gerard carty, thanks for speaking _ you in this building.ow many chance encounters there were, hammy conversations, honey smiles, how much laughter in the building and a building which is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year's riba stirling prize building of the year. thank you. hello. it has been a decidedly mixed weather day across the uk. some of us stayed with cloud, others got sunshine but has regained don't even think cloud will win out, producing outbreaks of quite heavy rain especially across southern scotland, northern england, and even further south—east. male by the end of the night and most was that little bit chilly northern scotland where we held under clear skies. could be a theme is patches around as well and then into tomorrow expects a loss of cloud in some outbreaks of rain other that they intends to turn lighter and patchy as the day wears on. there will be some sunny spots and get an income of the northern isles doing quite well for sunshine and parts of southern england, south wales, may

gerard carty, thank you very much indeed. congratulations.building will be to look at how many chance encounters there are, how many conversations, how many smiles, how much laughter there was in the building, and a building that is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year's riba stirling building of the year. with that, thank you. hello. thursday is going to feel chilly — especially when we contrast it with the temperatures we had at the start of the week, when we were getting daytime highs in the high teens, even the low—20s. and it will feel all the more cold because we'll pick up a keen northerly wind. the cold air plunging in behind this weather front, sinking south overnight. ahead of it, some heavy rain which pull off into the continent. and then, through thursday daytime, we open the floodgates for cold air to sweep all the way south through the uk. we'll start the day with some cloud and rain to the south, the weather front pulling away, making way for lots of sunshine come the afternoon — but there will

gerard carty, thanks for speaking to us. but congratulation.nd they said one measure of how successful the building was would be looking at how many chance encounters there were, how many conversations, how many smiles, how much laughter in the building and a building which is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year's riba stirling prize building of the year. thank you. well, for most of us today, cloudy and damp and the next few days will also be very, very mild for the time of the year. but with that, we will have spells of wind and rain too, so very autumnal, but the temperatures will be quite a story, i think, by the time we get to tuesday. could even be over 20 degrees in some spots in the south. but this is the picture today. an awful lot of cloud, but having said that, thinner cloud in the south and south—west, so i would not be surprised if we get some decent sunny spells there. cornwall, devon, along the southern counties — temperatures in the high teens. but despite the cloud across the north, still up to

gerard carty, thanks for speaking to us. congratulations.ne measure of how successful the building was would be looking at how many chance encounters there were, how many conversations, how many smiles, how much laughter in the building and a building which is a celebration of togetherness. it feels a fitting winner of this year's riba stirling prize building of the year. thank you. hello. i fancy you'll be delving into different sections of your autumn wardrobe through the week ahead. certainly some waterproofs required during the first half — we're going to see spells of wet and windy weather, punctuated by some sunnier moments, but temperatures will be a big contrast as well. to start the week, with low pressure across the atlantic, we're actually going to drag our air up from the tropics — some unusually mild air coming ourway. but as that low pressure pushes its way eastwards, we may see the return of sunshine more widely, but there will be a brief shot ofarctic air coming in from the north. that's a long way off to begin with, though,

my name is gerard carty, and we are sitting in the town house at kingston university, which is a buildingublic. i really love being in the foyer because you watch the buses going up and down, you see people on buses looking in, and they probably say to themselves, "what goes on in there, now? i must come back and have a look sometime." for me, the thing that makes town house really special is the combination of things. i suppose it's the light, it's the space, it's the views out from the building. it's quite soft, i think, actually, for a building that is predominantly concrete. it really lends itself to encounters between staff and student, student to students, and that's really important to us, that's the feel we were hoping to create with the building. the ceiling has these specially—made acoustic baffles, which absorb sound. the wall panelling itself is kind of striated. in this building, you have two different aspects — a library and a dance faculty, in the one space. from an acoustic point of view, you have to keep them apart, but from an ideological and cultural point of view, you