More than 50 projects have today been handed a RIBA National Award and now go forward to vie for a place on the Stirling shortlist.

Haworth Tompkins and Mole picked up three apiece – the former for Battersea Arts Centre, Bristol Old Vic and Cambridge’s Peter Hall Performing Arts Centre. Mole was honoured for two housing projects in Cambridge and Living Architecture’s Secular Retreat which it designed with Peter Zumthor.

Several other practices won a pair of awards, including Maccreanor Lavington, Stanton Williams, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Archer Humphryes, AHMM and Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners.

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