Half of the slots on the 2023 Stirling Prize shortlist have been snared by practices making their debut in the final round of the highest accolade in British architecture, RIBA has revealed.

Adam Khan Architects, Sergison Bates Architects and Apparata Architects are all first-timers in the endgame of the Stirling fray.

They are joined by 2013 winners Witherford Watson Mann Architects, Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios – which won in 2008 in conjunction with Alison Brooks Architects and Maccreanor Lavington, and Mæ Architects, which was shortlisted for the first time last year.

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