The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has announced the winners of the 2016 RIBA National Awards, one of which is the Drawing Studio at Bournemouth University.
Designed by CRAB studio (Cook Robotham Architectural Bureau) the blue, cave-like, curved-steel pavilion is the first dedicated drawing studio to be built in a British art school for a century.
RIBA president Jane Duncan said: “The RIBA National Awards put a spotlight on some of the smaller and unique, but no less ambitious, projects such as the Drawing Studio at Bournemouth University…. They show that budget, location or many other challenges are no constraints to the production of superb quality architecture as long as you have the commitment of an imaginative and capable architect working with a great client.
“The RIBA National Awards are a great indicator of UK design, economic and construction trends. One stand-out trend from this year’s crop of winners is the huge scale of investment and ambition shown by many of the UK’s universities and colleges; almost one quarter of the winning projects (11 buildings) are in this category.
"As universities and colleges in the UK are competing for students from here and overseas, it is encouraging to see so much emphasis placed on the power of architecture to help institutions to attract students and stand out from the mediocre."
RIBA National Awards go to the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK, and award-winning buildings set the standard for good architecture. The shortlist for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best building of the year will be drawn from the award-winning buildings announced this week.
Other highlights include a children’s hospital in Liverpool with a striking, undulating grass roof (Alder Hey Children's Hospital), a development of 76 new homes in pastoral Essex that challenges the blight of uninspiring new housing estates by incorporating the character and pattern of the local town (The Avenue), a beautifully-detailed motorway services in the Cotswolds that offers tired motorists a tranquil respite (Gloucester Services) and a new shimmering stainless steel library at an Oxford college by the late Zaha Hadid’s firm.
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