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RIBA National Award for Kettle’s Yard
27th Jun 2019

Kettle’s Yard is one of 54 new buildings – and one of 6 University of Cambridge buildings – to win an RIBA National Award 2019.

The RIBA National Awards recognise buildings which make a significant contribution to UK architecture. We are so pleased that Kettle’s Yard now joins Jamie Fobert Architects’s little rosta of projects which have received this accolade – Tate St Ives, Levring House, Luker House, Kander House and Anderson House.

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RIBA East Award for Kettle’s Yard
10th May 2019

We are delighted that Kettle’s Yard is the winner of an RIBA East Award 2019, announced last night at the regional awards event in Cambridge.

The jury commented, ‘Jim Ede’s domestic museum, Kettle’s Yard, which was established in the 1950s and extended by Sir Leslie Martin in the late 60s, has been given an authentic and faithful enhancement through this careful and sensitive project. Rectangular gallery spaces, perfectly proportioned and laid out for international exhibitions, have been set into the random shape of the site with all its nooks and crannies. A deep coherence has been achieved within what had been a disparate collection of parts, and a very pleasing combination of rational and idiosyncratic architectural spaces has been created.’

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Shortlisted for BD Public Building Architect of the Year Award 2019
2nd Apr 2019

We are delighted that Jamie Fobert Architects is shortlisted alongside five other practices in the Public Building category of the BD Architect of the Year Awards 2019.

Our submission included three completed public gallery projects – Tate St Ives, Kettle’s Yard and Charleston – and our reconfiguration of the National Portrait Gallery, which is currently in the design process.

Read more about all the shortlisted practices and their work here.

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Civic Trust National Award for Tate St Ives
4th Mar 2019

We are so pleased that Tate St Ives was awarded a Civic Trust 2019 Award at the 60th Anniversary Civic Trust Awards Ceremony on Friday evening, at the Imperial War Museum North in Manchester.

The judges commented that Tate St Ives is “a wonderful space with a strong connection to the community which provides an excellent visitor experience. Stunningly simple, elegant and suited to its context and natural landscape”.

Joana was joined in collecting this award by David Derby from Price & Myers.

Photograph ©Civic Trust Awards & Wayne Myers Photography

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Tate St Ives is a Regional Finalist in the 2019 Civic Trust Awards
7th Nov 2018

Tate St Ives is a Regional Finalist in the 2019 Civic Trust Awards and the Selwyn Goldsmith Awards for Universal Design.

We are delighted that the project’s contribution to the town of St Ives and its many visitors has been applauded by
the Civic Trust Awards scheme, which was established in 1959 to recognise outstanding architecture, planning and design. It identifies projects which exhibit strong sustainability credentials and a high level of accessible and universal design, and which have provided a positive civic contribution.

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RIBA Stirling Prize celebration
10th Oct 2018

The winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018 will be announced this evening at an event to be broadcast live by the BBC from 20:30 tonight.

To celebrate the inclusion of Tate St Ives on the shortlist, here’s the wonderful film made by Jim Stephenson for the Architects’ Journal.

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Winner of Best Written Content in the Archiboo Web Awards 2018
20th Sep 2018

We were delighted to be awarded ‘Best Written Content’ in the Archiboo Web Awards last night.

The judges described our website as a ‘no nonsense approach with crisp, honest writing. The descriptions of the work have a nice story-telling quality without too much jargon or too many warm words that lack real meaning. You feel as though you’ve got inside the heads of the practitioners a bit and it has character”.

Read more in Dezeen

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The Ultimate Dezeen Awards 2018
2nd Aug 2018

Jamie Fobert Architects is one of ten practices internationally to be considered for the accolade of ‘Architect of the Year’ in the inaugural Dezeen Awards.

In addition, we have four projects nominated in the project categories. In the architecture categories, Tate St Ives, the House in the Caribbean and Camino de Playa are in the running; and in the design categories, the jury has longlisted our interiors at the Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice. Winners will be announced in November.

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Tate St Ives shortlisted for the Stirling Prize
19th Jul 2018

Tate St Ives is one of six RIBA National Award-winners to be shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize!

Being shortlisted alongside five outstanding buildings for this prestigious award is a tribute to the whole project team, including our amazing consultants, the Tate St Ives team, and also the people of St Ives.

The project has been a lesson in the fruitfulness of really listening to a community. The new building doubles the gallery space at Tate St Ives and provides facilities to support both old and new buildings, but it also gives so much back to the town. The project’s positive reception by the townsfolk and Cornish people has been overwhelming.

It is important that recognition for the project’s success is shared with the architects of the 1993 building, Eldred Evans and the late David Shalev, whose work to refurbish their original building, and to create new education spaces, is integral. 

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Tate St Ives wins Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018
6th Jul 2018

Last night, at a big celebration hosted by the Art Fund at the V&A, Tate St Ives was announced as the Art Fund Museum of the Year!

We are so proud to be part of the skilled and dedicated team, including the local community in St Ives, who have worked long and hard to create an innovative and inspiring gallery benefiting the people of Cornwall and far beyond.

