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The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 prize for excellence in architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
. It is named after the architect James Stirling
James Stirling (architect)

Sir James Frazer Stirling Royal Institute of British Architects was a Pritzker Prize winning Scottish Architect and among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century....
 (1926-1982), organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
 (RIBA). Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB£20,000.

The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to "the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year." The architects must be RIBA members, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
.

The award was founded in 1996, and is considered to be the most prestigious architecture award in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
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The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 prize for excellence in architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
. It is named after the architect James Stirling
James Stirling (architect)

Sir James Frazer Stirling Royal Institute of British Architects was a Pritzker Prize winning Scottish Architect and among the most important and influential architects of the second half of the 20th century....
 (1926-1982), organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects
Royal Institute of British Architects

The Royal Institute of British Architects is a professional body for architects in the United Kingdom.Originally named the Institute of British Architects in London, it was formed in 1834 by several prominent architects, including Philip Hardwick, Thomas Allom, William Donthorne, Thomas Leverton Donaldson and John Buonarotti Papwor...
 (RIBA). Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB£20,000.

The RIBA Stirling Prize is awarded to "the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year." The architects must be RIBA members, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union
European Union

The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 European Union member state, located primarily in Europe. It was established by the Treaty of Maastricht on 1 November 1993 upon the foundations of the pre-existing European Economic Community....
.

The award was founded in 1996, and is considered to be the most prestigious architecture award in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
. It is publicised as the architectural equivalent of the Booker Prize and Turner Prize
Turner Prize

The Turner Prize, named after the painter J.M.W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist under 50. It is organised by the Tate gallery and staged at Tate Britain....
. The presentation ceremony is televised by Channel 4
Channel 4

Channel 4 is a UK Public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom television broadcaster which began transmissions on 2 November 1982. Although commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the #Channel Four Television...
 and the prize is sponsored by the Architects' Journal.

Six short-listed buildings are chosen from a long-list of buildings that have received a RIBA Award. These awards are given to buildings showing "high architectural standards and substantial contribution to the local environment". In 2003, 70 such buildings received RIBA Awards and so made the long-list.

In addition to the RIBA Stirling Prize, seven other awards are given to buildings on the long-list. In 2003 they consisted of the Stephen Lawrence
Stephen Lawrence

Stephen Lawrence was a black British teenager from South-East London who was stabbed to death while waiting for a bus on the evening of 22 April 1993....
 Prize, the RIBA Client of the Year, the RIBA Journal Sustainability Award, the Crown Estate Conservation Award, The Architects’ Journal First Building Award, and the ADAPT Trust Access Award.

Laureates and runners up

Casadamusica

2008

Winner
  • Accordia housing development, Cambridge. Architects: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios / Alison Brooks Architects / Maccreanor Lavington


Runners Up
  • Grimshaw
    Nicholas Grimshaw

    Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Order of the British Empire is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall....
    /Arcadis: Amsterdam
    Amsterdam

    Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands and List of cities in the Netherlands with over 100,000 people of the Netherlands, located in the Provinces of the Netherlands of North Holland in the west of the country....
     Bijlmer Arena Station
  • Denton Corker Marshall
    Denton Corker Marshall

    Denton Corker Marshall are a major award winning Australian architecture practice established in Melbourne, Victoria in 1972. Its founding principals are John Denton , Bill Corker, and Barrie Marshall....
    : Manchester Civil Justice Centre
    Manchester Civil Justice Centre

    The Manchester Civil Justice Centre is a building in Manchester, England. It houses the Manchester County Court and the Manchester District Registry of the High Court of Justice, as well as Manchester City Family Proceedings Court, the District Probate Registry and the Regional and Area Offices of the Her Majesty's Courts Service....
  • Zaha Hadid
    Zaha Hadid

    Zaha Hadid , Order of British Empire is a notable Iraqis in the United Kingdom deconstructivism architect....
     with Patrik Schumacher: Nord Park Railway, Innsbruck
    Innsbruck

    Innsbruck is the Capital of the federal state of Tyrol in western Austria. It is located in the Inn River Valley at the junction with the Wipptal , which provides access to the Brenner Pass, some 30 km south of Innsbruck....
  • Allies and Morrison: Royal Festival Hall
    Royal Festival Hall

    The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,900 seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England. It is situated on the South Bank of the River Thames, not far from Hungerford Bridge....
    , London
  • Allford Hall Monaghan Morris: Westminster Academy
    Westminster Academy (London)

    Westminster Academy, is an Academy located in London, England.It is a co-educational school for 11-18 year olds that specialises in International Business and Enterprise....
    , London


