The 2022 RIBA National Awards, announced on 23 June 2022, have crowned 29 UK buildings as Architecture Projects of the Year. The RIBA National Awards are awarded to outstanding buildings in the UK and are selected from among the RIBA Regional Award winners by a jury chaired by Denise Bennetts (members of the RIBA Awards Group). The winners include works spanning different regions of the country and spanning a variety of scales and genres; they are united by common threads of innovation, sustainability and a focus on community building.
RIBA President Simon Allford said: “At a time when we need to bring people together and plan for a sustainable future, this year’s RIBA National Award-winning buildings offer great promise. It is a powerful collection of buildings , despite the economic, political and social turmoil of the past few years, great buildings have emerged even in challenging conditions. As we begin to settle down from the pandemic, I am concerned about the number of new buildings designed to boost communities and quality. From local cultural hubs to reinvigorated accessible arts venues, these projects demonstrate the power of good architecture to lift spirits and improve lives.
1. 100 Liverpool Street
The 100 Liverpool Street refurbishment project transformed a 1980s office building into a high-quality, flexible commercial building fit for the 21st century. It draws on existing buildings, keeping what can be salvaged, culling what cannot be recycled, and adding what is necessary. The building sits on several railway tracks and is adjacent to a bus station, so the complexity of the design and construction process was manifold. The design preserves the existing foundation and most of the original steel structure, and adds three new office floors with spacious terraces and roof gardens on the upper floors.
2. Asher House, Sevenoaks School
The new boys' accommodation at Sevenoaks School is a Victorian villa at the south end of Sevenoaks High Street. The new building is divided into three pavilions, and custom tiles were developed for the facade of the new building in response to the materials of the Victorian villa. The exterior of the apartment looks casual, giving a rhythm of light and shadow similar to the stone walls of a villa. The practicality of the apartment was high, requiring catering for boys of different ages, cooking, laundry and other facilities in addition to bedrooms and bathrooms. These areas are all designed to be spacious and comfortable and connected by generous social and communal spaces. This in turn leads to a courtyard BBQ area off the house's kitchen, and a communal lounge that opens onto the main lawn for events and games.
3. BFI Riverfront
The British Film Institute (BFI) South Bank Riverfront is located under the arches of Waterloo Bridge and was originally built in the 1950s. The designers provided BFI with a new identity and iconic entrance, blurring the realm between the Southbank Promenade and BFI and drawing the public in. A huge cast fiberglass canopy glows like a movie screen, making it very present in the environment. In stark contrast to the exterior, the interior of the new room is deliberately dark and dull, enhancing the ambience of visiting a cinema. The architects skillfully combined complex service and acoustic requirements with typical details. The project is an example of a modern intervention that subtly and authentically enhances the appreciation, experience and understanding of a complex and layered heritage environment.
4. Creek House
The Creek House is a simple, elegant family home looking west over the creek. Despite the large footprint, the scale plays a role in the landscape due to the tree cover, the natural tones of Cornish slate and western red cedar cladding, and the positioning of the main volume in the riverbank. The siting of the building allows the volume and volume to be largely hidden from the entrance, with only a modest pebble roof visible from above. The car park was intentionally separated from the buildings and landscape, returning most of the plot to green landscapes and gardens. The orientation and orientation preserves mature, protected trees and creates a balance between expansive and framed views towards the creek and surrounding gardens. Inside, a limited palette of materials, primarily oak, plaster and glass, results in calm, well-proportioned spaces and minimalist details.
5.Forth Valley Campus
The new building at Forth Valley Campus replaces a 1960s building on the adjacent site that had reached the end of its useful life, harking back to that era with a long, low overhanging façade. Externally, it's a building made of honey Petersen bricks, profiled aluminium cladding and a touch of corrugated concrete. Internally, the building is organized into a grid with a mix of courtyards, streets, open learning spaces and enclosed classrooms, creating a dynamic learning environment.
6. Guildford Crematorium
The new Guildford Crematorium manages the mourners' journey as a building. The walls of the crematorium car park culminate in a colonnade-like entrance – once visitors cross this threshold, the spaces of the complex open up into a world of colonnades and garden courtyards, all within a solid below the horizontal roof datum. As mourners approach the main church building, the large datum of the roof forms a sheltering canopy and incorporates views into the garden courtyard. Entering the church from here, this datum is dramatically broken by a dynamic geometric roof from which natural light pours down, filtering through the skeleton of the wooden structure.
7. Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road is a massive sculptural pink Brutalist building. The project includes a school and a new residential complex, both on a single, compact urban site. Its size clearly challenges educational and environmental norms, eliminating interior corridors and creating an inner world of cohesive courtyards and classrooms. The designers provided the required light and ventilation on this constrained school site, and the courtyard is the heart of the school, as the halls were in a Victorian boarding school, where everything happens in this central space.
8.Harris Academy Sutton
Powered by just one domestic boiler, Harris Academy Sutton easily met the RIBA 2030 operational carbon targets and achieved net zero carbon emissions. The building sits on a compact sloping site surrounded by mature protected trees. The form of the school subtly harmonizes this complex topography and connects the spaces between the suburban community to the north and the upcoming research complex to the south. On the exterior, copper and anodized aluminium were chosen to reflect the scientific aspirations of the site. This contrasts with the vertical larch slats that cover the larger volume of the school. Inside, a cross-laminated timber structure dominates the ceilings and walls. The classrooms are designed for flexibility, with partitions that double or shrink the space as needed.
9.Hawley Wharf
Hawley Wharf on the north bank of Regent's Canal is a masterplan-led redevelopment. Bounded by two roads to the north, two railway arches run through the site, in which the architects designed squares and new pedestrian routes, among other things. Each building has its own character and subtly responds to its context, enhancing the local character and redevelopment improving the alignment of the entire site. In particular, there is a new route from the canal to Hawley Road, through the railway arch, with easy access to the school's compact courtyard. The new open market building overlooks the canal and the new canal-side public square. Every connection, route and building façade has been carefully considered. It uses every opportunity to improve and prioritize the public realm, providing pedestrian routes to improve links across the area.
10. High Sunderland
The modernist icon High Sunderland was a building of national importance, but over time the house was damaged in several places and a rebuilding project began. Original walnut planks, furniture, wood floors, wall finishes and ceilings have been preserved. Integrating modern sustainable systems, including an air-source heat pump that provides an efficient, low-carbon heat source for the building, is subtly integrated into part of the chimney shell in the roofscape behind the timber cladding. A new wet underfloor heating system in the main lounge area adds better insulation under the original restored travertine floors. During the renovation and reconstruction process, the designer fully retained many exquisite details of the original building, and brought an environmentally friendly reconstruction plan as much as possible, setting a high standard for the upcoming global modernist restoration work.
11.House at Lough Beg
House at Lough Beg is located on the coast of Lough Beg in central Ulster. It takes the form of a farm outbuilding, with grey handmade bricks and a zinc roof helping the residence to harmonise with the dark trees beyond. The building is almost surrounded by unmanicured gardens, giving a feeling of embracing nature. Inside the space, at every turn, there is a sense of connection to the outdoors – glimpses here, framed views there, waving branches overhead. At the same time, the house is solid and durable, and the house is airy and filled with natural light that provides a warm feeling to the building as a whole.
12.Kiln Place
Kiln Place provides 15 new homes in Camden, London. The architects transformed the underutilized space into a purposeful family home through an in-depth survey of the community. New trees and plantings, as well as the addition of open space, have significantly improved the estate's biodiversity and accessibility. The home itself contains an intricate series of spaces in response to unusual site constraints, while fenestrations maximize daylight and create private roof terraces. The buildings have soft corners, tinted window frames and highly fitting volumes that create a lightness and character that has a subtle human impact on the modernist style of manor architecture.
13.Ibstock Place School Refectory
The Ibstock Place School Refectory called for the conversion of an existing fragmented facility into a purpose-built building, while preserving an old orchard. The building achieves a balanced composition with the original school building and gardens. The canteen features a criss-crossed glulam structure with glazed lanterns and can accommodate up to 500 students and staff at a time. The ceiling is supported by cross-laminated wood planks on the outside, and the embedded oak lining on the inside creates a feeling of awe-inspiring grandeur. Tripled the building's footprint by adding basements and mezzanine floors and maximizing the available column-free space. Soft bricks and plain clay roof tiles reference the old school building, extending their lifespan and blending in with the environment.
14. LB Southwark SILS3
LB Southwark SILS3 is a school for special children. The materials here are all in pastel colors. On the outside, near-white brick walls, window frames, stone surrounds and lattice balustrades; on the inside, oak floors, maple joinery and a purpose-designed pine sound-absorbing ceiling confound institutional stereotypes. The overall ambience of tranquility belies the rather rugged side of the building. Spacious, naturally lit central corridors, classrooms and study spaces, with large floor-to-ceiling windows offering views of the playground and adjacent park. The energy strategy uses a passive system that minimises energy consumption and requires little maintenance, while an efficient natural ventilation system guarantees good air.
