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2025 RIBA Yorkshire Awards Winners News

9 May 2025

RIBA Yorkshire Award winners 2025 announced

Top Row, Wonderlab The Bramall Gallery © Hufton+Crow (left), Duncan Place Library & Community Hub © Sally Ann Norman Photography (middle), Young Peoples Space © Building Narratives (right). Bottom Row, Hull Minster © Nick Dearden (left), Petronella House © India Hobson (right):

2025 RIBA Yorkshire Awards Winners – Buildings & Architects

A social sanctuary for young people inside a hospital (Young People’s Space), the regeneration of a Grade I listed, 700-year-old parish church (Hull Minster), and an interactive gallery at the National Railway Museum (Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery) are among the five winners of the RIBA Yorkshire Awards 2025.
Presented since 1966, the RIBA Awards set the standard for great architecture across the country.

Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery – winner of RIBA Yorkshire Building of the Year Award 2025:

photo © Hufton+Crow

The Awards were announced at a ceremony this evening (8 May), at which Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery was named as winner of RIBA Yorkshire Building of the Year Award 2025 (sponsored by EH Smith). The jury praised the architects “design interventions” as “controlled and considered”, celebrating “the creative process and language of railway engineering principles.”

The RIBA Yorkshire Awards 2025 winning projects are:

Wonderlab: The Bramall Gallery
by De Matos Ryan – Building of the Year (sponsored by EH Smith) and Project Architect of the Year (Jose Esteves de Matos)
– A light, spacious new gallery at the National Railway Museum offers a STEM-focused learning experience for young people.

Petronella House
by Chiles Evans + Care Architects
– A contemporary refurbishment of a late Victorian villa within a conservation area in Sheffield.

Young People’s Space
by ArkleBoyce – Small Project of the Year and Client of the Year (sponsored by Equitone)
– Set within St Gemma’s Hospice in Leeds, a new, environmentally friendly timber pavilion provides a social sanctuary for young people.

Duncan Place Library & Community Hub
by EDable Architecture
– The regeneration of a Victorian building in Loftus has combined a youth and community facility, family base, and library to create a new cultural and community destination.

Hull Minster
by Bauman Lyons Architects Ltd
– The careful regeneration of a Grade I listed, 700-year-old parish church.

The five projects were selected by the expert jury, who visited all shortlisted projects.

RIBA Yorkshire Jury Chair Gayle Appleyard, Director of Gagarin Studio said:
“Amid these varied contexts, this year’s Yorkshire award-winning projects stood out for their quiet ambition. Many having been realised during the challenges of the Covid pandemic, yet they managed to do a lot with a little. These buildings don’t shout; instead, they quietly improve, enhance, and bring joy to the lives of the people who use them.

The Yorkshire region—an expansive and diverse county encompassing urban centres, coastal towns, and sweeping rural landscapes—offered us an extraordinary journey during our jury visits. From vibrant cities to the sublime moorlands and dales, and out to the county’s edges, the experience was both a spectacle and a marathon, and it was a tremendous privilege to lead a jury of experts and advocates committed to championing excellence in architecture.”

Speaking on all the UK Award winners, RIBA President, Muyiwa Oki, said:
“This year’s winners exemplify architecture’s power to transform—turning spaces into places of connection, creativity, and care. Spanning the length of the UK and diverse in form and function, our 2025 winners show a deep sensitivity to place and a strong coherence of thought between all teams involved. Individually these projects inspire and uplift, but collectively, they remind us that architects do far more than design buildings, they shape the way we live, work and connect.”

RIBA Yorkshire Award winners will now be considered for a highly coveted RIBA National Award in recognition of their architectural excellence, which will be announced on 10 July. The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize for the best building of the year will be drawn from the RIBA National Award-winning projects later in the year.

Duncan Place Library & Community Hub:

photo © Sally Ann Norman Photography