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It is like a complete little world so you find people who are like you who maybe speak to you in this building. gerard carty, thanks for speaking to us. congratulations. the winner of this year's riba stirling prize is kingston town gouse by grafton architects, and they said one measure of how successful the building was would be looking at how many chance encounters there were, how many conversations, how many smiles, how much laughter in the building and a building which is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year's riba stirling prize building of the year. thank...

Normal, minimalist, architect's kitchen here, isn't it? yes, that is right, we can even hide the oven if we don't - want to look at it. nice big larders, hiding - the mess which is also a bit of a secret door short cut to our bedroom. i oh, it is a door. it is a doorway. come and follow me. wow. takes us past our bathroom. is this a bath? it is a nice big bath. the building is meant to evoke memories of old stone—built memory that once stood here, but it does stand out a bit when compared with its brick—built neighbours. one member of the local preservation society described

Issue is, don't spoil the view. the brief for this building was to create a world—class building in which to house the internationally significant boat collection. it is needed to be a building which can accommodate large—scale boats that was exciting for the public to want to visit but also, importantly, because it sat within one of our great national parks, it had to enhance the landscape that was within. sustainability has been really central to the concept of the building. we have systems such as the lake—source heat pump which heats the whole building underpinning the energy strateg...

We have sourced local material so that the travel from source to site as is short as possible. the building actually has a zero waste strategy so all of the domestic waste water is treated on site and filtered through the landscape and reed bed so that it can then be discharged back into the lake as clean water. the site is amazing, reflects nature, reflects conservation. some of the success of what the team has achieved here is a building that is simultaneously foreground and background. foreground's the visitor experience — it's a building, it's here. and yet it's the background, it's the ...

Or steel—framed - building clad in stone. so very simplyjust cut the stone out of the body, transport and erect on site - and that is it. so, essentially, you have created a very high—tech building that has the appearance of a ruin. i guess so, yes. inside is equally natural. and this is your flat we're coming into? yes, straight in. that is some view. st paul's out there and we can see the stone. that is correct. that is our limestone exoskeleton. - so the outside is all stone, inside, all european oak, l timber. is that to make it carbon neutral, carbon—negative? so if you remove all- ...