15.Lovedon Fields
The overall layout of Lovedon Fields revolves around a street and a triangular green space, combined with a change in housing typology and a gently sloping site, it creates a good balance of order and informality compared to some other nearby developments. Unusually, approximately two-thirds of the site was designed as a wildflower meadow with integrated landscaping, including mixed native hedges. As far as the design of individual houses is concerned, the exterior massing and composition are often simple and earthy, rather than stark, lively mixes of buff, grey brick with weathered and black-stained timber cladding.
16. Magdalene College Library
The Magdalene College Library combines load-bearing brickwork with finely detailed horizontally engineered timber structures to create a tall vertical space with an intricate three-dimensional grid. The library has been designed with natural lighting and ventilation, and the overall design has an extraordinary connection to environmental design principles. As a result, the predicted energy performance surpassed the RIBA 2030 benchmark as one of the best-performing buildings submitted this year. The project is also one of the top submissions for full life cycle carbon considerations and has addressed the RIBA 2025 benchmark. The structure is dominated by load-bearing brickwork, with mostly engineered timber for horizontal bracing and, to a lesser extent, prefabricated lintels and support beams.
17.Masters Field Development
The Masters Field Development is an important part of Oxford's city centre fringe, comprising a total of 228 bedrooms along approximately 200 metres of streetscape. A space composed of eight low-rise brick buildings is divided into two parts by a single-storey plank cricket hall. The residential areas vary slightly in plan shape, proportion and orientation, and are arranged in just the right way to accommodate the curved streetscape, the existing pitched-roof houses and the corner at the southern end of the site. The voids between the buildings create a visual gap between the street and the cricket pitch, occasionally framing views of mature trees.
18.Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park
Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, comprising 228 residences and 2,500 square meters of retail and cultural space, is an entire city block and a major component of the redevelopment of Elephant & Castle. Surrounded by a sunny public garden, it is designed as a cluster of buildings ranging from 5 to 19 storeys. The combination of these varying heights creates an approachable community that resonates with the historic complex. The colonnades protrude subtly, both to provide access to the library and heritage centre, and to conceal the tallest parts of the building. The soft angles of the south façade and the incremental steps of the east façade help to delineate the streetscape and cityscape.
19. Quarry Studio
Quarry Studios is a low-rise building in a former quarry surrounded by wooded sites of special scientific interest in the Cairngorms National Park in the Scottish Highlands. The building's roofline runs parallel to the cliff edge above, and the monopitch roofs in front of each volume match the side slopes of the quarry and present a single-storey covered colonnade in the centre of the site. The geometry of the roof plane aligns with sightlines from the open area in the middle of the site, minimizing the apparent scale of the building, an approach that brings the building into harmony with the surrounding natural spaces.
20. Sands End Arts and Community Center
The Sands End Arts and Community Centre, located in the north-west corner of Fulham South Park, includes several new pavilions around the existing abandoned Clancarty Lodge as exhibition space part of the renovation project.A flexible new facility was created at the entrance into the park. An existing opening through the boundary wall leads to a welcome hall with views of the central courtyard and park. The central courtyard opens to the east, but is surrounded by new gazebos to the north and west and the refurbished Klankati Lodge to the south. The new pavilion’s distinctive single-pitched roof form varies in height, with a location near the border twice as high as the central area, in response to the scale of the adjacent buildings.
21. St John's Church, Hackney
From the outside, St John's Church, Hackney is a typical neoclassical Georgian parish church, with a wide entry porch that opens with a huge entrance door, one can pass a similarly sized very minimalist glass door. On this basis, the designer's restoration of the building is subtle, keeping it different from the original structure, but referring to the history of the building. The new building sets a stage in the nave according to the needs of events and services. Building upgrades and new audiovisual systems have been cleverly combined to create a flexible, high-quality event space. It changes the narrative use of the church and reasserts its meaning within the community.
22. Suffolk Cottage
Suffolk Cottage was fortified and converted from a fragile flint-walled cottage, with new elements sewn into the original room and the view from when it was abandoned can still be seen. This mix of old and new volumes creates a complex relationship, with a family-shared space spanning the rear of the house, half a level from the original cottage's ground floor, allowing it to overlook adjacent fields. The project recycles and reuses materials as much as possible, and uses low-carbon materials for the room structure and façade decoration. As a result, the new exterior masonry is made from recycled leftover bricks and flint blocks, and the interior finishes use bamboo boards and vegetable oil-based plywood, reclaimed floor tiles, natural linoleum, reclaimed undyed wool carpet, natural plaster and zero VOC paint.
