:00:00. > :00:00.you that a 9pm. Now on BBC News, the short listed buildings and the
:00:00. > :00:00.winner for the 2016 Riba Stirling Prize, one of the most prestigious
:00:00. > :00:00.awards in architecture. Welcome to Riba, the Royal Institute
:00:00. > :00:08.of British Architects and this As you can see as you can
:00:09. > :00:16.see, the party balloons Well, we have six buildings
:00:17. > :00:21.and the judges have to decide which one of them has
:00:22. > :00:23.made the greatest contribution towards the evolution
:00:24. > :00:25.of architecture. We have one that is said to look
:00:26. > :00:28.like a glass wedding cake, another a house with
:00:29. > :00:30.a field on the top. Accessibility, sustainability,
:00:31. > :00:34.design, vision, delight - these are all the criteria
:00:35. > :00:38.and also problem-solving. For instance, how do you design
:00:39. > :00:41.a college when you don't really know what the students of tomorrow
:00:42. > :00:45.are going to need to know? And also, can an open
:00:46. > :00:47.and transparent building make governments
:00:48. > :00:51.open and transparent? Over the next half an hour or so,
:00:52. > :00:55.you will get to see each of the six buildings and make your own mind up
:00:56. > :00:58.and then, at the end, we find out what the judges have
:00:59. > :01:01.decided is this year's It's bold, it's innovative,
:01:02. > :01:27.it's completely different to anything that Oxford has seen,
:01:28. > :01:37.and yet it is not. It is a sort of modern
:01:38. > :01:39.version of the Sheldonian. It is an amazing city and to make
:01:40. > :01:43.a contribution in this It is a positive challenge,
:01:44. > :01:52.but it is a challenge. The School of Government
:01:53. > :01:53.is Oxford University's professional school,
:01:54. > :01:58.which aims to improve government. They really were interested
:01:59. > :02:01.in creating space and opportunities for the people to meet
:02:02. > :02:08.and to exchange. It really was this idea
:02:09. > :02:10.of strengthening communities, You can simultaneously keep
:02:11. > :02:15.to yourself with the books and a computer, but at the same
:02:16. > :02:19.time, if you want to, you can just go outside the office
:02:20. > :02:22.and meet other people. I really appreciate having such
:02:23. > :02:25.a diversity of people around. That is quite amazing,
:02:26. > :02:28.to be able to learn from other We started in a very primitive way
:02:29. > :02:38.with this idea of having an internal forum space, like a heart,
:02:39. > :02:40.like a campfire almost, everything was around
:02:41. > :02:45.that central space. For us, it was very important
:02:46. > :02:47.that we continue the legacy of Oxford, this geometrically
:02:48. > :02:49.interesting pattern, that we would continue this
:02:50. > :02:52.in the masterplan, as well. It has picked up a lot of classical
:02:53. > :02:54.features of Oxford. It has those shapes
:02:55. > :02:57.of the Sheldonian quite consciously, each of the glass
:02:58. > :03:02.panels has a certain spacing and that spacing is actually exactly
:03:03. > :03:05.the same as the spacing in the stone facade
:03:06. > :03:08.of the ancient Bodleian Library. That very beautiful honey-coloured
:03:09. > :03:12.stone is the colour of Oxford stone and it has been fashioned in that
:03:13. > :03:18.lovely double-rounded stonework, which reflects the most lovely
:03:19. > :03:22.classical finishings So you enter the building under this
:03:23. > :03:28.two-storey overhang and I think it is important that the building
:03:29. > :03:32.guides you almost, opens up its wings to welcome
:03:33. > :03:36.you and you can look up into the window of the world,
:03:37. > :03:39.which is a huge window, which is a window for the children
:03:40. > :03:42.to look out onto the streets and for people entering
:03:43. > :03:44.the building to see There is a broad stair bringing
:03:45. > :03:50.you down to the lower level and the lower-level house
:03:51. > :03:52.has all the lecture The first three floors are basically
:03:53. > :03:56.the teaching floors and in these spaces we made the stairs
:03:57. > :04:02.following the form of the forum. On top of that, we then
:04:03. > :04:05.have faculty and staff and there you don't want
:04:06. > :04:08.necessarily the students to be in the foreground,
:04:09. > :04:11.so we bring the working spaces, the offices,
