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Stirling Prize for museum

LONDON: Germany’s Museum of Modern Literature was honoured on Saturday with Britain’s most prestigious architecture award, the Stirling Prize.

Designed by David Chipperfield Architects, the museum opened last year in Marbach, southwest Germany. It houses Friedrich Nietzsche’s death mask and original manuscripts including Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Alfred Doblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz.

Award judges described the museum — a classically influenced modern building in concrete, stone and wood — as “simultaneously rich and restrained” and praised the architects for delivering style on a relatively small budget of € 12 million.

Presented by the Royal Institute of British Architects, the £ 20,000 Stirling Prize honours the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The winner must be a RIBA member, but the building can be anywhere in the European Union. — AP

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Stirling Prize for museum

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