The six shortlisted buildings for the RIBA Stirling Prize have been announced. They range from a tiny house, the 44m~2 Cork House, where material innovation has been taken to the nth degree, to the huge undertaking of the ₤1 billion London Bridge Station, designed by Grimshaw. Other shortlisted schemes come from across the UK. RSHP's Macallan Distillery and Visitor Experience is in Moray, Scotland; Feilden Fowles' Weston Gallery for Yorkshire Sculpture Park joins a seam of impressive buildings in this Sculpture Triangle around Wakefield; and in Leicestershire at Nevill Holt Opera Witherford Watson Mann reprises the remarkable muscular conservation that won it the Stirling Prize in 2013 for Astley Castle. Finally, in Norwich, a major housing scheme for the council, Goldsmith Street, all designed to Passivhaus standard, has won Mikhail Riches, with Cathy Hawley, a place on the Stirling shortlist.
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