Riba Stirling Prize: Elizabeth line shortlisted for 2024 architecture award

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Riba Stirling Prize: Elizabeth line shortlisted for 2024 architecture award

The prestigious Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that London’s Elizabeth line has been selected as one of six nominees for the 2024 Riba Stirling prize for architecture, joining other powerful nominees. The National Portrait Gallery, a social housing development in east London, and a dairy farm in Dorset that has been renovated to be more wheelchair accessible were among the other nominees chosen by the panel. Of the nominees, four out of the six this year are located in London. On October 2022, Riba will name the winner at the capital’s Roundhouse.

Riba’s Stirling Prize is awarded to the architect of a building that is considered to be the most significant of the year, and it is judged on a range of criteria, including design vision, innovation, and originality. Some of the previous winners include Liverpool’s Everyman Theatre, the Scottish Parliament building in Edinburgh, and Hastings Pier, the first prize given in 1996. Last year’s prize was won by the retirement day care facility John Morden Centre, located in the capital.

The rail network’s name is a tribute to the late Queen Elizabeth II, and it has already been named Riba’s London Building of the Year. Now it may also win the overall Stirling prize, according to the judges, who call it a “transport tour de force” and a “major infrastructure project that sets a new standard for inner-city transport”. Although it opened in 2022, it was not eligible for the prize until this year due to the award’s eligibility rules.

President Muyiwa Oki of Riba said that this year’s nominees “demonstrate the ingenuity and diversity of architecture today,” and that “at a time when the need to preserve our planet’s resources is greater than ever, these projects are to be commended for placing regeneration and restoration front and centre.

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