2007

Winner
  • David Chipperfield Architects: Museum of Modern Literature
    Museum of Modern Literature

    The Museum of Modern Literature or LiMo is a building in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, which won its architect the Stirling Prize in 2007....
    , Marbach am Neckar
    Marbach am Neckar

    Marbach am Neckar is a town on the river Neckar in Baden-W?rttemberg, Germany. The nearest larger cites are Ludwigsburg and Stuttgart .Marbach is known as the birth place of the classical poet and dramatist, Friedrich Schiller....
    , Germany


Runners up
  • David Chipperfield Architects: America's Cup Building
    America's Cup Building

    The America's Cup Building in Valencia, Spain, Spain was designed by architect David Chipperfield, inaugurated in 2006 and has won numerous architectural awards, including the Royal Institute of British Architects European awards 2007....
    , Valencia, Spain
  • Office for Metropolitan Architecture
    Office for Metropolitan Architecture

    The Office for Metropolitan Architecture, , is the Rotterdam based architecture firm of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.The firm was founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis....
    /Arup-AFA
    Arup

    Arup is a professional services firm providing engineering, design, planning, project management and consulting services for all aspects of the built environment....
    : Casa da Música
    Casa da Música

    Casa da M?sica is a major concert hall space in Porto, Portugal which houses the cultural institution of the same name with its three orchestras Orchestra Nacional do Porto, Orchestra Barroca and Remix Ensemble....
    , Porto
    Porto

    Porto , also Oporto in English, is Portugal's second city and capital of the Norte, Portugal NUTS II region. The city is located in the estuary of the Douro river in northern Portugal....
    , Portugal
    Portugal

    Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic , is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Located in southwestern Europe, Portugal is the westernmost country of mainland Europe and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the west and south and by Spain to the north and east....
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : Dresden Station Redevelopment
    Dresden Hauptbahnhof

    is one of two main inter-city transit hubs in the German city of Dresden. Designed by Ernst Giese and Paul Weidner, it was built between 1892 and 1897 at the southern border of the inner city and was important in the growth and development of the city....
    , Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
    , Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Glenn Howells
    Glenn Howells

    Glenn Howells is a United Kingdom born architect. His practice, Glenn Howells Architects, has offices in Birmingham and London. Howells founded his practice in London in 1990 but later moved the main office to Birmingham in 1992....
     Architects: The Savill Building
    Savill Building

    The Savill Building is a visitor centre at the entrance to The Savill Garden in Windsor Great Park, Surrey, designed by Glenn Howells, Buro Happold and Robert Haskins Waters Engineers....
     Visitors Centre, Windsor Great Park
    Windsor Great Park

    Windsor Great Park is a large deer park of 5,000 acres, to the south of the town of Windsor, Berkshire on the border of Berkshire and Surrey in England....
  • Haworth Tompkins
    Haworth Tompkins

    Haworth Tompkins was formed in 1991 by architects Graham Haworth [b. 1960] and Steve Tompkins [b. 1959].Based in London, UK, the studio has worked on projects across public, private and subsidised sectors including schools, galleries, theatres, housing, offices, shops and factories....
    : Young Vic Theatre, London SE1


Barajas Interior1

2006

Winner
  • The Richard Rogers Partnership
    Richard Rogers

    Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
    : Terminal 4, Barajas Airport, Madrid
    Madrid

    Madrid is the Capital and largest city of Spain. It is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits in the European Union after Greater London and Berlin, and its Madrid metropolitan area is the Largest urban areas of the European Union in the European Union after Paris aire urbaine, Greater London Urban Area, a...
Runners up
  • Adjaye Associates
    David Adjaye

    David Adjaye Order of the British Empire is a United Kingdom architect.David Adjaye was born in Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, where his father was a Ghanaian diplomat....
    : The Whitechapel Idea Store
    Whitechapel Idea Store

    The Whitechapel Idea Store is a library in Whitechapel, London, England. It opened in September 2005 in architecture and was designed by the architect David Adjaye and constructed at a cost of ?12 million by William Verry with engineering by Arup....
  • Hopkins Architects
    Hopkins Architects

    Hopkins Architects is a prominent United Kingdom architectural firm established in 1976 by Michael Hopkins and Patricia Hopkins. The practice has won many awards for its work and has twice been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, including in 2006 for Evelina Children's Hospital....
    : The Evelina Children's Hospital
    Evelina Children's Hospital

    Evelina Children's Hospital is a specialist National Health Service hospital in London. It is administratively a part of Guy?s & St Thomas? NHS Foundation Trust and provides teaching hospital facilities for King's College London....
  • Caruso St John Architects
    Caruso St John

