School's winning design has life lines

The Standard:

Baghdad-born architect Zaha Hadid continues to show the British how to create when parts of Iraq have been reduced to rubble by forces from her adopted land.

Hadid, 60, won the Stirling Prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects for a second straight year for a school in Brixton, south London.

The Evelyn Grace Academy, a concrete-and-glass structure with a running track linking the campus gates, was voted best new European building built or designed in Britain.

Speaking at its inauguration 12 months ago on a site that previously hosted a garbage truck depot, Hadid said the place was not like a fortress. There were secure gates, she noted, but people outside could see activities within.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 5, 2011 1:28 AM
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