Madrid's Barajas Airport wins Britain's most prestigious architecture prize
The Associated Press
Published: October 14, 2006
LONDON Madrid's new Barajas International Airport terminal, featuring
vast, light-filled halls, was honored Saturday with the Royal Institute
of British Architects Stirling Prize — Britain's most prestigious
architecture award.
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The other finalists were a private house in London, the glass-clad
Evelina Children's Hospital in London, an east London library, the
National Assembly of Wales in Cardiff, also designed by the Richard
Rogers Partnership, and renowned Iraqi-born architect Zaha Hadid's
Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany.
The award is named after architect Sir James Stirling, who died in 1992.
Previous winners of the prize, now in its 11th year, include the
Scottish Parliament building and London's cigar-shaped 40-story glass
skyscraper, popularly known as the "Gherkin."
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LONDON Madrid's new Barajas International Airport terminal, featuring
vast, light-filled halls, was honored Saturday with the Royal Institute
of British Architects Stirling Prize — Britain's most prestigious
architecture award.
The building's designer, the Richard Rogers Partnership, beat challenges
from five other contenders with its colorful airport terminal, which is
1.2 kilometers, or three-quarters of a mile, long.
Richard Rogers, chief architect behind the project, accepted the
20,000-pound (€29,000; US$35,400) prize for the firm, which also
designed London's Millennium Dome and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
"It's certainly the most exciting building I have been involved with for
many decades," Rogers said at the London ceremony.