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The RIBA National Awards are given to UK buildings recognised as significant contributions to architecture. This year’s winners, announced on 11 July 2024, were selected from the RIBA Regional Award winners by members of the RIBA Awards Group.

The practice, founded by The Bartlett’s Professor Níall McLaughlin, has won the RIBA North East Award, RIBA North East Conservation Award, RIBA North East Building of the Year Award and RIBA National Award for the Auckland Tower and Faith Museum, with Purcell leading on the Auckland Castle project on the winning joint entry. In 2012, Auckland Castle, a former bishop's palace located in County Durham, was acquired by The Auckland Project to be transformed into a cultural centre for arts, faith and heritage. Auckland Tower houses a new welcome building for ticketing and information with an elevated viewing platform where visitors can look into the castle grounds. Designed in collaboration with architects and heritage consultants, Purcell, the Faith Museum is part of an extension to the existing Scotland Wing of the castle and takes a barn-like form to provide space for exhibition displays on faith in Britain.

The practice also won a RIBA East Award and RIBA National Award for the WongAvery Music Gallery at Trinity Hall, Cambridge. The project comprises a new stone-built music practice and performance space surrounded by Grade I and II listed buildings in what was originally the entrance court to the college. The use of Portland stone in structure and enclosure controls acoustic reverberation and moderates temperature and humidity.

Al-Jawad Pike, founded by two Bartlett alumni, Jessam Al-Jawad and Dean Pike, has won both a RIBA London Award and RIBA National Award for their work on modern council housing in Hackney Council. The infill development of 11 houses stands between two existing terraces and their gardens. The houses are arranged in a two-storey staggered terrace, set along a newly created public thoroughfare for pedestrians and cyclists, with private patio gardens to the rear.

More information

• Explore the and projects at Níall McLaughlin Architects' website

Images

• Auckland Tower in Bishop Auckland by Níall McLaughlin Architects (Lead) – Photography by Nick Kane
• The WongAvery Music Gallery by Níall McLaughlin Architects (Slideshow) – Photography by Nick Kane
• Chowdhury Walk by Al-Jawad Pike (Slideshow) – Photography by Rory Gardiner