With exactly one month to go until the winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize 2023 is announced, Mæ has consolidated its lead in betting on the six-strong shortlist, according to bookmaker William Hill.

Mæ’s John Morden Centre in Blackheath was joint favourite with Sergison Bates Architects’ Lavender Hill Courtyard Housing in Clapham on the day the finalists vying for the highest accolade in UK architecture were announced. At the time, both practices’ projects had odds of 3/1.

Nearly two weeks later William Hill has Mæ at 7/4 and most closely trailed by Apparata Architects’ A House for Artists in Barking at 7/2 – a considerable move up the field for the Stirling first-timers who started at 5/1.

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