RIBA has released the 20-project longlist for its House of the Year Award 2022, which features homes by McGonigle McGrath, David Kohn, Surman Weston and Will Gamble Architects.

McGonigle McGrath won the 2019 award with tight-budget dream-home House Lessans, in County Down, Northern Ireland. The practice’s 2022 entry – House at Lough Beg – has already won a RIBA National Award and been named Northern Ireland’s house of the year by the Royal Ulster Society of Architects.

Three other House of the Year longlist entries picked up a RIBA National Award last month: Haysom Ward Miller Architects’ Suffolk Cottage extension and refurbishment project; Surman Weston’s new-build Surbiton Springs detached house in south London; and Will Gamble Architects’ Parchment Works remodelling of a grade II-listed 17^th century factory and old cattle shed in Northamptonshire.

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