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RIBA House of the Year

House of the Year 2023

The RIBA House of the Year is awarded to the best new house designed by an architect in the UK

RIBA House of the Year 2023

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the shortlist for the RIBA House of the Year 2023, the annual award for the best example of a one-off house designed by an architect in the UK, celebrating excellence and innovation in home design.

Jury Chair, Dido Milne, said of this year’s shortlist:

“This year’s RIBA House of the Year shortlist includes a range of exciting new typologies, including a rethink of the family terraced house and a model for collective rural living. Here we have everything. From homes inserted into tight urban sites and new life breathed into existing structures, to detached rural homes where the architect has been given free rein to reimagine the baronial hall or lakeside retreat. Localism is a recurring theme, with architects engaging with the local vernacular without being slaves to tradition, and local sourcing of materials targeting both embodied and operational carbon to deliver genuinely sustainable design."

The RIBA House of the Year 2023 jury comprised: Dido Milne, Director of CSK Architects, Bev Dockray, co-founder of Coppin Dockray Architects, Jessam Al-Jawad, Director and co-founder of multi-disciplinary architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike and Albert Hill, co-founder of The Modern House and Inigo.

Meet this year's 2023 jury members.

Find out more about this year’s shortlisted projects on the RIBA Journal.

The winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2023 will be announced on 5 December 2023.

RIBA House of the Year 2023 longlist

The 20 projects listed below make up this year’s RIBA House of the Year longlist.

Dido Milne, Jury Chair, said of this year’s longlist;
"This year’s RIBA House of the Year longlist includes a selection of exciting new typologies – from modest terraced houses to larger family homes. It showcases architects expressing their creativity within a wide variety of settings - from homes on tight urban sites where the ingenuity is evident in the twists and turns of the plan and section, to detached rural homes where the architect has been given free rein to reimagine the baronial hall or lakeside retreat. And in village settings, it is gratifying to see a number of the projects working with the local vernacular, forging a new contextual style whilst also retaining an authentic sense of culture. Localism in terms of material sourcing was a theme which ran throughout, and there were exemplary retrofit projects to applaud and extensions that excelled in their own right whilst bringing huge benefit to the host building. 

At this critical point in time in terms of ‘climate break down’ we were really looking to see how deep a dive the architects had taken into issues around environmental sustainability. It was encouraging to see in both the prototype for modular social housing and some of the larger houses on the longlist how there was a much more holistic approach to what might constitute a truly sustainable house. What we are building with, the provenance of materials and the impact on biodiversity are starting to really influence designs."

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