First Round of RIBA National Award Shortlist Revealed

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13 February 2025

37 projects have been shortlisted for the RIBA East and South East Awards 2025. 

The prize recognises the UK’s best new buildings and provides insight into the country’s architecture, design and social trends. As more regional projects are announced, all will be visited by a regional jury, and the winning projects will be announced later this spring.  

Let’s take a look at some of those buildings shortlisted under the East and South East categories

 

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The Discovery Centre

 

The Discovery Centre in Cambridge, shortlisted for the RIBA East Awards 2025, is a new research and development facility which houses over 2,200 AstraZeneca research scientists.

The £1 billion building, from Herzog & de Meuron and BDP, has been described as “a feat of environmental engineering”, with its structure featuring 174 boreholes to provide natural geothermal energy, four hybrid cooling towers’ and a ground source heat pump that will save enough energy to power 2,500 homes.

 

Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre

 

This 200-year-old, Grade I Listed building has had many lives, as a stable, a skating rink and a military hospital. Now a performing arts venue, Brighton Dome Corn Exchange and Studio Theatre has been remodelled by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and shortlisted for the RIBA South East Awards 2025.

 

Picture: a photograph of the auditorium at Brighton Dome Corn Exchange with its timber roof. Image Credit: Richard Chivers

 

Featuring the longest-single-span timber frame in the country, the renovation has revealed the original timber roof structure. The original decorative timber linings of the west side windows have been reinstated and the timber linings to the walls and dormer roof arches have been repaired, using a total of 6,500 linear metres of sustainable European oak cladding.

 

The Louisa Martindale Building

 

Brighton and Hove’s main NHS trauma centre, the new Louisa Martindale Building, is a major new healthcare facility designed by a multidisciplinary team from BDP and built by Laing O’Rourke. It has already won two awards at the prestigious European Healthcare Design Awards 2024.  

 

Picture: a photograph of one of the rooms at the Louisa Martindale Building showing a sea view. Image Credit: Nick Caville 

 

The building features patient rooms which face south with views over the English Channel.

 

Picture: a photograph showing the jagged exterior of the Discovery Centre in Cambridge. Image Credit: Hufton + Crow

Article written by Ella Tansley | Published 13 February 2025

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