The 2012 Olympic Velodrome is the bookies favorite to win the Stirling Prize for architecture 2011. Photography: Anthony Palmer/RIBA/PAA block of 80 's Office and a 1930s theater are in the running to be named the best new building of the year, as architects turn back to save energy and money.
The Angel, Islington, London building, which BT vacated before the financial collapse, was shortlisted for the Stirling Prize after a restoration of 72 million pounds. The 1932 Royal Shakespeare Theatre, which was overhauled at a cost of 60 million pounds, has also been nominated.
The Royal Institute of British Architects ' (Riba) award of ￡ 20,000 annual ever was won by a restored, but the presence on the shortlist of two projects to replace represents the emergence of the architecture of austerity.
New buildings commissioned before the compression of public expenditure has also made the shortlist, including radical Velodrome for the 2012 Olympics designed by architects Hopkins, and one of the most expensive city Academy schools ever built, the Academy of grace Evelyn 38 million pounds at Lambeth by Zaha Hadid Architects.
The Velodrome is the first main Olympic venue to be completed and is favored to win with odds of 2/1 with William Hill.
Royal Shakespeare Company originally planned to demolish the House 1932 listed in Stratford-upon-Avon, designed by Elisabeth Scott and replace it with a futuristic building by Dutch architect Erick van Egerat.
The plan was revised in the midst of cost concerns and objections. Instead the RSC hired Bennetts Associates to enter a new phase of Boost in the main auditorium, redesign the public areas and to erect an observation tower.
As well as saving money and reducing emissions, the refurb "captured the spirits and ghosts of the theatre", said by Rab Bennetts, architect.
The building was stripped to its concrete frame and block office reclad as a speculative, shaving almost 15% off the cost of a new building and reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about a third, the designer said.
"Restructuring saves money and reduces the environmental impact of construction," said Simon Allford. "Also shows that we should be paying more attention when we design new buildings to ensure they are able to be adapted for future uses that we can imagine."
This month Peter Rees, Chief Designer for the city of London, said there would be fewer new skyscrapers in the current economic climate and that had increased applications to restructure the existing office blocks. He said restructuring projects were often less expensive, more respectful and less provoked objections than new buildings.
"My prognosis is there will be fewer towers and that is nothing bad," said the magazine. "There is a lot of late-1960s buildings 80 [19] that we should not throw away."
Stirling also limited is An Irish Gaelaras, a language arts and cultural centre in Derry, designed by O'Donnell and Tuomey architects. Is the first publicly financed facility of its kind since the Anglo-Irish Agreement.
The art gallery of the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany, designed by former Stirling Prize winner David Chipperfield, completes the line-up ".Retraining creative is a strong theme in the list of this year, with an extension of the great Museum, a restored theater complex and innovative retrofit an old office building in the foreground, showing how even with narrow design and construction of constraints, talent and imagination can transform completely the existing structures and sites, "said Ruth Reed, President of the RIBA.
The selection of the Academy Hadid highlights a row going on between architects and the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, who demolished a main school building programme and complained that architects were "creaming off cash" contracts.
Architects have reacted angrily, saying the claim that the high cost of building schools for the program ￡ billion future (BSF) had fallen to wasteful contracts, rather than taxes. In February Gove renews his attack, telling a Conference on free schools: "we won't be getting Richard Rogers to design your school, we won't be getting any award-winning architects for the design, because nobody in this room is here to make architects richer".
In June the Conservatives claimed architects and landscape architects had received 98 million pounds in costs to build 113 schools under BSF, with the largest single fee is ￡ 2. 7 m. The Department for education said he wanted to see more standardization in design school to cut costs, triggering fresh concern at Riba.
On 2 October will be announced the winner of the Stirling Prize.
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