This week on Dezeen, architects and politicians praised Mikhail Riches' "ground-breaking" Goldsmith Street after it became the first social-housing scheme to win the RIBA Stirling Prize.
Goldsmith Street, a Passivhaus and high-density residential project in Norwich by Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley, was awarded the UK's biggest architecture prize on Tuesday after being the first council-housing scheme to have ever been shortlisted.
The project was hailed by RIBA president Alan Jones as "a beacon of hope" in the ongoing housing and climate crises, and a "ground-breaking" contribution to British architecture by the Stirling Prize jury.
Architects celebrate Goldsmith Street's Stirling Prize win as a "game changer" Over the week, the news was widely celebrated by architects, critics and politicians as a significant moment in the 23-year-history of the prize, with TV architect George Clarke hailing it as "a game changer" and Architype saying it "puts Passivhaus in the spotlight ? exactly where it needs to stay".
In an opinion piece for Dezeen, architect Piers Taylor added that "Goldsmith Street offers an incredible and uplifting vision for how things could be in the future in the UK if there was the political will".
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