Stirling Prize shortlist will come from 49 nominated buildings
Foster + Partners鈥� Bloomberg London headquarters and Arboreal Architecture鈥檚 memorial to victims of a wartime tube-station disaster two miles east are among the winners of this year鈥檚 RIBA National Awards.
The 49-strong best-building roll of honour also includes Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners鈥� (RSHP) long-completed Leadenhall 黑洞社区, Amanda Levete鈥檚 Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter and Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios鈥� Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.
The shortlist for the Stirling Prize is drawn from National Awards winners and will be announced on 19 July.
By practice, AHMM netted the biggest haul of awards, racking up gongs for its White Collar Factory office scheme at London鈥檚 Old Street roundabout, its Weston Street mixed-use office and residential scheme in Bermondsey and its reinvention of Liverpool鈥檚 Royal Court Theatre.
Eight practices won two National Awards, either in their own right or shared with other architects. RSHP鈥檚 second award was for the 拢200m Riverlight mixed-use development at Battersea, in conjunction with EPR Architects.
The other practices picking up two National Awards were Amin Taha + Groupwork, Bennetts Associates, FCBS, Hawkins Brown, Henley Halebrown, Maccreanor Lavington and Niall McLaughlin Architects.
RIBA said that 鈥渒ey trends鈥� among this year鈥檚 award winners included buildings with dual or multiple uses to benefit local communities, such as Bennetts Associates鈥� Storyhouse in Chester, which is a library by day and a theatre by night, and housing schemes, such as Karakusevic Carson and Henley Halebrow鈥檚 Kings Cresent Estate homes in east London.
It added that schemes using building materials that are sensitive to a project鈥檚 local context 鈥� such as the V&A鈥檚 Exhibition Road Quarter and Witherford Watson Mann Architects鈥� Walthamstow Wetlands 鈥� was another key theme, as was the reuse and regeneration of commercial-sector buildings. RIBA cited Piercy & Company鈥檚 25 Savile Row and Hawkins Brown鈥檚 53 Great Suffolk Street projects as examples of the latter.
RIBA president Ben Derbyshire said he was 鈥減articularly pleased鈥� to see some large-scale housing schemes among the 2018 winners, and that they were 鈥渂eacons鈥� of the possible for 鈥渆nlightened local authorities and developers鈥�.
He added: 鈥淔rom exceptional mixed-use buildings that bring a community together, and breathing new life into dilapidated buildings, to getting the best value from an awkward site or limited budget, every one of this year鈥檚 winners is a testament to the architects鈥� skill in solving a range of challenges to create projects that will inspire and delight their users and communities for years to come.鈥�
RIBA National Award winners 2018
15 Clerkenwell Close: Groupwork + Amin Taha Architects (London)
25 Savile Row: Piercy & Company Derwent (London)
53 Great Suffolk Street: Hawkins Brown (London)
Albert Works: Cartwright Pickard Architects (Yorkshire)
Bethnal Green Memorial: Arboreal Architecture (London)
Bloomberg, London: Foster & Partners (London)
Boroughmuir High School, Edinburgh: Allan Murray Architects (Scotland)
Bushey Cemetery: Waugh Thistleton Architects (East)
Caroline Place: Amin Taha + Groupwork (London)
Chadwick Hall, University of Roehampton: Henley Halebrown (London)
City of London Freemen鈥檚 School Swimming Pool: Hawkins Brown (South East)
Coastal House: 6a Architects (South West)
Durham Cathedral Open Treasure: Purcell (North East)
Five Acre Barn: Blee Halligan (East)
Gasholders: Wilkinson Eyre with Jonathan Tuckey Design (London)
Kings Crescent Estate, Hackney, Phases 1 and 2: Karakusevic Carson Architects with Henley Halebrown (London)
Kingsgate Primary Lower School, Camden: Maccreanor Lavington Architects (London)
Knox Bhavan Studio: Knox Bhavan Architects (London)
Liverpool鈥檚 Royal Court: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (North West)
Lochside House: Haysom Ward Miller Architects (Scotland)
Maggie鈥檚 Oldham: dRMM Architects (North West)
Marlborough Primary School, Kensington and Chelsea: Dixon Jones (London)
New Tate St Ives: Jamie Fobert Architects with Evans & Shalev Tate (South West)
Nucleus, The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Caithness Archive: Reiach and Hall Architects (Scotland)
Old Shed New House: Tonkin Liu (Yorkshire)
R7, Kings Cross: Duggan Morris Architects with Weedon Architects (London)
Riverlight: Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners with EPR Architects (London)
Royal Academy of Music, The Angela Burgess Recital Hall and The Susie Sainsbury Theatre: Ian Ritchie Architects (London)
Royal Albert Wharf Phase 1: Maccreanor Lavington Architects (London)
Royal Birmingham Conservatoire: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (West Midlands)
Shaftesbury Theatre: Bennetts Associates (London)
Sibson 黑洞社区, University of Kent: Penoyre & Prasad (South East)
St Augustines Church: Roz Barr Architects (London)
St David鈥檚 Hospice, New InPatient Unit: KKE Architects (Wales)
Storey鈥檚 Field Community Centre and Nursery, University of Cambridge: MUMA (East)
Storyhouse, Chester: Bennetts Associates with Ellis Williams (North West)
The David Attenborough 黑洞社区, University of Cambridge: Nicholas Hare Architects (East)
The Department Store: Squire and Partners (London)
The Leadenhall 黑洞社区: Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (London)
The Piece Hall and Calderdale Central Library and Archives: LDN Architects (Yorkshire)
The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Worcester College, University of Oxford: Niall McLaughlin Architects (South)
University of Birmingham Indoor Sports Centre: Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands (West Midlands)
University of Roehampton Library: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (London)
Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter: AL_A (London)
Victoria Hall King鈥檚 Cross: Stanton Williams (London)
Walthamstow Wetlands: Witherford Watson Mann Architects (London)
West Court Jesus College, University of Cambridge: Niall McLaughlin Architects (East)
Weston Street: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (London)
White Collar Factory: Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (London)
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