Allford Hall Monaghan Morris designed the all-girls school in London. Thursday evening, the Royal Institute of British Architects presented London-based firm Allford Hall Monaghan Morris (AHMM) with the RIBA Stirling Prize—the U.K.’s most prestigious architecture award—for their work on the Burntwood School. The 2,000-student secondary school located in London’s Wandsworth district provides an enriched science and math curriculum. AHMM added six academic buildings and two large cultural centers to the campus, linking the new facilities to existing modernist structures designed in the 1950s by renowned architect Sir Leslie Martin. The firm created double height spaces at the end of corridors

With its first theater built from the ground up, a firm brings the spirit—and the bricks—of the past into a modern performance space in London.

 The Royal Institute of British Architects has awarded this year's Stirling Prize for best building to the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. Haworth Tompkins Architects recently rebuilt and greatly expanded the rundown chapel that has housed the theater since the 1960s (incorporating some of its original material). The metal shades on the project's street-facing facade feature etched images of Liverpool residents.The Haworth Tompkins building beat out Feilden Clegg Bradley's Manchester School of Art, Mecanoo's Library of Birmingham, O’Donnell + Tuomey's student center at the London School of Economics, Renzo Piano's Shard, and Zaha Hadid's London Aquatics Centre to win the

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize, and it includes the London Olympic Stadium by Populous as well as two projects by OMA. Given annually to a recently completed project in the U.K., the top award in British architecture comes with a £20,000 ($30,000) prize. The winner will be selected by a panel of design luminaries chaired by Sir Nicholas Grimshaw and announced on October 13. In the meantime, click the image below to view a slide show featuring each of the nominees. The Populous-designed Olympic Stadium in London is one of

The Royal Institute of British Architects announced the shortlist for this year’s Stirling Prize today. All six of the projects that made the cut are by designers previously in the running for the prize. Two contenders—David Chipperfield Architects and Zaha Hadid—have won for other work in past years.

Betting shops in Great Britain got it nearly correct when they laid odds on the winner of this year’s Stirling Prize, an honor bestowed by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) for the building deemed the year’s greatest contribution to British architecture. David Chipperfield Architects’ Museum of Modern Literature, in Marbach am Neckar, Germany, received the prize at a gala televised live on Saturday night. The architect had two buildings among the six semi-finalists, but its America’s Cup Building, in Valencia, Spain, was favored to win at 3-1 by the oddsmaker William Hill. Odds for the Museum of Modern

Six finalists for one of Great Britain’s top architecture awards, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Stirling Prize, were unveiled today.