Looking across to the east side of Fitzwilliam Street Lower as it recedes from the corner of Merrion Square, its brownish-pink brick façade, punctuated by
students and, of course, that leads us to the town house by grafton architects. cheering and applause kingston town house. a building with a purpose to make university life open, accessible, collaborative, social. receiving the award for grafton architects, gerard carty. and we have the winner with us now. gerard carty from grafton architects, congratulations. must be a good feeling. it s absolutely astonishing. we re really astounded. we re delighted that we ve won this prize, but particularly for the university, because this is something that s so important that we speak about what university education is about and. one of the extraordinary things about this is the client, as much as anything, isn t it? yeah. because they had this strange vision about inviting in the public, getting
world, so you can find people who are like you who maybe speak to you in this building. gerard carty, thank you very much indeed. congratulations. the winner of this year s riba stirling prize is kingston town house grafton architects, and talking to them, they said one measure of the building will be to look at how many chance encounters there are, how many casual conversations, how many smiles, how much laughter there was in the building, and a building that is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year s riba stirling building of the year. with that, thank you. we have some extremely mild weather to come later this week with temperature is not too far away from the december record. today it is