On October 6, the Royal Institute of British Architects bestowed its highly coveted award—the RIBA Stirling Prize for best building of the year—to the Newport Street Gallery, designed by Caruso St John Architects. The building is located in London’s Vauxhall neighborhood and houses a free public gallery for English artist Damien Hirst’s private art collection.
The gallery, completed last year, takes on the entire length of a formerly industrial street, situated across from a railway. The design involved the conversion of three neighboring Victorian buildings—which originally housed carpentry and scenery-painting workshops—and the addition of new structures on either end, making for a total of five interconnected buildings. The ground and upper floors each feature three large exhibition spaces and are connected with a dramatic spiral staircase.
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