Architect beats favourite O’Donnell & Tuomey at awards ceremony tonight
Architect Haworth Tompkins has won this year’s Stirling Prize with the Everyman Theatre renovation project in Liverpool.
The news was announced at tonight’s awards ceremony which is being held at the RIBA’s headquarters at Portland Place in London.
The firm beat five others to the prize - the Shard by Renzo Piano ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Workshop, the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre for the London School of Economics by O’Donnell & Tuomey, the London Aquatics Centre by Zaha Hadid Architects, the Library of Birmingham by Mecanoo and the Manchester School of Art by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios.
Riba described the Everyman as “a new building with a striking exterior and elegant interior,a