Liverpool's Everyman Theatre wins architecture prize
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Liverpool's newly rebuilt Everyman Theatre has won the Riba Stirling Prize for best new building of the year. The front of the theatre has 105 metal cut-outs of famous Liverpudlians. The building used to be a chapel in the 1800s.
The venue beat five other buildings to win the honour including The Shard. It's the UK's tallest building stretching 310 metres high above the London skyline. Workers found a fox on the 72nd floor when the tower was being built!
The unusual looking Library of Birmingham was also nominated for the prize. More than 300,000 things were borrowed from the library in the first year it was open. The most valuable item kept there is worth £2 million! The library was voted Britain's best new building by readers of the BBC News website.
The London Aquatics Centre was built for the 2012 Olympic Games. Its three pools contain 10 million litres of water - and the huge roof rests on just three concrete supports!
The Manchester School of Art has a glass front, seven floors high! It's designed to show off the students inside at work. The floors are connected with staircases and bridges that double up as gallery spaces.
This is the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics. Its unusual shape was made with 175,000 bricks. Each brick was shaped and baked individually.