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Stirling Prize for Architecture

Camden, London. Tue 8 Oct 2019



 

 People begin to go into the Roundhouse for the Stirling Prize awards ceremony - but hte protestes have not yet arrived

 A woman comes over to shout at Simon Elmer and pushes him

 the goes into the ceremony with some of her colleagues carrying an ugly Alexander McQueen handbag

 They are going in to a champagne reception - so the protesters decide to have a glass of Cava

 

 One of them is holding my glass while I take pictures. Thanks for the drink Geraldine

 Simon Elmer of Architects for Social Housing (ASH) begins to speak

 

 People arrive for the Stirling Prize. Most try to ignore the protest, but some take picturs

 Hannah Caller from the Revolutionary Communist Group - Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! speaks

 

 More from Simon Elmer - you can read his thoughts on the ASH web site

 Architects on their way in

 liver Wainwright, the Guardian's architecture and design critic speaks supporting much of ASH's criticisms

 before he goes into the event.

 Sid Skill from Class War arrives with posters 'RIBA ROyal Institue of Billionaires' Arselickers'

 and some protesters pose for photographs with them

 

 

 Someone going into the prize ceremony stops to photograph the protest on his phone

 

 

 Another architect comes to talk with the protesters

 

 

 

 

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