Forty-nine winners announced for 2017 RIBA National Awards

The 2017 RIBA awards cycle continues! Advancing from the 2017 London Awards, 49 stunning projects throughout the UK have just been announced as the winners in the 2017 National Awards for architecture. The RIBA National Awards celebrate the UK's most outstanding buildings, while offering insight into construction, design, and investment trends in the country.

This year's winners include a variety of projects like the Tate Modern Blavatnik Building, the British Airways i360 — dubbed as the world's first “vertical pier”, the straw-clad Enterprise Centre office building in Norwich, and the transformative Leicester Cathedral's Richard III Project “With Dignity and Honour”, to name a few.

In regards to design trends in this year's winners, RIBA President Jane Duncan commented on the ongoing prominence of brick as a building material, as well as the increasing use of timber. She also pointed out certain projects as outstanding examples in housing and education. “Silchester and Ponders End are both great examples of estate regeneration bringing thoughtful and community based affordable housing to the capital,” Duncan said in a statement. “Sadly though, these projects are exceptions. We all deserve a well-designed, affordable home, wherever we live in the country. I encourage other local authorities, developers and clients to look at these projects as exemplars.” 

All 49 National Awardees now have a chance to be crowned the 2017 Stirling Prize winner for the UK's best building of the year. The Stirling Prize shortlist will be announced July 20, and the winner will be revealed October 31.

Check out the full list of winners below.

• Carrowbreck Meadow by Hamson Barron Smith - Norwich, Norfolk, England - Housing development - private
• The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia  by Architype  - Norwich, Norfolk, England - University
• Peacock House by BHSF Architekten with Studio-P Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England - Individual house 
• St Albans Abbey by Richard Griffiths Architects - St Albans, Hertfordshire, England - Place of worship 
• Vajrasana Buddhist Retreat Centre by Walters & Cohen Architects Walsham le Willows, Suffolk, England - Place of worship

• The Welding Institute Eric Parry Architects Great Abington, Cambridge, England Research institution
• Leicester Cathedral's Richard III Project 'With Dignity and Honour' by van Heyningen and Haward Architects - Leicester, England - Place of worship
• The Laboratory, Dulwich College by Grimshaw - Dulwich, south London, England School - independent/public
• No 49 by 31/44 Architects - Hither Green, southeast London, England - Individual House
• The Loom by Duggan Morris Architects - Whitechapel, east London, England - Workspace/office

• 8 Finsbury Circus by WilkinsonEyre - City of London - Workspace/office
• 40 Chancery by Lane Bennetts Associates - Holborn, central London, England - Mixed use building - Workspace/office and retail
• King's College School by Allies and Morrison - Wimbledon, southwest London, England - School - independent/public
• New Scotland Yard by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Embankment, central London, England - Workspace/office
•  Paradise Gardens by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands - Hammersmith, west London, England - Housing development – private

• Photography Studio for Juergen Teller by 6a architects - Ladbroke Grove, west London, England - Mixed use building – workspace and residential 
• Silchester by Haworth Tompkins - Notting Hill, west London, England - Housing development - social 
• Barretts Grove by Amin Taha + Groupwork - Stoke Newington, north London, England - Housing development – private
• Dujardin Mews by Karakusevic Carson Architects with Maccreanor Lavington - Ponders End, north London, England -Housing development – social 
• Tate Modern's Blavatnik Building by Herzog & de Meuron - Bankside, central London, England - Museum

• The British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners - Bloomsbury, central London, England - Museum
• Walmer Yard - P Salter and Associates with Mole Architects + John Comparelli Architects - Holland Park, west London, England - Housing development - private 
• Live Works by Flanagan Lawrence with Tench Maddison Ash Architects - Newcastle Upon Tyne, England Theatre 
• Shawm House by MawsonKerr Architects - West Woodburn, Northumberland, England - Individual house 
• The Word by FaulknerBrowns Architects - South Shields, South Tyneside, England - Library and cultural venue

• Chetham's School of Music - Stoller Hall by stephenson STUDIO - Manchester, England School - independent/public 
• Finlays Warehouse by Stephenson Studio - Northern Quarter, Manchester, England Housing development – private 
•  Liverpool Philharmonic by Caruso St John Architects - Liverpool, England - Theatre 
•  Maggie's at the Robert Parfett Building by Foster + Partners - Christie Hospital, south Manchester, England - Healthcare
•  Fallahogey Studio by McGarry-Moon Architects Ltd - Kilrea, Northern Ireland - Workspace/office

• Bedales School of Art and Design Building by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - Petersfield, Hampshire, England School - independent/public 
• The Berrow Foundation Building and New Garden Building, Lincoln College by Stanton Williams University of Oxford - Oxford, England - University 
•  Magdalen College Library by Wright & Wright Architects - University of Oxford, Oxford, England - University
• Warwick Hall Community Centre by Acanthus Clews Architects - Burford, Oxfordshire, England - Community space 
• Caring Wood by Macdonald Wright Architects Rural Office for Architecture - near Maidstone, Kent, England - Individual house

• Command of the Oceans by Baynes and Mitchell Architects - Chatham Historic Dockyard, Kent, England - Museum
• Hastings Pier by dRMM Architects - Hastings, East Sussex, England - Leisure 
• British Airways i360 by Marks Barfield Architects - Brighton & Hove, England - Leisure 
• South Street by Sandy Rendel Architects Ltd. - Lewes, East Sussex, England - Individual house 
• Dyson Campus Expansion by WilkinsonEyre - Malmesbury, Wiltshire., England - Workspace/office

• New Music Facilities for Wells Cathedral School by Eric Parry Architects - Wells, Somerset, England School - independent/public 
• Wolfson Tree Management Centre by Invisible Studio - Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire, England - Leisure 
• Remembrance Centre, National Memorial Arboretum by Glenn Howells Architects - Lichfield, Staffordshire - Memorial 
• Blackburn Meadows Biomass by BDP - Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England - Energy infrastructure
• Derwenthorpe Phase One by Studio Partington - York, north Yorkshire, England - Housing development - private

• Victoria Gate Arcades by ACME - Leeds city centre, England - Retail
• City of Glasgow College by Reiach and Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects - Cathedral Street, Glasgow, Scotland - Further education college
• Newhouse of Auchengee by Ann Nisbet Studio - Meikle Auchengree, North Ayrshire, Scotland - Individual house
• Rockvilla by Hoskins Architects - Speirs Wharf, Glasgow, Scotland - Workspace/office

Find more winning projects in the gallery below.

Photos courtesy of RIBA.