RIBA Stirling Prize Nominee - Young Vic Theatre

Added on: 8th October 2007

NBS are proud to have supplied the unusual “wavy” facing bricks for the referbisment project at the Young Vic Theatre in London. The project has won a number of RIBA awards since it's completion including the RIBA Award, RIBA National Award, and RIBA London Building of the Year 2007. Now it can add being one of the 6 nominees for the UK's premier architectural award to its list of honours. The RIBA Stirling Prize is given to the Royal Institute of British Architecture's Building of the Year. It is run in association with The Architects' Journal and is presented to the architects of the building which has been the most significant for the evolution of architecture in the past year.

The project which was designed by Haworth Tompkins Architects included areas where the Architects had a novel idea to produce an unusual but attractive toothed effect in the main front external and part internal walls of the building. Special shaped bricks from Belgium were used in conjunction with a thin bed brick adhesive to achieve an intense ripple effect to the masonry areas.

For further details of this project or for other ideas of unusual shaped bricks please contact your local NBS office.

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