Architekturbüro Witherford Watson man, who won the 2013 RIBA Stirling Prize, an annual award in recognition ideal in British architecture, for the renovation of the 12th century Astley Castle in Warwickshire, England.
In singling out the project for & amp; # 8220demonstrating creativity, preservation and conservation, & amp; 8221 the Royal Institute of British Architects has been selected to shine a spotlight on the architectural redemption of an original building of the 12th century and its subsequent iterations supplements and renovations centuries old and culminating in a ruinous fire in 1978.
Rescued by the British Landmark Trust, and planned to be a guest house, Astley Castle remain medieval walls, wounds and all, -comprised with the new meticulously detailed construction of brick, concrete and wood located entirely , optically enriched within the old footprint by imperfect remains of the castle. When the architects to explain and will amp; # 8220The house animated with slashes of sunlight on stone walls and views over the ancient landscape. At the dinner table, the twelfth and twenty-first century from building to fifteenth century and walls 6teenth & amp; # 8211 of the dialogue over the centuries framework talks between close friends. & amp; 8221
This permutation of the 21st century look of Astley Castle is says, RIBA, & amp; # 8220An critical piece of architecture, beautifully detailed and crafted & amp; 8221
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