Following their ‘Architecture Grand Prix’ win at the recent Scottish Design Awards and RIBA Regional Award, Gareth Hoskins Architects have gone on to win a Royal Institute of British Architects National Award for The Bridge Arts Centre in Easterhouse, Glasgow.
Announced at the Hilton in London on Friday night, the design was described as ‘sensational and stunning’ and as a truly accessible project that represented ‘urban regeneration at its most powerful’. The new building provides a theatre, dance studio, recording studios, production suites, visual arts spaces, community library, cafe and the base for the National Theatre for Scotland, and linked to a wider complex of facilities including leisure and further education as the focal point within Glasgow City Council’s Cultural Campus Project, and was the only project from Scotland to receive a National Award.
The project now goes on to the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize Awards mid-list and is the only Scottish project to be shortlisted for the Prime Minister’s Better Public Buildings Award.
The 14 buildings that won the first RIBA National Awards are:
1. Formby Pool, Lancashire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Architects
2. Marlowe Academy, Ramsgate by Building Design Partnership
3. Palestra, London SE1 by Alsop Architects
4. Rooftop Nursery, London E5 by WHAT_ architecture!
5. RSPB Environment & Education Centre, Rainham Marshes Nature Reserve, Essex by van Heyningen & Haward Architects
6. Sinclair’s Building, Sheffield by Project Orange
7. The Bridge Arts Centre, Glasgow by Gareth Hoskins Architects
8. The Roundhouse, London NW1 by John McAslan + Partners
9. The Royal Shakespeare Company Courtyard Theatre, Stratford upon Avon by Ian Ritchie Architects
10. The Salt House, Essex by Alison Brooks Architects
11. The Savill Building, Windsor, by Glenn Howells Architects
12. The Singing Ringing Tree, Burnley, Lancashire by Tonkin Liu
13. Unity Building, Liverpool by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
14. Young Vic Theatre, London SE1 by Haworth Tompkins
Other Scottish Architecture Links:
Buildings and Places - The Bridge
