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Five Australian projects shortlisted for Royal Institute of British Architects International awards

List includes a rare double listing for Candalepas Associates, with offices in Sydney and Melbourne, for two vastly different buildings

The Guardian - AU · Mar 5

Dubliner Niall McLaughlin awarded Royal Gold Medal for architecture

The Royal Institute of British Architects has announced that Niall McLaughlin will receive the award.

Evening Standard · Jan 29

Big Ben’s Elizabeth Tower restoration shortlisted for RIBA architecture award

The project rectified previous restoration mistakes and repaired newly uncovered damage from the Second World War

Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2025

Stirling prize: why Cambridge's Magdalene library was named the UK's best new building

Each year the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) awards its Stirling Prize to one of the UK’s best new buildings. For its 26th year, the prize in 2022 was awarded to the Irish architect Niall McLaughlin, for the new library he designed for Magdalene College at the University of…

The Conversation · Nov 15, 2022

University library ‘built to last 400 years’ wins national architecture prize

The Royal Institute of British Architects has named The New Library of Magdalene College in Cambridge the winner of its 2022 prize.

The Independent UK · Oct 13, 2022

‘Our time has come’ – Muyiwa Oki, first black president of RIBA, reveals his shakeup plans

Elderly white men in bow ties have tended to run the very grand and possibly even stuffy Royal Institute of British Architects. Muyiwa Oki, its youngest boss ever at 31, spells out his vision for unions, the climate crisis and island-buying oligarchs

The Guardian - UK · Oct 12, 2022

Royal Institute of British Architects announces 2022 Stirling Prize shortlist

Nominees from across the country are vying for the award, which is the highest accolade in architecture.

The Independent UK · Jul 21, 2022

Glasgow's forgotten architectural genius is well worth your attention

ASK any reasonably knowledgable Scot about Glasgow’s most famous architect of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and they will usually reply…

The National (Scotland) · Jun 26, 2022

Architect Nigel Coates: ‘I like spaces that made you wonder. I was trying to softly seduce people’

The architect says his struggles as a gay man armed him with a courage to break all the rules

The Guardian - UK · Jun 26, 2022

B.V. Doshi conferred with Royal Gold Medal 2022

The president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Simon Allford presented the medal to the renowned architect in person at his residence in Ahmedabad.

The Hindu · May 11, 2022