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摘要

Although the announcement of the Stirling Prize winner was greeted with some surprise, the planning team behind Zaha Hadid Architects' Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton, south London, felt it was a worthy and justified winner.Before joining CBRE, I worked with Lambeth Council as the project's planning consultant, and I feel the negative reactions are misplaced. While there was obviously strong political support for a new school on the site, Evelyn Grace's future was far from certain, due to a tight and unmoving delivery programme, and mixed opinions over its size and boldness in a residential area.