Bath's recently refurbished Holburne Museum and the Dyson Centre for Neonatal Intensive Care are among the winners of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) South West Architecture Awards 2012.
The museum, which was named RIBA Regional Building of the Year award, reopened last May after a £11.2m refurbishment while the £6.1m Dyson Centre, winner of the RIBA Regional Client of the Year award, treated its first patients two months later.
Speaking of the revamped Holburne Museum, a spokesman said: "This intelligent project has recovered a lost connection between the city and an 18th century pleasure garden.
"Glimpsed from a distance through the trees, there is an unexpected ethereal quality to the extension to the museum. The use of materials and layering to the façade creates a sophisticated play of shadows, light and reflection – beautiful and unique, creating a building of true character that is underpinned by careful historical research and analysis and very much of its site."
The Dyson Centre was designed by Bath architectural practice Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and is an environmentally-sustainable design – the first of its type in Europe.
It is designed to reduce stress levels experienced by parents and provide a highly-beneficial healing environment for the babies.
