Restored 19th-century Wilton's Music Hall named 2016 RIBA London Building of the Year

RIBA revealed an array of projects as the winners of the 2016 London Awards during a recent ceremony. First launched in 1966, the yearly competition distinguishes some of the area's top-notch design projects in various architectural categories. While winning in the competitive London Awards is already a great honor, they're just the beginning of RIBA's yearlong awards cycle. Now, the London Awards winners will move on to compete in the RIBA National Awards. Once the National Award winners are announced on July 6, they will have a chance at being crowned the next RIBA Stirling Prize winner.

The 2016 London Awards competition began with 181 submitted entries, which were narrowed down to 68 shortlisted projects this past March. Since then, the jury visited and evaluated all the shortlisted projects before deciding on the winners.

Six projects also received extra praise as RIBA London Special Awards recipients. The 19th-century Wilton's Music Hall, which Tim Ronalds Architects recently restored, won the top 2016 London Building of the Year Award and the London Conservation Award.

The 2016 Special Awards winners are:

• RIBA London Sustainability Award 2016: Regent High School by Walters and Cohen Architects
• RIBA London Small Project of the Year Award 2016: House of Trace by Tsuruta Architects
• RIBA London Conservation Award 2016: Wilton's Music Hall by Tim Ronalds Architects
• RIBA London Client of the Year Award 2016: Graveney Trust for the Graveney School Sixth Form Block by Urban Projects Bureau
• RIBA London Project Architect of the Year Award 2016: Dickon Hayward of Studio RHE Ltd for Alphabeta
• RIBA London Building of the Year Award 2016: Wilton's Music Hall by Tim Ronalds Architects

See the 2016 London Award winners listed below.

• 61 Oxford Street by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• 8 St James's Square by Eric Parry Architects
• Alphabeta by Studio RHE
• ARK All Saints Academy and Highshore School by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
• Corner House by DSDHA
• Covert House by DSDHA
• Curzon Bloomsbury by Takero Shimazaki Architects & Unick Architects
• Ely Court, South Kilburn by Alison Brooks Architects & Hester Architects

• Gagosian Gallery, Mayfair by TateHindle, Caruso St John & BDP
• Garden House by Hayhurst and Co.
• Godson Street by Edgley Design & Spaced Out Architecture Studio (SOAS)
• Graveney School Sixth Form Block by Urban Projects Bureau
• Greenwich Gateway Pavilions by Marks Barfield Architects
• Greenwich Housing by Bell Phillips Architects

• House of Trace by Tsuruta Architects
• Kingston Ancient Market Place and Stalls by Tonkin Liu
• Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute by Allies and Morrison & PM Devereux
• Merchant Square Footbridge by Knight Architects
• Modern Mews by Coffey Architects
• Modern Side Extension by Coffey Architects
• Newport Street Gallery by Caruso St John Architects

• Ravens Enclosure, HM Tower of London by Llowarch Llowarch Architects
• RCA Battersea by Haworth Tompkins
• Regent High School by Walters & Cohen Architects
• Royal Road by Panter Hudspith Architects
• Sir John Soane’s Museum by Julian Harrap Architects
• The Bath House Children's Community Centre by Lipton Plant Architects

• The Plimsoll Building by David Morley Architects & Weedon Architects
• The Royal Hospital Chelsea, Long Wards by Peregrine Bryant Architecture and Building Conservation
• Thornsett Road by Allies and Morrison
• Tin House by Henning Stummel Architects
• Trafalgar Place - Elephant and Castle by dRMM Architects

• Turnmill by Piercy&Company
• Vaudeville Court by Levitt Bernstein
• Waddesdon Bequest Gallery by Stanton Williams & Purcell
• Wilton's Music Hall by Tim Ronalds Architects

See more of the winning projects in the image gallery right below.