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.
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed the all-girls school in London. Thursday evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects presented London-based firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) with the RIBA Stirling Prize—the U.K.’s most prestigious architecture award—for their work on the Burntwood School. The 2,000-student secondary school located in London’s Wandsworth district provides an enriched science and math curriculum. AHMM added six academic buildings and two large cultural centers to the campus, linking the new facilities to existing modernist structures designed in the 1950s by renowned architect Sir Leslie Martin. The firm created double height spaces at the end of corridors