Riba Stirling Prize: University of Cambridge Library wins top architecture award
Riba Stirling Prize: University of Cambridge Library wins top architecture award
Source Image, Nick Kane/Riba
The new library at Magdalene College Cambridge has been named the best new building in the UK, winning the prestigious Riba award Stirling for architecture.
The 'exquisitely detailed' building by Níall McLaughlin Architects is open 24 hours a day, as part of the 700-year-old Cambridge University College.
Award judges called him a "strong and confident, yet respectful new boy on the college block".
The other five shortlisted buildings included a school and a community centre.
Simon Allford, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba ), called the library, which incorporates an archive and an art gallery, a "unique setting with a clear purpose".
The new library at Magdalene College Cambridge has been named the best new building in the UK, winning the prestigious Riba award Stirling for architecture.
The 'exquisitely detailed' building by Níall McLaughlin Architects is open 24 hours a day, as part of the 700-year-old Cambridge University College.
Award judges called him a "strong and confident, yet respectful new boy on the college block".
The other five shortlisted buildings included a school and a community centre.
Simon Allford, President of the Royal Institute of British Architects (Riba ), called the library, which incorporates an archive and an art gallery, a "unique setting with a clear purpose".
Source Image, Nick Kane/Riba
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