    Caruso St John is an architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.In 1996 they won an open competition to design the Walsall Art Gallery which opened in 2000....
    : Brick House
    Brick House (London)

    The Brick House in West London, England was completed in May 2005 and was designed by the firm of architects Caruso St John and constructed by Harris Calnan Construction with service engineering by Mendick Waring and structural engineering by Price & Myers....
  • The Richard Rogers Partnership
    Richard Rogers

    Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
    : The Welsh Assembly Building
    Senedd

    Senedd is the home of the National Assembly for Wales. It is situated on the waterfront in the Cardiff Bay area of Cardiff, Wales in the United Kingdom....
  • Zaha Hadid Architects
    Zaha Hadid

    Zaha Hadid , Order of British Empire is a notable Iraqis in the United Kingdom deconstructivism architect....
    : The Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg
    Wolfsburg

    Wolfsburg is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located on the River Aller northeast of Braunschweig . Wolfsburg is bordered by the districts of Gifhorn and Helmstedt ....


Newscottishparliament 750

2005

Winner
  • EMBT
    Enric Miralles

    Enric Miralles Moya was a Spain Catalonia architect. He graduated from the School of Architecture of Barcelona at the Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya in 1978....
    /RMJM
    RMJM

    RMJMA global, design-driven architectural practice, the RMJM Group is a 1,200-person firm composed of architects, urban planners, landscape and interior designers working around the world, "creating architecture that says something about the culture and civilization in which we live," according to the firm's website....
    : Scottish Parliament building
    Scottish Parliament Building

    The Scottish Parliament Building is the home of the Scotland Scottish Parliament at Holyrood, Edinburgh, within the World Heritage Site in central Edinburgh....
    , Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
Runners up
  • Bennetts Associates
    Bennetts Associates

    Bennetts Associates are a British architecture firm, originally founded in 1987 by Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked Arup, and his wife, Denise....
    : Brighton Library, Brighton
    Brighton

    Brighton is a city on the south coast of England and, with its neighbours Hove and Portslade, forms the Brighton and Hove.The ancient settlement of Brighthelmston dates from before the Domesday Book , but it emerged as a health resort during the 18th Century and became a destination for day-trippers after the arrival of the railway in...
  • Zaha Hadid
    Zaha Hadid

    Zaha Hadid , Order of British Empire is a notable Iraqis in the United Kingdom deconstructivism architect....
    : BMW Central Building, Leipzig
    Leipzig

    Leipzig is, with a population of over 511,252, the largest city in the States of Germany of Saxony, Germany....
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : McLaren Technology Centre
    McLaren Technology Centre

    The McLaren Technology Centre is the headquarters of the McLaren Group, located on a 500,000 m? site in Woking, United Kingdom. It is a large, roughly semi-circular, glass-walled building, designed by the architect Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank and his company, Foster and Partners....
    , Woking
    Woking

    Woking is a large town and civil parish that shares its name with the surrounding Non-metropolitan district, located in the west of Surrey, England....
  • O'Donnell & Tuomey
    O'Donnell & Tuomey

    O'Donnell + Tuomey is an architectural practice based in Dublin, Ireland.The partnership was established in 1988 by Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey....
    : Lewis Glucksman Gallery
    Lewis Glucksman Gallery

    The Lewis Glucksman Gallery is an award-winning art gallery in University College, Cork, Republic of Ireland.Opened to the public by the President of Ireland, Mary McAleese on 14 October 2004, the Glucksman gallery was named Best Public Building in Ireland by the RIAI in June 2005....
    , Cork
    Cork (city)

    Cork is the second largest city in the Republic of Ireland and the Ireland third most populous city after Dublin and Belfast. It is the principal city and administrative centre of County Cork and the largest city in the Provinces of Ireland of Munster....
  • Alsop Designs
    Will Alsop

    Will Alsop is a United Kingdom architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial Modern architecture buildings, most in the United Kingdom....
    : Fawood Children's Centre, Harlesden
    Harlesden

    Harlesden is a suburban town in the London Borough of Brent, Its main focal point is the Jubilee Clock which commemorates Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee....


30 St Mary Axe

2004

Winner
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : 30 St Mary Axe
    30 St Mary Axe

    30 St Mary Axe, also known as the Gherkin and formerly the Swiss Re Building, is a skyscraper in London main financial district, the City of London, completed in December 2003 and opened on 28 April 2004....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....


