Stirling Prize 2003

[Paul Clerkin]

so is that the inside line ?

ahh you wouldn't have appreciated the 25k anyway

[alan d]

inside fcukin line , are you joking. The RIBA panel described it as "sheer poetry", can't fail.

I'd only drink the £25,000 anyway and after all there's always Sligo

[Paul Clerkin]

yeah but with 25k you could fly me over and hugh up and we could all help you drink it....

[alan d]

Don't think Hugh and I see eye to eye at the moment.

Hell of a thing to fall out about, Frank Gehry

First Bob Geldof, described him and his Maggie Centre as Michaelangelo painting his mother's ceiling then some fellow in this weeks Building Design described Gehry as Mozart. I now know my place, I can tell you.

Architecture is easy for some folk, it's English that's hard

[Shark]

An Turas - for a building that only cost £85k it's up for over £50k worth of prize money!

add that to the cost cutting measure of discarding the roof makes it a very financially efficient proposal!

almost makes it worth building for the sake of awards....

[alan d]

......bout the price of B+Q kitchen, then.

Was wondering when you'd swim by again Shark

Good luck Sutherland Hussey Arkitects on Saturday. You can be sure I'll be rootin for ye and you can tell the fellow that has been sending me all the emails to vote in the BBC poll that I voted already .

[Shark]

just swimming by on route to warmer southern waters.....

[trace]

Well done, Hugh (and Archiseek). Laban's night - http://www.architecture.com/go/Architecture/Also/Awards_2301.html

Nice to see that Think Tank in West Cork by Gumuchdjian Architects 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 £350,000.

[alan d]

Yes, congaratulations Hugh old boy.

Gumuchdjian Architects are an interesting crew Trace, don't know much about them but thought their river house ( is that Think Tank?) in Skibbereen, published last month in the AJ looked very good indeed.