Stirling Prize for Architecture

The Stirling Prize is an annual award presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture in the past year. The building can be anywhere in the European Union. The prize is named in honour of the British architect James Stirling.


1996 - Winner
- Stephen Hodder - Centenary Building, University of Salford, UK

1997 - Winner - James Stirling, Michael Wilford and Associates, Stuttgart Music School, Stuttgart, Germany
Others on the Short List:
Will Alsop - Hotel du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône, Marseille, France
Mark Guard - Rooftop apartment, Paris, France
Richard Murphy - Maggie's Centre, Edinburgh
Richard Rogers - Paul Hamlyn Learning Resource Centre, Thames Valley University, London
Chris Wilkinson - Stratford maintenance depot, Jubilee line, London

1998 - Winner - Foster and Partners - American Air Museum, Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire
Others on the Short List:
Rick Mather Architects - Private house, London
Ian Ritchie Architects - Crystal Palace Park Concert Platform, Crystal Palace, London
Ian Taylor with Bennetts Associates - Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester, Leicester
Stephenson Bell - Quay Bar, Manchester
Inskip and Jenkins - Temple of Concord and Victory, Stowe, Buckinghamshire
Günter Behnisch - St Benno School, Dresden, Germany
Günter Behnisch - Landesgirokasse, Stuttgart, Germany
David Chipperfield - Office and studio building, Düsseldorf, Germany
Norman Foster and Partners - Commerzbank HQ, Frankfurt, Germany
Colin St John Wilson - British Library, London

1999 - Winner - Future Systems - Lord's Media Centre, London
Others on the Short List:
David Chipperfield Architects - River and Rowing Museum, Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire
Benson & Forsyth - Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh
Alsop, Lyall & Störmer - North Greenwich tube station, London
Chris Wilkinson Architects - Jubilee Line Extension Project, London
Wilford Associates - Sto AG Marketing and Training Building, Stühlingen, Germany
Foster and Partners - Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
O'Donnell & Tuomey - Ranelagh Multi-Denominational School, Ranelagh, Dublin, Ireland

2000 - Winner - Others on the Short List: - Peckham Library, London
Others on the Short List:
Caruso St John - New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands
Norman Foster & Partners - Canary Wharf Station, London
Marks Barfield - London Eye, London
Richard Rogers Partnership - 88 Wood Street, City of London
Sauerbruch Hutton - GSW Headquarters, Berlin, Germany
Chetwood Associates - Sainsbury's Supermarket, Greenwich, London

2001 - Winner  - Wilkinson Eyre Architects - Magna Centre, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Others on the Short List:
Nicholas Grimshaw and Partners, Anthony Hunt - Eden Project, Cornwall
Eldridge Smerin - The Lawns, Highgate, London
Jeremy Dixon Edward Jones - National Portrait Gallery extension, London
Guy Greenfield Architects - The Surgery, Hammersmith, London
Michael Hopkins & Partners - Portcullis House and Westminster Underground Station
Michael Wilford & Partners - British Embassy in Berlin, Germany

2002 - Winner - Wilkinson Eyre Architects & Gifford - Gateshead Millennium Bridge, Gateshead
Others on the Short List:
Malcolm Fraser Architects - Dance Base, Grassmarket, Edinburgh
Edward Cullinan Architects - Weald and Downland Gridshell, Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, West Sussex
David Chipperfield Architects - Ernsting's Service Centre, Coesfeld-Lette, Germany
Building Design Partnership - Hampden Gurney Church of England Primary School, London
Richard Rogers Partnership - Lloyd's Resister of Shipping, London
Benson & Forsyth - Millennium Wing, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

2003 - Winner - Herzog & de Meuron - Laban, Deptford, London
Others on the Short List:
Bill Dunster Architects - BedZED, Hackbridge, London
Eric Parry Architects - 30 Finsbury Square, London
Foster and Partners - Great Court, British Museum, London
Ian Ritchie Architects - Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre, Plymouth
Sutherland Hussey Architects with Jake Harvey, Donald Urquhart, Glen Onwin and Sandra Kennedy - Tiree Shelter, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

2004 - Winner - Foster and Partners - 30 St Mary Axe, London
Others on the Short List:
Studio Daniel Libeskind - Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
MacCormac Jamieson Prichard with Rummey Design - The Phoenix Initiative, Coventry
Foster and Partners - Business Academy, Bexley, London
Ian Ritchie Architects - Spire of Dublin, Ireland
Peter Cook, Colin Fournier - Kunsthaus, Graz, Austria

