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Saturday column: Appleby Blue provides a valuable lesson for our cities

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Oct 25, 2025
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THE winner of the 2025 RIBA Stirling prize offers an inspiring blueprint for addressing some of our current housing crises.

It is also an opportunity to reflect on long-standing dilemmas in providing appropriate accommodation for all.

Architects, Witherford Watson and Mann, won the prize, for the second time, for its Appleby Blue development.

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