Levete and Ritchie share ‘best London building’ accolade
By Jim Dunton2018-05-16T11:41:00
All the winners of RIBA’s London Awards
RIBA has named the 61 projects that have won 2018 London Regional Awards and conferred this year’s “Best London Building” title jointly on Amanda Levete’s AL_A practice and Ian Ritchie Architects.
Levete’s best-building title was in recognition of AL_A’s Victoria & Albert Museum Exhibition Road Quarter. Ritchie was honoured for the practice’s Susie Sainsbury Theatre and Angela Burgess Recital Hall at the Royal Academy of Music.
Elsewhere, Foster & Partners’ Bloomberg building; Amin Taha and Groupwork’s 15 Clerkenwell Close; Wilkinson Eyre’s King’s Cross Gasholders; Squire & Partners’ Department Store; and Orms’ No1 New Oxford Street refurbishment were included in the overall awards winners list.