David Chipperfield's "Small Acropolis" Wins the Stirling

The biggest award in the UK for architecture, the Stirling Prize, was given out this weekend…to a building in Germany. Ah, but if you read the fine print, you see that the firm who wins “must be a RIBA member, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union.” The winner in question is the beautiful Museum of Modern Literature, designed by the top-tier David Chipperfield Architects. Here’s a little:

Judges of the Stirling Prize award described the museum as “simultaneously rich and restrained” and praised the architects for delivering style on a relatively small budget of about $17 million.

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