:04:12. > :04:15.to the forum and push the circulation into the back
:04:16. > :04:18.of the building and that becomes this tight spiral stair at the back,
:04:19. > :04:25.which brings you up to the top of the building, which is again
:04:26. > :04:31.the junior and senior common rooms, with a big public roof terrace,
:04:32. > :04:34.which I really like, like the library or the lounge
:04:35. > :04:36.for the students. The transparency of the building,
:04:37. > :04:38.the fact that you get natural light no matter
:04:39. > :04:41.where you are in the building, You don't have the feeling
:04:42. > :04:44.of wanting to go outside because you are already
:04:45. > :04:48.a bit outside, as well. Oxford is a place of genuinely
:04:49. > :04:52.independent scholarship, so to be able to bring a building
:04:53. > :04:56.to that which is as beautiful as the buildings built
:04:57. > :04:57.several hundred years ago And now from a bold new arrival
:04:58. > :05:06.among the dreaming spires of Oxford to a second nominee
:05:07. > :05:09.in the same city. The challenge here was to transform
:05:10. > :05:13.an old building and try to make it This project has been
:05:14. > :05:24.a personal dream of mine since I came to the Bodleian,
:05:25. > :05:28.so today it is so exciting to have a facility that has changed
:05:29. > :05:34.really dramatically the dynamic between the University itself
:05:35. > :05:37.and the citizens of Oxford The Western Library is part
:05:38. > :05:50.of the Bodleian Library, it is a group of research libraries
:05:51. > :05:53.in the University of Oxford, which was founded in 1602,
:05:54. > :05:57.and is now the home for the Bodleian Special Collections,
:05:58. > :05:59.its rare books, The library is actually
:06:00. > :06:05.a refurbishment of a much older building, designed
:06:06. > :06:09.by Giles Gilbert Scott and completed in the early years of the war,
:06:10. > :06:16.but by the end of the 20th century We really needed to undertake
:06:17. > :06:23.a major renovation of the building Giles Gilbert Scott was a famous
:06:24. > :06:30.architect of his time, But he really turned a blank
:06:31. > :06:37.face to Broad Street. He did not live up to
:06:38. > :06:40.the extraordinary setting right here in the centre of Oxford
:06:41. > :06:43.and if you think across the street there are the most
:06:44. > :06:47.beautiful buildings - Hawksmoor's Clarendon Building,
:06:48. > :06:51.Wren's Sheldonian. The brief to us was to turn
:06:52. > :06:55.the existing building into a library for special
:06:56. > :06:58.collections, with public facilities, The overall number of books
:06:59. > :07:03.that are actually in the building now is much
:07:04. > :07:05.less than what was there before, but that meant
:07:06. > :07:09.we could carve out bigger
:07:10. > :07:13.spaces for other uses. So there is the public space,
:07:14. > :07:16.the exhibition spaces, and then we could create
:07:17. > :07:17.new reading rooms. There is an amazing
:07:18. > :07:20.new reading room up on the top
:07:21. > :07:23.of the building with these fantastic views out over Oxford,
:07:24. > :07:24.the dreaming spires We have reading rooms
:07:25. > :07:28.where scholars and members of the public can come and consult
:07:29. > :07:36.materials, we have spaces where conservation of library
:07:37. > :07:39.materials can take place, new facilities where
:07:40. > :07:41.the latest techniques can be applied to the preservation of library
:07:42. > :07:45.collections. In a way, externally this
:07:46. > :07:49.is the biggest change. By introducing this long horizontal
:07:50. > :07:53.glass wall, some three metres or so back, it has completely transformed
:07:54. > :07:55.the facade of the building to something that is much
:07:56. > :08:00.lighter than it was. We are standing inside
:08:01. > :08:01.the Western Library in a space that used
:08:02. > :08:05.to be 11 stories of book shelving and is now a space where we are able
:08:06. > :08:08.to share our great collections with When I came in and looked
:08:09. > :08:14.up what I really liked was instead of walls
:08:15. > :08:16.hiding the books, because after all this
:08:17. > :08:24.is a library, you have got glass so that
:08:25. > :08:30.you see all the books. Previously I walked around it
:08:31. > :08:33.for many, many years and are always Now that it is open
:08:34. > :08:36.with a restaurant it is very It has become one of the most loved
