Despite great competition from an array of top architects the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture this year was won by the designers of The Elizabeth Line - part of the underground tube system. The company was Grimshaw, Maynard et al. I traveled on the Lizzie Line, as it’s been renamed, shortly after it opened and was very impressed with its splendid sense of space and cathedralesque quality. Moving many hundreds of thousands of passengers a day in effortless ease. If you had the impression that Britain cannot make anything or build anything of quality and style - then this will disabuse you and any sceptic. Check it out for yourself.
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