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Digest #14 – What is going on with the Stirling Prize?

Random and disappointing – and bizarrely jingoistic.

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Jason Sayer
Sep 11, 2025
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I had to laugh – the Architects’ Journal calling the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist “random and disappointing” was quite the headline.

The six projects in this year’s shortlist are:

Appleby Blue Almshouse by Witherford Watson Mann Architects
Southwark, London

Elizabeth Tower by Purcell
Westminster, London

Hastings House by Hugh Strange Architects
Hastings…

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