Hawkins Brown’s new art school for Leeds Beckett University and Mikhail Riches’ second-phase refurbishment of Sheffield’s grade II*-listed Park Hill estate are among seven projects shortlisted for the RIBA Yorkshire Awards 2024.

Leeds School of Arts, which completed in 2021, is a BREEAM “excellent”-rated creative hub for more than 2,500 students that contains a theatre, recording studios and film-and-TV production facilities.

The Park Hill project, by 2019 Stirling Prize winners Mikhail Riches, has refurbished flats and bedsits at the estate to create 195 homes for private sale or rent, optimising the homes’ thermal performance in the process. Park Hill Phase 2 has also delivered 2,500sq m of commercial space at ground level.

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