2008 Stirling Prize

[Paul Clerkin]

RIBA has announced the six buildings on the shortlist for the 2008 Stirling Prize. The winner will be announced in Liverpool on Saturday 11 October 2008.

The full list is:
Accordia, Cambridge by Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios/Alison Brooks Architects/Macreanor Lavington

Amsterdam Bijlmer Arena Station, Amsterdam, Netherlands by Grimshaw/ARCADIS Architecten

Manchester Civil Justice Centre, Manchester by Denton Corker Marshall

Nord Park Cable Railway, Austria by Zaha Hadid Architects

Royal Festival Hall, London by Allies and Morrison

Westminster Academy at the Naim Dangoor Centre, London, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris

[missarchi]

some cable car

http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAEuropeanAwards/2008/NordparkCable.aspx

some station

http://www.architecture.com/Awards/RIBAEuropeanAwards/2008/BijlmerStation.aspx

[Blisterman]

Are we supposed to be voting on who we think will win, or who we'd like to win?

[jungle]

I've used Bijlmer station and it didn't strike me as anything especially impressive at the time. It comes across as curiously empty, although I guess it has to be built to handle the match crowds and if there's no match on, the station is going to be operating at 3% of capacity. And whatever of the photographed looks, it has that concrete wind-tunnel feel of a lot of Dutch architecture when you're actually in it.

[Paul Clerkin]

so what's the feeling ?

Here's some photos - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/7659456.stm

[jdivision]

I like the Hadid one best based on the BBC pics. Not impressed with Westminster academy

[missarchi]

zaha deserved to win although some of her projects are...

I guess the judges get to see them in person?

some irish judges have moved up in the world;)