Tag Riba Stirling Prize

10-09-2020

Richard Rogers leaves Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners after 40 years of architecture

A few weeks after his 87th birthday, architect Richard Rogers retired from the board of directors of Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners, the practice he founded more than 40 years ago; within the next 2 years his name will be removed from the name of the studio. Thus ends the career of the famous architect who worked on projects such as the Centre Pompidou (with Renzo Piano and Gianfranco Franchini) in Paris, Lloyds of London, the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg and the Millennium Dome or O2, also in London, a large tensile structure on Greenwich peninsula.

08-10-2019

Mikhail Riches designs energy-efficient social housing in Goldsmith Street, Norwich

Architecture firm Mikhail Riches designed a highly energy-efficient social housing development project in the centre of Norwich in the UK. A complex of terraced houses that offer a valid alternative to high-density apartment buildings. The project won the Riba Stirling Prize 2019.

16-10-2018

The 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize goes to Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg

The best new building in the United Kingdom is Foster + Partners’ Bloomberg project, winner of the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize, announced on the evening of October 10.

27-08-2018

Henley Halebrown, Chadwick Hall, London

The three student residences designed by architect Henley Halebrown for the University of Roehampton are located in a historic park, close to listed monuments. The project was among the six finalists of the RIBA Stirling Prize.

14-08-2018

Niall McLaughlin Architects, The Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre, Oxford

Niall McLaughlin Architects studio designed a new structure for the Worcester College, a garden provided with a theatre, learning spaces and a dance studio. For this project, the architects took in great account the design of Freespaces, i.e. the open spaces among the different structures of the Sultan Nazrin Shah Centre.

08-08-2018

Storey’s Field Community Centre and Nursery by MUMA, Cambridge

Fantasy and constant attention to details are the distinctive features of the project of the Storey’s Field Community Centre realised by MUMA LLP for the University of Cambridge. It is a great quality building whose every aspect privileges human scale, and one of the six finalists chosen by the panel of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2018.

03-08-2018

Jamie Fobert Architects new Tate St Ives Cornwall

Jamie Fobert Architects’ new expansion on the Tate St Ives in Cornwall has recently been named Art Fund Museum of the Year and is among the six finalists for the 2018 RIBA Stirling Prize

21-05-2018

Farewell to Will Alsop, the architect who designed Peckham Library

Will Alsop, the architect who designed Peckham Library, the first library to win the RIBA Stirling Prize for Building of the Year, in 2000, has passed away at the age of 70 after a brief illness.