Runners up
  • Studio Daniel Libeskind
    Daniel Libeskind

    Daniel Libeskind, is an United States architect, artist, and set designer of Polish-Jewish descent. He founded Studio Daniel Libeskind in 1989 with his wife, Nina, and is its principal design architect....
    : Imperial War Museum North
    Imperial War Museum North

    The Imperial War Museum North is a war museum at The Quays, Trafford Wharf, Trafford Park, Greater Manchester M17 1TZ, England, a part of the country that was attacked during the Blitz....
    , Manchester
    Manchester

    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
  • MacCormac Jamieson Prichard
    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard

    MacCormac Jamieson Prichard is a small, private United Kingdom architecture based in London established in 1972 and chaired by Sir Richard MacCormac....
    : The Phoenix Initiative, Coventry
    Coventry

    Coventry is a City status in the United Kingdom and metropolitan borough in the county of West Midlands in England. With a population of 303,475 at the United Kingdom Census 2001 , Coventry is the 9th largest city in England and the 11th largest in the United Kingdom....
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : The Business Academy, Bexley
  • Ian Ritchie Architects
    Ian Ritchie Architects

    Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd is a leading United Kingdom architect, founded in London in 1981 by Ian Ritchie . Ritchie also co-founded the engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie with Peter Rice and Martin Francis in Paris in 1981....
    : The Spire of Dublin
    Spire of Dublin

    The Spire of Dublin, officially titled the Monument of Light is a large, stainless steel, pin-like monument in height, located on the site of the former Nelson's Pillar on O'Connell Street in Dublin....
  • Peter Cook
    Peter Cook (architect)

    Sir Peter Cook, Royal Institute of British Architects is a notable England architect, teacher and writer about architecture.From 1953 to 1958, he studied architecture at Bournemouth College of Art, and then moved to the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, graduating in 1960....
    , Colin Fournier
    Colin Fournier

    Colin Fournier, co-architect with Peter Cook of the Kunsthaus Graz, current professor of The Bartlett, a part of University College London....
    : Kunsthaus
    Kunsthaus Graz

    The Kunsthaus Graz, Grazer Kunsthaus, or Graz Art Museum was built as part of the European Capital of Culture celebrations in 2003 and has since become an architectural landmark in Graz, Austria....
    , Graz
    Graz

    Graz , with a population of around 290,000 as of 2008 , is the List of cities and towns in Austria#List of cities and towns by population size in Austria after Vienna and the capital of the federal state of Styria ....


Laban Dance Centre Rjl

2003

Winner
  • Herzog & de Meuron
    Herzog & de Meuron

    Herzog & de Meuron Architekten, BSA/SIA/ETH is a Swiss architecture firm, founded and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. The careers of founders and senior partners Jacques Herzog , and Pierre de Meuron , closely paralleled one another, with both attending the ETH Z?rich in Z?rich....
    : Laban dance centre
    Laban Dance Centre

    Laban in Deptford, south-east London, is a college and centre for contemporary dance, and includes 13 dance studios, a 300-seat theatre, dance health suite, Pilates studio, library and caf?....
    , Deptford
    Deptford

    Deptford is an area on the south bank of the River Thames in south-east London. The area is named after a ford of the River Ravensbourne, and from the mid 16th century to the late 19th was home to Convoy's Wharf, the first of the Royal Navy Dockyards....
    , London


Runners up
  • Bill Dunster Architects: BedZED
    BedZED

    Beddington Zero Energy Development is an low-energy house development near Wallington, London, England, in the London London borough London Borough of Sutton....
  • Eric Parry Architects: 30 Finsbury Square
    Finsbury Square

    Finsbury Square is a 1.7 acre square in central London. It was developed in 1777 on the site of a previous area of green space to the east of London known as Finsbury Fields, in the parish of St Luke's and near Moorfields....
    , London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     EC2
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : Great Court
    Queen Elizabeth II Great Court

    The central Quadrangle of the British Museum in London was redeveloped to a design by Foster and Partners to become the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, commonly referred to simply as the Great Court, during the late 1990s....
    , British Museum
    British Museum

    The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture situated in London. Its collections, which number more than 7 million Object , are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its beginning to the present....
  • Ian Ritchie Architects
    Ian Ritchie Architects

    Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd is a leading United Kingdom architect, founded in London in 1981 by Ian Ritchie . Ritchie also co-founded the engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie with Peter Rice and Martin Francis in Paris in 1981....
    : Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre
  • Sutherland Hussey Architects with Jake Harvey, Donald Urquhart, Glen Onwin and Sandra Kennedy
    Sandra Kennedy

