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The Tate Modern extension; Norwich鈥檚 straw-clad Enterprise Centre, and Brighton鈥檚 new 鈥渧ertical pier鈥� are among the 49 best British buildings of the year, announced today by RIBA.

Herzog & de Meuron鈥檚 huge addition to the former Bankside Power Station 鈥� also known as the Blavatnik 黑洞社区 and Switch House 鈥� won particular praise for its chain-mail brick fa莽ade, while Architype鈥檚 environmentally friendly office building for the University of East Anglia was described as 鈥渁 tour de force in the exploration and use of sustainable materials鈥�.

Marks Barfield Architects鈥� British Airways i360 observation tower in Brighton was saluted for its 鈥渆xtraordinary innovation and originality鈥� by judges of the awards, which serve as a long list for the building-of-the-year Stirling Prize.

Other winning schemes include Caruso St John鈥檚 Liverpool Philharmonic Hall refurbishment; Haworth Tompkins鈥� Silchester social housing development in Notting Hill, west London; and Invisible Studio鈥檚 Wolfson Tree Management Centre at Westonbirt Arboretum in Gloucestershire

Three practices notched up double wins in this year鈥檚 national awards.

Wilkinson Eyre won awards for both its expansion of the Dyson Campus in Wiltshire and 8 Finsbury Circus in the City of London.

Eric Parry Architects won awards for the Welding Institute near Cambridge and new music facilities for Wells Cathedral School, while Stephenson Studio picked up accolades for the Stoller Studio at Chetham鈥檚 School of Music and the Finlays Warehouse housing development, both in Manchester.

RIBA president Jane Duncan said the 2017 roll-call of national winners was a list of 鈥減henomenal buildings鈥� created by extraordinarily talented, ambitious and enthusiastic design teams.

She said it was particularly pleasing to see great examples of well-designed sustainable new homes among the award winners in light of the UK鈥檚 housing crisis.

鈥淒erwenthorpe in York is a fantastic socially and environmentally sustainable housing development; in London, Silchester and Ponders End are both great examples of estate regeneration bringing thoughtful and community based affordable housing to the capital,鈥� she said.

鈥淪adly though, these projects are exceptions. We all deserve a well-designed, affordable home, wherever we live in the country. I encourage other local authorities, developers and clients to look at these projects as exemplars.鈥�

Duncan praised the selection of high-quality new school buildings included on the 2017 awards list 鈥� naming Parry鈥檚 Wells Cathedral School project and Grimshaw鈥檚 鈥淭he Laboratory鈥� at Dulwich College.

However, she said it was 鈥渄isappointing鈥� that, after a few boom years, there were no cost-effective state-school buildings among the award winners.

鈥淲ell-designed schools support improved student achievement, and staff and student wellbeing and should be part of educational aspirations for all our schools, not just those in the fee-paying sector,鈥� she said.

RIBA National Award winners are all contenders for the Stirling Prize, the shortlist for which is set to be announced on July 20.

Full list of national award winners for 2017