Marks & Spencer’s giant eco store in Cheshire is one of 43 British buildings that has been awarded a coveted RIBA 2013 award. The store is the only shop and one of only a few commercial buildings to make the cut this year
Of the 43 British and nine EU-based structures longlisted, six will shortlisted for the Stirling prize next month. Each building on the longlist counts as a RIBA National Award winner.
At 195,000 sq ft, M&S Cheshire Oaks is the biggest store to be built under the retailer’s Plan A programme and in size is only second to its Marble Arch store.
Plan A comprises 180 sustainability targets with 21 specifically for property – all 21, including the zero waste to landfill target, were met at the store, which boasts 100% recycled aluminium on the roof, 60% recycled aggregates, and one of the largest ever glumam roof spans. Its most striking sustainable feature is the wooden roof made up of 1,400 sq m of curved glulam beams.
This year’s winners range from the UK’s northernmost arts centre in the Shetlands down to Redruth in Cornwall. The 242 hectare Olympic masterplan is one of the biggest projects shortlisted this year. While the tiniest is a small contemporary house built in the ruins of the 12th century Astley Castle in Warwickshire (below).
Photograph: Helene Binet
One third of the 52 buildings longlisted by the Royal Institute of British Architects for this year’s coveted Stirling Prize are schools, nurseries, universities and other educational facilities.
It is the first year the list has been so dominated by education, something RIBA president Angela Brady puts down to the “recessionary times” deterring risk-takers within commercial construction fields.
Among the innovative educational buildings chosen are an open-plan primary school in Hartlepool, Montpelier Community Nursery in London, Kingswood Academy in Kingston upon Hull (designed to include bullying-deterring toilets) and the West Wing of the Said Business School, Oxford.
Montpelier Community Nursery. Education is dominating the Stirling Prize this year
The 43 UK buildings that have won an RIBA National Award are:
Scotland
1. The Chapel of Saint Albert the Great, Edinburgh by Simpson and Brown
2. Forth Valley College of Further & Higher Education, Stirling by Reiach and Hall Architects
3. Mareel, Lerwick Shetland by Gareth Hoskins Architects with PJP Architects
4. University of Aberdeen New Library/Sir Duncan Rice Library by Schmidt
5. 4 Linsiander , Vig, Lewis by Studio KAP Architects
Northern Ireland
6. Giant’s Causeway Visitor Centre by Heneghan Peng
7. The MAC, Belfast by Hackett Hall McKnight
North east
8. Jesmond Gardens Primary School, Hartlepool, Cleveland, TS24 by ADP
North west
9. Chetham’s Music School, Manchester, M3 by Stephenson: ISA Studio
10. M&S Cheshire Oaks by Aukett Fitzroy Robinson
11. MMU Business School by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studio
12. St Silas CofE Primary School, Blackburn by Capita Symonds
Yorkshire
13. Park Hill, Sheffield by Hawkins/Brown and Studio Egret West
14. SOAR Works, Parson Cross, Sheffield by 00:/
15. Kingswood Academy, Bransholme, Kingston upon Hull by AHMM
West Midlands
16. Astley Castle, Nuneaton, Warwickshire by Witherford Watson Mann
17. Eastside City Park, Birmingham by Patel Taylor
18. St Alban’s Academy, Birmingham by dRMM
19. The Hive, Worcester by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
20. Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham by Glenn Howells Architects
East
21. Crowbrook, Ware, Hertfordshire by Knox Bhavan Architects
22. Newhall Be, Harlow, Essex by Alison Brooks Architects
South west/Wessex
23. Chedworth Roman Villa, Yanworth, Gloucestershire by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
24. The Forum, University of Exeter by Wilkinson Eyre
25. Heartlands, Redruth by Stride Treglown
South
26. Chapel at Cuddesdon by Niall Maclaughlin
27. West Wing, Said Business School, Oxford by Dixon Jones
28. Stowe Gardens Visitor Centre, Buckingham by Cowper Griffith
South east
29. Jerwood Gallery, Hastings by HAT Projects
30. Colyer-Fergusson Building, University of Kent, Canterbury by Tim Ronalds Architects
London
31. Akerman Health Centre, by Henley Halebrown Rorrison
32. Hayes Primary School, LB Croydon by Hayhurst and Co
33. Slip House by Carl Turner
34. Beveridge Mews, Stepney Green Estate, Hannibal Road, E1 by Peter Barber
35. Ironmonger Row Baths, Norman Street, London, EC1 by Tim Ronalds
36. Olympic Energy Centre, King’s Yard, Olympic Park, E9 by John McAslan
37. Olympic Masterplan, E20 by Allies and Morrison
38. Lauriston School, Rutland Road, E9 by Meadowcroft Griffin/MLA
39. Church Walk, N16 by David Mikhail
40. Montpelier Community Nursery, Brecknock Road, N19 by AYA
41. North London Hospice, Barrowell Green, N21 by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris
42. UCH Cancer Care Centre, WC1 Hopkins Architects by Hopkins
43. Quadrant 3, Air Street, W1 by Dixon Jones with Donald Insall Associates
The nine RIBA Award buildings in the European Union are:
1. Frederiksberg Courthouse, Copenhagen, Denmark by 3XN
2. Sorø Art Museum, Denmark by Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects
3. Pierresvives, Montpellier, France by Zaha Hadid Architects
4. MBA Building, Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris, France by David Chipperfield Architects
5. House on Mount Anville, Dublin, Ireland by Aughey O’Flaherty Architects
6. University of Limerick Medical School and Pergola Bus Shelter, Ireland by Grafton Architects
7. Enzo Ferrari Museum, Modena, Italy by Shiro Studio
8. Hoflaan House, Rotterdam, Netherlands by Maccreanor Lavington
9. Municipal Auditorium of Teulada, Alicante, Spain by Francisco Mangado y Asociados
