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The UK’s spectacular new homes - longlist of homes in the running for the RIBA House of the Year

Longlist of homes in the running for RIBA House of the Year announced

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2017 RIBA House of the Year Award, the UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension.

Clockwise from top left: Woodsman's Treehouse (photo: Sandy Steele-Perkins), Highgate House (photo: Hélène Binet), Redshank (photo: Hélène Binet), Oxfordshire Residence (photo: Hufton + Crow), Ness Point (photo: Nick Guttridge), Edinburgh Road (photo: Matthew Johnson)

Highlights this year include:

  • a self-build treehouse in Dorset - complete with its own suspension bridge and slide Woodsman's Treehouse
  • a striking, contemporary brick house with full-height picture windows in a north London conservation area (Highgate House)
  • a quirky cork-clad holiday home that floats above Essex marshland (Redshank)
  • a modern country house in the Oxfordshire Cotswolds (Oxfordshire residence)
  • a contemporary house hunkered into the hills over the White Cliffs of Dover (Ness Point)
  • a refurbishment and extension of a Scottish steading built into the sea wall at Musselburgh (Edinburgh Rd)

The 2017 RIBA House of the Year longlist:

House Architects Location

1

Peacock House

BHSF Architekten with Studio-P

Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England

2

Redshank

Lisa Shell Architects Ltd with Marcus Taylor

St Osyth , Essex, England

3

Shawm House

MawsonKerr Architects

West Woodburn, Northumberland, England

4

No 49

31/44 Architects

Hither Green, London

5

The Cooperage

Chris Dyson Architects

Clerkenwell, London

6

Hidden House

Coffey Architects

Clerkenwell, London

7

Whole House

Hayhurst and Co.

Balham, London

8

6 Wood Lane

Birds Portchmouth Russum Architects

Highgate, London

9

Highgate House

Carmody Groarke

Highgate, London

10

Cob Corner

David Sheppard Architects

Ivybridge, Devon, England

11

Hill House

Mike Keys and Anne Claxton

Bath, England

12

The Quest

Strom Architects

Swanage, Dorset, England

13

Woodsman's Treehouse

Brownlie Ernst and Marks Limited

Thorncombe, Dorset, England

14

Oxfordshire Residence

Richard Meier & Partners Architects LLP with Berman Guedes Stretton

Oxfordshire, England

15

Caring Wood

James Macdonald Wright and Niall Maxwell

Near Maidstone, Kent, England

16

South Street

Sandy Rendel Architects Ltd.

Lewes, East Sussex, England

17

Ness Point

Tonkin Liu

Dover, Kent, England

18

Newhouse of Auchengee

Ann Nisbet Studio

Ayrshire, Scotland

19

Edinburgh Rd

A449 Architects

Edinburgh, Scotland

20

Fernaig Cottage

Scampton and Barnett Architects

Wester Ross, Scotland

The RIBA House of the Year shortlist and winner will be announced this autumn.

ENDS

Notes to editors:

  1. For further press information contact Howard Crosskey in the RIBA press office:
    howard.crosskey@riba.org | +44 (0)20 7307 3761
  2. The RIBA House of the Year award is awarded every year to the best new house or house extension designed by an architect in the UK. It was created in 2001 and for many years presented by the RIBA as the Manser Medal. Previous winners include Richard Murphy Architects for Murphy House (2016), Skene Catling de la Peña for Flint House (2015) and Loyn & Co for Stormy Castle (2014).
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  4. 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. Entries are to be submitted to the region or nation in which the building is situated. Winners are considered for the RIBA Stirling Prize.
  5. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is a global professional membership body that serves its members and society in order to deliver better buildings and places, stronger communities and a sustainable environment. Architecture.com

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