    Sandra Kennedy is an United States United States Democratic Party politician. , she serves as the city clerk of Fort Wayne, Indiana, a job she had held since January 1, 1983....
    : Tiree Shelter


Gateshead Millenium Bridge Open

2002

Winner
  • Wilkinson Eyre
    Wilkinson Eyre

    Wilkinson Eyre Architects is a high-profile, international architecture firm based in London, UK. The firm has received many awards for outstanding and original solutions to design and engineering problems....
    , Gifford
    Gifford (company)

    Gifford is a professional services firm providing engineering consultancy, design, planning, project management and consulting services for buildings, infrastructure and the environment....
    : Gateshead Millennium Bridge
    Gateshead Millennium Bridge

    The Gateshead Millennium Bridge is a pedestrian and cyclist tilt bridge spanning the River Tyne, England in England between Gateshead on the south bank, and Newcastle upon Tyne on the north bank....


Runners up
  • Malcolm Fraser Architects: Dance Base, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
  • Edward Cullinan
    Edward Cullinan

    Edward Cullinan, Order of the British Empire, is a British architect.Cullinan was educated at Cambridge University, the Architectural Association and UC Berkeley before working for Denys Lasdun where he designed the student residences for the University of East Anglia....
     Architects: Weald and Downland Gridshell
    Weald and Downland Gridshell

    The Weald and Downland Gridshell is a building designed by Buro Happold and Edward Cullinan Architects for the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum: it was a runner-up for the Stirling Prize in 2002....
    , Weald and Downland Open Air Museum
    Weald and Downland Open Air Museum

    Weald and Downland Open Air Museum is an open air museum at Singleton, West Sussex, Sussex, England. The museum covers , with nearly 50 historic buildings dating from the thirteenth to nineteenth centuries, along with gardens, farm animals, walks and a lake....
  • David Chipperfield
    David Chipperfield

    David Chipperfield Order of British Empire is an England architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai....
     Architects: Ernsting's Service Centre, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
    Germany

    Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
  • Building Design Partnership
    Building Design Partnership

    Building Design Partnership is a firm of architects and engineers employing over 1200 staff in the UK and internationally....
    : Hampden Gurney Church of England Primary School, London
    London

    London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
     W1
  • Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers

    Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
     Partnership: Lloyd's Register of Shipping
  • Benson & Forsyth
    Benson & Forsyth

    Benson & Forsyth is a British architectural partnership, whose principal architects are Gordon Benson and Alan Forysth. Their offices are in London Borough of Islington, London, although they formerly also had a small office in Edinburgh....
    : Millennium Wing, National Gallery of Ireland
    National Gallery of Ireland

    The National Gallery of Ireland houses the Republic of Ireland national collection of Irish art and European art. It is located in the centre of Dublin with one entrance on Merrion Square, beside Leinster House, and another on Clare Street....


Magna Science Adventure Centre

2001

Winner
  • Wilkinson Eyre
    Wilkinson Eyre

    Wilkinson Eyre Architects is a high-profile, international architecture firm based in London, UK. The firm has received many awards for outstanding and original solutions to design and engineering problems....
    : Magna Centre, Rotherham
    Rotherham

    Rotherham is a town in South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the River Don, South Yorkshire, close to its confluence with the River Rother, South Yorkshire, between Sheffield and Doncaster....
Runners up
  • Nicholas Grimshaw
    Nicholas Grimshaw

    Sir Nicholas Grimshaw, Order of the British Empire is a prominent English architect, particularly noted for several modernist buildings, including London's Waterloo International railway station and the Eden Project in Cornwall....
     and Partners, Anthony Hunt: Eden Project
    Eden Project

    The Eden Project is a visitor attraction in the United Kingdom, including the world's largest greenhouse.The project is located in a reclaimed Kaolinite clay pit, located from the town of St Blazey and from the larger town of St Austell, Cornwall, England....
  • Eldridge Smerin: The Lawns, Highgate
    Highgate

    Highgate is a village in North London on the north-eastern corner of Hampstead Heath. Highgate rises to an altitude of at Highgate Wood and at North Hill....
  • Jeremy Dixon
    Jeremy Dixon

    Jeremy Dixon is a popular Irish journalist, radio presenter and nightclub dj and socialite.He co-hosts the Fm104 phoneshow along with his partner Adrian Kennedy....
     Edward Jones: National Portrait Gallery extension
  • Guy Greenfield Architects: The Surgery, Hammersmith
    Hammersmith

    Hammersmith is an urban centre in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in west London, approximately 5 miles west of Charing Cross on the north bank of the River Thames....
  • Michael Hopkins & Partners
    Hopkins Architects

