Awards - Jamie Fobert Architects

Luker House in Barnes has been awarded one of this year’s RIBA London Regional Awards.

Our congratulations go to the clients – Services Engineer Henry Luker and his wife Andrea – as well as to REM Projects Ltd (Contractor), Pole Associates (Structural Engineer) and Dickinson Joinery.

Luker House in Barnes is one of the RIBA National Award Winners 2014. The house was also shortlisted for the Manser Medal.

The RIBA Jury said:

“This beautiful house is an essay in how to transform a totally unpromising site into something poetic and memorable … It is difficult to evoke the quality of visual refinement within this building. Wherever you look there are combinations of planes, surfaces and light of unusual quality.”

Luker House has been selected as one of six projects shortlisted to receive the RIBA Manser Medal for best house of 2014. The shortlist has been published by the Architect’s Journal this month which can also be read online here.

The Architect’s Journal, 4 September 2014

Levring House has won London’s top architecture accolade, as one of sixteen residential projects across the capital to receive an award at the 2015 RIBA London Awards.

Levring House is one of nine houses to have been selected for a RIBA National Award 2015.

The RIBA jury have praised the “heady mix of free-flowing space, light-filled voids, fastidious detailing and a brilliant regard for the surrounding context”.

Levring House is included in the Best Non-Public Use Residential shortlist for the Blueprint Awards 2015.

We are delighted that Levring House has been awarded a Camden Design Award 2015. The awards recognise high quality design in the borough and aim ‘to shape what we build in the future’.

The Jury said: “This house first appears as a series of shifting planes of pale brick and bronze that turn the corner of a mews. A discrete front door opens into an extraordinary sequence of spaces that lead either upwards to a roof terrace facing south across the city skyline, or down to a mossy courtyard and marble clad lap pool.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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”.

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.’

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.

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.