Full List of Press Exposure and Awards

RDA Architects - Awards

Shortlisted --- Sustainable Development of the Year - British Homes Awards 2025


Finalist  --- Architecture Today - Buildings that stand the test of time Awards 2025


Shortlisted --- RIBA London Awards 2025


Shortlisted – Home Extension of the Year – British Home Awards 2024

 

Shortlisted – AJ Retrofit and Reuse Awards - Decarbonisation and Net Zero 2024


Finalist – Best Green House Category - Homebuilding and Renovating Awards 2023


Finalist – Home Transformation of the Year (up to 2,500 sq ft) - British Home Awards 2023


Finalist Residential Retrofit - Passivhaus Trust Awards 2023

 

Shortlisted – WRK/LND: Office Revolution? – NLA Awards 2021

 

Shortlisted – Best Offsite Manufactured Home - Build It Awards 2018

 

Shortlisted – Best Eco Home - Build It Awards 2018

 

Winner – Best Green House Category - Homebuilding and Renovating Awards 2018

 

Finalist – Small Project Category UK Passivhaus Awards 2018

 

Finalist – Architect of the Year Awards 2018

 

Winner – ‘Sustainable Project of the Year’ Graphisoft Archicad Awards 2018

 

Shortlisted – Residential ‘Passive Mews II’ RICS Awards 2018

 

Shortlisted – Residential ‘Modern Courtyard’ RICS Awards 2018

 

Winner  – ‘Best Eco House’ Build-It Awards 2016

 

Winner – ‘Best Studio 5-20’ London Design Award 2015

 

Winner  – ‘Architecture - Residential - Constructed’ London Design Award 2015

 

Shortlisted – One-Off House or Extension between 2,500 and 5,000 sq ft - British Home Awards 2015

 

Shortlisted – Ideal Home of the Year Blue Ribbon Awards 2014 Ideal Home of the Year 2014 

 

Finalists – Bespoke Project Design Category UK Passivhaus Awards 2014

 

Winner  – ‘Best Eco Home’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2012

 

Winner  – ‘Reader’s Choice Award’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2012

 

Shortlisted – ‘Best Renovation’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2009

 

Winner  – ‘Best Small Home’ The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2006

 

Commendation –  'Best house (three storeys or more)' – The Mail – Sunday National Homebuilder Design Awards 2006

 

Runner up – 'Single Dwelling Building' – Design Architect of the Year Awards 2006


RDA Architects - Press Exposure

July 2025  Build It Magazine – 'What is a Brownfield Site & How can I get planning permission to build on one'


July 2025  Mumsnet  ‘Heat pumps: a guide to the greener way to heat your home’

 

July 2025  Property Week ‘Steely resolve can make reuse work’


October 2024 – Architecture Today 'Pitched Passive House'


June 2024  Architecture Today ‘School of Specification – EnerPHit’

 

January 2024  Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Real Project – Eco Retrofit’


April 2023  Passive House Plus

 

April 2023  RIBA Architectural Journal


December 2021  – Architect Today Podcast – Richard in conversation with Isabel Allen and Marion Baeli 


November 2021   – Extraordinary Extentions (Channel 4 TV show)

 

May 2021  – NSBRC Presentation for their Passivhaus Workshop

 

March 2021  – Architecture Today Podcast

 

March 2021  – Architecture Today ‘Hideaway’

 

February 2021  – Elle Decoration ‘Rested Development’

 

June 2020  – Dulwich House Magazine ‘New Horizons, New Home’ and RDA Ad 

 

June 2020  – Life Magazine ‘New Horizons, New Home’ and RDA back page Ad

 

April 2019  – Essential Kitchen ‘Detailed Transformation

 

March 2019  – Concrete Quarterly ‘Marks of Distinction’

 

January 2019  – Passive House Plus ‘Camberwell Passive’

 

January 2019  – House Planning Help Podcast

 

November 2018  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Taking the Plunge’

 

September 2018  – The Daily Telegraph ‘Dream homes: revealing the UK’s best self-build projects’

 

May 2018  – Grand Designs ‘Self-Build Special’

 

February 2018  – New London Architecture ‘Don’t Move, Improve’

 

