Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards 08

Following a highly successful 2007, VELUX are once again delighted to be the main sponsor for the Mail on Sunday British Homes Awards 2008. These awards provide a great opportunity to showcase the very best in UK house building. The winning entry of the competition in 2007 was tasked to design a home for the future, which is currently under construction at BRE's Innovation Park. This year, architects and developers are challenged to design ‘Tomorrow’s Lifestyle Home’.

The British Homes Awards fit very well with our belief that good architecture encompasses today’s lifestyle demands whilst allowing for tomorrow’s aspirations. This concept enables the home owner to actively reduce their consumption of resources through intelligent and exciting use of natural daylight and ventilation.

Since the mid 1990s VELUX have pursued the concept of lifetime homes, and have proactively encouraged successive Governments to adopt these design ideals. We are excited to see architects and housebuilders buying into these well founded and tested solutions to modern day living.

Good design is not simply clever facadism; it allows the user to interact in a meaningful and worthwhile way with the environment.

This year the expectations were yet again surpassed with some innovative and dynamic architecture and design that encompassed solutions to the sustainability agenda that the industry is faced with. Below are the results of the this year's awards.

Tomorrow's Lifestyle Home COMPETITION WINNER - THE AVANTI HOUSE

The Avanti House has won the competition to design Tomorrow's Lifestyle
Home in the British Homes Awards 2008. The sustainable housing scheme was
chosen by public vote from a short-list of ten and will now be built at a
site in the UK.

WINNERS AND COMMENDED BY award category:

1. ONE-OFF HOUSE OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Skene Catling de la Pena -The Dairy House

COMMENDED
Avanti Architects - Long View
Jeremy King Architects - Hillside House
Stephenson Bell Architects - House 784
Studio Bednarski - The Hesmondhalgh House

2. SMALL HOUSE OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Barratt Kent- PCKO Architects - eScape

COMMENDED
Newhall Projects (Three) – Richard Murphy Architects - Plot 5
North Chase, Newhall

3. LARGE HOUSE OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Jeremy King Architects - Hillside House

COMMENDED
Gerald Wood Homes- Stan Bolt/Harrison Sutton Partnership - The River House
Seven Developments - Utopia
Stephenson Bell Architects - House 784

4. INTERIOR DESIGN OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Mackay + Partners - Aldersgate

COMMENDED
Annie Stevens - New Space
Barratt -PCKO Architects - Claude Hooper Interiors - eScape
Rydon Homes - One Eco Home - Hillside Hub

5. APARTMENT BUILDING OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Riverview Holdings- Sidell Gibson - Sir John Lyon House

COMMENDED
Ballymore Properties- Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Ontario Tower
Barratt- Assael Architecture - Tachbrook Triangle

6. RETIREMENT DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR

WINNER
English Courtyard - Sidell Gibson - Stuart Court

7. CONVERSION OF THE YEAR

WINNER
English Courtyard - Sidell Gibson - Stuart Court

COMMENDED
Acorn Property Group- Hampson Williams - Weller Street
Riverview Holdings - Sidell Gibson - Sir John Lyon House
Square Foot Properties - Scott Brownrigg - Great College Street
Urban Splash- Union North - 3 Towers

8. INNOVATION AWARD FOR BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

WINNER
Kingspan - Sheppard Robson - Lighthouse

COMMENDED
Stewart Milne - PRP Architects - The Sigma House
Taylor Wimpey - Rogers Stirk Harbour - Oxley Woods

9. AFFORDABLE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR

JOINT WINNERS
Barratt - Assael Architecture - Tachbrook Triangle
Presentation Housing Group - Walter Menteth Architects - Consort Road

COMMENDED
Berkeley First - Munkenbeck Marshall - 661 London Road
Metropolitan Housing Trust - Anne Thorne Partnership Architects - Angela Carter Close
Octavia Housing and Care - Cartwright Pickard Architects - Bourbon Lane

10. MIXED-USE REGENERATION DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Gladedale Projects Ltd. - Foster + Partners - Quatermile

COMMENDED
Ballymore Properties - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - New Providence Wharf
Barratt Southern Counties - Chetwood Associates - City Point
O’Mahony Pike Architects - Adamstown

11. DEVELOPMENT OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Urban Splash - Shed KM - Chimney Pot Park

COMMENDED
Ballymore Properties - Skidmore, Owings & Merrill - Ontario Tower
Ocatgon Developments - MLRS - Wall Hall
St James Urban Living - Stock Woolstencroft - New River Village

12. HOUSING PROJECT OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Barratt West London - Assael Architecture - Great West Quarter

COMMENDED
Guinness Hermitage Housing Association - Re-Format Architects
- Former Railway Station Gosport
Henley Homes - Assael Architecture - St John’s Hill
Telford Homes - Waugh Thistleton - Stadthaus
Urban Splash - Hawkins Brown - Park Hill

13. HOMEBUILDER OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Barratt Developments

COMMENDED
Ballymore Properties
Riverview Holdings
Urban Splash

14. ARCHITECT OF THE YEAR

WINNER
Assael Architecture

COMMENDED
Broadway Malyan
Foster + Partners
Sheppard Robson
Sidell Gibson
Skidmore, Owings & Merrill

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For More information on the event please visit www.britishhomesawards.com