TheStirling Prizeis one of the most prestigious of all architecture awards . key out for the dandy British designer James Stirling , the loot is given per annum from the Royal Institute of British Architects ( RIBA ) to a single building that has made the greatest donation to British computer architecture . The short list has just been announce .
Although the architects must be RIBA penis to stipulate ( exchangeable to the U.S. ’s American Institute of Architects annual awards ) , the buildings themselves can be anywhere in the EU . For 2013 , it just so happens that all the building on the short list are in the UK , meaning it was a very good class for British architecture , indeed .
Library of Birmingham| Mecanoo Architecten
“ Playing an crucial role in Birmingham ’s Centenary Square , the new Library of Birmingham is an telling and sheer addition to the city , a truly public and civic building . It has set a precedent for the scale of the buildings on the square , which serve to animate the place and qualify a sense of inclosure . ”
London Aquatics Centre| Zaha Hadid Architects
“ Flexible buildings are more often than not muted ; via media means that none of the map are properly serve well . At the Olympic Park ZHA design for legacy a world - class construction with a distinctive curvaceous form . ”
Everyman Theatre| Haworth Tompkins
“ The most discussed ( and locally loved ) feature of the new Everyman is the etched metallic element Briss soleil on the facade featuring 105 full - length excision - out figure based on photographs of Liverpudlians . Anywhere else this might be seen as arch but this is Liverpool which loves to wear its heart on its arm . ”
London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre| O’Donnell & Twomey Architects
“ The architects commence by taking the geometry of wet angles as the definition of a square into which they gouged cutting and shot that give light and bod . Every angled facet responds to right of lights of its neighbours . The momentum is generated in the surrounding streets and drawn into the helix that go up through the whole superlative of the structure as a continuous interior street , take the form of a generous step that struggle its way around the core . ”
London Bridge Tower/”The Shard”| Renzo Piano Building Workshop
“ Like the Gherkin , this is a tugboat that people who do n’t in the main care for mod architecture seem to like . It makes the great unwashed talk about computer architecture , which can only be a good matter . But there is much for architect to admire too : the elbow room it meet the split ground level express its structure all the way ; the way you keep seeing the structure from the inside of the building and the direction the complex body part fall when it couch the opinion from the uppermost public platforms . ”
Manchester School of Art| Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
“ This major restoration of the 1960s tower and new reference to the Manchester School of Art has been accomplish with great accomplishment by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios . Design excellence has been coupled with the brief of a windy client to break down the traditional art and design units , encouraging faculty and students across disciplines to shape together and explore the vulgar priming between subject field . ”
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