Stephen Deuchar, Art Fund director and chair of the judges, said: ‘The new extension to the gallery is deeply intelligent and breathtakingly beautiful … The judges admired an architect and gallery team who devoted some 12 years to this transformational change, consulting with the local community all the way.’

Judge Melanie Manchot, said, ‘As soon as I walked into Tate St Ives I had an amazingly strong feeling that they’re doing something innovative. I’ve visited before, but now the whole building, the galleries, the views all feel different – they have been given a new lease of life.’

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RIBA National Award for Tate St Ives
21st Jun 2018

We are delighted to announce that Tate St Ives has been chosen by the RIBA Awards Group as a RIBA National Award winner 2018. 

The RIBA Jury said:

“By architectural ingenuity, a building has been delivered where there appeared to be no site available, with minimal intrusion on an already crowded horizon.

It has created an intriguing new public landscape and pedestrian connection from hilltop to beach and, with subtle reordering of the original gallery, it achieves a seamless environment to in which to enjoy art”.

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RIBA South West Award for Tate St Ives
17th May 2018

We are delighted that Tate St Ives has been awarded one of the RIBA South West Awards 2018. The RIBA jury praised the fact that the new extension ‘has overcome huge challenges, navigating vociferous local stakeholders and significant site constraints’ while also connecting seamlessly to Evans and Shalev’s original building.

This Saturday, May 19th, the gallery will hold the opening of a major retrospective exhibition of acclaimed British artist Patrick Heron.

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AJ100 Awards: Collaboration of the Year finalists announced
14th May 2018

Our present collaboration with Purcell for the £35.5m project ‘Inspiring People’ at the National Portrait Gallery is a finalist in the AJ100 Awards for ‘Collaboration of the Year’. Currently in the earliest stages, our work includes creating around twenty per cent more public and gallery spaces, all of which will be refurbished and rehung for the first time, enhancing the Gallery’s entrance and creating a state-of-the-art Learning Centre.

Illustration: Ewan Christian’s original design for the north front of the Gallery, 1896 © National Portrait Gallery, London

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Tate St Ives is an Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018 finalist!
2nd May 2018

The Art Fund has announced the finalists for Art Fund Museum of the Year 2018, the world’s largest and most prestigious prize for museums. We are so pleased that Tate St Ives is one of the five museums selected, recognised for its successful reopening in 2017 and in particularly its focus on the local community and for celebrating the important contribution of 20th-century artists who lived and worked in Cornwall.

Speaking on behalf of the jury, Stephen Deuchar, director, Art Fund, said: ‘Above all, Art Fund Museum of the Year is a prize for exceptional originality and innovation. Each of our five finalists has tapped into very current concerns … Each one expands the very idea of what a museum can be. I would encourage everyone to see and experience them first-hand.’

The announcement was featured on BBC’s Front Row.

Photograph ©Marc Atkins for the Art Fund Museum of the Year

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Finalist in the Archiboo web awards
7th Sep 2017

Our website is a finalist in this year’s Archiboo web awards, for ‘Best written content’.

On our website we aim to present concise, informative and sometimes poetic descriptions of our projects and design approach. We are delighted that the quality of our written content has been recognised by the Archiboo awards, which seek to spotlight companies in the architecture field that are using the internet in a creative way.

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Finalist in the Architizer A+ Awards
15th Mar 2016

Our elegant Travertine Stair is a finalist in two categories of this year’s Architizer A+ Awards: Stone and Stair.

The Architizer A+Awards received entries from a 100 countries and represents the best of architecture and design worldwide.

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Winner of the Individual House Architect of the Year Award
10th Mar 2016

In recognition of a body of recent work, we have been awarded the Individual House Architect of the Year in the BD Architect of the Year Awards 2016.

These awards are distinguished from other architectural awards by virtue of honouring overall achievement within a particular sector. Our submission showcased two London houses in brick, Luker House and Levring House, and an elegant travertine stair. We are very proud of all three of these projects and we are grateful to the clients and colleagues who have helped us to make them a reality.

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BD Architect of the Year shortlist – ‘Individual House’
21st Jan 2016

Beginning the new year with some very good news, today it was announced that we have been shortlisted for the BD Architect of the Year Awards in the Individual House category.

Our submission featured two London houses in brick – Luker House and Levring House, each previously shortlisted for the RIBA House of the Year Award (formerly the Manser Medal) – and an elegant Travertine Stair.

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Levring House to be featured on Channel 4
13th Nov 2015

Levring House is featured in the Channel 4 series ‘Grand Designs: House of the Year’, which showcases all twenty of the buildings longlisted for the RIBA House of the Year Award, formerly the Manser Medal.

Each week, a number of the shortlisted buildings are revealed, with the winner announced on Wednesday 25 November.

Levring House will be featured in the episode on Wednesday 18 November, including a walk-through of the house and a visit to the Petersen brick factory in Denmark.

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WAN House of the Year shortlist for Levring House
13th Oct 2015

Today it was announced that Levring House is one of six shortlisted for the WAN Awards House of the Year. It is the only UK house on the shortlist for this international award, which celebrates “houses that balance innovation with efficiency and functionality with aesthetic rigour”.

Jurors described the house as “beautifully detailed” and commented: “the terrace is lovely, with the high wall and the view of the trees. You imagine a world beyond it.”

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