Contenders include Fosters’ Principal Tower, SOM’s Harrow Square and four AHMM projects
Sixty-eight projects are vying for one of this year’s RIBA London Awards according to the institute’s just-released shortlist, which pits starchitects against much smaller firms.
RIBA’s regional awards are the first step on the ladder towards a Stirling Prize nomination. The latest shortlist includes 50-storey Principal Tower in Shoreditch by three-time Stirling Prize winner Foster & Partners and the Brickfields workspace in nearby Hoxton by 2013 winners Witherford Watson Mann.
Eight practices have more than one entry on the shortlist, but 2015 Stirling Prize winner Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has the most, with four. Founding partner Simon Allford is current RIBA president.
Allies & Morrison, Buckley Gray Yeoman, EPR Architects, Mae Architects, Peter Barber Architects, Sheppard Robson, and Surman Weston all have two projects each in the running for a London award. (See full shortlist below)
RIBA London director Dian Small said that despite the challenges of the past two years, awards organisers were delighted that the 2022 shortlist included a wide variety of buildings that were a “true testament” to the high standard of architecture the capital has to offer.
“The jury discussions were focused on assessing how environmentally and socially conscious the projects were – and particularly how they have and will positively shape the communities they are in,” she said.
Despite its length in comparison to other regional shortlists – just five projects each are in the running for this year’s RIBA North East Awards and RIBA Yorkshire and Humber Awards – the 2022 London Awards shortlist has fewer entries than the 77 projects announced last year.
All of the shortlisted schemes will be assessed by a regional jury, and the winning projects will be announced later this spring. They will go forward for consideration for other RIBA awards, including the RIBA National Awards, from which Stirling Prize candidates are drawn.
Full shortlist: RIBA London Awards 2022
100 Bishopsgate, Allies & Morrison with Arney Fender Katsalidis
100 Liverpool Street, Hopkins Architects
135 Bishopsgate, Fletcher Priest Architects
198 CAL, CarverHaggard
245 Hammersmith Road, by Sheppard Robson
80 Percent House - Deep Retrofit in a Conservation Area, by Prewett Bizley Architects
Albion Drive E8, by Theme2 Architects
Artist’s Studio in Stepney, Martin Edwards Architects
Barts Square, by Sheppard Robson
Belgravia Gate, by Flanagan Lawrence Ltd
Belle Vue, by Morris & Company
BFI Riverfront, Carmody Groarke
Breakers Place, Nottingdale, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Brickfields, by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Bunhill 2 Energy Centre, by Cullinan Studio City Law School, by WilkinsonEyre
Cromwell Place, by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Dept W, by Buckley Gray Yeoman
Ditton Hill House, by Surman Weston
Duckworth Terrace, by Peter Barber Architects
Forest Gate Community School, by Rivington Street Studio
Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, by Henley Halebrown
Hackney School of Food, by Surman Weston
Harris Academy, Sutton, by Architype
Harrow Square, by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill ·
Hawley Wharf, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
House in Primrose Hill, by Jamie Fobert Architects Limited
Hoxton Southwark, by Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands
Ibstock Place School Refectory, by Maccreanor Lavington
Kiln Place, by Peter Barber Architects
Lambeth Palace Library, by Wright & Wright Architects
LB Southwark SILS3, by Tim Ronalds Architects
Leyton House, by McMahon Architecture
Mews House Deep Retrofit, by Prewett Bizley Architects
Mews House, by creativemass
Mountain View, by CAN
NoMad London, by EPR Architects
Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, by Panter Hudspith Architects
Peveril Gardens and Studios, by Sanchez Benton Architects
Pinnacle House, Royal Wharf, Mae Architects
Pitched Black, by Gruff Architects
Plumstead Centre, by Hawkins Brown
Principal Tower, by Foster & Partners
Ram Quarter Phase One, by EPR Architects
Royal Wharf Primary School, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Sands End Arts and Community Centre, by Mae Architects
Sideways House, by Leep Architects
Sir Michael Uren Hub, by Allies & Morrison
Smithson Tower – The Economist Building, by ConForm Architects
Southwark Brick House, Satish Jassal Architects
St John Street, by Emil Eve Architects
St John’s Church, Hackney, by Thomas Ford & Partners
St Mary’s Centre, by Erect Architecture
Stephen Hawking School, by Donald McCrory
Studio House, by AOC Architecture Ltd
The Archives, by ROAR Architects
The Interlock, by Bureau de Change Architects
The Library House, by Macdonald Wright Architects
The Lodge, Simon Gill Architects
The Mews House, Bouverie Mews, by Spatial Affairs Bureau
The Post Building, by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Totteridge House, by Gregory Phillips Architects
Toynbee Hall Estate and London Square Spitalfields, Platform 5 Architects
Tree House, Ealing, by Fletcher Crane Architects
Victoria House, Bloomsbury , by Hutchinson & Partners
Wimbledon House, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
Woods Quay, by Architecturall Ltd
Yorkton Workshops, by Cassion Castle Architects
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