St. Patrick’s School Library and Music Room in London wins the RIBA’s 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize

LONDON.- An ingenious school library and music room for St Patrick’s School in north-west London by Coffey Architects has been awarded the RIBA’s 2011 Stephen Lawrence Prize. The Stephen Lawrence Prize was set up 14 years ago in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993. Funded by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, the £5,000 prize rewards the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million, is intended to encourage fresh talent working with smaller budgets. Coffey Architects’ delightful school extension delivers a library, music room and store room with a simplicity that comes from a straightforward plan and the prevailing use of two materials: zinc and timber. The space is lined on three sides by bookshelves at ground level, and the storage display of musical instruments on the first floor

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