Hugh Broughton Architects has won a design competition to create prototype protective shelters for mosaics and other archaeological remains at the Unesco World Heritage Site of Nea Paphos in Cyprus.

The practice beat six other teams, including Carmody Groarke, Cullinan Studio, Studio Gionata Rizzi,, Machado Silvetti and a collaboration between Sela Jaymes Architects and Gort Scott.

Organisers the Getty Conservation Institute and the Department of Antiquities of Cyprus said Broughton’s proposals for the creation of a semi-open shelter provided the most comprehensive and balanced answers to the complex criteria set out in the competition’s design guide.

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