful
heating and cooling energy, but demand monitored. Hardly ground-breaking, has taught us that there are other ways provide beneficial heating. places to be. •
to be mechanically ventilated. in controls terms, but it does move of working. I hope, more importantly, Andrew Lerpiniere leads on building
There is much that is good in this the system away from the beautifully that it has also instilled a sense that services engineering at Webb Yates
approach. The controlled delivery simple ‘open the window’ solution. there are other approaches to how we Engineers
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Culture 87
Leader
‘The teimony of people familiar

with their new homes, quirks and all,
elevated projes’
An added sense
of purpose
Eleanor Young relishes the extra dimension
that a year of living has given the RIBA
Awards in their po-Covid comeback
‘And that’s the cleaning cupboard,’ he rounded when Covid was just a distant threat in December ONLY ON RIBAJ.COM
off. Jamie of building operations had walked 2019. It doubled in size but went on to triple in One of the most
me round the dramatic swirling atrium with utility with phone outreach and minor surgery,
an involved commentary on temperature, door all underpinned by that precious pandemic hostile environments
controls and ventilation, diving off now and then commodity, decent ventilation. for Matthews
to fix cronky floor outlet covers that students The year in use also gave some sustainable
had wrenched off at an angle while trying to plug buildings the chance to really prove themselves
was the Hockley
in laptops. The architects’ flexible space was to with data on energy and water use; there was a Circus underpass in
him a round of shifting chairs. He loved the job sense of glee as the judges were handed the post Birmingham, where
and when we got to the top of the atrium he even occupancy report on the home in use and the
KALDEWEI SUPERPLAN ZERO SHOWER FLOOR paused for a moment, to enjoy his favourite spot. lessons learnt at the Library House. Projects with he was asked if he’d
There can be such different experiences of sustainability awards this year are all the more scored yet
buildings. For this issue of the RIBA Journal the remarkable for having been started before LETI Chris Matthews on
team and I have read tens of intense descriptions and RIBA Climate Challenge targets were drawn photographing for
Owen Hatherley:
written by the chairs of the regional juries (you up. What a responsibility, what a privilege to
ribaj.com/gazetteer
see them here in their short form). Region by manage this technical innovation for the climate,
region these vignettes change their flavour, one while continuing to delight users day after day. •
juror most alive to the orientation of the building,
another judge homing in on the material palette,
or the way light was brought in, bringing life to
many of the citations. Below Delight and performance married
But also, more importantly, the experiences in MacDonald Wright’s Library House.
Choreographed precision and elegance of the users are captured here. This was the first
time that the RIBA Awards have been judged
after a minimum of a year of occupation. Despite
the danger of the conversation get bogged down
by issues of wear and tear, the extra year and
the testimony of people familiar with their new
The steel enamel SUPERPLAN ZERO shower floor combines the strength
homes, quirks and all, actually elevated some of
of steel with the exquisite beauty of glass. Its refined and graceful lines fit STEPHANIE WUNDERLICH PHOTO: HEIKO PRIGGE
the projects.
perfectly with the overall look of the room.
At the Copper House in Cambridge a one
room extension linking kitchen and garden gave
PHOTOGRAPHER Bryan Adams a mother the ability to continue working while
her children were playing outside during Covid
restrictions. A party house in a barn has proved
itself as a family home as the owners upped sticks
and moved there. It became more than a one liner,
thus, for the judges, making itself worthy of an
Visit KALDEWEI.COM award. The surgery in Sawbridgeworth finished
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Culture 89
Opinion
RIBA Academy Rebellion road trip

Core CPD
As our world grows increasingly
unprediable, movements both to
adapt and resi are commandeering
available to book the highways as their agents

