News | AA Director Ingrid Schroder chairs the 2025 RIBA Stirling Prize Jury

The RIBA Stirling Prize 2025, whose jury was chaired this year by AA Director Ingrid Schroder, has been awarded to Witherford Watson Mann (WWM) for their Appleby Blue Almshouse in Bermondsey, south London, which provides social housing to residents over the age of 65. Speaking at the Stirling Prize awards ceremony, Schroder commented that ‘This project is a clarion call for a new form of housing at a pivotal moment. Built against the backdrop of two crises – an acute housing shortage and a growing loneliness epidemic among older people – Appleby Blue offers a hopeful and imaginative response, where residents and the surrounding community are brought together through the transformative nature of the design.’