Excellent eleven head up RIAS Awards 2025
May 23 2025
Eleven winners of the RIAS Awards 2025 have been revealed, representing a cross-section of the best new buildings to rise from across the country irrespective of budget or use.
This year's jury, chaired by Jessam Al-Jawad, director of Al-Jawad Pike, made their selection based on each project's architectural integrity, usability and context, delivery and execution, and sustainability.
The winners are:
- Aldourie Castle, Loch Ness by Ptolemy Dean Architects (photography Simon Kennedy)
- Caoghan na Creige, Isle of Harris by Izat Arundell (photography Richard Gaston)
- Ellengowan Regeneration, Dundee by Collective Architecture (photography Keith Hunter)
- Fairburn Tower, Muir of Ord, Highland by Simpson & Brown Architects (photography Landmark Trust)
- Gairnshiel Jubilee Bridge, Gairnshiel, Aberdeenshire by Moxon Architects (photography Ben Addy)
- HM Prison and Young Offender Institution Stirling by Holmes Miller Architects (photography Chris Humphries)
- Kinloch Lodge, Lairg by GRAS
- The Nucleus Building, University of Edinburgh by Sheppard Robson (photography Keith Hunter)
- Riverside Primary School, Perth by Architype (photography David Barbour)
- Rosebank Distillery, Falkirk by MLA (photography Ross Campbell)
- Union Terrace Gardens, Aberdeen by Stallan-Brand Architecture + Design (photography Christopher Swan)
Al-Jawad commented: “This year’s RIAS Awards winners show an inspiring range of responses to Scotland’s landscapes, communities, and heritage — from quietly transformative conservation to bold public architecture. Across the board, we saw a deep care for context, sustainability and the people who use these buildings. Taken together, these projects demonstrate the extraordinary breadth of talent in Scottish architecture today.”
Each winner will automatically enter the ‘longlist’ for the RIAS Andrew Doolan Best Building in Scotland Award which will be announced in November.
Main image: Kinloch Lodge, photograph by Fran Mart for Wildland
6 Comments
However, it does seem to be that everything has a sort of aristocratic or hobbyist lilt to it which is a bit sad.
Except for the prison of course which looks like a primary school for some reason and fair play to the comment above.
Nothing here very radical and certainly nothing getting close to solving the major problems that we face in Scotland today in terms of architecture and urban design.
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