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Multi Coloured Building Wins Prestige Architecture Award

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Oct 16 2003

The Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize has been awarded to the £22 million multi-coloured Laban dance centre on Deptford Creekside, Deptford.

The award recognises the building as having made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The vibrant and dazzling building was created by Swiss architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron and opened in February.

The building is a simple container, with a double-skinned wall constructed of a delicate external membrane of coloured polycarbonate panels. These panels hide an energy-saving inner layer of insulation and translucent glass. The dance studios press against the external envelope and utilise the translucent, coloured walls to separate the plane of the timber floors from the massive ribbed concrete soffits.

Source: RIBA

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