Irish architecture firm O’Donnell+Tuomey win RIBA London Building of the Year

The Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics designed by O’Donnell + Tuomey Architects has won the RIBA London Building of the Year award. Among the other winners are Zaha Hadid‘s Aquatics Centre, which becomes the final Olympics project to shoot for the Stirling Prize now that its seating wings have been removed; the Shard; the renovation of the Tate Britain by Caruso St John; and the transformation of King’s Cross by John McAslan + Partners.