Stirling Prize 2010 was awarded to MAXII by Zaha Hadid

The fifteenth Stirling Prize, awarded this year by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in collaboration with Architects' Journal, was won by the MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome by Zaha Hadid. The presentation of the prestigious British award, which includes a check for £20,000, took place on Saturday, October 2, 2010, in London.

Two years ago, one of Zaha Hadid’s projects (cable car in Innsbruck) was among six buildings nominated for the Stirling Prize. Last year, Hadid received the Japanese Praemium Imperiale and was also named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world. Winning the most prestigious architectural award in Great Britain crowned Hadid as the unofficial “Queen of Architecture”.

Among the other five buildings were the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford by Rick Mather, Bateman's Row in London by Theis and Khan, Christ's University in Guildford by DSDHA, Clapham estate primary school in London by dRMM, and the Neues Museum in Berlin by David Chipperfield.
In addition to Hadid, the Roman MAXXI Museum of 21st Century Arts was also contributed to by Patrik Schumacher, architect Gianluca Racana, and Italian engineers from Studio Croci 7 Associati.

The Stirling Prize has been awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) since 1996 and is funded with £20,000. Richard Rogers, last year's recipient of the Stirling Prize for Maggie's Centre in London, had to forgo the financial grant due to the economic crisis. Zaha Hadid has been nominated for the Stirling Prize a total of three times.

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