Vote for Britain's best new building: Outhouse

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Riba Stirling Prize shortlist 2016: The Outhouse, Forest of Dean

Outhouse is one of six UK buildings to be shortlisted for the 2016 Riba Stirling Prize for architecture. A select line-up of judges will decide the winner, but the BBC, in partnership with Riba, is inviting you to vote for your favourite. Find out about the other buildings here, external.

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What is it and where?

A concrete house in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. designed by Loyn & Co, external as a home for two retired artists. The low-lying building is embedded in the side of a hill and its roof is a field. It is the first private house to feature on the Riba Stirling Prize shortlist for 15 years.

How much did it cost?

Undisclosed.

What was the vision?

To replace an existing house with a sustainable, energy efficient live-work space, blending into the landscape. The footprint of the site is much bigger than before, partly because of the client's requirement for two artist's studios and a gallery-like space. But cutting into the side of the hill and building underground means its visual impact is much reduced.

Image source, Charles Hosea

What have people said about it?

"This low-lying, super-modernist house also looks back to a classic model, a kind of glamorous retro-moderne. It's rare for a private house to appear on this list, which itself shows its quality." Edwin Heathcote, Financial Times, July 2016

"It's hard to see much in the architectural concept that wasn't better done in Mies van der Rohe's Tugendhat house, in Brno, Czechoslovakia, in 1930." Rowan Moore, Guardian, July 2016

"We're pretty sure you'll all want to live there." Tom Gibbon, Gloucestershire Echo, July 2016

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