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RIBA Stirling Prize 2007

UK Architecture Award Winners – Buildings + Architects

4 Oct 2007

RIBA Stirling Prize – 2007 News

Stirling Prize Winner 2007 : Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach

Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist - Museum of Modern Literature
photo © Christian Richters

Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist
26 Jul – links in bold for pages with photographs

America’s Cup Building, Valencia, Spain
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist - Americas Cup Building
building image © Christian Richters
America’s Cup Building
The ‘Veles e Vents’ building was originally built as the hospitality building for the 2007 America’s Cup. The clean-lined structure is located at the centre of the Valencia Street Circuit. The building’s decks provided 360 degree views of the course, including several corners and the main port-side straight, where drivers reached speeds of up to 320 km/h.

Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal
Design: Rem Koolhaas / OMA
Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlisted Casa da Musica building
photo by Phillipe Ruault
Casa da Musica

Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden, Saxony, southeast Germany
Design: Foster and Partners

photo © Nigel Young
Dresden Station Redevelopment

The Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

photo © Christian Richters
The Museum of Modern Literature
The museum is located in Marbach’s scenic park, on top of a rock plateau overlooking the valley of the Neckar River. As the birthplace of the dramatist Friedrich Schiller, the town’s park already held the National Schiller Museum, built in 1903, and the Archive for German Literature, built in the 1970s.

Savill Building, Windsor, Berkshire, south east England, UK
Design: Glenn Howells Architects
Savill Building England
Savill Building photo: The Crown Estate. Warwick Sweeney Photography
Savill Building

Young Vic Theatre, 66 The Cut, London SE1, England, UK
Design: Haworth Tomkins

photograph © Adrian Welch
Young Vic Theatre
The Cut is a cheerfully scruffy part of south London into which in the 1970s architect Bill Howell introduced the Young Vic at a cost of a mere £60,000.