Architect for the scheme, which was completed in late 2021, was Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios and the main contractor Bowmer & Kirkland. Keith Bradley, Founding Partner of FCBS, said: “Being shortlisted for the Stirling Prize is very special as an acknowledgement of our work with Warwick University as well as with the wider consultant and contractor team on the Faculty of Arts Building. “What we have created together is a place that students, academics, and other staff want to be - facilitating interactive learning and research in a set of ‘live’ physical spaces - having returned from the digital world that dominated in the Covid years.

Warwick Faculty of Arts is a place that connects its people and the wider natural landscape setting. Essential requirements for wellbeing that makes Architecture a Social and Environmental Art." Nestled within the landscaped campus of the University of Warwick, The Faculty of Arts building unites the Arts and Humanities Faculties, and has become the cultural focus of the university. It is composed of four light-filled pavilions set around a grand central stair, with each pavilion housing teaching spaces, offices, and academic clusters. In place of a traditional atrium at ground level, a sculptural wooden stair spirals around a series of spaces for use as studios, exhibition, and event spaces.

The RIBA judging panel said: “The impressive new Faculty of Arts building for the University of Warwick brings together the departments and schools of the faculty under a single roof for the first time. It is evident that this simple mission became the driving principle behind the entire scheme, to create a vehicle for collaboration and cross-pollination of the arts, whilst drawing inspiration from the site’s unique parkland context. Here the architects have woven these two agendas into one cohesive design concept that has been executed with skill and craft.” Among other firms working on the project were MCW Architects Services, Buro Happold, Nagan Johnson, Montresor Partnership, ARUP, Derry Building Services and LUC.