Damien Hirst's gallery wins Stirling Prize

Newport Street Gallery in London has won the 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building. 

 

This is the first time Caruso St John architects have won the RIBA Stirling Prize, having been shortlisted for the award for Brick House, west London in 2006 and New Art Gallery Walsall in 2000.

 

Newport Street Gallery involved the conversion and transformation of a street facing a railway line in Vauxhall, south London, into a free public gallery for artist Damien Hirst's private art collection. Three listed Victorian industrial buildings, formerly carpentry and scenery painting workshops for West End theatres, have been remodelled and flanked at either end by entirely new buildings; one with a striking, spiky saw-tooth roof. 

 

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