Buildings vying for architecture award

Phase one of the £160m regeneration of the landmark Park Hill flats is among eight developments shortlisted for a 2013 RIBA Yorkshire award from the Royal Institute of British Architects.

The controversial Grade II* listed former council estate, once voted the ugliest building in Europe and now its largest listed structure, is in the midst of a revamp by Hawkins\Brown, Studio Egret West and developer Urban Splash.

Its first new residents moved in in January, eight years after work on the scheme began.

The project was last week shortlisted for another award from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Also in the running for the 
RIBA Yorkshire award is the city’s 192 Shoreham Street development, a Victorian industrial building which has been converted into a restaurant, bar and offices by architects Project Orange.

Sheffield City Council’s U-Mix youth centre in Lowfield and Architecture 00’s SOAR Works enterprise centre in Parson Cross are also shortlisted.

Elsewhere in the region , two schools and a college are in 
the running for the prize. Kingswood Academy in Hull 
and Holy Trinity School in Barnsley, both designed by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, are vying with a new classroom block at Grimsby’s Franklin College, designed by Hodson Architects.

The final contender is Snook Architects’ conversion of Cat Hill Barn in Hoylandswaine, South Yorkshire.

The RIBA Yorkshire Awards have been recognising the region’s finest and most innovative architecture for nearly 30 years.

This year’s winners will also be considered for a RIBA National Award in June.

The shortlist for the RIBA Stirling Prize, which will be 
awarded in September to the 
best building of the year, will be drawn from the national award-winners.