The shortlist for the prestigious 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building, now in its 20th year, has been announced today. The six exceptional shortlisted buildings will now go head-to-head for architecture’s highest accolade, to be awarded by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) on Thursday 15 October 2015.
The shortlist for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize is:
- Burntwood School, Wandsworth by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris.- Bold, characterful new campus buildings with light-filled rooms and corridors add to a sense of this being a very collegiate school.
Colegio Burntwood, Wandsworth, por Allford Hall Monaghan Morris. Fotografía © Timothy Soar.
- Darbishire Place, Peabody housing, E1 by Niall McLaughlin Architects.- Dignified new 13-home Peabody apartment building, with refined proportions and details.
Darbishire Place, E1, por Niall McLaughlin Architects. Fotografía © Nick Kane.
- Maggie’s Lanarkshire by Reiach and Hall Architects.- Modest, low building that gathers a sequence of domestic-scaled spaces. Visitors enter via a quiet arrival court, defined by the low brick walls and two lime trees. At once, a sense of dignity and calm is encountered.
Maggies Lanarkshire por Reiach y Hall Architects. Fotografía © David Grandorge.
- NEO Bankside, SE1 by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners.- New luxury housing towers with exo-skeleton and external lifts on London’s South Bank - a well-mannered example of a structurally expressive architecture.
NEO Bankside, SE1 por Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. Fotografía © Edmund Sumner.
- University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building, SE10 by Heneghan Peng architects.- Located in a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this delightful building houses the main university library and the departments of Architecture, Landscape and Arts.
University of Greenwich, Edificio Stockwell Street, SE10 por Heneghan Peng Architects. Fotografía © Hufton + Crow.
- The Whitworth, University of Manchester by MUMA.- Extension to the 19th century Whitworth Gallery - carefully crafted spaces emerge seamlessly from the existing as an integral yet individualistic part of the whole assembly.
The Whitworth, Manchester por MUMA. Fotografía © Alan Williams.
The winner of the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced on the evening of Thursday 15 October at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in London.
The 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize jury, who will visit the six shortlisted buildings and select the winner on 15 October, is chaired by Jane Duncan (RIBA President, from 1 Sept 2015), with architects Peter Clegg and Steve Tompkins; and Dame Theresa Sackler, arts philanthropist.
Previous winners of the RIBA Stirling Prize include: Liverpool Everyman Theatre by Haworth Tompkins (2014); Astley Castle by Witherford Watson Mann (2013); Sainsbury Laboratory by Stanton Williams (2012); Evelyn Grace Academy (2011) and MAXXI Museum, Rome (2010) both by Zaha Hadid Architects; Maggie’s Centre at Charing Cross Hospital, London by Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (2009); Accordia housing development by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios/Alison Brooks Architects/Maccreanor Lavington (2008); The Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany by David Chipperfield Architects (2007).
