Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery has won the highly coveted 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
Damien Hirst's Newport Street Gallery has won the highly coveted 2016 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK's best new building.
Hélène Binet/Newport Street Gallery
<a href="index.php?page=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.carusostjohn.com%2F" target="_blank" target="_blank">Caruso St John Architects</a> converted a series of listed buildings on a London street to house the artist's private collection of work for public display.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
Caruso St John Architects converted a series of listed buildings on a London street to house the artist's private collection of work for public display.
Hélène Binet/Newport Street Gallery
The original Victorian industrial buildings were former scenery painting workshops, standing alongside a railway viaduct in Vauxhall, south London.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
The original Victorian industrial buildings were former scenery painting workshops, standing alongside a railway viaduct in Vauxhall, south London.
Hélène Binet/Newport Street Gallery
Inside, the five interconnected structures form a seamless space to accommodate exhibitions of varying scales.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
Inside, the five interconnected structures form a seamless space to accommodate exhibitions of varying scales.
Cuming Associates Ltd/Newport Street Gallery
"Newport Street Gallery has realized my ambition to create an unobtrusive and beautiful series of buildings that work perfectly as a space to exhibit great art," Hirst said in a statement.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
"Newport Street Gallery has realized my ambition to create an unobtrusive and beautiful series of buildings that work perfectly as a space to exhibit great art," Hirst said in a statement.
Cuming Associates Ltd/Newport Street Gallery
Judges described the project as "irreverent yet sensitive...a poetic juxtaposition of the old and new," in a statement issued by RIBA.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
Judges described the project as "irreverent yet sensitive...a poetic juxtaposition of the old and new," in a statement issued by RIBA.
Hélène Binet/Newport Street Gallery
The free public gallery opened last October.
Newport Street Gallery, London —
The free public gallery opened last October.
Hélène Binet/Newport Street Gallery
It is the first time Caruso St John, who were behind the Tate Britain revamp, have won the Stirling Prize, although they were previously shortlisted in 2000 and 2006.<br /><br />Continue through to see the other shortlisted buildings...
Newport Street Gallery, London —
It is the first time Caruso St John, who were behind the Tate Britain revamp, have won the Stirling Prize, although they were previously shortlisted in 2000 and 2006.

Continue through to see the other shortlisted buildings...
Cuming Associates Ltd/Newport Street Gallery
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