Stirling Prize Winner in Berlin, Germany

February 07, 2011 Category: Cultural, Public Buildings

Stirling Prize Winner that located in Berlin, Germany , was designed by As David Chipperfield wins the UK’s most prestigious architecture award for his Museum of Modern Literature in Germany, so doubts surface again about whether the UK can commission good architecture. Why is it that the UK can produce architects but not architecture? Examples exist everywhere of great architecture created by British architects overseas. Zaha had to prove herself overseas before getting a UK commission, Rogers cut his teeth in Paris with the Pompidou Centre. Last year the prize went to Madrid and even this year, four out of the six British shortlisted entries were outside the UK.

Stirling Prize Winner design by David Chipperfield Architects