This guide describes and illustrates all 78 RIBA Award and RIBA Worldwide Award winners, including the Stirling Prize, the UK's most prestigious architectural award, sponsored by The Architects' Journal. It also gives details of the winners of a series of further prizes, including awards for sustainability, conservation, inclusive design and client of the year, as well as prizes for smaller projects, first projects and the best one-off house. It is introduced with an essay on the judging of the 2005 Stirling Prize by Tony Chapman, who heads the RIBA's awards programme.
The third in a series of books published to accompany the prestigious annual Royal Institute of British Architecture awards and celebrating the range of current architecture in Britain, Ireland and continental Europe. The Royal Institute of British Architects' annual awardsone of the most prestigious of any such schemes throughout the worldcelebrates a range of excellent current architecture throughout Britain and continental Europe. This third book in an annual series describes and illustrates all the winners, chosen after a rigorous and exhaustive judging process. Awards are presented in a number of categories covering types of buildinghousing; commercial; sport and leisure; civic and community; health; education; conservationand other areas recognized include the role of the client, while the Stephen Lawrence Award, presented to a project costing under $80,000, is named in honor of a black teenager, murdered in London, who had wanted to train as an architect. The top award, The Stirling Prize, named in honor of the late James Stirling and the UK's richest architecture prize, has been awarded in recent years to Sir Norman Foster and Future Systems. Illustrates and describes all the award-winning buildings in 70 b/w illustrations.
The Royal Institute of British Architects' annual awards celebrate a range of excellent current architecture throughout Britain and continental Europe. This book in an annual series describes and illustrates all the winners.
