JKS Workshops by Gordon Murray + Alan Dunlop; Maggie's Highlands Cancer Caring Centre, Inverness by Page/Park Architects and the Saltire Centre, Glasgow by Building Design Partnership have today been announced as the winners of the Scottish Region of the coveted RIBA Awards.

Maggie's Centres are becoming a phenomenon that sets the architect an unavoidable precedent for virtuoso design. The plain plywood interior opens up to a surprisingly large complex of volumes ascending into the spiral and creating a series of discrete but linked spaces. Jurors commented that "this little building is an extraordinary miniature monument that contrasts with the prosaic background of a conventional hospital complex"

JKS Workshops is an industrial shed of pioneering design while the Saltire Centre at Glasgow Caledonian University is a building which acts a focus for student activity and adds drama and spatial excitement at a crossroads between existing buildings.

RIBA said in its citation of the JKS Workshops: "The windowless, top-lit industrial shed is about as basic as building can get. But put a series of such light industrial units together, consider the whole as a large, cubic composition, add a talented designer and this most unpromising type can become good architecture. This is a pioneering design and gives distinction to the most practical of functions."

The Saltire Centre was praised "fritted glass wall creates a powerful abstract image for the centre and also acts as a screen for night time lighting displays. This building is a dynamic spatial experience"

The Awards will be presented tomorrow evening, 23 June, at a dinner in London at the Hilton Hotel, held during Architecture Week 2006 (16-25 June). The Scottish buildings will be competing with the other RIBA Award winners for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal. In total, 54 new buildings across the UK have received RIBA Awards, and 8 have won RIBA European Awards. These will form the longlist for The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal, which Channel 4 will televise for the seventh year running on Saturday 14 October 2006