Stirling prize 2015 shortlist highlights UK's desperate housing crisis

There are no flashy baubles by famous names, as the contenders for the best building of the year reflect the chastened times in which they were designed
Some of the most expensive luxury flats in London will go head to head with a social housing scheme in the same city, in the race to win the Stirling prize for best building of the year, on a shortlist that reflects the vivid extremes of the UK’s desperate housing crisis.The sharply sculpted glass towers of Neo Bankside, by Lord Richard Rogers