2015 Stirling Prize Shortlist

The six projects in the running for "the building that has made the greatest contribution to the evolution of architecture over the past year," as RIBA describes the Stirling Prize, were culled from the 2015 RIBA National Awards, which were announced last month. Here are the six finalists in no particular order; click projects to learn more about them. And stay tuned: the winner of the Stirling Prize will be announced on 15 October 2015.

Burntwood School, Wandsworth
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."

Darbishire Place, Peabody Housing
Niall McLaughlin Architects
"Dignified new 13-home Peabody apartment building, with refined proportions and details."

Maggie’s Lanarkshire
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."

NEO Bankside
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."

University of Greenwich Stockwell Street Building
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."

The Whitworth, University of Manchester
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."