‘Modern-Day Machu Picchu’ Wins World’s Best New Building
The open-air campus is perched in a busy section of Lima.
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A concrete university building in Peru with cascading levels and open-air stairs and hallways won the first global prize from the Royal Institute of British Architects as the world's best new design, the organization said today.
Grafton Architects, an Irish firm, and Peru's Shell Arquitectos designed the new campus for the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología in Lima.