Schools and museums vie for £20,000 architecture prize

TWO schools and three major museums are among the outstanding buildings in the running for this year's Riba Stirling Prize - but no Scottish landmarks have made the list.

Christ's College School in Guildford, Surrey, and Clapham Manor Primary School in London are vying with Oxford's Ashmolean Museum and Rome's bold contemporary art museum, Maxxi. The Bateman's Row mixed-use development in Shoreditch, London, and Neues Museum, Berlin, round off the shortlist for the 20,000 award.

Riba president Ruth Reed said the museums blossomed from the previous economic boom.

In its 15th year, the Riba Stirling Prize is awarded to the architects of the best new European building which is "built or designed in Britain".