{"id":8099,"date":"2014-07-18T16:51:14","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ihbconline.co.uk\/newsachive\/?p=8099"},"modified":"2014-07-18T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T15:51:14","slug":"riba-stirling-prize-shortlist-new-builds-in-old-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8099","title":{"rendered":"RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist: new builds in old places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">This week the six shortlisted Stirling Prize nominees have been revealed, with new buildings in historic areas featuring among the potential winners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The nominees (together with a brief extract from their descriptions, as featured on the RIBA site) are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The library of Birmingham: \u2018an impressive and bold addition to the city\u2019<\/li>\n<li>London aquatics centre: \u2018a world-class building with a distinctive curvaceous form\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: \u2018Here 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\u2019<\/li>\n<li>London School of Economics Saw Swee Hock Student Centre: \u2018an object lesson in mobilising the limitations of a site into a startlingly original building which makes a massive contribution to its townscape\u2019<\/li>\n<li>London Bridge Tower\/ The Shard: There cannot be a more compressed, nor exemplary, model for city intensification than this tower\u2019<\/li>\n<li>Manchester School of Art: \u2018Design 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\u2019<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecture.com\/StirlingPrize\/RIBAStirlingPrizeShortlist2014.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Stirling Prize Shortlist<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?s=stirling+prize\" target=\"_blank\">IHBC newsblogs on previous Stirling prizes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/?p=8099\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sector-newsblog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8099"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8100,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8099\/revisions\/8100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsblogs.ihbc.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}