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Queen's Gallery and Theatre Share Architecture PrizeThe high camp of the Queen's new picture gallery at Buckingham Palace - with its staircase balustrade modelled on the architect's dressing gown cord - yesterday shared the Building of the Year Award with a theatre scenery workshop built on a reclaimed mudflat in Plymouth.
The annual awards, presented by the Royal Fine Art Commission Trust, are invariably more eclectic than the rival Royal Institute of British Architecture prizes, and yesterday produced a vintage crop.
The new production centre for the Theatre Royal in Plymouth, designed by Ian Ritchie Architects, has "squashy" bronzed exterior cladding. It was designed by Ian Ritchie to appear duvet-like, and was constructed on top of thousands of tons of rock dumped into a tidal mudflat.
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