London-based David Chipperfield Architects have won the 12th Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize for their design of the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach am Neckar, Germany (pictured).
Describing the buildings entrance sequence as brilliant the jury, comprising international architecture specialists and lay judges, went on to praise the housing for the Museums permanent collection, saying, There is a particular theatricality about this space, as though the reflections, refractions and multiple shadows from the small intense lights collectively represent the soul of the German imagination. The Museum beat off competition from five other contenders, including the Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal, by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture with Arup-AFA, and Londons Young Vic Theatre, by Haworth Tompkins.