The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year Award, the UK’s most prestigious award for a new house or extension.
Amongst the 20 architect-designed homes in the running for the award are a contemporary part-house part-gallery on the beach in Brighton & Hove (The Narrow House), a Japanese inspired terraced house extension (House of Trace), a new family home in Jersey rising from the huge granite walls of an earlier building on the site (Le Petit Fort), a stunning beach house in Dungeness that echoes the areas former fishing huts, an ingenious and contemporary take on a traditional lean-to in Harrogate (Contemporary Lean To) and a house in Cornwall that hovers dramatically over a cliff to take in the enviable views across the Fal Estuary (The Owers House).
RIBA House of the Year is proudly supported by Hiscox & Paint and Paper Library.
The 20 new homes on the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are:
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House
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Architect
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Location
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1
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Ansty Plum,
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Coppin Dockray
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Ansty, Wiltshire, England
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2
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Contemporary Lean-to
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Doma Architects
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Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
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3
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Contour House
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Sanei Hopkins Architects
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Baslow, Derbyshire, England
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4
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Covert House
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DSDHA
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Clapham Old Town, London, England
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5
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Edge Hill
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Sutherland Hussey Harris
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Darras Hall, Newcastle upon Tyne, England
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6
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Garden House
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Hayhurst and Co.
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Hackney, London, England
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7
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House of Trace
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Tsuruta Architects
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Lewisham, London, England
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8
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Le Petit Fort
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Hudson Architects
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Jersey, Channel Islands
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9
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Modern Mews
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Coffey Architects
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London, England
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10
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Murphy House
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Richard Murphy Architects
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Hart Street, Edinburgh, Scotland
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11
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North Vat
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Rodic Davidson Architects
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Dungeness, Kent, England
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12
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Outhouse
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Loyn & Co
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Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England
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13
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Private House in Cumbria
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Bennetts Associates
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Cumbria, England
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14
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The Cheeran House
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John Pardey Architects
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Reading, Berkshire, England
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15
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The Narrow House
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Sanei Hopkins Architects
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Brighton & Hove, England
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16
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The Owers House
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John Pardey Architects
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Feock, Cornwall, England
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17
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House 19
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Jestico + Whiles
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Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire, England
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18
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Private House 1109
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GA Studio Architects
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Cheshire, England
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19
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Tin House
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Henning Stummel Architects
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Shepherd’s Bush, London, England
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20
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Zinc-House
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LJR+H Chartered Architects
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near Monikie, Angus, Scotland
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The RIBA House of the Year award will be broadcast as part of a special Channel 4 Grand Designs series, presented by Kevin McCloud. Now in its second year, Grand Designs: House of the Year, produced by Boundless, is to be broadcast weekly for four weeks later in the year. Featuring a selection of properties from the longlist for the UK’s most prestigious new house award, it will reveal the shortlisted and winning homes.
ENDS
- For further information contact Howard Crosskey howard.crosskey@riba.org +44 (0)20 7307 3761
- Press images and the judges citations can be downloaded here: https://riba.box.com/s/7cx4ekbj5trgs9owik0l5jdwekuphwvm
- The RIBA House of the Year award is awarded every year to the best new house or house extension designed by an architect in the UK. It was created in 2001 and for many years presented by the RIBA as the Manser Medal. Previous winners include Skene Catling de la Peña for Flint House (2015), Loyn & Co for Stormy Castle (2014), Carl Turner Architects for Slip House (2013) and Acme for Hunsett Mill (2010).
- The judges for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are: Meredith Bowles, Mole Architects (jury chair); Charlotte Skene Catling, Skene Catling de la Peña; Jonathan Dallas, Dallas Pierce Quintero; Phillip Thorn, Head of Direct Home for Hiscox and Jenny Éclair, novelist, actress & client of the 2005 award-winning house.
- SPONSOR: Hiscox is a global specialist insurer with a 100 year heritage of insuring unusual or complex risks, such as high value homes, fine art and other collections. For further information, visit www.hiscoxgroup.com.
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- Grand Designs: RIBA House of the Year is produced by Boundless, producers of Grand Designs, for Channel 4.
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Posted on Thursday 23rd June 2016
