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News: Haworth Tompkins’ new home for the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool, featuring a curved auditorium built from 25,000 reclaimed bricks, is the 2014 winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for the biggest contribution to British architecture this year.

The project by London studio Haworth Tompkins involved designing a new home for the popular Liverpool theatre, which had been previously been housed in a 19th-century chapel, creating a 400-seat auditorium and a generous foyer.

The walls of the old building had to be carefully dismantled so that the bricks could be reused within the new theatre, and a new facade was created from sunshades etched with the portraits of some of the English city’s residents.

The Stirling Prize was awarded this evening in a ceremony at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London.

Haworth Tompkins saw off competition from five other shortlisted projects, including The Shard by Renzo Piano, Zaha Hadid’s Olympic Aquatics Centre, and Europe’s largest public library.

This is the second time Haworth Tompkins has been nominated for the prize, which is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects to a building designed by a UK-registered architect.

In 2007, the studio received a nomination for the Young Vic theatre in London, but lost out to David Chipperfield’s Museum of Modern Literature in Germany.

Photography is by Philip Vile.

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