RIBA announces Stirling Prize shortlist for the UK's best new building

The shortlist for the prestigious 2017 RIBA Stirling Prize for the UK’s best new building has been announced today.

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20th July 2017

The British Museum (Credit: Paul Raftery)

The shortlist features projects by previous RIBA Stirling Prize winners Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners (for Maggie’s Centre London in 2009 and Barajas Airport in 2006). Reiach & Hall Architects and Michael Laird Architects were shortlisted last year for City of Glasgow College’s Riverside Campus. Reiach & Hall Architects were shortlisted for Maggie's Centre Lanarkshire in 2015 and dRMM have been shortlisted twice before (Clapham Manor School in 2010 and Trafalgar Place in 2016). Groupwork + Amin Taha, 6a architects and Baynes and Mitchell Architects are shortlisted for the first time.

Photography Studio (Credit: Johan Dehlin)

Command of the Oceans (Credit: Hélène Binet)

City of Glasgow College Atrium (Credit: Keith Hunter)

The six 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 Tuesday 31 October 2017.

This year, the shortlist comprises a slender brick-clad and wicker-balconied development of six apartments in east London (Barrett’s Grove); the skilful, subterranean extension of a much-loved British institution (British Museum World Conservation and Exhibitions Centre); the striking redevelopment of Chatham Historic Dockyard (Command of the Oceans); an immense new college campus in the heart of Glasgow (City of Glasgow College – City Campus); a vibrant community-led restored pier on the south coast (Hastings Pier); and an exquisite new photography studio in west London (Photography Studio for Juergen Teller).

The winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced on Tuesday 31 October 2017 at the Roundhouse in Camden, north London.

Main image credit: James Robertshaw. All images courtesy of RIBA.

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