RSHP’s nine-home Crofts Street development of modular homes in Cardiff has been named as one of four projects in the running for this year’s Royal Society of Architects Wales Awards.

The carbon-positive scheme, created for Wates Residential and Cardiff Council, is joined by a timber coastal house on the Gower Peninsula designed by Maich Swift Architects and a concrete dwelling in West Wales by Hyde + Hyde Architects. Hyde + Hyde is currently also shortlisted for a RIBA South Award for its Quatrefoil House project in Oxford.

Nidus Architects’ Pen y Common house extension in the Brecon Beacons National Park, near Hay-on-Wye, completes the shortlist.

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