Grafton Architects has won the 2021 Stirling Prize, a RIBA award for the United Kingdom’s best new building. The Irish practice received the prize for a library with accompanying social spaces at Kingston University London. Named Town House, the building is defined on the exterior by a 656-foot-long, six-story high colonnade, topped by terraces and gardens.
Open and spacious inside, the ground floor of the Town House is dominated by an amphitheater that can be extended to connect with the foyer for public events. On the upper floors, carefully-considered acoustic design enables a quiet library, archive, a theatre, even a dance studio, to co-exist with the public forum below.
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