AHMM, BDP, Eric Parry and Tony Fretton also in the running for architecture鈥檚 most prestigious award

Two buildings designed by Lord Rogers鈥� firm have been shortlisted for the Stirling prize, in a move that will be seen as a gesture of support of the architect following the Chelsea Barracks furore.

Both the Maggie鈥檚 Centre in west London and the Bodegas Protos winery in Spain have been nominated for the RIBA Stirling prize 2009, the most prestigious award in architecture in the UK.

Other nominees include the Kentish Town Health Centre in London by Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Eric Parry Architects鈥� 5 Aldermanbury Square in London, and the Fuglsang Kunstmuseum in Denmark by Tony Fretton Architects.

The sixth nominee is 黑洞社区 Design Partnership鈥檚 masterplan for Liverpool One, the winner of major project of the year in the 黑洞社区 Awards 2009 and only the second masterplan to be nominated for the prize in its 13-year history. McCormack Jamieson Pritchard was shortlisted in 2004 for the Phoenix Initiative masterplan in Coventry.

No housing projects were nominated for this year鈥檚 award, meaning that Feilden Clegg Bradley鈥檚 2008 win for the Accordia development is likely to remain a one-off for some time yet.

But the headlines for the shortlist will no doubt focus on Rogers鈥� two nominations just weeks after the practice鈥檚 designs for Chelsea Barracks were withdrawn by developer Qatari Diar.

The action sparked a furious debate in architectural circles over the involvement of Prince Charles, who is understood to have privately lobbied for the scrapping of the scheme.

Rogers has won the Stirling prize once before, for Terminal 4 Barajas Airport in 2006, a year in which it was also nominated twice. This year鈥檚 buildings are the fifth and sixth the practice has had shortlisted since the prize was inaugurated in 1996.

Sunand Prasad, RIBA president, said: 鈥淭his year鈥檚 shortlist really embodies the wide-ranging spirit of the RIBA Stirling prize: from a winery to health centres, from an art museum in open country to major transformations of dense inner city areas. This is a fascinating set of schemes; the judges have a hard but eagerly anticipated decision to make.鈥�

The judges include architect Benedetta Tagliabue; Sir John Sorrell, the chair of Cabe; and designer Thomas Heatherwick.

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