2008 AWARDS
SUPREME AWARDS
In 2007, the GIA inaugurated a Supreme Award to celebrate a building or a body of work by a practice or an outstanding contribution to the GIA by an individual.
Last year it was won by Elder and Cannon Architects for Castlemilk Stables Block.
The judges decided that the 2008 award would also be for a 'building'.
Reiach and Hall
The Cancer Research Facility, Beatson Institute, Glasgow
The building positively oozes 'cool' from the outside, and demands that you touch it - inside it is a 'tour-de-force of skilful transparency' allowing light deep into the plan. The judges congratulate the architects and their client in creating an ambitious and exacting work of beauty, which surely is now a benchmark building for others to follow.
