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Good for RogersStrickHarbour that they won the Stirling prize after a turbulent year of fighting the Prince of Wales, but their Maggie’s Cancer Centre doesn’t make my hart beat faster, even though the building serves a great cause.

The sterling work by the nominees for the 2009 YAYA’s (Young Architect of the Year Award) certainly does. Check them out on Building Design’s website.
Winners to be announced on the 5th of November.

I favour the all girls team Glowacka Rennie Architects with exciting work ranging from quirky small scale projects to large scale bridges and Office for Subversive Architecture (OSA), who venture outside the architectural boundaries into art installations.

Glowacka Rennie’s V&A Women’s toilets.

Office for Subversive Architecture’s ‘Accumulator’.
The Accumulator’s fabric funnel directed leaking rainwater into the disused Leeds International Swimming Pool last year.