North East | Design in the making

2025 RIBA UK North East Awards winners

29 May 2025

2025 RIBA UK North East Awards winners

Region:: North East

Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon Museum and Distillery, Wooler, Northumberland

29 May 2025

Elphick Associates sets a genuine benchmark for holistic, sustainable rural economic development

Region:: North East

More:: Ad Gefrin; 2025 RIBA North East Award; 2025 RIBA North East Building of the Year; 2025 RIBA North East Sustainability Award; 2025 RIBA North East Project Architect of the Year Richard Elphick; 2025 RIBA North East Client of the Year; Elphick Associates; Wooler; Northumberland

Farrell Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

29 May 2025

Space Architects and Elliott Architects create the UK’s first purpose-designed ‘urban room’, a joyful cultural space

Region:: North East

More:: Education; RIBA North East Award 2025; The Farrell Centre; Elliott Architects; Space Architects; Newcastle upon Tyne

Rocket House, Northumberland

29 May 2025

Napper Architects collaborate with master craftspeople to restore a small but important piece of maritime heritage

Region:: North East

More:: 2025 RIBA North East Award; 2025 RIBA North East Small Project of the Year; 2025 RIBA North East Conservation Award; Rocket House; Napper Architects; Northumberland

Whitburn Coastal Conservation Centre, Whitburn, near Sunderland

29 May 2025

MawsonKerr Architects’ understated community hub appears to hover above the ground

Region:: North East

More:: Whitburn Coastal Conservation Centre; 2025 RIBA North East Award; MawsonKerr Architects; Sunderland; RIBA Regional Awards 2025

Revisiting Newcastle’s concrete dreams

6 September 2024

Newcastle's 1960s/70s ambitious transformation of its urban fabric is revisited at the Farrell Centre

Region:: North East

More:: Newcastle upon Tyne; Tyneside; The Farrell Centre; Concrete; Urban planning; Brutalism; Smithsons; Places planning & community

How to bring daylight into the dark core of a period home

1 August 2024

Specifying light and air: heritage-style roof windows at a 1920s home in Tynemouth

Region:: North East

More:: Velux; Rooflights; Skylights; Glazing design; Daylighting; Specification and compliance; Lofts; Roof windows

AOC’s expanded Locomotion is an engine shed with a difference

Parapets above entrances at either end give Shildon’s new building presence

Region:: North East

More:: AOC Architecture; John Jervis; Design construction & technology; Transport; County Durham; Railways

Fire Station Auditorium, Sunderland

23 May 2024

‘A rigorous plan with functionality at its core’

Region:: North East

More:: Culture & entertainment; 2024 RIBA North East Award; Flanagan Lawrence Architects; Howarth Litchfield; 2024 RIBA Regional Award; MAC Trust; Sunderland; 2024 RIBA North East Client of the Year

2025 RIBA UK North East Awards winners

Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon Museum and Distillery, Wooler, Northumberland

Farrell Centre, Newcastle upon Tyne

Rocket House, Northumberland

Whitburn Coastal Conservation Centre, Whitburn, near Sunderland

Revisiting Newcastle’s concrete dreams

How to bring daylight into the dark core of a period home

AOC’s expanded Locomotion is an engine shed with a difference

Fire Station Auditorium, Sunderland

Newsletter signup