Grimshaw, dRMM and Niall McLaughlin shortlisted for RIBA East Awards

Cambridge University’s new civil engineering building by Grimshaw Architects and RHP, Niall McLaughlin Architects’ Magdalene College Library and a dRMM primary school in St Neots all feature on the just-released RIBA East Awards 2022 shortlist.

The regional awards – a crucial first rung of the ladder to the 2022 Stirling Prize shortlist – also feature Allies & Morrison’s Cranmer Road Passivhaus student housing in Cambridge and a Hawkins Brown-designed GP surgery in Hertfordshire.

Cottrell & Vermeulen Architecture secures three entries on the list: a temple at the mock-Tudor Hertfordshire manor house donated to the Hare Krishna movement by Beatle George Harrison; a prep school in Brentwood, Essex; and new student housing for Churchill College, Cambridge.

Mole Architects notched up two shortlist entires for its residential projects Friars, in St Ives, and 1704_Wudhus.

RIBA East regional director Louise Todd said the shortlisted schemes, the smallest of which is a copper-clad house extension by Butcher Bayley Architects, underscored the “determination and design skill” of all the practices involved.

“Given the challenges of the past two years, we were thrilled to see a significant number of entries to the RIBA East Awards this year,” she said.

“They also show the enormous value that architects bring to these projects and how their expertise can be used to create better spaces for people to live, work and experience.”

All shortlisted projects – see the full list below – will be assessed by a regional jury, and the winning schemes will be announced later in the spring.