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Fantastic to be at the @AYAwards last night & see a number of UKGBC members receiving recognition for their great work.🏆

Special congratulations to @vHH_Architects for being named #NetZero Architect of the Year.

Until next year! #AYAwards #AYA2023

Put your hands together for our #AYA2023 Net Zero Architect of the Year in partnership with @UKGBC winners… @vHH_Architects 🎉🥳

The @HoultonSchool in Rugby, Warwickshire by @vHH_Architects has been named by @RIBA as the winner of its first-ever Reinvention Award! Learn more about the project and read how the Rugby radio station was turned into secondary school in the link below ⬇️
https://architecturetoday.co.uk/riba-reinvention-award-2023/

🏆 The winner of the Reinvention Award 2023 is Houlton School by @vHH_Architects

This brand-new accolade shines a light on 'retrofitting', recognising buildings that have been creatively reused: https://ow.ly/3huV50PYBWV

#RIBAawards

So proud that our #WorldClassSchool’s campus has won the prestigious #Reinvention award at the @riba Stirling Prize Awards 2023. Huge thanks to @vhh_architects @urbanandcivic @morgansindallc and all of our partners 👏🏼 @wcsqm A brand new school founded on 100 yrs of heritage 😊🙏🏼

Thank you to all who joined us last week at our RIBA #StirlingPrize ceremony in Manchester. Congratulations to our Stirling Prize winner @MaeArchitects, and our Special Award winners Conrad Koslowsky Architects, Apparata Architects, @OnionCollective and @vHH_Architects 👏

Net Zero Architect of the Year:

@AFL_tweet | @FletcherPriest | @HLMArchitects | @HTADesignLLP | @moco_arch | @PRParchitects | @tpbennettllp | @vHH_Architects

Two of our projects - Houlton School, with @vHH_Architects and Great Things Lie Ahead, 2020, with 6a Architects, are shortlisted in the inaugural RIBA Reinvention Award.

In 2020 in the midst of lockdown we worked with vHH to develop their new website. Our focus was to create a clean design and intuitive user experience with a new emphasis on process and project narrative through storytelling.

#website #vHHarchitects

Congratulations to the six buildings that have won 2023 @RIBAWestMids Awards, including Houlton School – @vHH_Architects’ retrofit of the historic Rugby radio transmission building: http://ow.ly/5u7S50OroYZ #RIBAawards

Houlton School, Rugby, by @vHH_Architects is a 2023 @RIBAWestMids Award winner, showing creativity and ambition in its retrofitting: http://ow.ly/Z5Xb50Orp4g #RIBAawards

Stakeholders involved in the creation of @HoultonSchool attended the ceremony to pick up the prestigious award. The collaborative entry was titled 'Transmitting to Young Minds' @rugbybc @educationgovuk @DavidLockAssoc @vHH_Architects Check out the transformation in progress.

Images above and below: Working with @vHH_Architects, Hoare Lea transformed the former Rugby Radio Station transmitter, that dates back to 1926, to become part of Houlton Secondary School. Learn more about this project and more, in the webinar.

On Tuesday April 5th 6-9pm, join architect Julia Barfield @MarksBarfield as she sharea the stories behind her RIBA-Award winning projects with Jo van Heyningen @vHH_Architects and Mina Hasman @SOM_Design.



Register here

Windows played a surprisingly large part in @vHH_Architects’ challenging conversion of a 1926 transmitter station near Rugby into a school, writes Jan-Carlos Kucharek @HoultonSchool #ribajproducts https://www.ribaj.com/products/windows-key-in-rugby-s-radio-station-conversion-to-houlton-school

#worldclass architecture; we are bringing our #worldclass students to visit, because we are so impressed; @vHH_Architects; @HoultonSchool

Windows at @HoultonSchool by @vHH_Architects take the lead in striking a delicate balance between aesthetics, environmental ambitions and building regs #ribajproducts https://www.ribaj.com/products/windows-key-in-rugby-s-radio-station-conversion-to-houlton-school

We love this beautifully written article in @ArchitectsJrnal about Houlton School 🏫 Pop the kettle on, put your feet up and enjoy a wonderful piece of writing on this Sunday afternoon

#houltonrugby #rugbyradiostation #architecture #history #school