2005 - Winner - EMBT & RMJM - Scottish Parliament Building, Edinburgh
Others on the Short List:
Bennetts Associates - Jubilee Library, Brighton
Zaha Hadid - BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany
Foster and Partners - McLaren Technology Centre, Woking
O'Donnell & Tuomey - Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland
Alsop Designs - Fawood Children's Centre, Harlesden, London

2006 - Winner - Richard Rogers Partnership - Barajas Airport Terminal 4, Madrid
Others on the Short List:
Adjaye Associates - Whitechapel Idea Store, London
Hopkins Architects - Evelina Children's Hospital, London
Caruso St John Architects - Brick House, London
The Richard Rogers Partnership - Senedd, Welsh Assembly Building, Cardiff
Zaha Hadid - Phaeno Science Centre, Wolfsburg, Germany

2007 - Winner - David Chipperfield Architects - Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach, Germany
Others on the Short List:
David Chipperfield Architects - America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain
Office for Metropolitan Architecture/Arup-AFA - Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal
Foster and Partners - Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden, Germany
Glenn Howells Architects, - Savill Building, Windsor Great Park, Windsor
Haworth Tompkins - Young Vic Theatre, London

2008 - Winner - Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington- Accordia housing development, Cambridge
Others on the Short List:
Grimshaw/Arcadis - Amsterdam Bijlmer ArenA station, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Denton Corker Marshall - Manchester Civil Justice Centre,Manchester
Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher - Nord Park Railway, Innsbruck, Austria
Allies and Morrison - Royal Festival Hall, London
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Westminster Academy, London

2009 - Winner - Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners - Maggie's Centre, London
Others on the Short List:
Tony Fretton Architects - Fuglsang Kunstmuseum, Lolland, Denmark
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners - Bodegas Protos winery, Peñafiel, Spain
BDP - Liverpool One Masterplan, Liverpool
Eric Parry Architects - 5 Aldermanbury Square, London
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Kentish Town Health Centre, London

2010 - Winner - Zaha Hadid MAXXI – National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
Others on the Short List:
David Chipperfield  Neues Museum, Berlin
DSDHA - Christ's College, Guildford
Rick Mather Architects - Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
dRMM - Clapham Manor Primary School, London
Theis and Khan - Bateman's Row, Shoreditch, London

2011 - Winner - Zaha Hadid - Evelyn Grace Academy, London
Others on the Short List:
O'Donnell & Tuomey - An Gaeláras, Derry, Northern Ireland
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Angel Building, London
David Chipperfield Architects - Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Bennetts Associates - Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Hopkins Architects - Olympic Velodrome, London

2012 - Winner - Stanton Williams - Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge
Others on the Short List:
David Chipperfield Architects - The Hepworth, Wakefield
O'Donnell & Tuomey - Lyric Theatre (Belfast), Belfast
OMA - Maggie's Centre, Glasgow
OMA with Allies and Morrison - New Court, London
Populous - Olympic Stadium, London

2013 - Winner - Witherford Watson Mann Architects - Astley Castle, Nuneaton, Warwickshire
Others on the Short List:
Grafton Architects - the medical school at University of Limerick, Ireland
Hawkins/Brown with Studio Egret West - Park Hill, Sheffield
Alison Brooks Architects - Newhall Be, Essex
heneghan peng architects - Giant's Causeway Visitors' Centre, Antrim, Northern Ireland
Niall McLaughlin Architects - Bishop Edward King Chapel, Ripon College Cuddesdon, South Oxfordshire

2014 - Winner - Haworth Tompkins - Everyman Theatre, Liverpool
Others on the Short List:
Mecanoo - Library of Birmingham
Zaha Hadid - Aquatics Centre, London
Renzo Piano - The Shard, London
O'Donnell & Tuomey - Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the LSE, London
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios - Manchester School of Art, Manchester

2015 - Winner - Allford Hall Monaghan Morris - Burntwood School, Wandsworth, London
Others on the Short List:
Niall McLaughlin Architects - Darbishire Place, Whitechapel, London
Reiach and Hall Architects - Maggie's Centre Lanarkshire, Airdrie, Scotland
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners - NEO Bankside, London, London
heneghan peng architects - University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building, Greenwich, London
McInnes Usher McKnight Architects (MUMA) - Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester

2016 - Winner - Caruso St John Architects - Newport Street Gallery
Others on the Short List:
Herzog & de Meuron - Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford
Loyn & Co Architects - Outhouse, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
Michael Laird Architects & Reiach and Hall Architects - Riverside Campus, City of Glasgow College, Glasgow, Scotland
dRMM Architects - Trafalgar Place housing, Elephant and Castle, London
Wilkinson Eyre Architects - Weston Library, University of Oxford


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