This week the six shortlisted Stirling Prize nominees have been revealed, with new buildings in historic areas featuring among the potential winners.
The nominees (together with a brief extract from their descriptions, as featured on the RIBA site) are:
- The library of Birmingham: ‘an impressive and bold addition to the city’
- London aquatics centre: ‘a world-class building with a distinctive curvaceous form’
- Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: ‘Here all is new-build, yet it has the ambience of an old building.. a building that breathes quality in its choice of materials, in its lighting and its signage’
- London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre: ‘an object lesson in mobilising the limitations of a site into a startlingly original building which makes a massive contribution to its townscape’
- London Bridge Tower/ The Shard: There cannot be a more compressed, nor exemplary, model for city intensification than this tower’
- Manchester School of Art: ‘Design excellence has been coupled with the brief of a visionary client to break down the traditional art and design units, encouraging staff and students across disciplines to work together and explore the common ground between subjects’
