The prize has been awarded annually in the UK since 2001 for the best private home or extension. Until last autumn, it was called the Manser Medal, after the architect Michael Manser, the former president of RIBA, who became famous for the projects of private houses. But now its name has become more commonplace - RIBA House of the Year, that is, "House of the Year", which is associated with the RIBA agreement with the Channel 4 TV channel: this name of the award fits better with his TV show Grand Designs. In 2015, the channel devoted four weekly issues to the long list of buildings, the same is planned this time. This year's shortlist and winner will also be announced on Channel 4.
RIBA House of the Year is sponsored by Hiscox insurance company and Paint & Paper Library, a major British paint manufacturer.
We publish all 20 finalist houses:
Ansty Plum House in Ansty, Wiltshire
Coppin dockray
Contemporary Lean-to House in Harrogate, Yorkshire
Doma Architects
Contour House in Baslow, Derbyshire
Sanei Hopkins Architects
Covert House in Clapham, London
DSDHA
Edge Hill House, Newcastle upon Tyne
Sutherland Hussey Harris
House Garden House in Hackney, London
Hayhurst and Co.
House of Trace in Luisham, London
Tsuruta Architects
House of Le Petit Fort in Jersey, Channel Islands
Hudson Architects
House of Modern Mews in London
Coffey Architects
Murphy House in Edinburgh
Richard Murphy Architects
North Vat House in Dungeness, Kent
Rodic Davidson Architects
Outhouse House in Dean, Gloucestershire
Loyn & Co
Private house in Cumbria
Bennetts associates
The Cheeran House in Reading, Berkshire
John Pardey Architects
The Narrow House, Brighton & Hove
Sanei Hopkins Architects
The Owers House, Feok, Cornwall
John Pardey Architects
House 19 in Old Amersham, Buckinghamshire
Jestico + Whiles
Private house 1109 in Cheshire
GA Studio Architects
Tin House, Shepherd's Bush, London
Henning Stummel Architects
Zinc-House, Monica, Angus
LJR + H Chartered Architects
