RIBA has announced its 30-strong list of National Award winning projects. Among them are Saltmarsh House, on the Isle of Wight, by Niall McLaughlin Architects, winner of last year’s Stirling Prize, and Witherford Watson Mann’s Courtauld Connects project at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Witherford Watson Mann won the highest prize in British architecture in 2013.

Two practices have secured double entries on this year’s National Awards list: Mæ Architects and Rural Office. Mæ’s Sands End Arts and Community Centre in Fulham was shortlisted for last year’s Stirling Prize; Niall Maxwell, principal of Carmarthen-based Rural Office, and James Macdonald Wright won RIBA’s House of the Year award in 2017 for Caring Wood in Kent.

Sixteen of this year’s National Award winners are projects in the capital. Three are in Scotland; two are in Wales and just one is in Northern Ireland – Hill House by McGonigle McGrath, winners of 2019’s RIBA House of the Year Award.

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