December 2017  – Dwell ‘The London Prefab Made of 7 Modules’

 

May 2017  – The One Show (BBC TV show) ‘Trend of Smaller Housing in the UK’

 

March 2017  – Grand Designs Magazine ‘Dig Deep to Add Space and Value’

 

January 2017  – Build It Magazine ‘Focus on Passivhaus’

 

September 2016  – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘The wish list worked’

 

September 2016  – Self-Build & Design Magazine ‘Passivhaus Awards 2016’

 

August 2016  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Cutting Edge Passivhaus’


June 2016  –  Passivhaus Plus Magazine ‘2016 Passivhaus Awards’

 

Spring 2016  –  Concrete Quarterly ‘Marks of Distinction’

 

November   2015 –  Architects Journal ‘The British Homes Awards’

 

October 2014 – ES Homes & Property

 

June 2014  –  Dorset Magazine

 

May 2014 –  Essential Kitchen Bathroom Bedroom

 

January 2013 –  Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Homes & Property

 

January 2013  – Self Build Homes ‘The ultimate Passivhaus goal’

                                                     

December 2012 – Sustain ‘Forward thinking’

 

October 2012  – London Evening Standard ‘Homes & Property’

 

September 2012  – AJ Online ‘FootprintWire’

 

August 2012  – BD Online ‘RDA starts work on Chiswick Passivhaus’

 

August 2012  – J Online ‘RDA completes eco-home on Newhall development site’

 

April 2012  – Self Build Homes

 

November 2011  – Self Build & Design ‘Flirting with the 30’s’

 

May 2011  – At Home ‘I Love my New Kitchen’

 

January 2011  – NatWest Sense ‘Home Life’

 

November 2010  – At Home Magazine ‘The Italian Job’

 

July 2010  – UK Architecture ‘Sowing the Seeds of Creative Partnership’

 

June 2010  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Building Plots’

 

May 2010  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Make solar and wind power pay’

 

February 2010  – RIBA London

 

February 2010  – The Independent ‘Small spaces: the urban architects making the most of petite properties’

 

January 2010  – Self Build & Design ‘Let it Slide’

 

2010  – 21st Century Houses ‘150 of the World’s Best’

 

2009  – The Eco House Book by Terence Conran

 

November 2009  – Homebuilding and Renovating ‘Architects & Designers’

 

October 2009  – Move & Improve ‘Supersize Your Kitchen’

 

September 2009  – Self Build & Design ‘Surprise Addition’

 

August 2009  – Self Build & Design ‘Leading Light: Little Gems’

 

July 2009  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Site Specific Solutions’

 

May 2009  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Smaller Homes: The Next Big Thing?’

 

April 2009  – The Sunday Telegraph ‘DIY houses: Dreams & Hard Graft’

 

October 2008  – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Factory of Good Ideas’

 

2008  – Space Magazine

 

December 2007  – Move & Improve ‘Transform Your Home on a Budget’

 

December 2007  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘Small Homes Big Ideas’

 

2007  – The New 100 Houses X 100 Architects

 

2007  – RIBA Architecture Review London

 

April 2007  – Move & Improve ‘Whiter than white’

 

January 2007  – Homebuilding & Renovating ‘It’s hip to be square’

 

2006  – The Mail on Sunday National Homebuilder Design Awards 2006 Judges Report

 

December 2006  – The Sunday Times: Inside Out ‘Kitchen confidential’

 

November 2006  – The Financial Times How to Spend It ‘The Generation Game’

 

November 2006  – The Daily Telegraph ‘Winners of The Daily Telegraph Homebuilding & Renovating Magazine Awards 2006’

 

September 2006  – Living Etc. ‘Standing out’

 

May 2006  – The Observer Magazine ‘The end of the terrace?’

 

May 2006  – The Sunday Times ‘Speed-date an architect’

 

May 2006  – Architecture Today EcoTech

 

April 2006  – The Sunday Times ‘It’s a slimline tonic’

 

April 2006  – The Independent ‘Use an architect and help the homeless’

 

June 2004  – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Architect in the House’

 

June 2004  – The Observer ‘Better laid plans for just £20 a time’

 

September 2003  – Evening Standard Homes & Property ‘Pavilions of splendour’