:08:37. > :08:41.buildings in an incredibly short space of time in this city full
:08:42. > :08:44.of extraordinary buildings, and that has been one of the most wonderful
:08:45. > :08:47.aspects of the whole project. The Western Library was not the only
:08:48. > :08:50.transformation on the shortlist. In south London, the artist
:08:51. > :08:52.Damien Hirst presented Turn a street of listed
:08:53. > :08:55.industrial buildings into a I have to say, having walked
:08:56. > :09:05.around it for a year, What we have is a historic
:09:06. > :09:11.building and they have allowed the history
:09:12. > :09:12.of the building to speak just enough
:09:13. > :09:15.without it being too overwhelming, Newport Street is a long-term
:09:16. > :09:32.idea of Damien Hirst's. He has built a collection over
:09:33. > :09:35.the last 15 years and the purchase of the building
:09:36. > :09:37.allowed him the possibility to Damien Hirst was fairly
:09:38. > :09:45.closely involved and from an architect's point
:09:46. > :09:48.of view, he was the dream client. He's a nice person but he is also
:09:49. > :09:51.very demanding and really passionate about making spaces
:09:52. > :09:58.that are good for art. They are amazing buildings
:09:59. > :10:01.from 1912, that were used to build There are three
:10:02. > :10:07.buildings and they are very special because they are
:10:08. > :10:15.enormous single interiors, very tall with rather distinctive facades
:10:16. > :10:21.in brick and the design was about trying to add to what
:10:22. > :10:23.we thought was special about these buildings,
:10:24. > :10:26.doing a new building at one end
:10:27. > :10:29.with the entrance and galleries and another building at the other
:10:30. > :10:31.end with The first show was a very simple
:10:32. > :10:41.painting show and it was the opportunity to place
:10:42. > :10:44.a painting on that wall and it Now we have the Jeff Koon's
:10:45. > :10:48.show, so it is actually You can see that in these two,
:10:49. > :10:56.we had sufficient height to build the new floor
:10:57. > :11:03.here and here, in order to make two large galleries on the ground
:11:04. > :11:08.and first floor and for this one we didn't
:11:09. > :11:10.quite have enough height, so we made a bridge here
:11:11. > :11:12.that connects this level and this level
:11:13. > :11:14.and in the centre there is
:11:15. > :11:19.this very tall gallery. In this gallery,
:11:20. > :11:21.you are going up eight metres to get to the upper floor,
:11:22. > :11:26.it is a long way to go so we try to make staircases
:11:27. > :11:33.something of an event. My favourite part is
:11:34. > :11:35.the stair wells. The stairwell, when you are looking
:11:36. > :11:39.at the brickwork, it is In the gallery spaces
:11:40. > :11:42.all those beautiful buttress walls are covered with
:11:43. > :11:44.new white gallery walls. The staircases are
:11:45. > :11:45.made out of brick. That is about trying to remind
:11:46. > :11:47.people that they are in a really amazing
:11:48. > :11:55.solid brick building. We are on the other side
:11:56. > :11:58.of the tracks, running parallel to the gallery is the
:11:59. > :12:00.Waterloo train line. If you go beyond that
:12:01. > :12:01.you have To me, it is about the kind
:12:02. > :12:13.of London that I love necessarily about what London
:12:14. > :12:15.is like today, It is from the slightly
:12:16. > :12:20.earlier feeling Anyone can come in,
:12:21. > :12:29.enjoy the work, enjoy restaurant, comeback
:12:30. > :12:32.as many times as they want. This isn't the only short listed
:12:33. > :12:39.project in South London. Again, another transformation,
:12:40. > :12:42.but here none of the original 70s concrete survived this housing
:12:43. > :12:44.redevelopment in London's Elephant We had 7-8 years
:12:45. > :13:00.without a garden, now we have got the balcony,
:13:01. > :13:01.the patio there. Sometimes areas are built up
:13:02. > :13:04.and you think, what were they They had some grand idea but did
:13:05. > :13:08.they actually think that people were going to live there
:13:09. > :13:11.and how they were going to use this Here, I do feel that they
:13:12. > :13:21.have thought about it. Trafalgar Place is the first stage
:13:22. > :13:26.It was very important we set the standard in
:13:27. > :13:44.this first phase of what we can expect for the rest of the scheme.
