Two IQ Glass projects make the RIBA 2025 South West and Wessex shortlist

Shire End Grade II listed coastal home with glazed link and structural glass to The Story of Emily Museum are shortlisted for RIBA South West/ Wessex Awards for their outstanding designs both using Invisio structural glazing in two unique applications

Shire End, by rak Architecture sees a structural glass extension with slim sliding glass doors and an Oriel window maximising sea views of Cobb Harbour whilst remaining subservient to the original building.  

The glazed link with IQ’s award-winning Invisio structural glass exposes its unique overlapping slate tiled façade, symbolic of fish scales, with a mono pitched glass roof, drawing inspiration from a discovered 1950s postcard showing that a much earlier outbuilding with a similar roofline and chimney had once existed.   

The Story of Emily Museum by Stonewood Design has been shortlisted as a brilliant Masterpiece Museum transporting visitors into the world of an exceptional female welfare campaigner, Emily Hobhouse who is celebrated for defying the British Empire for its despicable inhuman treatment of civilians in concentration camps during the second Boer War.  Our Invisio frameless glass was used to create seamless portals, transporting you to the Victorian era and immersing you in its mysterious war room world. 

For those familar with The Newt, Somerset (also designed by Stonewood Design) our bespoke structural glazing elements were used throughout the historic site for a dramatic and aesthetically pleasing effect.

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