13 October 2008
A Cambridge housing development has won this year’s Riba Stirling prize.
The annual architecture award was presented to designers Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, and Macreanor Lavington for the brownfield Accordia development on a former military site in Cambridge.
Judges called the development “architecture that treats adults as grown-ups and children as people with different needs; with stimuli for play which does not involve sitting in front of a screen or a games console, and which involves interaction with other young people, not with Bill Gates and his protégés.”
Accordia beat competitors Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, the Manchester Civil Justice Centre, the Nord Park Cable Railway in Innsbruck, Austria, the Festival Hall in London and the Naim Dangoor Centre in London.
Last year's winner was the Museum of Modern Literature by David Chipperfield Architects.
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