RIBA announces 49 winners for 2018 National Awards

The 2018 RIBA Awards cycle continues! Today, RIBA announced the 49 winners for the 2018 National Awards, which distinguish recent projects that set the standard for outstanding architecture across the UK.

Advancing from the RIBA London Awards, the National Award winners — which range from major cultural buildings and sports centers to housing and memorials — are still in the running for the 2018 Stirling Prize for UK's Best New Building. The Stirling Prize shortlist will be announced on July 19, and one project will be crowned the winner on October 10.

Some of the key trends RIBA observed in the National Award winners include: dual- or multi-functional buildings to benefit local communities; use of building materials sensitive to local context; high-quality housing projects that demonstrate the benefits of local authority-led regeneration; and reuse and regeneration, especially in commercial projects. “I am particularly pleased to see some excellent examples of large-scale housing schemes amongst this year’s winners,” RIBA President Ben Derbyshire commented. “Projects such as these are beacons showing how it is possible for enlightened local authorities and developers to create the well-designed, desirable and sustainable homes that communities so desperately need.”

Read on for the list of winners.

15 Clerkenwell Close by Amin Taha Architects and Groupwork

25 Savile Row by Piercy&Company

53 Great Suffolk Street by Hawkins\Brown

Albert Works by Cartwright Pickard Architects

Bethnal Green Memorial by Arboreal Architecture

Bloomberg, London by Foster + Partners

Boroughmuir High School by Allan Murray Architects

Bushey Cemetery by Waugh Thistleton Architects

Caroline Place by Amin Taha + Groupwork

Chadwick Hall by Henley Halebrown

City of London Freemen's School - Swimming Pool by Hawkins\Brown

Coastal House by 6a architects

Durham Cathedral Open Treasure by Purcell

Five Acre Barn by Blee Halligan

Gasholders London by WilkinsonEyre with Jonathan Tuckey Design

Kings Crescent Estate Phases 1 and 2 by Karakusevic Carson Architects and Henley Halebrown

Kingsgate Primary Lower School by Maccreanor Lavington Architects

Knox Bhavan Studio by Knox Bhavan Studio

Liverpool's Royal Court Architect - Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Lochside House by HaysomWardMiller Architects

Maggie's Oldham by dRMM Architects

Marlborough Primary School by Dixon Jones

New Tate, St Ives by Jamie Fobert Architects with Evans & Shalev

Nucleus, The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Caithness Archive by Reiach and Hall Architects

Old Shed New House by Tonkin Liu

R7, Kings Cross by Duggan Morris Architects and Weedon Architects

Riverlight by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and EPR Architects

Royal Academy of Music - The Susie Sainsbury Theatre and The Angela Burgess Recital Hall by Ian Ritchie Architects

Royal Albert Wharf Phase 1 by Maccreanor Lavington

Royal Birmingham Conservatoire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Shaftesbury Theatre by Bennetts Associates

Sibson Building by Penoyre & Prasad

St Augustines Church by Roz Barr Architects

St David's Hospice, New In-Patient Unit by KKE Architects

Storey's Field Community Centre and Nursery by MUMA LLP

Storyhouse by Bennetts Associates + Ellis Williams Architects

The David Attenborough Building by Nicholas Hare Architects

The Department Store by Squire and Partners

The Leadenhall Building by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

The Piece Hall and Calderdale Central Library and Archives by LDN Architects LLP

The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre by Niall McLaughlin Architects

University of Birmingham Indoor Sports Centre by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands

University of Roehampton Library by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

Victoria and Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter by AL_A

Victoria Hall King's Cross by Stanton Williams

Walthamstow Wetlands by Witherford Watson Mann Architects and Kinnear Landscape Architects

West Court Jesus College by Niall McLaughlin Architects

Weston Street by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

White Collar Factory by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris