Stirling Prize

Barajas Airport Terminal 4 Interior, Richard Rogers Partnership, 2006

The Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize is a British prize for excellence in architecture. It is named after the architect James Stirling, organised and awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The RIBA Stirling Prize is presented to "the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture in the past year." The architects must be RIBA members, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union. Stirling Prize laureates receive a stipend of GB£20,000.

The award was founded in 1996, and is considered to be the most prestigious architecture award in the United Kingdom. It is publicised as the architectural equivalent of the Booker Prize (literature) and Turner Prize (visual arts). The highest profile architectural award in British culture, the presentation ceremony is televised by Channel 4 and the prize is sponsored by the Architects' Journal. Six short-listed buildings are chosen from a long-list of buildings that have received a RIBA Award. These awards are given to buildings showing "high architectural standards and substantial contribution to the local environment".

In addition to the RIBA Stirling Prize, five other awards are given to buildings on the long-list. In 2015 they consist of: the RIBA National Award, the RIBA Regional Award, the Manser Medal, the Stephen Lawrence Prize and the RIBA Client of the Year Award. For years prior to 1996, the award was known as the "Building of the Year Award".

Laureates and runners-up

As the "Building of the Year Award."

1987: St Oswald's Hospice, Newcastle upon Tyne^[1]

1991: Woodlea Primary School, Leyland, Lancashire^[2]

1993: Sackler Galleries, London^[3]

