The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year Award, the UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension.
Amongst the 20 architect-designed homes in the running for the award are a contemporary part-house part-gallery on the beach in Brighton & Hove (The Narrow House), a Japanese inspired terraced house extension (House of Trace), a new family home in Jersey rising from the huge granite walls of an earlier building on the site (Le Petit Fort), a stunning beach house in Dungeness that echoes the areas former fishing huts, an ingenious and contemporary take on a traditional lean-to in Harrogate (Contemporary Lean To) and a house in Cornwall that hovers dramatically over a cliff to take in the enviable views across the Fal Estuary (The Owers House).
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The 20 new homes on the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are:
House: Ansty Plum
Architect: Coppin Dockray
Location: Ansty, Wiltshire, England
Contemporary Lean-to
Doma Architects
Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
Contour House
Sanei Hopkins Architects
Baslow, Derbyshire, England
Covert House
DSDHA
Clapham Old Town, London, England
Edge Hill
Sutherland Hussey Harris
Darras Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
Garden House
Hayhurst and Co.
Hackney, London, England
House of Trace
Tsuruta Architects
Lewisham, London, England
Le Petit Fort
Hudson Architects
Jersey, Channel Islands
Modern Mews
Coffey Architects
London, England
Murphy House
Richard Murphy Architects
Hart Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
North Vat
Rodic Davidson Architects
Dungeness, Kent, England
Outhouse
Loyn & Co
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
Private House in Cumbria
Bennetts Associates
Cumbria, England
The Cheeran House
John Pardey Architects
Reading, Berkshire, England
The Narrow House
Sanei Hopkins Architects
Brighton & Hove, England
The Owers House
John Pardey Architects
Feock, Cornwall, England
House 19
Jestico + Whiles
Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
Private House 1109
GA Studio Architects
Cheshire, England
Tin House
Henning Stummel Architects
Shepherd's Bush, London, England
Zinc-House
LJR+H Chartered Architects
near Monikie, Angus, Scotland
The RIBA House of the Year award will be broadcast as part of a special Channel 4 Grand Designs series, presented by Kevin McCloud. Now in its second year, Grand Designs: House of the Year, produced by Boundless, is to be broadcast weekly for four weeks later in the year. Featuring a selection of properties from the longlist for the UK’s most prestigious new house award, it will reveal the shortlisted and winning homes.
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Notes to editors:
- For further information contact Howard Crosskey: howard.crosskey@riba.org +44 (0)20 7307 3761
- 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 Skene Catling de la Peña for Flint House (2015), Loyn & Co for Stormy Castle (2014), Carl Turner Architects for Slip House (2013) and Acme for Hunsett Mill (2010).
- The judges for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are: Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects (jury chair); Charlotte Skene Catling, Skene Catling de la Peña; Jonathan Dallas, Dallas Pierce Quintero; Phillip Thorn, Head of Direct Home for Hiscox and Jenny Éclair, novelist, actress & client of the 2005 award-winning house.
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