dRMM

Clapham Manor School was ‘Stirling Prize second’

The Architects’ Journal, 05 October 2010

Although narrowly missing out on the RIBA Stirling Prize, dRMM’s Clapham Manor Primary School received critical acclaim at this year’s awards ceremony.

In case you missed last Saturday’s live broadcast, here’s a sample of what the judges thought:

Look at Clapham Manor, it’s an absolute jewel

Ruth Reed, RIBA President

that beautiful multi-coloured box

Mark Lawson, journalist and Culture Show broadcaster

Like all good pieces of architecture, it does something beyond its boundaries. It’s sorted out an old back alley and has turned it into a wonderful front door for the school where you can imagine parents and children gathering in the morning and the evening and that’s what good architecture does: positive contribution to the urban public realm.

Ivan Harbour, Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners

Critic/host Tom Dykoff had to invent a new architectural genre of ‘pop hi-tech’ to describe dRMM’s architecture.

We perhaps prefer pop-tech, but dRMM are hard to categorise.