List used to select Stirling Prize shortlist
RIBA has named the 32 winners of this year’s RIBA National Awards with recipients including Tonkin Liu’s Heritage Quad in York and Renzo Piano’s Paddington Square in London.
More than half of the 2026 winners are located in the capital although projects from all four UK nations are recognised, including Baillie Baillie Architects’ Iorram scheme in Plockton and Rural Office’s Pantybara in Carmarthenshire.
High-profile winners in London include Squire & Partners’ restoration of Space House, Feilden Fowles’ Urban Nature Project at the Natural History Museum and O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Sadler’s Wells East.
Neil Gillespie, chair of the 2026 RIBA Awards Group, said: “This year’s winners, while practicing in increasingly challenging times, illustrate how architects working with and for ambitious and enlightened clients can continue to create places and spaces of quality and value.
Gillespie added: “Across a spectrum of scales, functions and locations, through a diversity of approach from the repair and re-use of existing buildings to new build, these architects and their design teams have placed people and place at the heart of their work.”
The list of winning projects will be whittled down to form the shortlist for the Stirling Prize, the UK’s top architecture prize, which will be announced on 15 October. The Stirling Prize shortlist is due to be announced this Thursday.
See all 32 National Award winners below.
A house at Fairmead, High Beach, Epping Forest by Sergison Bates architects (Essex)
- An accessible and adaptable home set on the edge of Epping Forest
Arding & Hobbs by Stiff+Trevillion (London)
- Retrofit of a Grade II-listed department store
BEAM by Bennetts Associates (Hertford)
- Transformation of Hertford’s 1970s theatre
Bristol Beacon by Levitt Bernstein (Bristol)
- The transformation of a former concert hall in Bristol.
Canada Water Plot K1 by Morris+Company with White Ink (London)
- 79 affordable homes within Southwark.
Harold Moody Health Centre by Morris+Company (London)
- A new civic health centre
Heritage Quad: York Minster Centre of Excellence by Tonkin Liu Architects (York)
- A contemporary addition to York Minster supporting heritage craft.
Highbury House & Studio by Maich Swift Architects (London)
- The conversion of a former industrial building into a home and studio
Iorram by Baillie Baillie Architects (Plockton)
- A small new-build cottage in the Scottish Highlands
Kepax Footbridge by Moxon Architects and Jacobs (Engineering) (Worcester)
- A modern pedestrian bridge over the River Severn
Lion Green Road by Mary Duggan Architects (Design) with RUFF Architects (Delivery) (London)
- A housing development that provides 157 affordable and private homes in Croydon
Norton Folgate by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Stanton Williams by Morris + Co, DSDHA and East (London)
- A multi-faceted office-led development situated on the edge of historic Spitalfields.
Paddington Square by Renzo Piano Building Workshop (Paris) in collaboration with Adamson Associates (London)
- A transformative piece of urban infrastructure redefining arrival to one of London’s most significant transport hubs
Pantybara by Rural Office (Carmarthenshire)
- The revival of a traditional farmstead into a rural family home
Pembroke by Mill Lane, Haworth Tompkins (Cambridge)
- The most significant expansion of Pembroke College since the fourteenth century
Plant by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios with Grant Associates by Twelve Architects and Studio Knight Stokoe (Basingstoke)
- Plant is a heritage-led retrofit of a Grade II listed office building
Plashet Road by Newham, Levitt Bernstein (London)
- A development of 65 affordable, Passivhaus-certified council homes
Rammed Earth House by Tuckey Design Studio (Wiltshire)
- A house in the country made from site-sourced rammed earth.
River Wing by Clare College, Cambridge, Witherford Watson Mann Architects (Cambridge)
- Transformation of underused spaces at the Grade I listed Clare Cottage
Sadler’s Wells East by O’Donnell + Tuomey (London)
- A new dance theatre and school of choreography for Sadler’s Wells
Smart’s Place by David Kohn Architects (London)
- Rooftop transformation of a Victorian warehouse into a light-filled home
Space House by Squire & Partners, Atelier Ten, Pell Frischmann by Donald Insall Associates, Gustafson Porter + Bowman, Gardiner & Theobald and BAM (London)
- Restoration and reinvention of a listed modernist icon.
Technology Hub: York Minster Centre of Excellence by Tonkin Liu Architects (York)
- A new addition to York Minster supporting technological innovation.
The Apple House by Okra (Hertfordshire)
- An innovative education and wellbeing hub set within a previously neglected orchard
The Brentford Project - Phase 1 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Howells and Maccreanor Lavington (London)
- A major mixed-use west London waterfront development
The Featherstone Building by Morris+Company (London)
- A new office block clad in brick and precast concrete
The Richard Cairns Building, Brighton College by KRFT Architecture studio & Nicholas Hare Architects (Brighton)
- A carefully crafted mixed-use performance and teaching building.
The Tannery by Coffey Architects (London)
- Mixed‑tenure residential community which provides spaces for local creative charities
Tollymore by McGonigle McGrath (County Down)
- A multi-level riverside home
UCL East by Marshgate, Stanton Williams (London)
- A giant academic building in the Olympic Park for the University College London
UCL One Pool Street by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands (London)
- Purpose-built project that combines both student living and teaching spaces for University College London
Urban Nature Project by Natural History Museum, Feilden Fowles (London)
- Reimagining of the Natural History Museum’s 5‑acre gardens
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