RIBA announces 2010 architecture awards

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by jbs060610 h3 — June 9, 2010—The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) recently announced the winners of the 2010 RIBA Awards. RIBA Awards for architectural excellence will be presented to 102 buildings in the U.K. and Europe (93 in the U.K. and nine in the rest of the E.U.). Twelve RIBA International Award winners were also announced.

The award-winning buildings range from a small circular restroom for bus drivers in London, to the Neues Museum in Berlin, to the energy substation for the 2012 Olympics. The fine arts were applauded, with galleries, museums, theaters and auditoriums winning many awards (including the Ashmolean Museum, Nottingham Contemporary and Aldeburgh Music Campus). Education buildings were also well represented, with 17 of the 93 U.K. awards going to schools and universities. This year’s RIBA Awards also featured public spaces, such as pavilions, monuments, Liverpool Pierhead and the Infinity Bridge in Teesdale.

Details about the 93 U.K. buildings that won a RIBA Award are available online. The nine RIBA Award winners in the European Union are:

  • The AP Moller School, Germany; CF Moller Architects

  • Neues Museum, Germany; David Chipperfield Architects, Restoration Architect Julian Harrap Architects

  • House at Spanish Cove, Ireland (Cork); Niall McLaughlin Architects

  • VISUAL—Centre for Contemporary Art & George Bernard Shaw Theatre, Ireland (Carlow); Terry Pawson Architects Limited

  • The Alzheimers Respite Centre, Ireland (Dublin); Niall McLaughlin Architects

  • MAXXI, National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Italy; Zaha Hadid Architects

  • British Embassy Warsaw, Poland; Fretton, Tony Architect

  • Campus Palmas Altas, Spain; Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

  • City of Justice Barcelona and l’Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain; David Chipperfield Architects

The RIBA Stirling Prize, which is awarded to the architects of the building judged to have made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year, will be drawn from the 102 RIBA Award winners and will be presented in London in October.

The 12 RIBA International Award winners are:

  • Spanish Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China; EMBT

  • U.K. Pavilion, World Expo 2010, Shanghai, China; Thomas Heatherwick Studios

  • Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Steven Holl Architects

  • Unilever Headquarters, Hamburg, Germany; Behnisch Architects

  • Timberyard Social Housing, Dublin, Ireland; O’Donnell & Tuomey

  • Bras Basah Mass Rapid Transit Station, Singapore; WOHA

  • The Met, Bangkok, Thailand; WOHA

  • Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Centre, Alaska, USA; David Chipperfield Architects

  • Kroon Hall, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies Yale University, USA; Hopkins Architects

  • Winspear Opera House, Dallas, USA; Foster + Partners

  • Carrasco International Airport, Uruguay; Rafael Vinoly Architects

  • Villalagos, Uruguay; Kallosturin

The U.K. Pavilion at the World Expo 2010 in Shanghai, Timberyard Social Housing in Dublin, and the Anchorage Museum in Alaska are the three contenders for the RIBA Lubetkin Prize for the best international building by an RIBA member. The Lubetkin Prize will be presented in London in June.