    Hopkins Architects is a prominent United Kingdom architectural firm established in 1976 by Michael Hopkins and Patricia Hopkins. The practice has won many awards for its work and has twice been shortlisted for the Stirling Prize, including in 2006 for Evelina Children's Hospital....
    : Portcullis House
    Portcullis House

    Portcullis House in Westminster, London, was commissioned in 1992 to provide offices for Member of Parliament and their staff, augmenting limited space in the Palace of Westminster and surroundings....
     and Westminster Underground Station
    Westminster tube station

    Westminster is a London Underground station in the City of Westminster. The station is served by the Circle line , District Line and Jubilee Line lines....
  • Michael Wilford
    Michael Wilford

    Michael Wilford CBE is an England architect from Hartfield, East Sussex. Wilford studied at the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London, from 1955 to 1962, and at the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, London, in 1967....
     & Partners: British Embassy in Berlin
    British Embassy in Berlin

    The Embassy of the United Kingdom in Berlin is the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Germany. It is located on 70-71 Wilhelmstra?e, near the Hotel Adlon....


2000

Winner
  • Alsop & Störmer
    Will Alsop

    Will Alsop is a United Kingdom architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial Modern architecture buildings, most in the United Kingdom....
    : Peckham Library
    Peckham Library

    Peckham Library is a library and community building situated in Peckham in south-east London. It was designed by Will Alsop and won the Stirling Prize for Architecture in 2000....
Runners up
  • Caruso St John
    Caruso St John

    Caruso St John is an architectural firm established in 1990 by Adam Caruso and Peter St John.In 1996 they won an open competition to design the Walsall Art Gallery which opened in 2000....
    : New Art Gallery Walsall
    Walsall Art Gallery

    The New Art Gallery is sited in the centre of the West Midlands town of Walsall, England. It was built with ?21 million of public funding, including ?15.75 million from the National Lottery ....
  • Norman Foster
    Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

    Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Order of Merit, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, Royal Designers for Industry, is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice....
     & Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : Canary Wharf Station
    Canary Wharf tube station

    Canary Wharf tube station is a London Underground station on the Jubilee Line, between Canada Water tube station and North Greenwich tube station....
  • Marks Barfield: London Eye
    London Eye

    The London Eye at a height of , is the biggest Ferris wheel in Europe, and has become the most popular paid tourist attraction in the United Kingdom, visited by over 3 million people a year....
  • Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers

    Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
     Partnership: 88 Wood Street, City of London
    City of London

    The City of London is a geographically small city status in the United Kingdom within Greater London, England. It is the historic core of London around which, along with Westminster, the modern conurbation grew....
  • Sauerbruch Hutton
    Sauerbruch Hutton

    Sauerbruch Hutton is the architecture firm established by Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton established in 1989. Sauerbruch is from Konstanz, Germany and Hutton is from Norwich, United Kingdom....
    : GSW
    GSW

    GSW is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:* Georgia Southwestern State University * Geo Science World* Geological Society of Washington...
     Headquarters, Berlin
  • Chetwood Associates: Sainsburys Supermarket, Greenwich
    Greenwich

    'Greenwich' is a district in south-east London, England, on the south bank of the River Thames in the London Borough of Greenwich. It is best known for its maritime history and as giving its name to the Greenwich Meridian and Greenwich Mean Time....


1999

Winner
  • Future Systems
    Future Systems

    Future Machine Aesthetic is a London-based architecture and design practice, headed by Directors Jan Kaplick? and Amanda Levete.Future Systems shared many of their founding principles with the British High-tech architecture Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers....
    : Lord's Media Centre
    Lord's Media Centre

    The Lord's Media Centre is a building at Lord's Cricket Ground, London. It was designed by Future Systems and cost ?5.8million. The Media Centre was commissioned in time for the 1999 Cricket World Cup and was the first all aluminium, semi-monocoque building in the world....
Runners up
  • David Chipperfield
    David Chipperfield

    David Chipperfield Order of British Empire is an England architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai....
     Architects: River and Rowing Museum
    River and Rowing Museum

    The River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, England, is located on a site at Mill Meadows by the River Thames. It has three main themes represented by major permanent galleries, the non-tidal River Thames, the international sport of Sport rowing and the local town of Henley-on-Thames....
    , Henley on Thames
  • Benson & Forsyth
    Benson & Forsyth

    Benson & Forsyth is a British architectural partnership, whose principal architects are Gordon Benson and Alan Forysth. Their offices are in London Borough of Islington, London, although they formerly also had a small office in Edinburgh....
    : Museum of Scotland
    Museum of Scotland

