RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist 2023

RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 shortlist: The UK’s best new buildings.
Presented since 1996, the RIBA Stirling Prize is the highest accolade in architecture. The six buildings in the running to be crowned the UK’s best are:
A House for Artists, Barking, by Apparata Architects
A model for affordable city living: An apartment complex in London’s Barking offers an ambitious model for shared living, with resident artists delivering free creative programmes for the local community via a street-facing exhibition space. A permanent installation by Grayson Perry in the complex’s central courtyard pays tribute to the homes of wartime heroes and workers.
Central Somers Town Community Facilities and Housing, Camden, by Adam Khan Architects
Building community and tackling inequality: Playfully designed spaces, arranged around a small park in London’s Camden. Contributing to a wider regeneration plan, the development provides local residents with social housing, an after-school club, a very generous adventure playground, and includes premises for a theatre education charity.
Courtauld Connects - The Courtauld Institute of Art, Westminster, by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Modernising a landmark building: Careful conservation and bold interventions rework a warren of spaces inside an eighteenth-century building, home to a cultural institute and the UK’s “smallest university”. Subtle interventions, including re-levelled floors and new doors to the main galleries, have notably improved accessibility and eased visitor flow.
John Morden Centre, Blackheath, by Mæ
Elderly living without isolation: In Blackheath, a 300-year-old residential and nursing facility has been given a new lease of life. With treatment rooms, a hair salon, nail bar, events space and wellbeing facilities, the centre has been designed to encourage connection and movement among residents, supporting healthier and longer lives.
Lavender Hill Courtyard Housing, Clapham, by Sergison Bates architects
Maximising difficult urban spaces: New apartments have been ingeniously inserted into a previously undesirable and highly constrained urban site. Beyond the unassuming entrance, a welcoming courtyard centres the scheme and offers communal space for residents.
University of Warwick - Faculty of Arts, Coventry, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios
Creating connections in higher education: The surrounding parkland is woven into a building that unites the arts and humanities under one roof. A feature staircase, inspired by the structure of a tree, grows through the central atrium with each branch leading to flexible spaces designed to inspire collaboration and cross-pollination of the arts.
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