CAMBRIDGE, England—The Accordia housing project in Cambridge, England, has won the international Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for architecture, which is given to the building of the year in the European Union, Bloomberg reports.

The low-rise houses were built by three architecture and design firms: Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects, and Macreanor Lavington.

The Accordia was selected from a shortlist of six, which also included Zaha Hadid's ski-lift near Innsbruck, Austria, and the new Westminster Academy in London.

“This is architecture that treats adults as grown-ups and children as people,” the judges said of the Accordia project.

The winning architect receives a cash prize of £20,000 ($34,080).

The Stirling prize is named after the British architect Sir James Stirling (1926–1992).