‘It sounded crazy’: palatial six-storey hymn to social interaction is Britain’s best new building

The 2021 RIBA Stirling prize has gone to Kingston University’s free-flowing Town House, a welcoming, transparent, roomy place perfect for students to spark off each otherAfter more than a year of Zoom tutorials and online lectures, students are back learning face to face – and nowhere more so than at Kingston University’s Town House, a cathedral of social interaction that has been named the UK’s best new building.A palatial £50m complex, the winner of the 2021 RIBA