LONDON.- The Canadian War Museum in Ottawa by Moriyama and Teshima Architects/Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects in joint venture; the Red Location Museum of the People’s Struggle in South Africa by Noero Wolff Architects; and the Terrence Donnelly Centre in Toronto, by Behnisch Architekten with architects Alliance are the three contenders for the Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) inaugural Lubetkin Prize, supported by The Architectural Review, for the most outstanding work of architecture outside the UK and the European Union by an RIBA member.

The presentation of the Lubetkin Prize will form the climax of the RIBA Awards dinner and ceremony, to be held at the London Hilton Hotel on Friday 23 June 2006, during Architecture Week. At the ceremony, the winners of the RIBA Awards and the RIBA European Awards, (both eligible for The RIBA Stirling Prize in association with The Architects’ Journal) will also be announced.

The full list of RIBA International Award winners, from which the Lubetkin Prize shortlist has been selected, is:

173-176 Perry Street, New York, United States - Richard Meier & Partners A Bridge in Maosi Village, China - Department of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong British Council, Lagos, Nigeria - Allies and Morrison Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, Canada - Moriyama and Teshima Architects / Griffiths Rankin Cook Architects in joint venture Dulnyouk Publishers, South Korea - Foreign Office Architects Kasetlett School, Oslo, Norway - div.A arkitekter as Red Location Museum of the People's Struggle, New Brighton, South Africa - Noero Wolff Architects Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Canada - by Behnisch Architekten with architects Alliance The Wohl Centre, Israel - Studio Daniel Libeskind with architects The Heder Partnership Zurich Airport, Switzerland – Grimshaw.