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RIBA AWARDS PROGRAMME 2009: LAST CHANCE TO ENTER

Closing date for entries: 19 February 2009


The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) is once again on the lookout for potential RIBA Stirling Prize
winners. Following on from the success of the 2008 Stirling Prize-winning Accordia in Cambridge by
Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios, Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington, the search has begun
to find the best examples of new British architecture. Practices up and down the country are urged
to submit projects of architectural excellence into the 2009 RIBA Awards scheme.

The RIBA Awards have been running continuously since 1966 and are judged locally. RIBA Awards are
given for buildings that have made a substantial contribution to the local environment. From 2009 RIBA
National Awards will no longer be presented, but judging for the RIBA Awards and Stirling Prize remains
unchanged. From this year there will not be a separate RIBA European Award category. If the building
is in the European Union and is designed by a practice whose principal office is in the UK, it will be eligible
for an RIBA Award and ultimately, the RIBA Stirling Prize. If the building is outside the European Union
or is in the rest of the EU and designed by a practice based outside the UK it will be entered for the RIBA
International Awards. Now in its third year, the Lubetkin Prize, supported by The Architectural Review,
will be judged by a jury visiting the best of the RIBA International Awards.

The RIBA Awards will be announced on 21 May 2009; the RIBA Stirling Prize will be announced, live on
Channel 4, at a dinner will be held on 17 October 2009 at Old Billingsgate in the City of London.

Once again the RIBA’s commitment to sustainable architecture is reflected in its awards programme, with
all entries requiring a description of the building's performance in use with particular reference to energy
use. Energy performance statistics, signed by an environmental engineer, are highly desirable for all entries
and mandatory for those projects with a contract value over £1 million.

Any building by an RIBA Chartered member or RIBA International Fellow is eligible to enter the awards.
Buildings must be completed and occupied between the dates of 1 January 2007 and 19 February 2009.
The closing date for entries is at 17.00 on 19 February 2009.

Entry forms can be downloaded from www.architecture.com/awards. Any queries to Clemency
Christopherson in the RIBA Awards Office on 020 7307 3715 or clemency.christopherson@inst.riba.org

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Text: The Royal Institute of British Architects