    The Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland, is a building which, together with the adjacent Royal Museum, comprises the National Museum of Scotland....
  • Alsop, Lyall & Störmer: North Greenwich Jubilee Line Underground station
  • Chris Wilkinson
    Chris Wilkinson (architect)

    Chris Wilkinson is a British architect.He founded ....
     Architects: Jubilee Line Extension
    Jubilee Line Extension

    The Jubilee line extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee line from Green Park to Stratford, London, through south and east London....
     Project
  • Wilford Associates: Sto AG Marketing and Training Building
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : Reichstag
    Reichstag (building)

    The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag , the first parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933, when it was severely damaged in a Reichstag fire supposedly set by Netherlands Communism Marinus van der Lubbe, who was later beheaded for the crime....
    , Berlin
  • O'Donnell & Tuomey
    O'Donnell & Tuomey

    O'Donnell + Tuomey is an architectural practice based in Dublin, Ireland.The partnership was established in 1988 by Sheila O'Donnell and John Tuomey....
    : Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School


Duxford Uk Feb2005 American

1998

Winner
  • Foster and Partners
    Foster and Partners

    Foster + Partners is a leading architectural firm based in the United Kingdom. The practice is led by its founder and Chairman, Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, and has constructed many high-profile glass-and-steel buildings....
    : American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum
    Imperial War Museum Duxford

    The Imperial War Museum Duxford is a museum in Cambridgeshire, England, and commonly referred to simply as 'Duxford' . It is a branch of the Imperial War Museum and houses its large exhibits, including the aircraft and military and naval vehicles collection....
    , Duxford
    Duxford

    Duxford is a village in Cambridgeshire, England, some ten miles south of Cambridge. Duxford gives its name to RAF Duxford, a former Royal Air Force airfield that was used as a sector station during the Battle of Britain....
Runners up
  • Rick Mather: Private house, North London
  • Ian Ritchie Architects
    Ian Ritchie Architects

    Ian Ritchie Architects Ltd is a leading United Kingdom architect, founded in London in 1981 by Ian Ritchie . Ritchie also co-founded the engineering firm Rice Francis Ritchie with Peter Rice and Martin Francis in Paris in 1981....
    : Concert platform, Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform
    Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform

    The Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform, located in Crystal Palace, London, is a striking structure, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects.The building was nominated for the RIBA's Stirling Prize award in 1998....
    , London
  • Ian Taylor
    Ian Taylor

    Ian Colin Taylor Member of the Order of the British Empire is a politician in the United Kingdom. He is Conservative Party Member of Parliament for Esher and Walton since 1997 and was previously MP for Esher from 1987....
     with Bennetts Associates
    Bennetts Associates

    Bennetts Associates are a British architecture firm, originally founded in 1987 by Rab Bennetts, who had previously worked Arup, and his wife, Denise....
    : Richard Attenborough Centre
  • Stephenson Bell
    Roger Stephenson

    Roger Stephenson Order of the British Empire is an acclaimed England architect and one of the partners of Stephenson Bell Architects in Manchester, England....
    : Quay Bar
    Quay Bar

    Quay Bar was a building situated next to the Bridgewater Canal basin in Castlefield, Manchester. It was designed by architects Roger Stephenson for their client Wolverhampton & Dudley Breweries ....
    , Manchester
    Manchester

    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England. Manchester was granted City status in the United Kingdom in 1853....
  • Inskip and Jenkins: Temple of Concord and Victory (restoration), Stowe
    Stowe, Buckinghamshire

    Stowe is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale district in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the location of Stowe House, a Grade I listed building country house, and Stowe School, which occupies the mansion....
  • Günter Behnisch
    Günter Behnisch

    G?nter Behnisch is a Germany architect ; Behnisch is one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism.He has architecture firms in Stuttgart, Germany since 1952 and Los Angeles, CA, United States since 1999....
    : St Benno School, Dresden
    Dresden

    Dresden is the capital city of the Germany Federal Free state of Saxony. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon triangle metropolitan area....
  • Günter Behnisch
    Günter Behnisch

    G?nter Behnisch is a Germany architect ; Behnisch is one of the most prominent architects representing deconstructivism.He has architecture firms in Stuttgart, Germany since 1952 and Los Angeles, CA, United States since 1999....
    : Landesgirokasse, Stuttgart
    Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....
  • David Chipperfield
    David Chipperfield

    David Chipperfield Order of British Empire is an England architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai....
    : Office and studio building, Düsseldorf
    Düsseldorf

