{"id":436676,"date":"2026-02-20T20:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436676\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T20:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T20:14:12","slug":"castle-garden-and-railway-museum-named-among-riba-north-east-award-finalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/436676\/","title":{"rendered":"Castle garden and railway museum named among RIBA North East award finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"

A garden glasshouse reception building by MawsonKerr to transform Auckland Castle into a major visitor destination and the low-energy Locomotion New Hall<\/a> by AOC Architecture are among the 11 projects jostling for the regional prize.<\/p>\n

GT3 Architects made the cut for a leisure centre in Morpeth<\/a> on the edge of the historic market town\u2019s conservation area. It provides adult learning facilities, a public library, and community uses. A new-build bungalow by Scott Donald has also been shortlisted.<\/p>\n

Elliot Architects appears twice on the shortlist for its \u2018light-filled\u2019 Courtyard House in rural Northumberland and for a new home in Hexham, known as Battle Hill Studio.<\/p>\n

Two projects by SPACE Architects are in contention: the reuse of a cluster of Georgian farm buildings for the Beamish Museum; and the restoration of the Grade II*-listed Goods Shed as part of the wider Hopetown Darlington project.<\/p>\n

Rounding off the list are a timber-framed house in Newcastle by Miltiadou Cook Mitzman and Musson Brown Architects, the conversion of a stone granary and an agricultural outbuilding into two holiday lets by StudioNorth, and the 657-capacity Sundersea Sunderland car park project by Tonkin Liu, which was also in the running for the award last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s North East Award was taken home by Elphick Associate\u2019s \u00a310.2 million Ad Gefrin Anglo Saxon Museum and Distillery<\/a> in Wooler, rural Northumbria, which also bagged the Sustainability Award and Client of the Year titles, as well as garnering practice founder Richard Elphick the accolade of Project Architect of the Year.<\/p>\n

RIBA North East jury chair Andrew Thompson, associate at Faulkner Browns, said: \u2018This year\u2019s projects range from finely crafted homes in picturesque landscapes, sensitive restoration of industrial heritage, to a playful creativity applied to seemingly \u201ceveryday\u201d typologies. A deep sense of commitment to care, craft and quality runs throughout the shortlist.<\/p>\n

\u2018Great architecture should delight, challenge expectations and carry a deep sense of responsibility to client, community and climate. The jury looks forward to visiting each project across the region and assessing them against this high standard.\u2019<\/p>\n

The regional jury will now visit and assess all the shortlisted projects. The winners will be announced in the spring.<\/p>\n

The winners will also be considered for several special awards, including the RIBA Sustainability Award and RIBA London Building of the Year.<\/p>\n

And they will be in the running for a\u00a0RIBA National Award\u00a0in recognition of their architectural excellence, the results of which will be announced in the summer.<\/p>\n

The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for best building of the year will then be drawn from the national award-winning projects. The Stirling Prize-winner will be announced in October.<\/p>\n

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Mono House, by Scott Donald Architecture, credit: Nick Guttridge Press<\/p>\n

Shortlist<\/p>\n

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Walled Garden, Auckland Castle, by MawsonKerr Architects. Photograph: Oli Sturdy Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A garden glasshouse reception building by MawsonKerr to transform Auckland Castle into a major visitor destination and the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436677,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[159187,6225,6485,6486,1120,159188,96,159189,23611,154442,159190,159191,154955,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-436676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-aoc-architecture","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-elliott-architects","tag-entertainment","tag-mawsonkerr","tag-north-east","tag-riba-regional-awards","tag-scott-donald","tag-space-architects","tag-tonkin-liu","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}