The British Theatre Guide: Young Vic Shortlisted for Architecture Prize

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Dateline: 26th July, 2007

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Young Vic Shortlisted for Architecture Prize

A concert hall in Portugal, a modern pavilion in Windsor Great Park, the reconstruction of London's Young Vic Theatre and the redevelopment of Dresden Station are among the six buildings which have made it on to this year's Royal Institute of British Architects shortlist for The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects' Journal. The £20,000 prize is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.

Winners must be RIBA members and the building may be anywhere in the European Union. The prize is named after the architect Sir James Stirling (1926 - 1992). The winner will receive £20,000.

The citation for the Young Vic redevelopment reads:

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. Times and prices change, but Haworth Tomkins have remained true to the ad-hoc aesthetic of the original while radically expanding opportunities for actors to make theatre and audiences to enjoy it.

The existing auditorium has been painstakingly reconstructed to satisfy new technical requirements yet retain the audience/performer relationship that distinguished its predecessor. The judges agreed that this project's merit, demonstrated by its very detailed and careful response to the challenge of remaking somewhere that so far as its audience was concerned had never been broken, was an achievement that demanded recognition.

The winner will be announced at the Roundhouse in north London on Saturday 6th October, televised live on Channel 4 between 8 and 9pm.

Previous winners include Barajas Airport by Richard Rogers Partnership, The Scottish Parliament by EMBT / RMJM Ltd, 30 St. Mary Axe by Foster + Partners, the Laban Centre by Herzog & de Meuron, Gateshead Millennium Bridge by Wilkinson Eyre Architects, and Peckham Library and Media Centre by Alsop Architects.

The Young Vic redevlopment was the RIBA National Award winner 2007.

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