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2011 RIBA Awards winners announced

Amy Frearson
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The Royal Institute of British Architects in London have announced 97 winners of this year’s RIBA Awards, including projects by Tony Fretton, David Chipperfield, MVRDV and Zaha Hadid Architects.

Top: Balancing Barn by MVRDV, photographed by Edmund Sumner.
Above: Evelyn Grace Academy by Zaha Hadid Architects, photographed by Luke Hayes.

The winners include 89 projects in the UK and eight from the EU.

Above: Shingle House by NORD Architecture.

The shortlist for the Stirling Prize will be drawn from these winners.

Above: Museum Folkwang by David Chipperfield Architects, photographed by Christian Richters.

Here’s some more information from the RIBA, followed by the full list of winning projects:

RIBA Awards - winners of the 2011 awards for architectural excellence announced

The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) will announce the winners of the 2011 RIBA Awards on Thursday 19 May 2011. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented to 97 buildings in the UK and Europe (89 in the UK and 8 in the rest of the EU). The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the building of the year will be drawn from the 97 RIBA Award winners.

Above: London 2012 Velodrome by Hopkins Architects

This year’s award-winning buildings range geographically from a winery in Spain to a community hall on the Scottish Hebridean island of Raasay, and in style from the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford to ‘Love Shack’ - a self-build hideaway in the Lake District National Park. The recently completed Velodrome is the first ever 2012 Olympics event building to win an architecture prize and is one of five RIBA Awards for Hopkins Architects, a practice previously shortlisted three times for the RIBA Stirling Prize.

Above: Hoxton House by David Mikhail Architects

2011 has been an exceptional year for private houses which constitute 17 out of 89 UK winners. Schools and universities have also flourished with 14 schools (including three BSF projects and two Academies) and 9 university buildings winning awards. Last year’s RIBA Stirling Prize winner, Zaha Hadid, is an award winner this year with the Evelyn Grace Academy in South London.

Above: Chiswick House Gardens cafe by Caruso St John Architects

Three very different health buildings – the NHS Teenage Cancer Trust in Birmingham, Foster + Partner’s private Circle Hospital in Bath and a new Maggie’s Cancer Care centre in Cheltenham – showcase carefully designed, comfortable spaces to aid patient well-being.

Above: Faustino Winery by Foster + Partners

Speaking today, RIBA President Ruth Reed said:

“For 46 years the RIBA Awards have reflected the health of British architecture. This year’s winners show that in spite of a terrible worldwide recession, many exceptional buildings have been, and continue to be, built in the UK and overseas. Winning projects demonstrate that even in constrained times committed clients working with talented architects can achieve architectural excellence.

“These well-designed buildings will add huge value to the lives, prosperity, health and pride of their owners, users and communities and I am delighted with year’s selection. We are promised an interesting RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist.”

Above: University of Liverpool Heating Infrastructure by Levitt Bernstein

The 89 UK buildings that have won an RIBA Award are:

Scotland:

Northern Ireland:

North East:

North West:

Yorkshire:

Wales:

West Midlands:

East Midlands:

East:

South West:

Wessex:

South:

South East

London:

The eight RIBA Award buildings in the European Union are:

The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal and Benchmark is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The prize will be presented on Saturday 1 October at the RIBA Stirling Prize-winning (2001) Magna Science and Adventure Centre in Rotherham and broadcast as a special edition of BBC TWO’s The Culture Show.

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