hear the extent to which the environment pays into the planning. especially as we are on the eve of the summit that everyone is thinking, how do you build something for the long term that is going to be not to energy hungry and not use a great deal of energy to produce it? as you saw with that building just to take it straight out of the ground rather than break or steel that requires furnaces but what we are now also thinking about is a post pandemic world and i have been speaking to the chair this afternoon probably britain s most famous architect and a statements of choice for creating giants hq headquarters for creating giants hq headquarters for corporations and what s going to be happening for building gigantic airports and what s going to be happening to air travel and i asked him that he think this is a juncture or change and it s going to be that
it was only saved after a two year legal battle by its architect. was there a moment where you thought you wish you had never started this? of course. sorry, you want me to elaborate obviously. that s two and a half years of stress. it s difficult. and our final building swap steel and concrete for word. inspired by a garden of paradise, cambridge mosque is low carbon spirituality. six very different buildings but all reflecting a desire on the eve of a global climate summit to tread gently on the planet. 0ur media and arts correspondent david sillitojoins me now from coventry. it really is a prestigious prize in architecture but it s interesting to
share your story. all the best to you and yourfamily and to share your story. all the best to you and your family and to the chief executive of the charity. thank you so much. we had to cut that slightly short. it is quarter to six. we ll find out the winner of this year s stirling prize this evening, that s the search for britain s best new building. as our media and arts correspondent david sillito reports, this year s shortlist reflects how the environment has become a prime concern. kingston university s town house a home for it library, its dance studios, and also a new social hub for students. wow, this is incredible. i mjust like, yeah, i go to uni there. it s so cool. but it s also a place of solar panels and natural cooling to create a building that is less energy hungry.
site and not damage the archaeology. and when it comes to ancient history, this building in london uses some ancient methods. lumps of stone are what is keeping these flats and offers up right, a sort of high tech stonehenge. sedimentary rock, and depending on how old it is you will still find fossils within it. here you can see. this has come straight out of the ground? here is an ammonite shell. it is actually cheaper, faster and far greener to put stone buildings up. we found here that we saved 92% of the embodied carbon. had this been a steel framed building and clad in stone. this hasn t been simple. it exterior is not everyone s taste. at one point, the council was seeing to have it demolished.
also a strong theme of sustainability and also some of them ijust sustainability and also some of them i just overwhelmingly beautiful. when you walk into the mosque you are going from a residential street to garden and it s basically on the idea of the garden of paradise and there is that sense of quiet as you reach there and that s the one that s certainly had its impact on the public and the public already one the popular vote and it s the odds on favorite for tonight. the winner will be announced here on the channel at the ceremony and we begin to live at 7:30pm this evening. join us for a series of riba starting building of the year. that programme is coming up at 7:30 p.m.. researchers have developed a laser that fires droplets of liquid into