Herzog de Meuron and David Chipperfield Architects are to battle it out to design a ￡200m masterplan for Lord's cricket ground, writes Dan Stewart. It is understood that the shortlist of five architects that was revealed in April, including BDP, Dixon Jones and Hopkins Architects, has been slimmed down to the two. A winner will be announced shortly. The successful candidate will work on a masterplan to revamp the facilities in London and convert an on-site school into an "international cricket laboratory" to train young players. David Chipperfield, the winner of last year's Stirling prize, had been considered an outsider, given its relative lack of experience on sports and leisure projects compared with BDP, the architect behind the Aintree grandstand. Hopkins, which designed the Mound Stand at Lord's had been considered a favourite for the job.
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