One of my schoolteachers once told me that the
reason the UK did not have a revolution in the
rather than trying to hold them up (the movement
began as a protest against fuel duty, although it
19th or 20th centuries was its lack of grand public subsequently became more broad and nebulous).
squares. This prevented large enough crowds Earlier this year the US and Canada experienced
The 2022 RIBA Core CPD Programme is now available from congregating, a revolutionary prerequisite. the ‘freedom convoys’, outwardly against
to book on RIBA Academy. I repeated this factoid to others as it sounded pandemic health measures, but motivated by a
plausible. Such spaces are associated with free murky stew of right-wing conspiracies.
Meet your annual CPD requirements by purchasing a Club speech and protest; the UK was not ‘good’ at These disparate movements are expressions
Ticket. This will secure your space on each of the 10 Core squares in the way those riotous Europeans were. of intense political feeling by groups that feel
CPD topics, and gives you a significant saving compared It invited the thought that the British might failed by traditional political outlets – as direct
to pay-as-you-go events. be bad at squares on purpose, as if that was the action generally is. But the different ways they
only thing standing between this island and the relate to the road, and to the flow of traffic, are
Find out more: architecture.com/RIBAAcademy sans-culottes. Perhaps the fountains in Trafalgar quite striking. The grassroots freeway protests
Square are deliberately over-sized in order to and Insulate Britain blockades are purposefully
limit its capacity, and the possibility of violent disruptive and disturbing, irruptions on foot into
revolt explains why Parliament Square must the world of the car, designed to interrupt the
remain a dispiriting traffic roundabout? In this flow of the everyday and drag their message into
view, the perpetual gyre of white vans serves the depoliticised frame of the windscreen. The
the purpose of the mounted yeomanry, keeping roadside Gilets Jaunes’ presences were more an
the plebs kettled away from Parliament. Traffic expression of solidarity with motorists, almost
used to be regarded as the enemy of protest, but a warning to them – ‘we were once like you’.
in recent years roads have become a target for Meanwhile the convoys are solidly behind the
political expression, in various interesting ways. wheel, the larger and more imposing the vehicle
I’m not talking here about the fraught national the better – amusingly many ‘truckers’ turned out FERVOUR GOES
debate over ‘low-traffic neighbourhoods’ and to have hired their trucks for the occasion. FURTHER
similar initiatives. I mean, first of all, the I suspect these different stances with respect Recently I’ve been
disruption of traffic as an activist tactic. There’s to traffic represent different attitudes to a 20th looking into the history
nothing new about that: as a teenager I took part century idea of normality, one undisturbed by of Trafalgar Square
in Critical Mass mobile blockades in the 1990s. the climate crisis and the pandemic, a normality for a possible book,
But it has become the signature tactic of civil we are now obliged to reassess. Some burst into and I’ve found little to
disobedience in recent years, starting with the the flow, and say we must change, things cannot support the architectural
freeway protests against police violence in the US go on as they have. Others reassert the flow with conspiracy theory about
STEPHANIE WUNDERLICH PHOTO: SUNPIX TRAVEL/ ALAMY STOCK PHOTO

a decade ago, and recently here with Extinction increasing aggression, bigger vehicles, more flags, the fountains. Moreover,
Rebellion and Insulate Britain’s campaigns. as the road ahead looks less and less certain.• it doesn’t withstand
On both sides of the Atlantic, these tactics have Will Wiles is a writer. Read him here and on ribaj.com much critical thought.
been met with furious official reaction. Some US
Sites of protest: Trafalgar Square
Revolutionary mobs don’t
states have tried to make murder legal, as long as and the National Gallery in London. issue RSVPs or depend
the victim is a protester and the killer is driving. on a quorum. Even with
UK Conservatives are trying to make any protest the fountains, Trafalgar
that causes noise or annoyance illegal, an odious Square has hosted many
strike against freedom of expression. In both cases large and consequential
the sanctity of the roadway must be preserved. demonstrations, from the
But it’s not just blockades. In France, the Gilets Chartists to the Poll Tax
Jaunes were at the start a roadside phenomenon, riots. The Royal Parks
taking up positions beside junctions and on are capacious, and close
roundabouts, and identifying with motorists, at hand. And so on.