23. Surbiton Springs
Surbiton Springs is a newly built two storey detached home located on a suburban street in Surbiton. The designers tried to create a home with a sense of openness here, with spacious, fluid living spaces that could be subdivided or left open as needed. The house successfully blends native Tudor architecture with an industrial aesthetic. Based on its traditional A-frame façade, it expresses its modernity by framing it in steel. The structure was designed as an exoskeleton, with a frame combined with mud-filled panels, another nod to mock Tudor building techniques. The garden façade, meanwhile, features Crittall-style glazing, providing a contemporary twist to the Tudor-style leaded windows.
24. RoyalNecropolisSutton Hoo
The Royal Necropolis Sutton Hoo construction project includes the update of the original visitor centre and its burial element exhibits, as well as the re-planning and construction of the original Tranmer House and tower on the site. The tower is subtly positioned on the tree line and becomes a very characteristic highlight in the overall setting of the estate. When installing the structure on site, the architects minimised damage to ensure the retrofit had as little impact on the local environment as possible. The building adopts local traditional construction techniques, using steel plates and steel frames, with beautiful textures achieved through a galvanized process.
25. The Mitchell Building at the Skinner's School
The "Gothic Revival" of the 19th century has left much of an architectural legacy in the country, especially in educational buildings, and Skinner School is one such place. The Mitchell Building at Skinners' School was designed as a modern building that reflects the forms and materials of Victorian architecture. The building is a simple L-shape in plan, with high pointed gables at each end of the "L": one facing the town and the other overlooking the playground. The simple geometry of the building is softened by red bricks, and the use of sawtooth brick patterns gives the walls a “ripple” character, creating a light and shadow effect that echoes the surface decoration. The building's clever reprogramming of the campus responds to the relationship between modern and traditional architecture.
26. Winsford Cottage Hospital
Winsford Cottage Hospital has been in use since the First World War, a building that has endured relentless renovations and years of heavy rains along the Atlantic coast. Much of the building's structure needed updating, especially the roof, and much of the building's integrity had been lost by adding a lounge, interior partitions and layering of finishes such as vinyl floor coverings. To preserve the original structure and style, the designer took great care to record the location of each roof tile. Many of the original arts and crafts details have been refurbished or reproduced. A mix of accommodation and community amenities complements each other, allowing the public to enter an all-time beloved building.
27. Alice Hawthorn
The Alice Hawthorn is the only remaining pub in the village, situated south of the central green of the village in North Yorkshire. Designers restore and refurbish existing buildings to create high-quality bars and restaurants. Taking inspiration from the farms commonly found in the backcountry of North Yorkshire villages, the courtyard form provides well-proportioned timber-framed buildings that are perfect for their country setting, yet provide the backdrop for a beautiful pub. Clever finishes such as larch wood, brushed concrete and corrugated steel cladding are used to reveal a frame of English-grown Douglas fir that resonates with local farmstead architecture. In a simple, unpretentious and robust way, adapted to our times.
28.The Fratry
The Fratry project creates a new café, while restoring and repurposing the existing Fratry through community spaces, completing the building's social significance. The café’s arches feature locally sourced and cut free-standing CNC cut stone, the subtle choice of depth and shade levels, and attention to the texture of each stone add sophistication to the façade. The connection to the historic fraternity was designed and constructed using a unique structural bronze diagonal grid, creating an elegant and minimalist foyer to the existing building and contributing a degree of ingenuity in the mediation of old and new. The Fraternity provides an exemplary narrative of conservation, reuse, and ingenuity in new buildings, while providing urban pride and inclusivity.
29. ParchmentWorks
The Parchment Works is an extension to the two-door Victorian house, with both indoor and outdoor rooms overlooking the ruined walls of the historic parchment factory and designated monument. Living rooms and bedrooms are discretely inserted within the destroyed walls, leaving massive stone and brick walls to dominate the exterior expression. Distant views from the front door pass directly through the honeycomb rooms of the Victorian house to the light-filled living spaces and further garden rooms. Openings in the destroyed walls become windows to the interior spaces, or simply serve as framing views of the garden. Where old and new meet, materials are artfully connected. Conserving the complexity of the narrative was obviously a great challenge, but articulates clarity and pragmatism in crafting useful and durable details that articulate the layering of old and new, contrasting the vernacular, undulating lines of historic buildings with straight lines.
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