The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has tannounced the shortlist for the 2015 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize.
The prize, set up in memory of the teenager who was setting out on the road to becoming an architect when he was murdered in 1993, and sponsored by the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, is intended to encourage fresh architecture talent and reward the best examples of projects that have a construction budget of less than £1 million.
A South London house built around a pear tree; a fishing hut in Hampshire; a seaside stage and shelter in West Sussex; a ‘living laboratory’ built from rubbish in Brighton; a converted eighteenth-century threshing barn in Kent; a Wiltshire garden retreat and a low-energy house in Somerset feature on the shortlist:
- Acoustic Shells, West Sussex by Flanagan Lawrence
- Ancient Party Barn, Kent by Liddicoat & Goldhill LLP
- Brighton Waste House, East Sussex by BBM Sustainable Design Ltd
- Dundon Passivhaus, Somerset by Prewett Bizley Architects
- The Fishing Hut, Hampshire by Niall McLaughlin Architects
- Myrtle Cottage Garden Studio, Wiltshire by Stonewood Design
- Pear Tree House, London by Edgley Design.
RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize founder Marco Goldschmied said: “I am particularly impressed with the diversity of the projects shortlisted for this year’s RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize. Each has been expertly designed to work with rather than against the constraints of the site, whether rural or urban. The shortlist proves that brilliant architecture can be executed on a smaller budget and clearly demonstrates the ingenuity of the profession today. We very much look forward to selecting this year’s winner.”
The winner of the 2015 RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize will be announced at the RIBA Stirling Prize party on 15 October at the RIBA in central London.
The judges are Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, Doreen Lawrence CBE the mother of Stephen Lawrence, Marco Goldschmied, RIBA Past President and Founder of the Marco Goldschmied Foundation, which established the RIBA Stephen Lawrence Prize in 1998 and Murray Kerr, founder of Denizen Works, which won the Stephen Lawrence Prize in 2014.
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