2009 RIBA Award Winners Announced

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence have been presented across the country with 103 buildings in the UK and Europe winning awards (97 in the UK and six in the rest of the EU).

The RIBA Award-winning buildings range from an Observatory at Kielder in Northumberland to the Liverpool One regeneration and retail master plan, from a private house at Dungeness to Wexford Opera House in South East Ireland. Health centers, notably for Cancer, are well represented here as are retail buildings in their many forms, including John Lewis in Leicester and the Reiss and Monsoon headquarters in London. Seaside buildings and regeneration projects also feature in various guises. The architects whose work has been honored this year range from small practices to large, international ones. There are also some multiple winners such as Allies and Morrison (4 awards), Hawkins/Brown (3 awards), BDP (3 awards), Niall Mclaughlin Architects (4 awards) and Penoyre & Prasad (3 awards).

RIBA President Sunand Prasad said about the 2009 RIBA Award winners: “The RIBA Awards are a thermometer to indicate the state of health of British architecture and for 2009 the results are good: both quality and quantity have been maintained. This year’s list accurately reflects both the diversity, and the workload of UK architecture, with more schools and health buildings than usual winning awards.  It is particularly heartening to see more schemes that are about regenerating our cities, towns and countryside.  These awards, which are judged on a regional basis, reflect and reward the good things that are going on all across the UK, and they also form the basis of what promises to be another interesting year for the RIBA Stirling Prize.”

The 97 UK buildings that have won an RIBA Award are:

Scotland:

Beatson Institute New Cancer Research Facility
Reiach & Hall Architects

Drummond House - The Shed
LJRH Architects

Moore Street Housing
Richard Murphy, Elder & Cannon, JM, Page/Park

North Glasgow College
RMJM

Pollock Civic Realm
Archial Architects Ltd

The Potterrow Development
Bennetts Associates

The Printworks
Cameron Webster Architects

Northern Ireland:
Fallahogey House
McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd

The Knockbreda Centre
Penoyre & Prasad/TODD Architects

Cardinal Hume Catholic School
GWK Architects

North East:

Gateshead Heritage at St Mary’s
Design Service, Gateshead Council

Kielder Observatory
Charles Barclay Architects

The Place
Reid Jubb Brown Architecture

Saltholme Wildlife Reserve and Discovery Park
JDDK Ltd

The Tyneside Cinema
Fletcher Priest Architects

Work Space
Malcolm Fraser Architects Ltd

North West:

13b Paradise Street, Liverpool ONE
Allies and Morrison

BDP Manchester Studio
BDP

Liverpoool One Masterplan
BDP

Midland Hotel
Union North

Paradise Street Bridge
Wilkinson Eyre Architects

The Schaefer House
MBLA Architects & Urbanists

North:

Three Towers
Union North

Yorkshire:

1 North Bank
BDP

Castle Hill Hospital
HLM Architects

Castleford Bridge
McDowell & Benedetti

Charles Street Car Park, Sheffield
Allies and Morrison

York St John University, De Grey Court
Rivington Street Studio

Wales:

Penderyn Distillery Visitor Centre
David Archer Architects

Ruthin Craft Centre
Sergison Bates architects

West Midlands:

Bournville Place
Stanton Williams

Joseph Chamberlain Sixth Form College
Nicholas Hare Architects LLP

The Pavilions
Ross Sharpe Architects Ltd

East Midlands:

82 Derngate
John McAslan & Partners

Curve
Rafael Vinoly Architects

David Wilson Library
Associated Architects LLP

Highfields Automotive and Engineering Training Centre - Public Space
Hawkins/Brown Architects

John Lewis Department Store & Cineplex
Foreign Office Architects (FOA)

Level Centre
Clash Associates Ltd

The Minster School
Penoyre & Prasad LLP

New Art Exchange
Hawkins/Brown Architects

East:

Anglesey Abbey Visitor Centre
Cowper Griffiths Architects

Clay Field
Riches Hawley Mikhail Architects

Gillespie Centre
Van Heyningen and Haward

House at Piper’s End
Niall McLaughlin Architects

The Long Barn Studio
Nicolas Tye Architects

Moller Centre for Continuing Education & Churchill College Music Centre
DSDHA

Private House
dRMM

The Taylor Library
Wright & Wright Architects

South West:

Falmouth School and Design & Technology Building
Urban Salon Ltd

Pencalenick House
Seth Stein Architects Ltd

Scott Building
Nicholas Burwell Architects

Wessex:
Anchor Store, Bristol
Stanton Williams

The Apprentice Store
Threefold Architects

Merchants Academy
Penoyre & Prasad LLP

Meads Reach Bridge
Niall Mclaughlin Architects

South:

Burnham Copse Primary School
Hampshire County Council & Architecture & Design Services

Hind House
John Pardey Architects

The Mountbatten Building, University of Southampton
Jestico+Whiles

New Biochemistry Department, University of Oxford
HawkinsBrown Architects

Queen’s & Stanhope House
Rick Mather Architects

Westwell Manor Farm Stable Conversion
Munkenbeck+Marshall Urbanism Limited

South East:
Craddock Cottages Development
Stephen Taylor Architects

Deal Pier
Niall Mclaughlin Architects

Pond Meadow Special Needs School
DSDHA

Private House
Allies and Morrison

Private House
Simon Conder Associates

Quarterhouse
Alison Brooks Architects

Runnymede Civic Centre
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios LLP

London:

5 Aldermanbury Square
Eric Parry Architects

14 Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Julian Harrap Architects

100 VE, Unilever London Headquarters
Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Arts Council England: National Office
Caruso St John Architects

Block 3, Tarling Estate Regeneration
S333 Architecture + Urbanism Ltd

City of London Information Centre
Make Architects

Frame House
Flacq Architects Limited

Gap House
Pitman Tozer Architects

Garden Pavilion
Andrew Pilkington Architects & Designers

Hothouse
Ash Sakula Architects

House in Belsize Park
Eldridge Smerin

House in Highgate Cemetery
Eldridge Smerin

Imperial College Central Library
A-EM Studio Ltd

Kentish Town Health Centre
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

Kew Treetop Walkway
Marks Barfield Architects

Kings Cross Construction Skills Centre
David Morley Architects

Kings Place
Dixon Jones Ltd

Lumen URC and Community Centre
Theis and Khan Architects

Maggie’s Centre, London
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

New Street Square
Bennetts Associates

One Vine Street
Allies and Morrison

Reiss Headquarters
Squire and Partners

St. Benedict’s School, Ealing
Buschow Henley

St Martin-in-the-Fields
Eric Parry Architects

St Mary Magdalene Academy
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios

UCL Cancer Institute: Paul O’Gorman Building
Grimshaw

Urban Housing, Finsbury Park, London, UK
Sergison Bates Architects

The Yellow Building
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

The six RIBA Award buildings in the European Union are:

Denmark:

Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland
Tony Fretton Architects

France:

Zenith, Saint-Etienne
Foster + Partners

Ireland:

Burren House, Dublin
Niall McLaughlin Architects

Wexford Opera House
Keith Williams Architects

The Netherlands:

Hoogvliet Heerlijkhied, Rotterdam
FAT

Spain:

Bodegas Protos
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Images: RIBA