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For images, interviews and more information about the RIBA special awards please contact Beatrice Cooke at the RIBA on 020 7307 3813; or
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The RIBA Awards have been running continuously since 1966 and are judged and presented locally. No matter the shape, size, budget or location, RIBA Award winning schemes set the standard for great architecture all across the country. RIBA Awards are for buildings in the UK by RIBA Chartered Architects and RIBA International Fellows. Winners are considered for the RIBA Stirling Prize.
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Stephen Lawrence Prize judges citations:
Hill Top House, Oxford
Architect: Adrian James Architects
Client: Private
Contractor: Carter Construction
Consultants: Baqus Sworn King, Price & Myers
Contract Value:confidential
Date of completion: August 2011
Gross internal area: 180 sq m
The architects describe this scheme as ‘an essay in concrete for clients who relish the uncompromising ascetic quality of the material’. The four level house follows a rigorous plan with double volume corridors either side of a circulation and services core. Despite the small footprint, the abiding impression is one of space flowing in all directions.
The construction employs large precast panels for the party walls. This enabled the main structure to be built very quickly. Altogether a tour-de-force in urban residential design.
Kings Grove 16A Kings Grove, London SE15
Architect: Duggan Morris Architects
Client: Confidential
Contractor: ME Construction
Structural Engineer: Lyons O'Neil
Gross Internal Area: 140 sq m
Contract Value: confidential
Cost per Sq m: £2,285
Occupation Date: July 2010
This is a taut, exemplary response to the development of a landlocked site: an intelligent house built by an architect couple for themselves.The site, reached by a narrow lane, is contained by back gardens.
The house demonstrates a highly disciplined attention to detail in the design and the immaculate quality of the construction. All fitting-out responds absolutely to the brick module of the enclosure. A simple palette of materials is employed - exposed brickwork, oak storage wall panels, stairs and flooring and dark stained timber framed bespoke glazing. There is a playful use of brass in the glazing trim and the taps, and more play in the pink flesh coloured shower interiors.
Hill House, Kent
Architect: Hampson Williams Architects
Client: Private
Contractor: Qube Special Projects
Structural Engineer: Webb Yates Engineers
Services Engineer: Eng Design
Contract Value: confidential
Date of completion: February 2012
Gross internal area: 335 sq m
The brief called for a house that reflected the environmental sensitivities of the client, was contemporary in design, honest in its expression both of form and material and rooted in place. As with all private houses the type of spaces and their arrangement is intensely personal, and the design process sought to be open, collaborative and flexible.
The house was conceived as a primarily timber construction. By using re-cycled excavation material as a retaining wall the carbon footprint was kept low and the project on budget. The beautifully crafted all plywood interior creates a simple, serene series of interconnected spaces. The ambitious in-situ welded steel stair is a dramatic sculptural element contrasting with the warmth of the plywood surrounding it on all sides.
Dellow Day Centre 82 Wentworth Street, London E1
Architect: Featherstone Young
Client: Providence Row
Structural Engineer: Conisbee
Environmental Engineer: FES (Future Energy Surveys)
Quantity Surveyor: Burke Hunter Adams
Contractor: John Perkins Projects
Gross Internal Area: 366 sq m
Contract Value: Confidential
Occupation Date:November 2011
The Marquis Hotel & Restaurant Alkham, Dover, Kent
Architect: Guy Hollaway Architects
Client: Private
Contractor: GSE Design and Build
Structural Engineer: A J Locke Consulting Engineers
Services Engineer: Bryant and Reina Group
Contract Value: private
Date of completion: November 2011
Gross internal area: 235 sq m
Previously refurbished by the same architects, due to the success of the Grade II Listed restaurant ‘The Marquis’ has now been extended to provide additional hotel rooms, improved staff facilities and an enlarged kitchen.
The new building ties into its surroundings with the use of locally sourced flint and Kent Peg Tiles reclaimed from the demolished cottage that used to be on the site. A sedum roof also meshes it into the landscape. A fine example of good architecture engendering business success.
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