:13:45. > :13:49.The Heygate estate in the past was very closed and turned in on itself.
:13:50. > :13:52.What we have done the Trafalgar Place is open districts up
:13:53. > :13:54.to the public, make sure there are connections
:13:55. > :13:57.between private and public and to ensure we opened the streets
:13:58. > :14:04.such that people are walking over the streets all of the time.
:14:05. > :14:09.It feels healthier, you look out your window and you are
:14:10. > :14:20.looking at greenery, which is not easy in London unless you are able
:14:21. > :14:23.to pay for it, but we are looking at plants and over there is
:14:24. > :14:25.vegetation and stuff we can eat if we wanted.
:14:26. > :14:29.We are so glad that we ended up here.
:14:30. > :14:32.See fate, it goes in different ways, doesn't it?
:14:33. > :14:51.I have a shower that suits me and it suits her.
:14:52. > :14:58.We are in the area that we wanted to stay in and we have got
:14:59. > :15:07.At Trafalgar Place we have a combination of affordable and
:15:08. > :15:13.private housing, but you can't tell the difference between units, you
:15:14. > :15:15.can't tell what is affordable and what is private.
:15:16. > :15:17.We have seven unique buildings and they are all
:15:18. > :15:19.characterised in a different approach to brickwork.
:15:20. > :15:29.From the yellows through to the reds into
:15:30. > :15:32.On the road we have pixelated colour band that mirrors
:15:33. > :15:34.the beautiful building opposite and in this
:15:35. > :15:40.courtyard space we have the
:15:41. > :15:42.yellow stock bricks and on east to west
:15:43. > :15:45.route across the site, we are predominantly using red bricks.
:15:46. > :15:48.I suppose is a building material it is
:15:49. > :15:51.something that people feel more comfortable with, it is more
:15:52. > :15:55.accessible than the larger expanses of concrete in the former building.
:15:56. > :15:58.The scheme is the perfect union of built form and high quality
:15:59. > :16:00.landscape and I think that has been the real
:16:01. > :16:05.built fabric and the quality of the planting
:16:06. > :16:12.We would be comfortable wherever we lived, but because that
:16:13. > :16:15.We like a nice place and we always have.
:16:16. > :16:18.Did we ever think we would get one of these?
:16:19. > :16:26.So for Jean and Reg, a beautiful new home.
:16:27. > :16:31.In Glasgow, the challenge was a
:16:32. > :16:34.new college that would be able to move with the times.
:16:35. > :16:36.We wanted to make a gatekeeper, a marker in the
:16:37. > :16:46.city fabric that would become a landmark.
:16:47. > :16:49.We were desperate to create a building that had a quality
:16:50. > :16:51.and ambition that would rub off on the students themselves.
:16:52. > :16:53.This is a super building, a world-class
:16:54. > :16:57.building, I'm very proud to have this building designed.
