Shortlisted for the MJ Long Prize for Excellence in Practice 2020: HawkinsBrown’s Nicola Rutt deftly condenses tech, business and creative activities in the Here East campus in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
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Hungarian rhapsody: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, by O’Donnell + Tuomey
Women in Architecture Architect of the Year 2019 winner: O’Donnell + Tuomey’s progressive building for the Central European University in Budapest, dedicated to open minds, borders and society, converses in the city’s language of courtyards and rhythmic stone
Prisons of conscience: Storstrøm Prison in Gundslev, Denmark by CF Møller
CF Møller’s Storstrøm Prison, on the Danish island of Falster, is intended to make the facility less institutional and more like a village community
A map in search of lost territory: Msheireb Downtown Doha, Qatar by Arup, AECOM and Allies and Morrison
The development of Msheireb Downtown Doha is intended to recreate the cultural roots of the district while accepting the march of time
Fruit of the loom: The Loom, London, UK by Duggan Morris Architects
AR New into Old Commended: Duggan Morris have replaced grim PoMo added to a Victorian warehouse in London’s Whitechapel with a refined material language
A host of oasts: Caring Wood by James Macdonald Wright with Niall Maxwell
This huddle of oasts, hips and ridges in the Kentish countryside lacks a potent sense of the oastness of oasts
Hampstead homestead: Netherhall Gardens in London by Brinkworth
AR House Commended: nestling by a 19th-century confection of Richard Norman Shaw, this house by Brinkworth respects elements of the old yet affords them a modern twist
‘Julia Barfield sees the BAi360 as a descendant of Brighton’s most adventurous 18th and 19th-century projects’
Architect of the Year shortlist: a doughnut-shaped travelling glass belvedere hits new heights in Brighton
‘Peter Salter’s Walmer Yard is a luxe enigma that must be swallowed whole or not at all’
At Walmer Yard in London, Peter Salter plays with asymmetries, styles and forms
Flint House in the United Kingdom by Skene Catling de la Peña
‘The house seems, by turns, sophisticated and unsophisticated, crude and beautifully crafted, artful and occult’