90 Competition Culture 91
Eye Line President
Eye Line 2022:

Simon Allford
stand for election
call for entries

Our preigious annual drawing
competition is open – add your work to a
decade’s brilliant submissions Take your part in
Above Eye Line 2021 Practitioner winner Rory Chisholm with ‘Manchester
our ‘cosa nora’
Courtyards: a proposal for Ancoats’. Pencil and ink. 560mm x 1120mm How should the RIBA work? What would make it better?
Stand, join the eleion process, says Simon Allford
Eye Line 2022, RIBAJ’s annual international competition
showcasing the best drawing and rendering skills, is open Siderise is thrilled to be sponsoring Eye Line, which I am now just over two hundred days into my 700 order does not preclude committing to serve the JOIN THE PARTY
to entries. As ever, we ask for images in two categories – celebrates the first stage of architectural creativity – the day term – I have refrained from counting the RIBA. Indeed, I would strongly argue that the Coming soon… this
student and practitioner – that brilliantly communicate drawing. Siderise supports architects by developing hours and the minutes! – and already the elections institute needs members with independent and year’s Royal Gold
architecture, in any medium or combination of media. In the leading passive fire solutions to protect even the most process for the next president, and some Council fresh critical insights. Those who are willing to Medal celebration!
competition’s 10th year, we are looking for work that defies creative building envelope design. seats, has begun. engage in rethinking our future. On Wednesday 15
the constrained outlook of the last two years and posits a Too few of our members vote and even fewer As an architect I am very aware that, like June the RIBA will be
sense of optimism and hope. stand. This is understandable as for most of us Groucho Marx, none of us is keen to join any club celebrating the lifetime
We are on the hunt for images of all kinds, from a hand- EYE LINE RULES Judges the pursuit of architectural thinking in practice, that will have us. But the RIBA is our ‘cosa nostra’. work and achievements
drawn concept sketch to technically proficient and layered We seek the best 2D representations Rory Chisholm, 2021 Eye Line winner academe – and for many beyond the confines of It is our thing. We invented it, we are responsible of our 2022 Royal Gold
renders. For us, ‘drawing’ includes any method by which of a building design or concept through (practitioner) our profession – is far more engaging than the for it – so we need to make sure it is seriously Medallist Balkrishna
the power of an architectural idea is communicated; be it visual means. They may be hand or Niall Hobhouse, trustee, Drawing Matter potential distraction of a part-time career as a useful and serious fun. I must add that being Doshi. The event will be
depictions of existing buildings or works of the imagination. digitally drawn, incorporating collage or Kester Rattenbury, professor, serving member of the RIBA. I hope, however serious does not mean you cannot have fun. The an online ceremony, and
Practitioners and students enter in different categories: any combination or overlay of methods. architecture and cities, University of that our ever increasing commitment to debate RIBA can entertain, as well as inform, but must we’ll be sharing further
• Student category – images made by those in architectural Video and straight photography Westminster and discourse at RIBA will ensure the ever greater never hector. details on how you can
education or who are submitting images made before final excluded Ana Luisa Soares, co-founder, Fala Atelier engagement of you, our membership. So I urge you to consider your own situation. join in the coming weeks
qualification. Enter in either the student or Adam Turk , CEO, Siderise Encouragingly, I have heard from a few people Could you stand and help make the RIBA the vital – stay tuned.
• Practitioner category: images made by those fully practitioner category. The RIBA Jan-Carlos Kucharek, deputy editor, I know, and others I don’t, that they are minded to hub that engages with each other and the wider
qualified and working in practice, whether for real-life Journal reserves the right to reallocate RIBA Journal, chair stand for office. That is good news for the RIBA. world? The home of the profession’s thinkers,
projects or to explore ideas and experiences. to a different category if deemed To flourish the institute needs to be populated educators and doers. The ‘Institute of Ideas’ –
Winners and commendations will be exhibited at the necessary Key dates by members who creatively and usefully serve ideas that assist us all to improve what we do, and
RIBA alongside a winners’ party with winning entries A maximum of three images per entry, Deadline: 6 May 2022, 14.00 GMT architecture but not just the two masters of our how we do it. •
published in print and online. Our colleagues at the RIBA which can be from different projects or Judging: 19 May 2022 art and our practice. Currently the institute
Drawings and Archives Collection at the V&A Museum will all from the same project Winners and commendations and the profession are too narrowly defined. By
consider our winners for inclusion in their archive. Joint entries on which more than one announced: choosing to stand and share your own particular
Last year’s practitioner winner was Rory Chisholm person has worked are permissible July/August 2022 issue of RIBAJ and and different modus operandi you can help drive
for his ‘Manchester Courtyards’, a fluid render in pen and All entries must be uploaded via the on ribaj.com change and promote the dynamic and varied
ink, whose scope ranged from the detail to the city. Student link below. We cannot accept physical Exhibition August/September 2022 profession that exists but is unfortunately not
winner was Annabelle Tan from the Bartlett School, whose works. Images must be at 300dpi, file (provisional) represented. You can also help to engage with our
reimagining of the Norfolk landscape through healing ‘craft size a maximum of 25Mb Correspondence: [email protected] diaspora: those who studied but never qualified.
industries’ produced a drawn narrative informed by her The work must have been produced These people are a vital part of the profession
Singaporean roots and notions of the English Picturesque. within the three years up to the closing and connect RIBA with the wider construction
STEPHANIE WUNDERLICH PHOTO: ISTOCK
Commendations in both categories mused on Persian date of Friday 6 May 2022 and must industry.
architecture, ‘queerspace’ and quarries. not previously have been entered for Standing for office of course requires effort.
Every year we are gratified by the originality, wit Eye Line And an altered mind set. One where you retain
and talent represented in the Eye Line entries: a truly Enter at: ribaj.com/culture/ your critical faculties but commit to work
international, free-to-enter award conducted online. enter-eye-line within to help change things for the better. I am
Practitioners and students – show us your best drawings and personally committed first to architecture, then
join a prestigious decade of winners! • the profession, then the industry and finally the Could you stand for
Eye Line 2022 is produced in partnership with Siderise RIBA. But having priorities in that descending RIBA offi ce?
92 Culture 93
Book review
‘Iofan’s trajectory was clear; he was

