The prize is indeed to make better places for people to live. So why are we building such appalling schemes?

A star architect's name doesn't make a slab 27-storey tower any good, especially facing prevailing wind. Demolishing most and gutting the Conservation Area and building new, too small and dark in a layout www.spacesyntax.com knows would promote anti social behaviour does nothing to improve matters.

So why, less than a mile away, has the Mayor called in a scheme where, far from checking sunlight, the applications show the sun in the northwest www.savearchwaycampus.org?