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A new housing secretary, the RIBA prize shortlist and the UK's first "super-university"

A new housing secretary, the RIBA prize shortlist and the UK's first "super-university"

Open City · Open City

September 17, 202530m 39s

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Show Notes

In this episode, host Sahiba Chadha is joined by architecture and design writer and features editor at STIR. Anmol Ahuja. Together they discuss:


Can the new housing secretary deliver on the government’s 1.5 million homes pledge? // The shortlist for this year’s RIBA Stirling Prize is revealed // Greenwich and Kent merger to create the UK’s first ‘super-university’ // And a Finnish architect wins the contest for a Helsinki site which has been the focus of thousands of competing designs


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