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摘要

Public buildings once again have the biggest showing in this year's RIBA Awards, with 10 securing the coveted accolade and four achieving the EU honour. Among them is the sensitive restoration of Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann, which 'saves the essential and eliminates the incidental', as critic Joseph Rykwert observed. Arts venues come out well: HAT Project's self-assured Jerwood Gallery; Hackett Hall McKnight's soaring MAC with its honed basalt tower; Gareth Hoskins with PJP's elegant harbourside Mareel Arts Centre. Much of the work uses colour and materials to powerful effect: The Hive, by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, has golden metal shingle cladding which shimmers in the sun; while the streamlined yellow aluminium roof of the Enzo Ferrari Museum in Modena by Future Systems and Shiro Studios is the architectural equivalent of a ride in a gleaming sportscar. Surely some Stirling Prize contenders here?