Walters & Cohen’s extension to Newnham College, Cambridge has been nominated for the prestigious EU Mies van der Rohe Award.

The Dorothy Garrod Building is the first project by a UK architect known to be in the running for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture which is open to UK and EU-based architects and to projects across Europe.

The first of two longlists will be announced next week. The pandemic has set back the award’s normal biennial schedule as judges are unable to visit the nominated buildings. The eligibility period will be extended, with the second longlist published in September, a shortlist revealed in January 2022 and the winners announced in April 2022.

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