The prestigious Stirling Prize 2010 has been won by acclaimed modernist architect Zaha Hadid for the MAXXI building, Italy’s first national museum of contemporary art.
The Stirling Prize is the leading architecture award in the UK, and is overseen by RIBA (the Royal Institute of British Architects).
It’s fourth time lucky for Hadid, who has had three projects shortlisted in the past. Alongside what the judges called its “structural pyrotechnics”, MAXXI “is rationally organised as five main suites. The building is bravely day lit with a sinuous roof of controllable skylights, louvres and beams which orientate and excite the visitor and create uplifting spaces.”
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