It was a good night for Goldsmith Street, the Passivhaus development by Mikhail Riches and Cathy Hawley, which picked up the RIBA’s inaugural Neave Brown Award for Housing as well as the Stirling Prize.

The £14.8m development of almost 100 Passivhaus flats and houses commissioned by Norwich council has been more than 10 years in the making.

It beat Karakusevic Carson and David Chipperfield’s regeneration project at the Colville Estate in Hackney, Mae Architects’ Brentford Lock project, West Keelson Gardens, and Wilkinson Eyre’s collaboration with Mole at Eddington in North West Cambridge.

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