The winner of the the RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal will be announced at the science centre Explore@Bristol in Bristol and will be televised by Channel 4 at 8pm on Sunday October 12.

TR2 is one of 6 projects shortlisted for the RIBA’s prestigious Stirling Prize. The £20,000 prize is named in memory of Sir James Stirling and is awarded to the architects of the building that has made the greatest contribution to British architecture in the past year.

The Isle of Dogs Station for Crossrail is being designed by Mott MacDonald acting as lead consultants with Ian Ritchie Architects.

Mr Fred Mead has been shortlisted for the ICW Award (Institute of Clerk of Works Award) which will be announced on 13th November.

Piling starts this month on the Whitecity project.

The Spire of Dublin, submitted on behalf of the design team by Arup, has been shorlisted in the International Section of the Awards.

The Spire of Dublin was officially inaugurated at a ceremony yesterday, 7th July, by the Mayor of Dublin, and last Friday night, for the very first time, the Spire’s architectural and aviation lighting was switched on, and the logarithmic bronze base revealed. The architectural light illuminates the upper stainless steel surface of nearly 12,000 tiny holes in the structure.

The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851

After the successful award of early Fellowships for research into ‘Landscape and Modernity’, ‘Urban Issues’ and, more recently, into ‘Human Habitation’ and ‘Transport for the Built Environment’, the Commission now intends to make a further, similar award.

Demolition and preparatory works have begun on site and construction is expected to begin early autumn.