    D?sseldorf is the capital city of the Germany state of North Rhine-Westphalia. It is an economic centre of Germany. The city is situated on the River Rhine and has a high population density - the Rhine-Ruhr metropolitan area has over 10 million inhabitants alone....
  • Norman Foster
    Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank

    Norman Robert Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, Order of Merit, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, Royal Designers for Industry, is a British architect whose company maintains an international design practice....
     and Partners: Commerzbank HQ
    Commerzbank Tower

    Commerzbank Tower is a skyscraper located in the city centre of Frankfurt, Germany. After it was completed in 1997 it ranked as the List of tallest buildings in Europe until 2005 when it was surpassed by the Triumph-Palace in Moscow....
    , Frankfurt
    Frankfurt

    is the largest city in the German States of Germany of Hesse and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000....
  • Colin St John Wilson
    Colin St John Wilson

    Sir Colin Alexander St John Wilson, Royal Institute of British Architects, Royal Academy, was a United Kingdom architect, lecturer and author....
    : British Library
    British Library

    The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is based in London and is one of the world's largest List of Research libraries, holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats; books, journals, newspapers, magazines, Sound recording, patents, databases, maps, stamps, Printmaking, drawings and much mor...


1997

Winner
  • Michael Wilford
    Michael Wilford

    Michael Wilford CBE is an England architect from Hartfield, East Sussex. Wilford studied at the Northern Polytechnic School of Architecture, London, from 1955 to 1962, and at the Regent Street Polytechnic Planning School, London, in 1967....
    : Music School, Stuttgart
    Stuttgart

    Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-W?rttemberg in southern Germany. The list of cities in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 590,429 while the metropolitan area referred to as Stuttgart Region has a population of 2.7 million ....


Runners up
  • Will Alsop
    Will Alsop

    Will Alsop is a United Kingdom architect based in London. He is responsible for several distinctive and controversial Modern architecture buildings, most in the United Kingdom....
    : Hotel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille
    Marseille

    "Marseille" is the second-largest city of France and forms the third-largest aire urbaine, after those of Paris and Lyon, with a population recorded to be 1,516,340 at the 1999 census and estimated to be 1,605,000 in 2007....
  • Mark Guard: Roof-top apartment, Paris
    Paris

    Paris is the Capital of France and the country's largest city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the ?le-de-France Regions of France ....
  • Richard Murphy
    Richard Murphy (architect)

    Richard Murphy OBE is an architect based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and principal architect in Richard Murphy Architects....
    : Maggie's Centre
    Maggie's centres

    Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres are a network of drop-in centres in Great Britain, whichaim to help anyone who has been affected by cancer. They are not intended as a replacement for conventional cancer therapy, but as a caring environment that can provide information and advice for a healthy body and mind....
    , Edinburgh
    Edinburgh

    Edinburgh ; is the Capital city of Scotland, a position it has held since 1437. It is the seventh largest city in the United Kingdom and the second largest Scottish City status in the United Kingdom after Glasgow....
  • Richard Rogers
    Richard Rogers

    Richard George Rogers, Baron Rogers of Riverside, Order of the Companions of Honour, Royal Institute of British Architects, Chartered Society of Designers, is a British architect noted for his modernist and Functionalism designs....
    : Paul Hamlyn Learning Resource Centre, Thames Valley University
    Thames Valley University

    Thames Valley University is a United Kingdom New Universities based on campuses in Slough, Reading, Berkshire in Berkshire, and Ealing in west London....
  • Chris Wilkinson
    Chris Wilkinson

    Chris Wilkinson may refer to:* Chris Wilkinson, British tennis player* Chris Wilkinson , British architect...
    : Stratford maintenance depot, Jubilee Line
    Jubilee Line

    The Jubilee line is a line on the London Underground , in the United Kingdom. It was built in two major sections - initially to Charing Cross tube station in Central London, and Jubilee Line Extension in 1999 to Stratford station in East London, England....


1996

Winner
  • Stephen Hodder
    Stephen Hodder

    Stephen Hodder is an English people architect who RIBA's Stirling Prize in 1996. He is also a partner at his own practice Hodder Associates which was founded in 1992....
    : Centenary Building
    Centenary Building

    The Centenary Building is a building at the University of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. It was completed in December 1995 and opened in 1996 in architecture and was designed by the architect Stephen Hodder....
    , University of Salford
    University of Salford

    The University of Salford is a plate glass university based in Salford, England, with approximately 20,000 registered students. The main campus is about west of Manchester city centre, opposite the Working Class Movement Library and situated in of parkland, "a haven of lawns and shrubberies", on the banks of the River Irwell....


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