Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist
26 Jul
Stirling Prize 2007 : images + links

America's Cup Building, Valencia, Spain
David Chipperfield Architects

Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal
Rem Koolhaas

Dresden Station Redevelopment, Dresden, Germany
Foster and Partners

The Museum of Modern Literature, Marbach am Neckar, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects

Savill Building, Windsor, England
Glenn Howells Architects

Young Vic, London, England
Haworth Tomkins

Current Betting Odds : we'll update this regularly like last year

America's Cup Building Valencia - odds: 3/1
Casa da Musica Porto - odds: 3/1
Dresden Station Redevelopment - odds: 3/1
Museum of Modern Literature - odds: 5/1
The Savill Building Windsor - odds: 5/1
Young Vic Theatre London - odds: 7/1

RIBA Stirling Prize 2006
Stirling Prize Shortlist announced Aug 2006 - online, follow link below

Stirling Prize : contenders - RIBA Awards

Stirling Prize - 2006: Shortlist buildings / architects / favourite

RIBA Stirling Prize 2005
Scottish Parliament wins

Shortlist - Buildings:
Bennetts Associates: Brighton Library
EMBT/RMJM: Scottish Parliament
Zaha Hadid: BMW Central Building in Leipzig
Foster and Partners: McLaren Technology Centre
O'Donnell + Tuomey: Lewis Gluckman Gallery in Cork
Alsop Design: Fawood Children's Centre

Early favourites vary wildly: the AJ state Bennetts are outsiders whilst BD state Bennetts' library is the bookies favourite. In fact Readabet's initial odds show it equal with Foster's McLaren building. No mention of the Scottish Parliament, except BD's Ellis Woodman who tips it for the Prize. Confused?!

Betting Odds - Building Design magazine 29.07.05

Favourite
5/2 Bennetts Associates Brighton library

3/1 O'Donnell + Tuomey's Lewis Gluckman Gallery in Cork
4/1 Zaha Hadid BMW Central Building in Leipzig
4/1 Foster and Partners McLaren Technology Centre
5/1 EMBT/RMJM Scottish Parliament
5/1 Alsop Designs Fawood Children's Centre

BD's Ellis Woodman however tips The Scottish Parliament, but the news page confusingly places the BMW building by Zaha Hadid as second favourite (?!)

Betting Odds - readabet.com 27.07.05
[links to pages on the architects / buildings with images / photos]

Favourites
5/2 McLaren Technology Centre, Woking, Surrey - Foster and Partners
5/2 Jubilee Library, Brighton, Sussex - Bennetts Associates with Lomax Cassidy + Edwards

7/2 Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland - O'Donnell + Tuomey
5/1 BMW Central Building, Leipzig, Germany - Zaha Hadid Architects
5/1 The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh - Enric Miralles: EMBT / RMJM Ltd
7/1 Fawood Children's Centre, Harlesden, NW10 - Alsop Design Ltd

AJ PR re Stirling Prize 2005
The early favourites appear to be Zaha Hadid's almost universally praised BMW
building and the infinitely more controversial Scottish Parliament, while
Alsop's nursery and the Bennetts' PFI library are probably the outsiders.

This leaves O'Donnell + Tuomey's Gallery in Cork and the McLaren Offices by
Foster and Partners. Both would certainly be acclaimed as winners with the Irish scheme celebrated for its classy architecture and the Foster & Partners project backed by the office specialists.
The winner will be announced at an awards night held in Benson and Forsyth's
National Museum of Scotland extension on 15 October.

The judging panel for the Stirling Prize included AJ editor Isabel Allen,
engineer Max Fordham, architect Piers Gough, RIBA president Jack Pringle and
journalist Joan Bakewell.

Please mail us your thoughts on the likely 2007 Shortlist to info@e-architect.co.uk



Images of Stirling Prize shortlist architects 2005:

O'Donnell + Tuomey's Lewis Gluckman Gallery in Cork


EMBT/RMJM Scottish Parliament

News Archive:
CITYSCAPE UK to host The RIBA Stirling Prize 2004 Nominations

CITYSCAPE UK the conference and exhibition for senior executives of organisations involved in the planning, architecture, design, construction of major public or private buildings, government planners, regional development agencies, property developers and private financiers will host the official nominations for the prestigious RIBA Stirling Prize. The display will be hosted alongside the CITYSCAPE UK annual conference and exhibition which will take place on the 12 - 13 Oct at the Truman Brewery in East London. The display at the event will allow visitors to see the best of British architecture first hand.

CITYSCAPE UK will display the short listed schemes within the exhibition area of the event, prior to the channel 4 televised awards ceremony which will take place on 16 Oct 2004 at Old Billingsgate, Lower Thames St, London

The RIBA Stirling Prize is the UK's most prestigious architectural prize and is awarded annually to the architects of the building which has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year. The other awards for 2004 include: The Adapt Trust Access Award, The AJ First Building Award, The Crown Estate Conservation Award, The RIBA Client of the Year, The RIBA Journal Sustainability Award and The Stephen Lawrence Prize.

The 2003 winner was the Laban Dance Centre by Herzog & de Meuron, the other short listed buildings included Tiree Shelter in Scotland by Sutherland Hussey Architects with Jake Harvey, Donald Urquhart, Glen Onwin and Sandra Kennedy; Plymouth Theatre Royal Production Centre by Ian Ritchie Architects; BedZed in Surrey by Bill Dunster Architects; 30 Finsbury Square in London by Eric Parry Architects; and Great Court at the British Museum by Foster and Partners.

Pritzker Prize - Architect Winners

Editorial: Nov 2002
Stirling Prize, Scottish Architecture

Last month's Stirling Prize - and ensuing commentaries - should have refocused our eyes again on the health of Scottish architecture. There seem to be opposing views here, or is it just architecture critics setting up various standpoints and counterpoints? Sudjic, Pearman, Rodger, Wilson and Linklater have all commented, sometimes only by request, on whether things are improving or whether the building boom (mostly in Edinburgh) is simply throwing up more rather than better architecture. I'm trying not to join the fray but surely Scottish architecture is improving but yes, we could be better.