Selecting from a wide variety of buildings will be a challenge for the jury, says Jeremy Till, chair of the RIBA Awards Group. "It'll be no easy task," said Till. "We have a national parliament building competing with a children's centre, a library with a factory for making cars, and yet they all share one quality: true architectural excellence."

Till added: "Every one of these short-listed buildings would be a worthy winner - they're popular not just with critics, but with the public as well. They stimulate. They're full of new ideas, and new approaches."

The jury will visit all six buildings and then meet for a final time on 15 October, the day of the presentation, to pick the winner. The award will be announced live to a national television audience from the Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. The RIBA Stirling Prize is considered the UK's most prestigious architectural prize. It is named after the Scots-born architect Sir James Stirling. A £20,000 prize is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.

i'd love to see the glucksman get it. the parliament has to be a clear favourite, but i don't like it one bit

That's the thing, would the parliament get a sympathy vote in the way that some people swear that "Eyes wide shut" is a great movie?

Fawood Children's Centre.......now that is a surprise?

Parliament won't win, sw 101, it'll be a close runner up.......much like the New Museum of Scotland. Close but no cigar

That's the thing, would the parliament get a sympathy vote in the way that some people swear that "Eyes wide shut" is a great movie?

Obviously I'd be delighted for O'Donnell + Tuomey and for Cork/Ireland should the prize be awarded the Glucksman. I've looked at the entries individually and quite frankly the Scottish Parliament washes over me - although I can understand some of the reasoning behind the fuss.

As for Zaha Hadid's Leipzig scheme - although I believe in part it was the intention, it reminds me somehow of the internal elements of a computer. Possibly the whole 'central brain' idea?

And I actually linked 'Eyes Wide Shut' - but then again, I thought 'The Virgin Suicides' was the best feel-good movie of 2002. :p

The early betting -- William Hill's odds: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1537359,00.html

Who proof read that article?

5-2 Jf
5-2 Jf
5-1
5-1
7/2
7/1

How can a building at 3 1/2 to 1 be 5th favourite?

At 5-1 I might have a score on Miralles money pit after having a few quid on last year.

Obsessive, compulsive architecture: the McLaren motor-racing factory by Foster and Partners races up the Stirling Prize rankings.
http://www.hughpearman.com/articles5/mclaren.html

http://www.spa.uk.net/tamworth2005.htm

http://www.channel4.com/4homes/microsites/S/stirling_prize/video_tours.html

good website...........video in particular. Rules out the McLaren for me though, which is good news for Ireland.

It's between the Parliament and the Glucksman.

All - It would seem that there is a wave of support in England for O'Donnell + Tuomey. Excellent press in the Times and Guardian both of whom have very well respected critics. Picking up Arichecte's Journal today the critcs steerling prize critics - feature visiting and commenting upon each building - are very very complementary of the Glucksman gallery. Hardly a desenting word! Althoug this is an architectural prise I have heard comment that RIBA would be loath to award the prize to the Scottish Parliment given the exponential budgetry fiasco - doesn't look good for the industry. In that case the competition is Foster and Hadid. Shane

Startig to think they could win it - really would be great - would throw Irish architecture into the world spotlight for 15secs

Yeah mate, good luck Ireland.

Giles Worsley in The Telegraph tips Glucksman
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/10/15/bastirling15.xml&sSheet=/arts/2005/10/15/ixartleft.html

And so the Scottish Parliament wins....

First you dream, but don't forget to die. And if you can get your client to die too, so much the better.
All wrong.
I'm going drinking.

Wrong result; after a week in Cork my liver is glad I'm staying in.

*spit*

disgusted with that.

Ladies and Gentlemen, try not to be too disheartened about it. Sure, it would have been great to see The Glucksman take the prize but the Parliament is a smashing building also. These 'window seats' deserve a prize all of their own. How do I get an office like that????

<img src="http://www.hughpearman.com/illustrations5/scotparlmspoffice01b.jpg">

A shame. Still the decision is made, chin up. The challenge now should be to produce more buildings of eligible quality and perhaps see an entry made for future potential wins. The running of the Glucksman should be seen as encouragement and a confidence boost for Irish architecture to take further innovative bounds.

A shame okay but lost in the disappointment was some good news.

A house at Clonakilty, Cork, by Niall McLaughlin Architects has won the
Stephen Lawrence Prize sponsored by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation for
the best example of a building with a construction budget of less than
£500,000.