The Architects’ Journal Architecture News & Buildings
The best retrofit of a house with a project value of up to £500,000 is a bumper category this year with 16 schemes shortlisted. Among them are: Studio Weave's timber Devon retreat; A House within a House in Belsize Park by David Leech Architects; and Low Energy House by Architecture for London which was a contender for the AJ Small Projects prize last year.
The eight projects shortlisted in the House over £500,000 category include Coppin Dockray’s rework of the 1960s Trevor Dannatt house in Hampstead and Maison Colbert by Chris Dyson Architects which features fake retained shopfronts to enhance the streetscape.
Studio Weave is shortlisted for a second time in Listed Building up to £5 million for its timber and pigmented concrete Lea Bridge Library extension in east London which featured in AJ Specification last year.
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One of 2022’s most high profile completions, Battersea Power Station, makes the Listed Building £5 million and over category, along with Hall McKnight’s scheme at King’s College London, Witherford Watson Mann’s ‘Courtauld Connects’ and Mikhail Riches’ Park Hill Phase 2.
In total, 124 projects have been shortlisted for the 2023 AJ Retrofit Awards.
NB due to strike action by rail workers, the date of the Retrofit Awards event has changed. The winners will now be announced on the evening of 4 April 2023 at The Brewery, Chiswell Street, London. Register here for the event and to book your table.
Shortlists
House up to £500,000
- Woodford House by Arca
- Low Energy House by Architecture for London
- The Barnet House by Astrain Scheldt Architects
- Bradford Road by CaSA Architects
- The Barn by Dallas-Pierce-Quintero
- A House within a House by David Leech Architects
- Rural Retreat by Manea Kella
- Pwllhelyg Barn by Nicolas Pople Architects
- Sky Lantern House by Proctor & Shaw
- Tennyson Road by ROAR Architects
- The Invisible House by Space Group Architects
- Made of Sand by Studio Weave
- The Lighthouse by Taigh Solais Architecture
- Elizabeth Mews by Trewhela Williams
- Pot of Gold – A safe Space for Sarah by Ullmayer Sylvester Architects
Source:Jim Stephenson
Made of Sand by Studio Weave
House £500,000 and over
- Aldeburgh House by Beasley Dickson Architects
- Maison Colbert by Chris Dyson Architects
- Hampstead House by Coppin Dockray
- Val Des Portes by Found Associates
- Quatrefoil House by Hyde + Hyde Architects
- Hunts Green Barn by McLaren.Excell
- Tree View House by Neil Dusheiko Architects
- Christchurch House by Paul Archer Design
- Pergola House by Will Gamble Architects
Source:James O'Davies
Hampstead House by Coppin Dockray
Listed building up to £5 million
- Watercress Cottage by Greenaway Architecture
- Inverness Creative Academy by LDN Architects
- Ford House by LIND Studio
- The Wesleyan by Ollier Smurthwaite Architects
- ARC Painswick by Parti
- Seven Sisters Country Park by Pritchard Architecture
- Lea Bridge Library by Studio Weave
- Romford House by Theis + Khan
Watercress Cottage by Greenaway Architecture
Listed building £5 million and over
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- Leighton House by BDP
- York Guildhall by Burrell Foley Fischer
- 21st Century Engineering, Quadrangle Building, King’s College London by Hall McKnight
- Neville Hall by Howarth Litchfield
- Victoria House, Bloomsbury by Hutchinson & Partners
- Park Hill Phase 2 by Mikhail Riches
- Battersea Power Station Phase II by WilkinsonEyre
- Courtauld Connects – The Courtauld Institute of Art by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Battersea Power Station Phase II by WilkinsonEyre
