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Although not an award winner by the Royal Institute of British
Architects (RIBA) proper, Wright & Wright Architects' Women's Library
in London, England was chosen by the RIBA Journal as the "Building
of the Year". While the last Stirling Prize was given to
a pedestrian bridge, a structure expressing technology and engineering,
this library on Old Castle Street is a quiet masonry container
with internal subtleties rather than extroverted flair. The contrast
between the two projects is indicative of much contemporary British
architecture: light or heavy. This simplification is not to detract
from either work, but to place the Women's Library in a tradition
of building in British architecture that is solid and rewarding.
Photographs copyright Peter
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