Top award for Liverpool One

by Michael Fergus. Published Tue 30 Nov 1999 00:00

The Liverpool One shoping and leisure complex has landed three out of the six awards granted to North West Buildings in the UK's most prestigious archtecture competition.

The adventurous designs and lay-out of the £1m complex have won much admiration since it was opened by Princess Ann almost a year ago..

Now it has been announced that the overall Liverpool One project design as won a RIBA Award along with two of its buildings - 13b Paradise Street and the Paradise Street Bridge - which were singled-out as excellent.
They are among the the winners of the 2009 RIBA Awards for architectural excellence in which 103 buildings in the UK and Europe have been named as winners (97 in the UK and six in the rest of the EU).

The RIBA Award-winning buildings range from an Observatory at Kielder in Northumberland to the Liverpool One regeneration and retail masterplan, from a private house at Dungeness to Wexford Opera House in South East Ireland.
The architects whose work has been honoured this year range from small practices to large, international ones. There are also some multiple winners such as Allies and Morrison (4 awards), Hawkins/Brown (3 awards), BDP (3 awards) and Niall Mclaughlin Architects (4 awards).

RIBA President Sunand Prasad said: The RIBA Awards are a thermometer to indicate the state of health of British architecture and for 2009 the results are good: both quality and quantity have been maintained. This year's list accurately reflects both the diversity, and the workload of UK architecture, with more schools and health buildings than usual winning awards.

"It is particularly heartening to see more schemes that are about regenerating our cities, towns and countryside. These awards, which are judged on a regional basis, reflect and reward the good things that are going on all across the UK, and they also form the basis of what promises to be another interesting year for the RIBA Stirling Prize.