Caruso St John’s Newport Street Gallery announced as winner of 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for best building of the year.
Following UK Construction Online’s look into this year’s contestants for the RIBA Stirling Prize 2016, the award has been given to Newport Street Gallery, for the UK’s best new building.
The London gallery built to showcase the private art collection of artist Damien Hurst, saw the remodelling of three listed Victorian industrial buildings and the building of two new ones in Vauxhall.
The Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been flanked at either end by new buildings; one with a striking, spiky saw-tooth roof.
Credit to Helene Binet
This is the first time Caruso St John architects have won the RIBA Stirling Prize; they were shortlisted for the award for Brick House, west London in 2006 and New Art Gallery Walsall in 2000.
Calling their work “a bold and confident contribution to the best of UK architecture”, the judges said: “Caruso St John’s approach to conservation is irreverent yet sensitive and achieves a clever solution that expresses a poetic juxtaposition of old and new.
“The collection of buildings is beautifully curated, pulled together by the use of brick yet still expressive of their individuality. The playful use of LED technology gives a contemporary addition to the facade.
“Internally, the five buildings are connected as a continuous and coherent sequence of light filled gallery spaces. The simple and logical circulation is enlivened by exquisitely detailed and sensuous staircases.”
Credit to Helene Binet
Hirst said: “Newport Street Gallery has realized my ambition to create an unobtrusive and beautiful series of buildings that work perfectly as a space to exhibit great art.
“I wanted to stay true to the history and roots of the building and Caruso St John understood that from the start.”
Credit to Helene Binet
Peter St John, a partner Caruso St John Architects, said: “We see the building as a palace for direct, intimate and luxurious encounters with contemporary art, and we are very pleased that this award will bring more people to see this extraordinary collection.”
Runners up included
Blavatnik School Of Government
Trafalgar Place – Elephant and Castle
Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College
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