“Innovative, colorful and humorous.” This is how many have defined the building inaugurated last March which has already become very popular with the inhabitants of Peckham, a suburb in the south of London, acquiring 3 thousand new readers. The motivation by the president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, Marco Goldschmied, is also significant: “An innovative and exciting piece of architecture. A building to make you smile - more architecture should do that”. The prize – 20 thousand pounds - will be spent soon and well: half to the Architects Association and the other half for a big party. All of those involved in the project will be invited “as well as the finalists who didn't make it” Will Alsop jokingly promises, still stunned to have beaten the more “important” London Eye, Canary Wharf tube station, and 88 Wood Street (of Marks-Barfield, Foster and Rogers) with a “low budget” building. Peckham Library and Media Centre 124 Peckham High Street, Peckham London SE15

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