A handful of Stirling-prize winners are up for RIBA East awards while RIBA Yorkshire recognises seven projects
The first two shortlists for RIBA’s regional awards covering Yorkshire and the East have been published.
There are seven contenders for the Yorkshire prizes, including Tonkin Liu’s Heritage Quad and Technology hub, two educational buildings on plots surrounding York Minster.
TP Bennett’s 11 and 12 Wellington Place, an office building in Leeds city centre, has also made the list alongside ArkleBoyce Architects’ wheelchair-accessible conversion of Bracken Lodge, a former bed and breakfast, and the refurbishment of the Grade I-listed Calverley Old Hall into a holiday let by Cowper Griffith Architects.
Also on the shortlist are The Laurels, a Passivhaus family home designed by Phi Architects and the “house for a couple” lodge conversion by Rural Solutions Limited and Sadler Brown Architects-Group.
Charlotte Harrison, RIBA Yorkshire jury chair and partner at Mass Architecture, said: “From a large-scale city centre office development and a centre for the advancement of heritage skills to the reuse of a Grade I listed Hall and a secluded residence within a regenerated landscape setting, I’m excited to visit the projects across Yorkshire alongside the jury.”
RIBA Yorkshire 2026 shortlist:
- 11 & 12 Wellington Place by tp bennett
- Bracken Lodge by ArkleBoyce Architects Ltd
- Calverley Old Hall by Cowper Griffith Architects LLP
- Heritage Quad: York Minster Centre of Excellence by Tonkin Liu Architects
- Technology Hub: York Minster Centre of Excellence by Tonkin Liu Architects
- The Laurels by phi Architects
- Yorkshire house for a couple by Rural Solutions Limited & Sadler Brown Architects-Group
Among the 18 projects shortlisted for RIBA East prizes are Prestley Wood Academy, designed by AtkinsRéalis for children with special educational needs and disabilities and Bennetts Associates’ BEAM arts and culture centre in Hertford.
Haileybury SciTech, an education building by Hopkins Architects and The Technology Partnership Campus by Sheppard Robson are also up for awards.
The shortlist for the East features several previous Stirling-prize winners who have all contributed designs for the University of Cambridge. They include Haworth Tompkins for its Pembroke Mill Lane expansion of Pembroke College, Alison Brooks Architects, which completed a high-density, low-rise housing project and Witherford Watson Mann, which swept the Stirling Prize last year for the second time and was shortlisted for this year’s regional prize for its new River Wing of Clare College.
Julian de Metz, RIBA East jury chair and director at dMFK Architects, said: “Congratulations to all those who made this year’s shortlist, with projects ranging from a modest, low-cost artist studio to major housing, education and arts projects.”
RIBA East 2026 shortlist:
- A Domestic Chapel by Matthew Seaborn with the Whitworth Co Partnership and Donald Insall Associates
- A house at Fairmead, High Beach, Epping Forest by Sergison Bates architects
- Angles House by Beech Architects Limited
- BEAM by Bennetts Associates
- Bodney Beach House by Napier Clarke Architects
- Fiona’s Studio by Edward McCann Architects
- Float House by TiggColl
- Foxglove House by Kirkland Fraser Moor
- Haileybury SciTech by Hopkins Architects
- Long Barn by TAS Architects
- More’s Meadow by Haysom Ward Miller
- Pembroke, Mill Lane by Haworth Tompkins
- Prestley Wood Academy by AtkinsRéalis
- River Wing, Clare College, Cambridge by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
- Rubicon by Alison Brooks Architects
- The Apple House by Okra
- The Drift - Abbots Hall by Leep Architects / Corinna Dean
- TTP Campus by Sheppard Robson
All projects shortlisted for RIBA awards will be visited by a regional jury, with the winning projects to be announced later this spring.
The winners will then be considered for several RIBA Special Awards, which are granted separately for each region. These including the RIBA Yorkshire and RIBA East Sustainability awards and and RIBA Building of the Year, before being considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced in summer.
The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize – the UK’s best new building – will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects and announced in September. The Stirling Prize winner will be announced in October.
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