UK’s best new architecture honored at 2026 RIBA National Awards

The Royal Institute of British Architects has unveiled the winners of the RIBA National Awards 2026. For this edition, 32 projects were chosen to “recognise the best of UK architecture and provide insight into the country's design and social trends.”

“This year’s winners, while practicing in increasingly challenging times, illustrate how architects working with and for ambitious and enlightened clients can continue to create places and spaces of quality and value,” RIBA Awards Group Chair Neil Gillespie said about the projects. “Across a spectrum of scales, functions and locations, through a diversity of approach from the repair and re-use of existing buildings to new build, these architects and their design teams have placed people and place at the heart of their work.”

The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize, described as celebrating the UK’s best new building, will be chosen from the 32 National Award winners later this month. In the meantime, the RIBA National Awards 2026 winner...