RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 goes to The New Library at Magdalene Faculty

RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 goes to The New Library at Magdalene Faculty

The RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 has been introduced, crowning The New Library at Magdalene Faculty by Níall McLaughlin Architects as winner of the award’s twenty sixth version. That is one among structure’s highest accolades, a prestigious honour and an eagerly awaited second within the trade’s annual calendar. The brand new library constructing for the faculty, a part of the College of Cambridge, was celebrated and offered with its gong throughout a devoted ceremony at RIBA’s London headquarters this night. 

The New Library, Magdalene Faculty. Images: Nick Kane

The RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 winner 

The New Library at Magdalene Faculty by Níall McLaughlin Architects is about in Cambridge and accomplished in early 2021. The jury praised the undertaking for balancing openness with intimacy, and for being a undertaking that’s ‘constructed to final.’ Talking on behalf of the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize jury, RIBA president Simon Allford, described the constructing as ‘a stable and assured, but deferential new child on the faculty block.’

The constructing supplies the faculty (which was based greater than 700 years in the past) with house for not only a library – which has been designed to be open 24 hours a day – but additionally an archive and an artwork gallery house. Pure supplies and time-honed development strategies and options, together with load-bearing brick, gabled pitched roofs, home windows with tracery, and brick chimneys, create a composition that feels stable and sustainable, but additionally at dwelling within the metropolis’s historic material. 

The New Library, Magdalene Faculty. Images: Nick Kane  

‘The Magdalene Faculty Library is a piece of many palms and plenty of minds. The Faculty created the chance for fulfillment in the way in which that they initiated and managed the undertaking. The appointment of designers, consultants, builders, and craftsmen was handled with care. All through the event course of, our staff was supported and robustly questioned in our selections. We knew we had been constructing for a consumer who was motivated to realize the perfect final result. Our accountability to the historical past and future growth of this studying neighborhood was clear. We had been requested to construct for the long-term utilizing current sources properly,’ mentioned architect and studio founder Níall McLaughlin. ‘That is the primary time a university has gained the Stirling Prize. It’s good to have fun the contribution these outstanding communities have made to the event of contemporary architectural tradition in Britain.’

The RIBA Stirling Prize 2022 shortlist 

From a net-zero redevelopment of a Nineteen Eighties workplace block to schooling buildings, inexpensive housing, cultural and neighborhood areas; and from London to Falkirk, Scotland, the award shortlist this yr explored points across the present local weather disaster, reuse and adaptation of present buildings, in addition to the worth of neighborhood. Flexibility and the city realm additionally appeared strongly within the shortlist, which felt much less about grand architectural gestures, and extra about delicate, purposeful, on a regular basis design for all. Alongside the winner, the opposite shortlisted initiatives had been: 

• 100 Liverpool Avenue, London by Hopkins Architects
• Forth Valley Faculty – Falkirk Campus, Scotland by Reiach and Corridor Architects
• Hackney New Major Faculty and 333 Kingsland Highway, London by Henley Halebrown
• Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, London by Panter Hudspith Architects
• Sands Finish Arts and Group Centre, London by Mæ Architects

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