Lanarkshire Maggie's Centre Shortlisted For Award

A Maggie's centre in Lanarkshire is in the running to be named the UK's best new building.

The cancer care centre in the grounds of Monklands Hospital in Airdrie, is one of six shortlisted for the 2015 RIBA Stirling Prize, with the eventual winner being declared on Thursday October 15.

The other nominated buildings include Manchester's revamped Whitworth gallery which was named museum of the year, Burntwood School in Wandsworth, south-west London and an affordable housing apartment block in Whitechapel, east London.

The shortlist is completed by tower blocks at NEO Bankside on London's south bank and a new library building at the University of Greenwich in south-east London.

Stephen Hodder, the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) president, said: "Every one of the six shortlisted buildings illustrates why great architecture is so valuable. It has the power to delight, inspire and comfort us at all stages of our lives; to improve a student's potential to learn, to provide a family with a decent home, and to create a sensitive and uplifting healthcare environment.

"In the shortlist we have six model buildings that will immeasurably improve the lives and well-being of all those who encounter them.

"The shortlisted projects are each surprising new additions to urban locations - hemmed in to a hospital car park, in-filling an east London square, completing a school campus - but their stand-out common quality is their exceptionally-executed crafted detail.

"From the simple palette of materials used on the Maggie's Centre, to the huge repeating facades of NEO Bankside, every detail on every building, both internally and externally, is well-executed.

"Not only are these the best new housing projects, school, university, cultural and health buildings in the country today, they are game-changers that other architects, clients and local authorities should aspire to. The RIBA Stirling Prize judges have an unenviable task.''

The Whitworth won the £100,000 Museum of the Year prize earlier this month.