RIBA reveals 2016 House of the Year longlist

It's award season at the Royal Institute of British Architects. Not long after the announcement of the RIBA National Award winners, RIBA is also one step further in their House of the Year competition. Most recently, the Institute revealed 20 houses in this year's longlist. Known as the Manser Medal until last year, the RIBA House of the Year Award still carries the same purpose of distinguishing the year's most innovative house designed by a UK-based architect.

This year's longlisted houses are dubbed with colorful names like the House of Trace, a Japanese-inspired terraced house extension; a new family home called Le Petit Fort; and a modern take on the traditional lean-to style called the Contemporary Lean-to.

Similar to last year's program, RIBA House of the Year will be part of a special four-week broadcast of BBC Channel 4's Grand Designs series. Grand Designs: House of the Year will be a weekly series that will feature a selection of the 2016 longlisted projects. Viewers would definitely want to tune in, since the program will also eventually announce the shortlisted and winning homes.

Check out the full longlist below.

Ansty Plum by Coppin Dockray | Ansty, Wiltshire, England

Contemporary Lean-to by Doma Architects | Harrogate, Yorkshire, England

Contour House Sanei by Hopkins Architects | Baslow, Derbyshire, England

Covert House by DSDHA | Clapham Old Town, London, England

Edge Hill | Sutherland Hussey, Harris | Darras Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England

Garden House by Hayhurst and Co. | Hackney, London, England

House of Trace by Tsuruta Architects | Lewisham, London, England

Le Petit Fort by Hudson Architects | Jersey, Channel Islands

Modern Mews by Coffey Architects | London, England

Murphy House by Richard Murphy Architects | Hart Street, Edinburgh, Scotland

North Vat by Rodic Davidson Architects | Dungeness, Kent, England

OutHouse by Loyn & Co | Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England

Private House in Cumbria by Bennetts Associates | Cumbria, England

The Cheeran House by John Pardey Architects | Reading, Berkshire, England

The Narrow House by Sanei Hopkins Architects | Brighton & Hove, England

The Owers House by John Pardey Architects | Feock, Cornwall, England

House 19 by Jestico + Whiles | Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England

Private House 1109 by GA Studio Architects | Cheshire, England

Tin House by Henning Stummel Architects | Shepherd's Bush, London, England

Zinc-House by LJR+H Chartered Architects | near Monikie, Angus, Scotland