so that is it from norwich city council which absolutely thrilling.brilliant people working on this from all of the consultants, everyone in the office who have to say particularly to james and henry could have lived and breathed this project and also make norwich their second home. i would also like to congratulate carter. the builders for achieving 100% certified passive house standard building. (applause) atan house standard building. (applause) at an unprecedented scale, think you guys. and together we worked very ha rd to guys. and together we worked very hard to bring it in at £1850 per square metre and i think that is important because it is a project at that price which demonstrates that with teamwork, we architects, builders, we can do it. and there are clients they can do it too. we we re are clients they can do it too. we were lucky enough to conceive this project 11 years ago. things have changed since then, they are more extreme. i think we will know we have a climate and species loss emergency so measuring have a climate and species loss

i just wanted to say that we would not be standing here if it wasn't for the vision of norwich city councild. so thrilled for norwich, because of their leadership of the local authority, so thrilled for us because we have been plugging away at this particular scheme for a very long time. yeah, thrilled, it means a lot. it's amazing that a council housing even made it onto the shortlist. so i'm certainly shocked that we have won it. but hopefully it will encourage people, other councils to think about doing this. congratulations to you both. 11 years, why has it taken such a long time? i get the feeling there have been some ups and downs along this process? i think the crash was instrumental. the project went to sleep, as so many did, in 2008—2009, around the country. and i think what happened was the government changed the financing structures of local authorities, which meant that norwich looked again at this scheme and realise that perhaps they could do it themselves. and a lot of councils are now on that journey. so there it is, the winner of this year's stirling prize for architecture.

i just wanted to say that we would not be standing here if it wasn't for the vision of norwich city councilrilled for norwich, because of their leadership of the local authority, so thrilled for us because we have been plugging away at this particular scheme for a very long time. yeah, thrilled, it means a lot. it's amazing that a council housing even made it onto the shortlist. so i'm certainly shocked that we have won it. but i think hopefully it will encourage people, other councils to think about doing this. congratulations to you both. 11 years, why has it taken such a long time? i get the feeling there have been some ups and downs along this process? i think the crash was instrumental. the project went to sleep, as so many did, in 2008—2009, around the country. and i think what happened was the government changed the financing structures for local authorities, which meant that norwich looked again at this scheme and realise that perhaps they could do it themselves. and a lot of councils are now on that journey. so there it is, the winner of this year's stirling prize for architecture.