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McGonigle McGrath scoops house of the year with £335k project
Practice uses ‘cost-saving hacks’ to top seven-strong shortlist with ‘outstanding quality’ home
McGonigle McGrath has won RIBA’s House of the Year 2019 award with a three-bedroom home built to a budget a fraction of some of its shortlisted rivals.
The Belfast practice’s Lessans House, in County Down, was described as “exquisitely simple” by competition judges, who said the architects had employed a range of “cost-saving hacks” to deliver a home of “outstanding quality” on a budget of £335,000.
McGonigle McGrath beat projects by Adam Richards, Tikari Works, Foster Lomas, Dualchas, Pritzker Prize laureate Peter Zumthor and David Sheppard Architects
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