serving the proletariat’
Beijing’s Imperial City’ as Sudjic puts it) without

any open competition but with Rykov’s unstinting
support. The immense blocky building to which
Iofan and Olga (and her children) moved was his
work but it had been a continuous saga of disaster
EKATERINA MAKAROVA.
– from a chaotic, over-manned construction site
to a major fire. Several enquiries were held into
the multiple failures. Le Corbusier, a somewhat
gloating player until non-payment clouded his
vision, noted that ‘Moscow is full of ideas in birth
pangs, of ideas being elaborated’.
Meanwhile Iofan moved smartly onwards. Opposite One of Iofan’s
In the early 1930s he won a series of design many designs for the
unbuilt Palace of the
competitions for the Palace of the Soviets,
Soviets.
which was to be built on the site of a demolished Above Boris Iofan,
cathedral. With this, Sudjic hits his stride. The his wife Olga, his
ALBUM/ALAMY.
spiralling, towering structure with its sculptural brother Dmitry, and
superstructure offers a grotesque and epic design his team with their
prize-winning design
saga, with visual nods to the romantic utopianism
in the international
of Étienne-Louis Boullée and the visceral
The architect who outlived Stalin

competition for the
overload of the Victor Emmanuel monument Palace of the Soviets.
in Rome. Lenin’s form was to stand atop the Right Iofan’s Soviet
structure, but Stalin sat in the middle of it all. Pavilion under
Gillian Darley reviews Deyan Sudjic’s biography of Boris Iofan, who designed Figuratively, at least, the colossus as designed, construction for the
HERITAGE IMAGES/FINE ART IMAGES/GETTY IMAGES

