The RIBA Home of the Yr was first awarded in 2013, specializing in new builds and extensions within the UK. Received by 31/44’s Six Columns in South London in 2024, the Inexperienced Home by Hayhurst & Co in 2023 and David Kohn Architects’ The Crimson Home in 2022, the award encompasses a broad vary of labor, from grand up to date nation homes (Flint Home and Caring Wooden Home) to extensions just like the Home on the Hill, in addition to city dwellings. This yr presents a bit of little bit of every part, beginning with these two constructions.
RIBA Home of the Yr 2025, RIBA.org
Caochan na Creige by Izat Arundell
Caochan na Creige by Izat Arundell
(Picture credit score: Richard Gaston)
The primary venture to be nominated is a self-build venture, constructed on a distant website in Bay of Harris within the Outer Hebrides by Eilidh Izat and Jack Arundell of Izat Arundell. The duo, companions in work and life, designed and constructed the modest one-bedroom home on a rocky website overlooking the ocean to the island of Rùm.
The doorway porch, Caochan na Creige by Izat Arundell
(Picture credit score: Jack Arundell)
At simply 85m2, Caochan na Creige is among the smallest tasks to be nominated for the Home of the Yr. With a timber construction and native stone cladding, there’s additionally an uncovered concrete ring beam so as to add further texture to enrich the rocky website. Inside, lime plaster partitions and polished concrete flooring are paired with Scottish larch ceilings and bespoke beech joinery made by Izat’s furnishings maker brother Alastair.
Element of the stone clad partitions, Caochan na Creige by Izat Arundell
(Picture credit score: Richard Gaston)
Caochan na Creige (the identify means ‘little quiet one by the rock’) is extremely private, not simply due to the bodily labour required to construct it however as a result of each nook and cranny has been formed to cater to the couple’s possessions and artworks, in addition to the views throughout the ocean and glen. The constructed course of additionally concerned working with many native artisans, serving to foster stronger neighborhood ties for this small follow.
The home within the Hebridean panorama
(Picture credit score: Richard Gaston)
IzatArundell.com, Izat.Arundell
Hastings Home by Hugh Unusual Architects
Hastings Home by Hugh Unusual Architects
(Picture credit score: Rory Gaylor)
The home, which was additionally shortlisted for this yr RIBA Stirling Prize (dropping out to Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann) follows on from earlier home tasks like the home reconfiguration in Peckham, South London.
Hastings Home by Hugh Unusual Architects
(Picture credit score: Rory Gaylor)
In Hastings, nonetheless, Hugh Unusual and his staff had been tasked with updating a Nineteenth-century indifferent home within the coronary heart of the city centre, with a precipitous stage change throughout the positioning. The principle home has been retained and restored, with particular focus given to unique options like mouldings, stained glass, fretted barge boards and ornamental clay tiles. The actual shifts in notion come on the rear.
Hastings Home by Hugh Unusual Architects
(Picture credit score: Rory Gaylor)
An current extension was changed with a collection of galvanised metal items that step the multi-terraced rear backyard. Every of those information rooms is given giant timber sliding doorways, whereas the present retaining wall is paired with a brand new concrete slab but retains the scars of use over the centuries. It’s a collection of interventions that enhances the unique home with out scouring the positioning of its historical past, with up to date supplies and particulars offering a robust distinction to what went earlier than.
Hastings Home by Hugh Unusual Architects
(Picture credit score: Rory Gaylor)
HughStrange.com, @HughStrangeArchitects
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