The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the winners of the 2015 RIBA National Awards, the most rigorous and prestigious awards for new buildings in the UK. RIBA National Award-winning buildings set the standard for good architecture. The shortlist for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize for the UKs best building of the year will be drawn from the 37 award-winning buildings announced. Award winners include a beautifully-crafted wooden fishing hut on a small new estate in Hampshire (Fishing Hut), a crisp, modern malt whisky distillery inspired by the shape of a barley sheaf (Dalmunach Distillery), a patterned red-brick church centre and apartments surrounding a listed church in Hackney (St Mary of Eton) and a modest and calm cancer care centre (Maggies Lanarkshire). The stand-out trend of the 2015 RIBA National Awards is the prevalence of high quality new housing
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