Stirling Prize veterans RSHP, Witherford Watson Mann and Grimshaw have secured final-six places on the 2019 shortlist for the highest prize in UK architecture.

The remaining slots all go to first-time contenders – Matthew Barnett Howland with Dido Milne and Oliver Wilton, Mikhail Riches with Cathy Hawley and Feilden Fowles Architects.

With finalists all drawn from the 50-plus pool of RIBA National Award winners announced last month, many sector-watchers will be surprised that Kengo Kuma’s V&A Dundee is absent from the list. 

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