AJ readers poll: who you chose as your 2022 Stirling Prize winner

The scheme, featuring a hand-moulded brick structure and wooden interiors, received nearly 38 per cent of votes cast in the AJ poll, eight percentage points ahead of its nearest rival, Sands End Arts and Community Centre by Mæ Architects.

The library also recently became bookmaker William Hill’s new favourite to land the UK's most prestigious architectural prize at odds of 4/6.

Readers’ third most popular choice was Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road by Henley Halebrown, which received a fifth of the votes.

Panter Hudspith’s Orchard Gardens housing scheme at Elephant Park, south London, was the least favoured of the six contenders, mustering just 2.5 per cent of the more than 650 votes cast.

The winner of the Stirling will be announced tonight (13 October) at a ceremony at the RIBA headquarters at 66 Portland Place, London.

Source:Nick Kane

RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist 2022: The New Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge (by Níall McLaughlin Architects)

AJ poll result

38% - The New Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge (by Níall McLaughlin Architects): an exquisitely detailed timber-framed library and study space, designed to replace that previously gifted by Samuel Pepys and projected to survive for another 400 years

30% - Sands End Arts and Community Centre, London (by Mæ Architects): a welcoming, fully accessible single-storey building arranged around a disused lodge comprising flexible activity spaces and a community café.

20% - Hackney New Primary School and 333 Kingsland Road, London (by Henley Halebrown): a striking red-brick complex that uniquely combines affordable housing with a new primary school for the growing east London community.

6% - 100 Liverpool Street, London (by Hopkins Architects): a net zero development encompassing a dramatic renovation and extension of a 1980s office block to create a suite of offices and commercial and public spaces in the heart of London’s financial district.

3.5% - Forth Valley College – Falkirk Campus, Scotland (by Reiach and Hall Architects): a set of three cutting-edge higher-education facilities connected by courtyards and open learning spaces.

2.5% - Orchard Gardens, Elephant Park, London (by Panter Hudspith Architects): a playful cluster of buildings forming a new city block of 228 new homes and retail spaces wrapped around a communal garden – a major element of Elephant and Castle’s regeneration programme.