Grafton’s Kingston University Town House, Heatherwick’s Maggie’s Centre in Leeds and Mole’s Marmalade Lane co-housing in Cambridge have all been longlisted for a prestigious EU architecture award.

Marks Barfield’s Cambridge mosque and Niall McLaughlin’s Auckland Tower in County Durham are also contenders for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, known as the Mies van der Rohe Award.

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe today announced 449 projects from 279 cities in 41 countries had made it to the first part of the longlist. A second longlist will be unveiled in the autumn taking in more recent projects. The organisers had to extend the biennial award programme into an extra year because the pandemic forced a halt to judging visits.

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