RIBA Stirling Prize 2014 - shortlist (and winner)

LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects)

The buildings shortlisted for the RIBA 2014 Stirling Prize are:

- Library of Birmingham (Mecanoo Architecten)
- London Aquatics Centre (Zaha Hadid Architects)
- Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (Haworth Tompkins) - WINNER 2014
- LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects)
- London Bridge Tower / The Shard (Renzo Piano Building Workshop)
- Manchester School of Art (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)

See a selection of images below with links to descriptions of the buildings on the RIBA website and to the architects' websites;  read commentary by Oliver Wainwright.
The only building on the list that I have properly visited is the Library of Birmingham (with which I was very impressed - see here) but my favourite, based purely on photographic images, is the Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics, by
O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects. The actual winner of the prize will be announced on 16 October, 2014.
(See last year's shortlist here)

Library of Birmingham (Mecanoo Architecten)

(See also blog entry here)

London Aquatics Centre (Zaha Hadid Architects)

Everyman Theatre, Liverpool (Haworth Tompkins)

LSE Saw Swee Hock Student Centre (O'Donnell + Tuomey Architects) 

London Bridge Tower / The Shard (Renzo Piano Building Workshop)

Manchester School of Art (Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios)