after all of that, it is just the lifts. so, where is the office? it's upstairs, so this... we cannotjust walk in there? no. we have to go up to the top? we have to go to the pantry. there is nothing holding this lift up. exactly, so these are special lifts. it is not a pulling force but a fork force. so you're pushed from below... exactly, so there is no cabling — that's why it's glass everywhere. on the sixth floor, the big reveal. this is where everyone starts their day. and these are the petals, aren't they? this incredible ceiling. those petals are new technology. they throw out light and absorb heat and sound. at the heart of the building is this central space. it is where you pick up coffee, meet and chat before heading down the winding central ramp to your desk. even the floors are new technology — engineered to muffle sound.

can you hear shoes, because it is not something that you really hear? you really need to pay attention, but... i cannot hear any shoes. exactly. so this is how the air gets in and out. there is a mechanism inside. these strange cubbyholes. and if you struggle to be heard at meetings, this room has a solution. hidden microphones and speakers can make anyone audible at any distance. so you can hear me clearly? yes, just as if you are next to me. witchcraft, eh? this is meant to be a social space to pass people, then? yes. and the man in charge of the design is michaeljones. this is the whole thing? this is the whole building — the two buildings, in fact.

the building supports this idea of people being much more fluid than being seated in a particular place. everything is encouraging people to get out of their seats, walk around a bit, bump into people, meet? correct. and there are very few meeting foottis, very few toottis where people canjust disappear. the whole idea is you do itjust in using the building. but of course, the crucial part of the project was having a billionaire willing to experiment — michael bloomberg. i have to ask the question. how much? i think it was over 1.5, maybe $1.75 billion by the time we got done. keep in mind we restored a temple, we helped build a subway stop. oh, i didn't mention the temple, did i? this is the temple of mithras.

this is around 2,000 years old, and is now finally open to the public for free. the cult of mithras itself, we know, was male. 0nly men would have been allowed in and the people who would have been worshippers were generally high—ranking merchants, or high—ranking members of the army. the bigwigs, the wealthy guys. exactly that, yes. newsreel: the remains of a roman temple have been uncovered near the mansion house in the city of london. it is the only one ever found within the city. it was discovered 64 years ago and then moved to give space for a new office block, and the redevelopment has enabled it to be returned back to its original site. but all this money and innovation does have a purpose — profit. i think companies always

look at space backwards. they have a budget for space and then they have to work with that budget to fit in people and the design of the desks and how close they all are, and what ancillary benefits you give people. they all have to be within that budget. but if you think about it, a company, particularly one like ours, they have one expense — it's people. so anything you do to make your people more efficient has got to be a better economic deal than trying to shoehorn them in. man prays.

the lord gave and the lord has taken away. blessed be the name of the lord. bushey, just to the north of london, and a solution to a space crisis. these new funeral prayer halls will be the final destination for a large part of london's jewish community. the whole building is

essentially a story. it looks so simple, but, from there, the point of light, we head down this slope towards what is the final destination. even the walls are symbolic. what you are looking at here is compacted soil. it comes from the cemetery itself and will, over the next few decades, eventually dissolve and return back to the earth. this is the prayer hall in which the funeral service will take place. lead the way. when you were told it was going to be made of compacted soil, what were your feelings? it is interesting. i had a sort of spiritual tingle. there is a passage in the bible where, after adam is expelled

from the garden of eden, and the lord says to him, "dust you are, and to dust you will return." and so to be able to have a place where you are performing a funeral service that has been made from material that's been extruded from the ground and then, at a later stage, at the end of this building's life, will return to the ground, it has certain spiritual resonance about it. beautifully symbolic. of course, there are complexities. the cohens — anyone descended from the priestly class — have to have their own separate prayer hall. and that rule about not being in a room with a coffin also applies to trees over graves. so the graves will start approximately here and will run back, and the cohen cannot walk under a canopy that is also covering a grave. when this was being built and even now...

the material itself is fascinating, because i think that there is something in the way in which we build our buildings now that is so mechanical that to actually have a building that is built by hand like this, with these blocks placed on top of each other, it is really quite moving. you have spent quite a lot of time on this, haven't you? yes. nearly ten years. bushey cemetery. one line from genesis says it all. "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return." and now, all that's left is the big question. ladies and gentlemen, the winner of the riba stirling prize for architecture 2018 is... the bloomberg building

by foster and partners. thank you, everybody. it is such an honour to be the recipient of this. of course, i'm only standing here for a whole group, an enormous group of people, who are the people behind the project. it takes a huge, huge effort to produce a building like bloomberg, so i would just like to say thank you to everybody and not least of which to mike bloomberg and norman foster who clearly led the team and were inspirational in the way in which they pushed us to innovate and pioneer a whole new way of thinking for the workplace in bloomberg. michael, i have to say, first of all, congratulations.

i think you were genuinely surprised. i was. it was such stiff competition. michaeljones of foster and partners, but this is far from the work ofjust one architect. it is a huge team, and a very singular client with the vision and a great deal of money. is there anything he said no to? "there are limits, michael." he used to say. sometimes yes, but he did say, on the other hand, never don't show me something because it has not been done before or... always show me what there is but there are limits, and we had a budget and the two things had to come together. a massive budget. congratulations. there it is, the winner of this year's riba stirling building of the year. however, while it stands out, it shares much in common with the other buildings.

not only did it look beautiful, it felt beautiful, it was inspiring, and it sounded great. all of these human puzzles and problems solved by the nominated buildings of this year's stirling building of the year. i hope you enjoyed it. hello there. after storm callum and a temperature of 26 degrees the next few days will be a fair bit quieter. we have everything coming in from the atlantic. very slowly, mind you. this cloud across the other side of the atlantic arrives during tuesday and will probably die down towards iberia where we are feeding up most of —— most of our cloud at the moment bringing outbreaks of rain. much drier across wales with even sunshine earlier today as a result the number of flood warnings have

been dropping and we should continue to see river levels generally dropping as well. the rain is much further east, and here in lincolnshire we struggle to make double—figure temperatures today compared with 26 of yesterday. the rain has eased off for a while but will start to pepped up again and could return pushing a little further west towards the west country even across into southeast wales. a fair bit of cloud for england and wales, clearer skies for the northwest means temperatures typically in eastern scotla nd temperatures typically in eastern scotland not far away from freezing. scotla nd scotland not far away from freezing. scotland and northern ireland seeing more sunshine developing more widely, showers of the northwest meeting away, he went and north wales away from the far north and far west seeing cloud and further outbreaks of rain could be heavy at times, mainly the midlands across lincolnshire, east anglia and in the southeast although we could get late sunshine giving temperatures of a big boost otherwise 11—15 summing it up. to weather front him as we had to monday into tuesday and both slowing down and weakening as well. that first one responsible for the rain on monday is more going to

bring an area of cloud only for the midlands and east of england so mist and fog also slowly lifting. we see the next grub to lead a weather front bringing in a narrow band of rain and drizzle but much on that and either side of that which will bring brighter skies and sunshine as well. temperatures probably a little higher across the midlands into eastern england whilst sunshine comes out. the weather front coming in from the atlantic takes the rain eastward, not much on that end of the next weather front focuses the showers into the northwest of scotla nd showers into the northwest of scotland and northern ireland. 0ne oi’ scotland and northern ireland. 0ne or two coming into the western side of england and wales but those tending to fade away later in the day. still stuck with this area of cloud which might bring rain and drizzle across east anglia and the southeast but elsewhere a quieter day, brighter day, the more sunshine around and temperatures again typically 13—17dc. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall.

the headlines at 8pm. a pause in the brexit negotiations — the eu's chief negotiator michel barnier says despite crunch talks with the brexit secretary in brussels today there are still key unresolved issues. as ambassadors from the other 27 member countries meet ahead of wednesday's crucial summit, cabinet ministers urge the conservative party to rally around theresa may. this is the crucial stage of the negotiations. we can get there, i believe we will get there, but this is the time to stand rock solid behind theresa may and back our prime minister. after the storm, the clean up — roads and railways continue to struggle after a battering from storm callum. france, germany and the uk issue a joint statement demanding a "credible investigation" in to the disappearance of the journalist, jamal khashoggi —