The new stadium built for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London has made the shortlist for Britain's top architecture honor -- the Stirling Prize, from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
Other structures to make this year's shortlist are the Lyric Theater in Belfast, Northern Ireland; the Hepworth building in Wakefield, England; Maggie's Centre in Glasgow, Scotland; the New Court in London; and the Sainsbury Laboratory in Cambridge, England.
OMA, the firm headed by Rem Koolhaas, is represented in the shortlist by two structures -- Maggie's Centre, which is a healthcare facility; and the New Court, corporate headquarters for Rothschild Bank, on which OMA collaborated with the firm Allies & Morrison.
The announcement of the winner is scheduled to take place Oct. 13.
The previous Summer Olympic Games took place in Beijing in 2008. The Beijing stadium -- nicknamed The Bird's Nest -- was designed by Herzog & de Meuron, working in partnership with artist Ai Weiwei.
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