:16:58. > :17:06.The overarching brief was to create a
:17:07. > :17:09.new community, because it was a super campus that was join
:17:10. > :17:10.together three different colleges from all
:17:11. > :17:12.over Glasgow and our brief was to create
:17:13. > :17:19.a new single campus, but in
:17:20. > :17:22.It was very important that the architects understood
:17:23. > :17:25.that they had to work from a classroom level right
:17:26. > :17:28.through to a specialist workshop through to the inspiring open spaces
:17:29. > :17:35.It is actually this that draws the whole of the
:17:36. > :17:40.college together, around which everyone orientates themselves.
:17:41. > :17:42.We have the entrance at the ground floor,
:17:43. > :17:45.library, these classrooms, the cafeterias and the office areas for
:17:46. > :17:48.the staff themselves all grouped around the space so people can can
:17:49. > :17:55.It is the front door of this college and beside this front door where
:17:56. > :17:57.everyone assembles, 2000 students, we have a grand window looking out
:17:58. > :18:00.into Glasgow and Glasgow looking into us.
:18:01. > :18:02.There are very few buildings in Glasgow that properly
:18:03. > :18:17.This location for the Maritime College and School of
:18:18. > :18:19.Engineering was a gift to the project, where we could really
:18:20. > :18:22.engage the building but the Clyde and through that with the city.
:18:23. > :18:26.The seven story building has an amazing
:18:27. > :18:29.Some of these are general classrooms where they can
:18:30. > :18:32.study ship's chart work, some of them are very specialist
:18:33. > :18:36.classrooms where they can get hands-on
:18:37. > :18:38.experience in tying knots and disembarking from ships, some of
:18:39. > :18:41.them are high-technology classrooms that are probably five years ahead
:18:42. > :18:51.They can have a simulation of the bridge of a
:18:52. > :19:00.It is an almost identical layout and instruments and screams
:19:01. > :19:03.to what a ship's captain or a chief engineer would see.
:19:04. > :19:06.The facilities linkup so you can have us on the simulator as well
:19:07. > :19:09.as having the engine room workshop, being able to call down is if you
:19:10. > :19:12.It has definitely improved the way the
:19:13. > :19:14.college runs things rather than keeping engine everyone engine
:19:15. > :19:15.side and backside separate and in
:19:16. > :19:19.You get to see the engineers do their thing and
:19:20. > :19:23.hopefully they get a chance to see what we do when we do our job as
:19:24. > :19:26.Some six floors below is actually a large ship working
:19:27. > :19:29.engine, which we bought from the industry and it works 24-7.
:19:30. > :19:32.The engineers are trained not only to
:19:33. > :19:35.plan its used but also to repair and maintain a working ships engine.
:19:36. > :19:38.I think it is one of the only colleges
:19:39. > :19:40.with a working engine that we can go in and fix.
:19:41. > :19:41.This engine here, we are
:19:42. > :19:44.taking it apart and we've only been here for a few weeks.
:19:45. > :19:48.The staff team that work with the architects and builders can
:19:49. > :19:51.be truly proud of a cohesive project that actually proves with a
:19:52. > :19:53.brilliant client and brilliant architects and brilliant builders,
:19:54. > :20:02.you can achieve a unique, iconic and world-class building.
:20:03. > :20:05.And finally, we leave the city for the
:20:06. > :20:07.tranquillity of the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire.
:20:08. > :20:09.Here the clients did not get a landmark, they got a
:20:10. > :20:19.What we wanted was a very energy-efficient
:20:20. > :20:22.house, which you can achieve much more easily if you build from
:20:23. > :20:27.We wanted a modern house, but we didn't want it to be built
:20:28. > :20:29.like it was a house from a hundred years
:20:30. > :20:31.ago, we wanted to see it was a
:20:32. > :20:44.Certain places where you can stand in this building
:20:45. > :20:47.and wherever you look you are looking through into another space,
:20:48. > :20:50.or through our courtyard or through another window out to the view
:20:51. > :20:56.Those are always nice places to pause and have a look.
