Invisible Studio’s East Quay regeneration project in the Somerset harbour town of Watchet has been named RIBA’s South West Building of the Year.

The scheme – which incorporates gallery space, workshops, a community centre, and five holiday-rental pods – heads the list of RIBA South West Awards 2023 winners. Among them was a second Invisible Studio scheme: the Beezantium apiary, also in Somerset.

Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and BEAM also notched up two wins each: FCBS for its Roman Baths Clore Learning Centre in Bath and its renovation of the University of Bristol’s Senate House; BEAM for two treehouses in Dorset.

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