Projects include Tuckey Design Studio’s experimental rammed earth house and two schemes in Bristol by AHMM
RIBA has named 17 projects shortlisted for this year’s South West and Wessex Awards with two projects by AHMM among the schemes vying for the regional prize.
The shortlisted projects include a private house designed by two-time Stirling Prize-winner Witherford Watson Mann, called House in the South-West, and a concert hall by Bristol Beacon.
An experimental home designed by Tuckey Design Studio built using ancient techniques including rammed earth has also made the list, alongside a striking hotel extension by De Matos Ryan.
AHMM’s two shortlisted projects are both located in Bristol, the mixed-use Assembly Bristol scheme and a pair of Victorian gas sheds reinvented as a research hub.
RIBA South West and Wessex jury chair, Sam Goss, founding director at Barefoot Architects, said this year’s shortlist “reflects the breadth, ambition and quality of work being delivered by practices across the South West”.
Goss added: “The projects demonstrate a commitment to craft, with sensitive and often inventive responses to our landscape, towns and cities, alongside thoughtful explorations of materials and construction. Traditional building types are reimagined alongside innovative architectural approaches, resulting in work of real diversity and distinction.”
All projects shortlisted for RIBA Awards will be visited by a regional jury with the winning projects to be announced later this spring.
The winners will then be considered for several RIBA South West and Wessex Special Awards, including the RIBA South West and Wessex Sustainability Award and RIBA South West and Wessex Building of the Year, before being considered for a RIBA National Award, which will be announced this summer.
The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects and announced in September. The Stirling Prize winner will be announced in October.
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