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10 July 2025
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the 20 winners of the RIBA National Awards 2025, which have been presented since 1966 to celebrate the best architecture in the UK. The awards highlight design excellence, innovation, and social value, offering insight into the country’s evolving architectural landscape.
[Read more…] about RIBA National Award 2025 winners11 October 2024 – 29 March 2025 | RIBA, LONDON
RIBA’s new exhibition explores over 20 ambitious projects that overcame extreme site challenges across Britain. Featuring work by architects like Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Neave Brown, and Lord Norman Foster, alongside contemporary firms such as Caruso St John, Tonkin Liu and Carmody Groarke, it highlights innovation in design, materials, and engineering.
[Read more…] about RIBA exhibition, Difficult Sites: Architecture Against the OddsThe Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced that SANAA, the Japanese architectural practice led by Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, will receive the 2025 Royal Gold Medal. RIBA states that SANAA has reshaped the global design landscape by creating spaces that prioritize simplicity, light, and elegance.
[Read more…] about SANAA awarded 2025 RIBA Royal Gold Medal5 December 2023.
The winner of the RIBA House of the Year 2023 is Green House, designed by London-based architectural studio Hayhurst & Co. Established in 2004 by Nick Hayhurst and Jonathan Nicholls, the studio created Green House to replace an existing house in a conservation area located on a confined urban plot in an alleyway in Tottenham, London. Historically the backland site of Green House comprised greenhouses, market gardens and orchards.
[Read more…] about Green House by Hayhurst & Co is named RIBA House of the Year 2023The RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 for the UK’s best building has been awarded to the John Morden Centre by Mæ, a retirement day centre in Blackheath, London.
RIBA President Muyiwa Oki commented “Loneliness and isolation are critical issues, particularly for older people. The John Morden Centre’s elegance and efficacy sets a high standard for spaces that support healthier, happier and more independent lives.
[Read more…] about John Morden Centre by Mæ wins the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) have announced the shortlist for the first Reinvention Award, celebrating the creative reuse of buildings to improve their environmental,social, or economic sustainability. The shortlist includes projects by 6a architects x Caragh Touring, van Heyningen and Haward Architects, Wright & Wright Architects, and Associated Architects with Rodney Melville and Partners.
[Read more…] about RIBA announces Reinvention Award shortlistDominic Bradbury’s book 21st Century Houses explores inspirational RIBA award winning houses over the last decade with over 300 illustrations, plans and sketches. Case studies feature contemporary British houses including projects by Alison Brooks Architects, Foster Lomas and Mole Architects. RIBA
8 November 2022 – 29 April 2023.
The RIBA ‘Long Life, Low Energy: Design for a Circular Economy’ shows how the principles of the circular economy can help develop net zero architecture. The exhibition follows RIBA’s Built for the Environment report which concludes that 38% of the global energy-related greenhouse gas emissions are attributable to the built environment. RIBA
The Red House by David Kohn Architects is RIBA’s House of the Year 2022. The house in Dorset takes inspiration from the Arts and Crafts movement and is a playful and colourful addition to the landscape. The project features thick walls, deep eaves and steel piles with a slate roof providing a home to the local bat population. Photo Will Pryce. RIBA, David Kohn Architects