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).
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The 20 new homes on the longlist for the 2016 RIBA House of the Year are:
- Ansty Plum, Coppin Dockray, Wiltshire
- Contemporary Lean-to, Doma Architects, Harrogate
- Contour House, Sanei Hopkins Architects, Derbyshire
- Covert House, DSDHA, London
- Edge Hill, Sutherland Hussey Harris, Newcastle upon Tyne
- Garden House, Hayhurst and Co, London
- House of Trace, Tsuruta Architects, London
- Le Petit Fort, Hudson Architects, Jersey
- Modern Mews, Coffey Architects, London
- Murphy House, Richard Murphy Architects, Edinburgh
- North Vat, Rodic Davidson Architects, Dungeness
- Outhouse, Loyn & Co, Forest of Dean
- Private House in Cumbria, Bennetts Associates, Cumbria
- The Cheeran House, John Pardey Architects, Reading
- The Narrow House, Sanei Hopkins Architects, Brighton & Hove
- The Owers House, John Pardey Architects, Cornwall
- House 19, Jestico + Whiles, Old Amersham
- Private House 1109, GA Studio Architects, Cheshire
- Tin House, Henning Stummel Architects, London
- Zinc-House, LJR+H Chartered Architects, Angus.
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.
