Young People's Space

by ArkleBoyce

Client St. Gemma’s Hospice

Awards RIBA Yorkshire Award 2025, RIBA Yorkshire Small Project of the Year 2025, and RIBA Yorkshire Client of the Year (sponsored by Equitone)

The award winner tells us, "The Young People’s Space is a new, purpose built facility for the Young People’s Service at St Gemma’s Hospice, set within the grounds of the hospice’s gardens in Moortown, Leeds.

The sustainability focused building provides designated accommodation and support spaces for children and young people, both at the hospice and across the wider Leeds District, who have been affected by the serious illness or death of a family member. The pavilion provides a combination of informal social and private meeting spaces which overlook, and open out onto, the beautiful, well established gardens. The materiality was a direct response to this context, with the form of the building carefully crafted and considered to allow the pavilion to sit harmoniously within the gardens."

The jury says, "This modest little gem provides ‘home from home’ accommodation and support spaces for children and young people who have been affected by serious illness or the death of a family member. The pavilion is arranged around a central social space which opens out to the garden to the south, with a quiet counselling room sited to the north. These spaces are brought together under a unifying grid mesh roof structure which references the tree canopies within the garden and the St Gemma’s logo."

Read the full citation from the RIBA Awards Jury on RIBA Journal

Contractor Fairway Contracts

Structural engineer R Vint Engineering Ltd

Environmental/M&E engineer Silcock Leedham

Gross internal area 45m²