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2021 North East RIBA Award Winners

We are delighted to see two of our Sunderland projects win the RIBA North East 2021 awards.

The Beam and Tombola House were announced winners at this years RIBA North East Awards ceremony and Tombola was also awarded the RIBA North East Client of the Year Award.

The Beam is the first office building to be completed on the former Vaux Brewery site in Sunderland City Centre. The flagship project is the first of five locations around the city that will be redeveloped as part of an ambitious £100million-plus programme.  The Beam stands five storeys high and provides 59,000sqft of Grade A office accommodation and includes a flexible ground floor space suitable for retail and leisure facilities with a healthy workplace and work/life balance at its heart: https://www.desco.uk.com/case-studies/the-beam/

Tombola House is gaming giant Tombola’s new head office at Wylam Wharf in Sunderland. The new building features three floors of flexible office space around a central atrium. Open plan offices, located on the first and second floors, incorporate a three-storey central atrium and make pioneering commercial use of electrochromic glass externally to control occupant comfort and achieve energy efficiencies: https://www.desco.uk.com/case-studies/case-study-tombola-house/