The RIBA has awarded the Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 to Conrad Koslowsky Architects for the project Lighthouse Children’s Home. The previously derelict 1920s house has been transformed into a six-bedroom care home, the first created by the Lighthouse Pedagogy Trust. The project was praised for its sensitivity towards the soundscape, flexible furniture layouts and shared living spaces. On the transformation, Matthew Goldschmied, Jury Chair and Managing Trustee of the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, said:

Architectural resourcefulness and ingenuity have transformed the critical and overwhelming pressures faced by looked-after children into opportunities. Everything has been carefully designed to improve the welfare, safety, comfort, health, self-esteem, and growth of its occupants. Each intervention is exhaustively researched and rigorously detailed to create something truly beautiful and harmonious.

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Additionally, there will be a RIBA Stirling Prize and Stephen Lawrence Prize 2023 winners’ talk on 11 November at 66 Portland Place, London. More information here.

Image: Inside Lighthouse Children's Home by Conrad Koslowsky Architects. Photograph by Edmund Sumner.