David Kohn bags RIBA House of the Year
By Jim Dunton2022-12-07T22:00:00
The Red House in Dorset beats shortlist rivals, including Macdonald Wright Architects’ Library House
David Kohn Architects’ “ordinary yet quirky” Dorset family home The Red House has won the 2022 RIBA House of the Year award.
It beat projects by RX Architects, Sandy Rendel, Prewett Bizley, Surman Weston, Haysom Ward Miller, and Macdonald Wright to the accolade – won last year by Stirling Prize winner Alison Brooks.
The seven-strong shortlist for this year’s House of the Year award emerged over the past three weeks as part of the Channel 4 show Grand Designs House of the Year. Kohn’s victory came in the same episode in which Macdonald Wright’s The Library House was revealed as the final shortlisted project.
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