1994: Waterloo International railway station, London

1995: McAlpine Stadium, Huddersfield

Year	Laureate	Winning work		Nominees and works
1996	Hodder, StephenStephen Hodder		Centenary Building, University of Salford, Salford
1997	James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates		Stuttgart Music School, Stuttgart, Germany	Will Alsop for Hotel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille, France Mark Guard for roof-top apartment, Paris, France Richard Murphy for Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh Richard Rogers for Paul Hamlyn Learning Resource Centre, Thames Valley University, London Chris Wilkinson for Stratford maintenance depot, Jubilee line, London
1998	Foster and Partners		American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire	Rick Mather Architects for a private house, London Ian Ritchie Architects for Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform, Crystal Palace, London Ian Taylor with Bennetts Associates for Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester Stephenson Bell for Quay Bar, Manchester (demolished in 2007) Inskip and Jenkins for Temple of Concord and Victory (restoration), Stowe, Buckinghamshire Günter Behnisch for St Benno School, Dresden, Germany Günter Behnisch for Landesgirokasse, Stuttgart, Germany David Chipperfield for an office and studio building, Düsseldorf, Germany Norman Foster and Partners for Commerzbank HQ, Frankfurt, Germany Colin St John Wilson for British Library, London
1999	Future Systems		Lord's Media Centre, London	David Chipperfield Architects for River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire Benson & Forsyth for Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Alsop, Lyall & Störmer for North Greenwich tube station, London Chris Wilkinson Architects for Jubilee Line Extension Project, London Wilford Associates for Sto AG Marketing and Training Building, Stühlingen, Germany Foster and Partners for Reichstag, Berlin, Germany O'Donnell & Tuomey for Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland
2000	Alsop & Störmer		Peckham Library, London	Caruso St John for New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands Norman Foster & Partners for Canary Wharf Station, London Marks Barfield for London Eye, London Richard Rogers Partnership for 88 Wood Street, City of London Sauerbruch Hutton for GSW Headquarters, Berlin, Germany Chetwood Associates for Sainsbury's Supermarket, Greenwich, London
2001	Wilkinson Eyre Architects		Magna Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire	Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Anthony Hunt for Eden Project, Cornwall Eldridge Smerin for The Lawns, Highgate, London Jeremy Dixon Edward Jones for National Portrait Gallery extension, London Guy Greenfield Architects for The Surgery, Hammersmith, London Michael Hopkins & Partners for Portcullis House and Westminster Underground Station, London Michael Wilford & Partners for British Embassy in Berlin, Germany
2002	Wilkinson Eyre Architects & Gifford		Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead	Malcolm Fraser Architects for Dance Base, Grassmarket, Edinburgh Edward Cullinan Architects for Weald and Downland Gridshell, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, West Sussex David Chipperfield Architects for Ernsting's Service Centre, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany Building Design Partnership for Hampden Gurney Church of England Primary School, London Richard Rogers Partnership for Lloyd's Register of Shipping, London Benson & Forsyth for Millennium Wing, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland
2003	Herzog & de Meuron		Laban, Deptford, London	Bill Dunster Architects for BedZED, Hackbridge, London Eric Parry Architects for 30 Finsbury Square, London Foster and Partners for Great Court, British Museum, London Ian Ritchie Architects for Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre, Plymouth Sutherland Hussey Architects with Jake Harvey, Donald Urquhart, Glen Onwin and Sandra Kennedy for Tiree Shelter, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
2004	Foster and Partners		30 St Mary Axe, London	Studio Daniel Libeskind for Imperial War Museum North, Trafford Park, Manchester MacCormac Jamieson Prichard with Rummey Design for The Phoenix Initiative, Coventry Foster and Partners for Business Academy, Bexley, London Ian Ritchie Architects for Spire of Dublin, Ireland Peter Cook, Colin Fournier for Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria
2005	EMBT & RMJM		Scottish Parliament building, Edinburgh	Bennetts Associates for Jubilee Library, Brighton Zaha Hadid for BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany Foster and Partners for McLaren Technology Centre, Woking O'Donnell & Tuomey for Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland Alsop Designs for Fawood Children's Centre, Harlesden, London
2006	Richard Rogers Partnership		Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid	Adjaye Associates for Whitechapel Idea Store, London Hopkins Architects for Evelina Children's Hospital, London Caruso St John Architects for Brick House, London The Richard Rogers Partnership for Senedd (Welsh Assembly building), Cardiff Zaha Hadid for Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany
2007	David Chipperfield Architects		Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany	David Chipperfield Architects for America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Arup-AFA for Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal Foster and Partners for Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden, Germany Glenn Howells Architects, for Savill Building Visitors' Centre, Windsor Great Park, Windsor Haworth Tompkins for Young Vic Theatre, London
2008	Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington		Accordia housing development, Cambridge	Grimshaw/Arcadis for Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station, Amsterdam, Netherlands Denton Corker Marshall for Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher for Nord Park Railway, Innsbruck, Austria Allies and Morrison for Royal Festival Hall, London Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for Westminster Academy, London
2009	Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners[4]		Maggie's Centre, London	Tony Fretton Architects for Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for Bodegas Protos winery, Peñafiel, Spain BDP for Liverpool One Masterplan, Liverpool Eric Parry Architects for 5 Aldermanbury Square, London Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for Kentish Town Health Centre, London
2010	Zaha Hadid[5]		MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy	David Chipperfield for Neues Museum, Berlin DSDHA for Christ's College, Guildford Rick Mather Architects for Ashmolean Museum, Oxford dRMM for Clapham Manor Primary School, London Theis and Khan for Bateman's Row, Shoreditch, London
2011	Zaha Hadid[6]		Evelyn Grace Academy, London	O'Donnell & Tuomey for An Gaeláras, Derry, Northern Ireland Allford Hall Monaghan Morris for The Angel Building, London David Chipperfield Architects for Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany Bennetts Associates for Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon Hopkins Architects for The Velodrome, London
2012	Stanton Williams[7]		Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge	David Chipperfield Architects for The Hepworth, Wakefield O'Donnell & Tuomey for Lyric Theatre (Belfast), Belfast OMA for Maggie's Centre, Glasgow OMA with Allies and Morrison for New Court, London Populous for Olympic Stadium, London
2013	Witherford Watson Mann Architects[8]		Astley Castle, Nuneaton, Warwickshire	Grafton Architects for the medical school at University of Limerick, Ireland Hawkins/Brown with Studio Egret West for Park Hill, Sheffield Alison Brooks Architects for Newhall Be, Essex heneghan peng architects for Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre, Antrim, Northern Ireland Niall McLaughlin Architects for Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College Cuddesdon, South Oxfordshire
2014	Haworth Tompkins[9]		Everyman Theatre, Liverpool	Mecanoo for Library of Birmingham, Birmingham Zaha Hadid for London Aquatics Centre, London Renzo Piano for The Shard, London O'Donnell & Tuomey for Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at LSE, London Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios for Manchester School of Art, Manchester
2015	Allford Hall Monaghan Morris[10]		Burntwood School, Wandsworth, London	Niall McLaughlin Architects for Darbishire Place, Whitechapel, London Reiach and Hall Architects for Maggie's Centre Lanarkshire, Airdrie, Scotland Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners for NEO Bankside, Bankside, London heneghan peng architects for University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building, Greenwich, London McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) for Whitworth Art Gallery extension, Manchester
2016	Caruso St John Architects[11]		Newport Street Gallery, Vauxhall, London	Herzog & de Meuron for Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford, Oxford Loyn & Co Architects for Outhouse (private residence), Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire Michael Laird Architects & Reiach and Hall Architects for Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland dRMM Architects for Trafalgar Place housing, Elephant and Castle, London Wilkinson Eyre Architects for Weston Library, University of Oxford, Oxford

See also

• List of architecture prizes

Citations

External links

• RIBA Stirling Prize
• Channel 4 - Building of the year