There is no single showstopper and it will be a difficult year for the judges, weighing up the varying shades of reticence on the list. Together, the buildings make a bit of a dull group, celebrating the mute and austere over the bold and expressive – repeating the tenor of last year’s list, which scandalously failed to include Herzog & de Meuron's Tate Switch House. — The Guardian
The Guardian architecture critic, Oliver Wainwright, isn't particularly impressed with this year's selection of six projects for the coveted RIBA Stirling Prize, awarded annually for Britain's best new building. Calling it "a bit of a dull group" and questioning especially the inclusion of the Norman Foster-designed £1-billion Bloomberg London HQ, Wainwright elaborates: "As the Turner prize has shown in recent years, with its choice of young collective Assemble and now radical activist research agency Forensic Architecture, perhaps the more provocative work is happening elsewhere, flying beneath the decorous radar of the RIBA awards."
In case you missed it, the selected buildings this year are:
The final Stirling Prize winner will be announced on October 10.
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