HMP and YOI Stirling

by Holmes Miller

Client Scottish Prison Service

Award RIAS Award, RIAS innovation Award 2025, and RIBA National Award 2025

The award winner tells us, “HMP and YOI Stirling is a new 100 person facility for Women in Custody in Scotland and replaces the previous HMP Cornton Vale prison on the existing site between Cornton and Bridge of Allan, north of Stirling. The facility comprises seven predominantly single storey buildings including a Front of House, Central Hub, Retreat, Animal Care, and three House buildings. The design ethos is centred on creating a gender specific, trauma informed, and therapeutic environment throughout, structured around a well considered series of landscaped environments, whilst taking advantage of key views to the wider historic environment of the area.”

Extract from the RIAS Awards Jury citation, “The design responds to its rural setting and local vernacular with a calm and coherent material palette: sandstone-toned masonry, zinc cladding, and pitched roof forms inspired by traditional farm steadings. Generous courtyards and garden spaces form a continuous spatial thread throughout the site, offering light, views and a connection to nature in every direction. These open spaces also encourage movement, interaction and reflection – key components in the rehabilitative ethos that underpins the project.”

Read the full citation from the RIAS Awards Jury on RIBA Journal

Contractor Morrison Construction

Structural engineer Mott MacDonald

Landscape architect Linda Curr Design

M&E engineer Rybka

M&E engineer FES

Project manager Scottish Prison Service

Quantity surveyor MGAC

Gross internal area 10,905m²