The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has recently revealed the 54 winners of the 2021 RIBA National Awards for architecture. Running since 1996, RIBA National Awards lookout for the UK’s best new buildings and notice rising economic and architectural trends in the UK.
Ranging from radical, cutting-edge new designs to clever, creative restorations that breathe new life into historic buildings, these projects illustrate the enduring importance and impact of British architecture.

?Said RIBA President, Simon Allford
All winners of this year’s National Awards highly focus on the excellence and sensibility of the UK’s modern architecture. The winning projects are of promising variety; ranging from clever interventions done to valuable historic buildings to newly built architecture that responds very well to its context, and everything in between One of the key trends among this year’s RIBA National Award Winners is the sensitive reuse of existing structures and abandoned lands?presenting an old water tower is reused as a residential building, a church floating on an East London barge, clever utilization of a thought-to-be useless street island, and more!
Looking ahead, as we design the low carbon future, we must start by exploring the retention and reuse of existing buildings. And when a new building is essential, we need to make sure it will last and serve the future well ? so it needs to be flexible and reusable.
Long life; loose fit; low en...