Paris Expo of 1937,
for the Soviet elite and managed to survive into his eighties, living in one of his and everlastingly redesigned, is a metaphor for with Vera Mukhina’s
Stalinism and beyond. The chasm prepared for it
own modernist buildings (which became a bathing pool in the Krushchev
huge sculpture as its
highpoint.
It takes a particular type of person to work in the Stalin’s Architect: and Olga were asked by the Soviet Embassy to era) now houses the rebuilt cathedral that rose in
service of an autocrat. The ideal is a malleable, Power and Survival in translate for and guide the couple. This meeting 2000 to greet Putin’s dawn.
Moscow
faceless individual prepared to duck and weave with Rykov signalled Iofan’s return to Moscow, Stalin’s purges had seen the Rykovs executed
Deyan Sudjic
through a succession of hurricanes. Boris Iofan, Thames & Hudson,
his speedy professional ascent and the beginning in early 1938 and the incremental removal
born in Odesa to middle class Jewish parents, £30 of a close friendship. of Iofan’s architectural colleagues from the
became one of Stalin’s most favoured architects In Italy, Iofan worked as an assistant to professional landscape. Yet when his name
and was still working in the USSR in the 1970s. Armando Brasini, who graduated from art appeared on one of secret police chief Beria’s
That he died in his eighties, in the modernist direction on the film Quo Vadis to the remodelling death lists, Stalin countermanded it with the
Barvikha sanitorium he had designed for Moscow’s of Tripoli as a Roman city on Libyan soil. Brasini gnomic words ‘This one will still be useful to us’.
elite decades earlier, proves he was such a man. exemplified another version of serving an Deyan Sudjic visited the apartment in the as he was detached from the terrible end of his
The buildings take centre stage in these pages. absolutist, happily donning fascist uniform in glowering House on the Embankment in 2008, patron Rykov. Adaptability, in architectural
Iofan’s architecturally formative years were spent Mussolini’s company. Back home, Iofan designed little altered 30 years after Iofan’s death. There he design as in personal allegiances, had made him
in Rome, pulling him to classicism but especially a housing scheme around a key thermal power found, among much else, the astonishing sketches strong. Seemingly the only rigour guiding Boris
the Renaissance. As important was his meeting plant in the Donbass. Sketched freely in charcoal, which are used to enormous effect in the book. and Olga was their politics. Iofan’s work for Soviet
with Olga Sasso-Ruffo, daughter of Italian and the little rustic villas are steeped in the Italian Boris Iofan started his Moscow architectural glory was best captured in his festival pavilions
Russian nobility. Considerably older than him, vernacular, with deep eaves and tiled roofs. Still, career in an 18th century town house but quickly in Paris (1937) and New York (1939). In the
she was married with children, but together they Iofan’s trajectory was clear; he was serving the moved to head a state studio on the model of former, he impressively summoned up a climactic
mixed in the radical circles around founding proletariat. By 1926 he was laying out sketches those described by Hannes Meyer, seeing it from sequence recalling the Odesa steps, positioning
members of the Italian Communist Party and for Government House (soon to be known as the a Bauhaus perspective. Always there, nudging Stalin at their head. In March 2022, writing this
later married. In 1924 Aleksei Rykov – who after House on the Embankment) on the floor of the into every workplace photograph, was the while Ukraine fights for its very existence, that
Lenin’s death was made the Soviet premier – came prime minister’s Kremlin flat. He had secured ubiquitous Olga. Meanwhile Iofan seemed as juxtaposition could hardly be more chilling. •
with his wife Nina to convalesce in Italy. Boris this vast commission (‘the Soviet version of relaxed about the removal of historic buildings Gillian Darley is a writer and architectural historian
94 Culture 95
Exhibition
Rooms with an Why are some rooms more private

than others? Why do we have rooms
alternative view dedicated to specific functions?
RIBA’s Radical Rooms highlights the extraordinary