:20:57. > :21:10.We work at home and we want a studio space for both
:21:11. > :21:17.The moment I got here I went into the studio and worked like mad
:21:18. > :21:19.and I produced more while all the building
:21:20. > :21:20.work was going on than I
:21:21. > :21:23.Probably the biggest challenge of this
:21:24. > :21:25.project was how to fit a piece of architecture,
:21:26. > :21:26.a substantial piece of
:21:27. > :21:28.architecture, into such a beautiful landscape.
:21:29. > :21:32.Difficult to picture what
:21:33. > :21:35.was on the site before, but in essence it was a two-storey small
:21:36. > :21:38.cottage, typical of the forest, not very beautiful.
:21:39. > :21:44.Things do not have to be old to be very beautiful.
:21:45. > :21:56.I think this is very beautiful as a house.
:21:57. > :21:58.The driveway, which runs east- west and slices right through
:21:59. > :22:10.the site, was the key move to subdivide
:22:11. > :22:15.two studios, but to work the work element of the house, the extended
:22:16. > :22:18.driveway that becomes a gallery street through the middle of the
:22:19. > :22:20.property is there a gallery, where they displayed their art, and then
:22:21. > :22:22.on the southern side is the living accommodation.
:22:23. > :22:30.It made sense just to quietly bring the top meadow over and have it
:22:31. > :22:34.It is not an architectural dreary roof, it is a
:22:35. > :22:40.It is all to do with horizontal angles and
:22:41. > :22:43.breaking it up with elements and as you can see from the distance views
:22:44. > :22:47.it does not stand out and shout out, it is not
:22:48. > :22:49.look like a huge strip on
:22:50. > :22:51.the landscape, it is lower than the original building.
:22:52. > :22:53.I think it was necessary to stay on one level,
:22:54. > :23:00.which suits me fine, I do want any steps here at all.
:23:01. > :23:03.So we can get around on the scooters.
:23:04. > :23:05.I bought one for myself because I have always
:23:06. > :23:07.loved them and skated about and Michael had
:23:08. > :23:19.I think the house is going to get better over time as the plants grow.
:23:20. > :23:22.One-off housing for individual clients is the hardest sector to
:23:23. > :23:26.It is deeply personal, it is a very close working relationship
:23:27. > :23:29.and one based on deep friendship that goes on beyond the completion
:23:30. > :23:35.This is beautiful, in my eyes and her eyes and in his,
:23:36. > :23:46.but not necessarily in the eyes of the neighbours.
:23:47. > :23:47.Probably in ten years' time people will
:23:48. > :23:50.think differently and they will start saying this is a classic
:23:51. > :24:10.It feels like it will last a hundred years.
:24:11. > :24:12.Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to
:24:13. > :24:20.announce that the winner of the 2016 Riba Stirling Prize is...
:24:21. > :24:28.Newport Street Gallery by Caruso and St John!
:24:29. > :24:33.Peter St John the winner with Adam Caruso of this year's Royal
:24:34. > :24:37.Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize Building of the Year.
:24:38. > :24:47.I am incredibly pleased, it is very exciting.
:24:48. > :24:49.Your partner isn't here this evening.
:24:50. > :25:02.He was convinced we weren't going to win and he wouldn't be
:25:03. > :25:04.able to handle it so he stayed away, unfortunately.
:25:05. > :25:13.What are you most proud of in this building? The staircases are very
:25:14. > :25:17.special. I like the gallery spaces best. I think the arrangement of the
:25:18. > :25:22.galleries on the way that you can walk around it, I think it is a very
:25:23. > :25:28.enjoyable place to spend time and a very nice place to look at art, that
:25:29. > :25:32.is what I like about it. Thank you very much indeed and
:25:33. > :25:37.congratulations. That is it from us tonight. The announcement of this
:25:38. > :25:54.year's Riba Stirling Prize, the Newport Street Gallery in London.
:25:55. > :26:01.The weather is staying dry and settled throughout the weekend and
:26:02. > :26:02.for the week ahead. There will be some showers overnight, mainly for
:26:03. > :26:03.central and