The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) today announced the winners of this year’s National Awards, which recognize the best new buildings built in the United Kingdom. The forty-six winning buildings, sixteen of which are in London, range from an art gallery expansion to an inner-city school restoration to an Oxford library by the firm of the late Zaha Hadid.
According to RIBA President Jane Duncan, this year’s selections intended to focus on smaller-scale (“but no less ambitious”) projects like the restoration of Wilton Music Hall in London, while also focusing on architecture with a civic and social focus. To that end, there are a number of schools and hospitals included among this year’s winners, including Banbridge Health and Care Centre in Northern Ireland, an integrated medical facility with an open-air courtyard and a turf-covered roof, and Greenwich Housing, a 60-unit complex of “clean, simple, and elegant” low-rent housing in the Greenwich neighborhood of London.
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