Tottenham Hotspur Stadium is one of the winners of the RIBA London 2021

The translucent new home of the British National Ballet, a floating church and the capital’s largest club football stadium are among the 46 winners of the RIBA London Awards in 2021.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 RIBA Awards Tour has been cancelled, and some of today’s award-winning projects were actually completed and opened as early as the beginning of 2019.

The RIBA London Awards is the last UK region in 2021. The judges will now consider all regional winners and select only six shortlisted for the prestigious Stirling Award-the “Best Building in Britain” award.

The impact of the pandemic on local communities and the ongoing climate crisis have had a major impact on the jury’s decision-making process this year.

Alfonso Padro, chairman of the London Regional Jury, said: “The quality of the shortlisted projects has caused a lot of debate among the panel members, who are partly concerned about sustainability and looking forward to building local community cohesion.”

Here are some of the most notable winners of this year’s RIBA London Awards:

The only water winner was a barge converted by Denizen Works, which was commissioned by the Diocese of London to serve as a mobile church and multifunctional cultural space that will serve communities along the Regent’s Canal.

The hexagonal roof of the bow is open to the sky like a fan, and is equipped with a huge circular skylight, turning the relatively low-ceiling ship into a magnificent place of worship.

The roof is retracted so that the mobile church can easily pass the low bridge.

The highest award in the region, the RIBA London Architecture of the Year Award was awarded by Glenn Howells Architects for its design of a new 93,000 square foot London residence. British National Ballet.

This low-key and practical building opened in Canning Town, East London in September 2019. It combines state-of-the-art performance spaces and educational facilities to enhance the image of ballet in the local community.

The jury praised the use of various translucent and opaque outer walls, which not only protects the privacy of the people inside, but also invites bystanders to be interested in what happens inside: at certain times of the day, you can see the performers’ The shadow danced on the wall.

The stadium is called “New White Hart Lane” by fans and has the world’s first detachable and retractable football field. After opening, it reveals the synthetic turf field below.

The project was originally conceived in 2008 as the core of the Tottenham redevelopment plan, but the stadium designed by the architect company Populous only opened to the public in April 2019.

The stadium with 60,000 seats is the largest club in London and the third largest stadium in England. Its simple curved shape with refracting glass panels rises above the adjacent historic buildings on the street.

This Belgravia courtyard by architect Buckley Gray Yeoman is known as architecture That is asking “What can we at least do here?”

It won a special award for sustainable development-after a year of economic uncertainty and worsening climate issues, the jury considered this criterion very important.

The simple premise of the project is to transform the abandoned industrial space between the two streets into a social center through a walkway.

The project hardly “built”, but focused on reusing the underutilized negative space.

David Chipperfield Architects received a conservation award for the expansion of the historic building of the Piccadilly Royal College of Art.

The architect’s task was to sensitively combine the first-class protected Royal Academy building with Burlington Gardens 6 (the adjacent second-class* protected building to the north), despite their conflicting construction angles, using different materials and contrasting styles .

There are many ambitious residential projects on the list of winners.A low-level highlight is McGrath Road Developed by Peter Barber Architects in Newham, it aims to rethink the traditional Portland stone London terrace.

But the Manhattan Loft Garden in East London is also called “Stratford”. It has unexpectedly cut roof terraces at high altitudes and in different directions, most likely to have a lasting impact on the city’s skyline. .

The award-winning design does not have to rise above the roof.Adding a greenhouse to a row house may be one of the most common small-scale construction projects in London, but Tsuruta Architects It has been shown that performing daily work in an exceptionally precise and cautious manner is enough to win you a special regional award for the best “small project”.

This timber and glass extension is mainly built underground-in keeping with the property’s secondary listing.

The work is inspired by traditional Japanese joinery. The light and shadow fragments sprinkled in the room from the roof are part of the finished artwork, just like the structure itself.