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The short listed buildings
Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
This light, agile new building for the Rothschild banking dynasty is a model of discretion when contrasted with its attention-seeking City neighbours
Sainsbury Laboratory at Cambridge University, by Stanton Williams
This laboratory in the University of Cambridge’s Botanic Gardens is the ideal habitat for botanists
Hepworth Wakefield, by David Chipperfield Architects
Chipperfield’s gallery, which opens this week, draws on the power and heritage of its mill-town setting
Maggie’s Centre Gartnavel by OMA
OMA wilfully subverts expectations at its Glasgow Maggie’s Centre, which melts unassumingly into the background.
Lyric Theatre in Belfast by O’Donnell & Tuomey
O’Donnell & Tuomey’s joyful new building is the stuff of theatrical legends,
London 2012 Olympic stadium by Populous
Despite a spiralling budget and uncertainty over its legacy, Populous’s Olympic stadium emerges as a lithe all-rounder.
Inside the Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge
Stanton Williams, AKT II and Kier discuss the design, specification and construction of the Stirling nominated Sainsbury Laboratory
Video: Rothschild Bank headquarters, London, by OMA
Rem Koolhaas and Ellen van Loon of OMA speak exlusively to BD of their rejection of the ‘rat race of extravagance’
David Chipperfield's Hepworth Gallery
David Chipperfield reveals more about the concept behind the nationally acclaimed Hepworth gallery in Wakefield, Yorkshire
Video: OMA's Maggie's Centre completes
OMA partner Ellen van Loon talks exclusively to BD about the practices’ cancer care centre at Gartnavel in Glasgow











