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BUILDING STORIES - 2022 RIBA

SEPTEMBER 2022

Building Stories - 2022 RIBA

On the 21st September at London's RIBA and the 4th October at the Everyman Cinema in Leeds, the architects shortlisted for the 2022 RIBA Stirling Prize will reveal the stories behind their buildings, what inspires them, and what it would mean to win the UK’s most prestigious architecture prize.  

The six shortlisted projects are:  

  • 100 Liverpool Street, Hopkins Architects  
  • Forth Valley College – Falkirk Campus, Reiach and Hall Architects  
  • Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, Henley Halebrown  
  • Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, Panter Hudspith Architects  
  • Sands End Arts and Community Centre, Mæ Architects  
  • The New Library, Magdalene College, Niall McLaughlin Architects  

The architects behind the six shortlisted buildings will give brief presentations, followed by a panel discussion and a live Q&A with the audience.  Talking on behalf of our pratice to present the New Library, Magdalene College will be Claire McMenamin and Tim Allen-Booth. You can watch the RIBA London event here. 

NAZRIN SHAH BUILDING – STEELWORK

JULY 2015

Nazrin Shah Building – Steelwork

Just over two years since our first tentative steps towards imagining what sort of space a new auditorium for Worcester College might possibly be like, we find ourselves enclosed within a spidery sketch, looking up to the trees through a skeletal enclosure of steel. We watched in excitement as our drawings were scribed across the site, first in neon spray paint and little red sticks, later excavated into deep ravines. We pick our way across the lines that had become so familiar on paper and are now concrete obstacles in a muddy field. The reality of this transition only became real as we stood looking across at the steel columns in this picture. They map out the positions of the stone fins that radiate around the curved facade of the new auditorium, with the sloping beams above us silhouetted against the bright July sky marking the future locations of the sculpted folds to the soffit.