Madrid Barajas International Airport's new terminal has won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize which is Britain's most prestigious architecture award.

The Richard Rogers Partnership won the award ahead of five other contenders for the prize, with Richard Rogers, Chief Architect behind the project, accepting the $35,400 prize for the firm, which also designed London's Millennium Dome and the Centre Pompidou in Paris.
The airport terminal which opened in February of this year took six years to complete and cost $7.2bn, effectively doubling the annual capacity of the Spanish capital's main airport to 70m and 120 take offs and landings per hour.
The terminal consists of two large buildings covering 500,000sq m (5.3m sq ft), with one of them nearly a mile (1.6km) long in length and both connected by underground tunnels.
[Aldeasa renegotiated its Madrid concession in 2003 as a single entity away from all of the rest of its airports business in Spain, paying Spanish airports authority Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegacion Aerea (AENA) an additional E.20m for the five-year extension (from January 1 2007 until December 31 2012). The retailer has 8,000 square metres of new retail space at the location-Ed].