homes of four women in an immersive reflection on
BERNARD COX/RIBA COLLECTIONS

domestic norms, say its creators
Radical Rooms is an exhibition about

architecture and power. This relationship is
explored through the seemingly ordinary world
of houses and domestic plans that structure
family life. Historically, this involved strict
hierarchies and separation by class, gender, age
and occupation. Today, these divisions are often Sometimes these houses are radical because of
less explicit but remain present. Why are some who lived there, sometimes because of how they
rooms more private than others? Why do we have were planned, or how they reflected changes in
rooms dedicated to specific functions? And who society. Each breaks out of normative modes of
Left Performers
gets to decide the layout of our houses? appearing in
planning to suggest alternative organisations of
Robin Evans’ 1978 essay Figures, Doors and projections on the domestic space and other ways to live together.
Passages forms the starting point. He showed how gallery wall represent This immersive, multi-sensory experience
the grid of interconnected rooms in Palladian the inhabitants of is the product of a collaboration between an
three featured houses,
DI MAINSTONE (2)
villas was later adapted by the introduction of architect, an artist, and RIBA curators Marie
whose architecture is
the corridor as a device for separating rooms and reintepreted in their
Bak Mortensen and Margaret Cubbage. Like all
people – a seemingly banal development that costumes, designed by good creative collaborations, the key decisions
manifested profound concerns about privacy, Di Mainstone seemed to happen naturally. The choice of the
segregation and social control. three key houses emerged suddenly, shaped by
Our exhibition traces an alternative history, Radical Rooms: performances projected onto the walls. Together, Left Patty Hopkins in the increasing importance of the role of women
highlighting moments of escape or departure Power of the Plan they become the inhabitants of the spaces, telling the master bedroom within the narrative of the exhibition. We visited
RIBA Architecture of the Hopkins House
from normative domestic layouts and the their stories through music, dance and spoken A La Ronde during the summer of 2021, and
Gallery, 66 Portland in Downshire Hill,
tyranny of the corridor. It comprises three main Place, London
word. Each protagonist is freely interpreted as a London.
were equally convinced of its inclusion. Eager to
elements: a physical installation, an audio-visual 28 April–30 July fresh archetype: Bess becomes a grime MC, her Above right The long involve Patty Hopkins in the development of our
performance and a display of archive material braggadocious attitude matching the astronomical gallery at Hardwick ideas, we visited the Hopkins House together and
from the RIBA Collections. ambitions of Hardwick Hall. The Parminters are Hall, Derbyshire. were smitten by its ethereal interiors.
The gallery is divided into a grid of connected re-imagined as a pair of punk flâneurs, proto- Radical Rooms is intended as both a reflection
rooms formed by curtains and patterns on feminists fabricating a playful monument to their on architectural history and a provocation to
the floor. As one passes through the gallery, personal freedom. Patty Hopkins lends a voice- reinvent that history. It plays fast and loose
their colours and details change to evoke three over to a minimalist electronic score that evokes with architectural genres and jumps back and
extraordinary houses commissioned or designed her love of refined industrial components and the forth through time. In place of static walls and
by women, whose influence has generally been subtle, free-flowing spaces of her home. solid stone it makes architecture out of fabrics,
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downplayed in architectural history. The characters are clad in extraordinary outfits furnishings and costumes, suggesting that the
Hardwick Hall is an Elizabethan mansion and accessories using the same patterns as the conventions of domestic space are not fixed. It
built for lavish entertaining and commissioned curtains and carpets. Bess’ ruff is as grandiose as celebrates the work of four women who remade
by Bess of Hardwick. A La Ronde is a 16-sided her house, the Parminters sport 16-sided bonnets their lives through architecture and in doing
Regency cottage conceived by two cousins, Jane and wallpaper-patterned pantaloons, while Patty so challenged the preconceptions of their
and Mary Parminter, based on the chapel of San inhabits a wearable space-frame and a costume time. Radical Rooms is an exhibition about
Vitale of Ravenna in Italy. The Hopkins House, evoking the venetian blinds that modulate light in architectural plans, but also about how we inhabit
designed by Patty and Michael Hopkins in the her house. Subtle evocations of the houses occur in them and how – through that inhabitation – we
mid-1970s as their home and office, used mass- a play of patterns, plans and geometries. make new plans all the time. •
produced and industrial components. Somewhere in all this and partly concealed Charles Holland is the founder of Charles Holland
Bess of Hardwick, Jane and Mary Parminter by the curtains is an exhibition of drawings Architects. Di Mainstone is an artist working in
and Patty Hopkins appear in a series of that charts a 400-year history of radical houses. performance, installation and film.
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governing city regions down to ornament and describe, a whole theory of design. office, hybrid or home-based working?
detailing. ‘104, Site Repair: when there’s a nice bit That was expounded in a four-volume treatise,
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and a wrecked bit, build on the nasty to look out The Nature of Order (2002). Chris saw this as his
on the nice’; ‘159, Light on Two Sides of a Room: a masterwork, explaining that while the Patterns knowledge required.
big window on one wall is glare; two smaller ones, were nice, as snapshots, he sought the underlying • Accommodation: describe the type and
on different walls, is modelling’. laws behind all great architecture that were also location of accommodation you are offering.
They were to be stitched into a structured observed in nature and great art – like boundary It must be for a minimum of 6 months.
language for each project. Alongside architecture, (from cell wall to defensible space), local symmetry
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analyst, with work like Notes on the Synthesis complex as it needs to be). These key observations • Call to action: is there a deadline for
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