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RIBA Competitions

RIBA Competitions is the Royal Institute of British Architects’ unit dedicated to organising architectural and other design-related competitions.

Architectural design competitions are used by an organisation that plans to build a new building or refurbish an existing building. They can be used for buildings, engineering work, structures, landscape design projects or public realm artworks. A competition typically asks for architects and/or designers to submit a design proposal in response to a given brief. The winning design will then be selected by an independent jury panel of design professionals and client representatives. The independence of the jury is vital to the fair conduct of a competition.

The objective of a competition is to explore a range of different design options to select the best response to the design brief, which would not be possible by pre-selecting one architect.

The competitions process is often used to generate new ideas, create blue-sky thinking, stimulate debate, raise the profile of the project and allow an opportunity for emerging talent to grow as well as established design practices.

History
In 1871 the RIBA appointed a special committee to draw up the first set of model rules and regulations for competitions. A Competitions Committee was set up in 1883 to monitor competitions and a revised version of the rules and regulations was published at this time.

In 1967 the RIBA set up a Competitions Working Group who decided not just to monitor competitions but actively promote them and persuade clients to use them. From 1971 onwards a permanent Competitions Office was established at the RIBA.

RIBA Competitions is the only organisation in the UK who has maintained a steady flow of competitions as part of the normal working environment and to have studied the competition system in depth.

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Project list
RIBA Competitions has been responsible for delivering some of the most high-profile building projects in the UK and abroad through competition, such as:

Civic and Commercial
Bourne Hill Council Offices, Salisbury
Cleopatra’s Kiosk
Gateway Plus (previously known as “Birmingham Gateway”)
Manchester Civil Justice Centre
RIBA Bar
Senedd (also known as “National Assembly for Wales”)
Toyota (GB) Ltd Headquarters
New Islington Footbridge
76 Portland Place

Culture, sport and leisure
Avenham Park Pavilion
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
Banbury Museum
Brockholes Nature Reserve Visitor Centre
Courtyard, Hereford
London Velopark (also known as London 2012 Velodrome)
Maidstone Museum – East Wing extension
Manchester Art Gallery
National Centre for Popular Music (now known as Sheffield Hallam University students’ union)
National Maritime Museum Cornwall
National Waterfront Museum
Newlyn Art Gallery
The Collection Lincoln
The Hepworth Wakefield
The MAC Belfast
The Sage Gateshead
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
The Novium Museum
The Wilson Art Gallery & Museum
The Leventis Gallery

Education, health and the community
Campuses of the University of Nottingham Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham
Corpus Christi College Auditorium
Evelina Children’s Hospital
James Allen’s Community Music School
St Thomas’ Hospital re-cladding
Kentish Town Health Centre
London School of Economics, Saw Swee Hock Student Centre
City and Islington College
Bishop Edward King Chapel

Housing and regeneration
Clayfield Affordable Homes
Redevelopment of JCB’s Heavy Products site
Timber Wharf

Public realm, artworks and structures
Halley Research Station
Infinity Bridge
Kielder Observatory
Millennium Bridge (London)
Pylon Design Competition
The Halo, Rossendale
The Royal Parks Foundation – Drinking Fountains
BBC Listening Project
RIBA Lounge MIPIMUK 2014
Grand Designs Live 2015

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