Manchester’s Civil Justice Centre may have found favour with ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s eminent panel of judges, but the verdict went in favour of Kingsdale School in our web poll, reports Katie Puckett

This year, using a series of videos, we gave visitors to our website the chance to go through the keyholes of all eight schemes nominated for ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½â€™s 2008 Major Project of the Year award, and choose their favourite through the entirely unscientific medium of internet voting.

The music and sports buildings at Kingsdale School in Dulwich, south-east London (below), emerged victorious. Designed by architect de Rijke Marsh Morgan, the project narrowly beat Kingspan’s super-green Lighthouse at the BRE innovation park, with just over a third of the votes. In third place was Haworth Tompkins’ Stirling prize-nominated Young Vic theatre, with 16%.

Though our panel of judges selected Manchester’s filing-cabinet-cum-Civil-Justice-Centre as the winner, this scheme came fourth in our online survey. Incidentally, Ken Shuttleworth’s thoughts on the Civil Justice Centre can be seen on ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ TV.

Bovis Lend Lease may have scooped the Integrated Supply Chain of the Year award for Bankside 123, but this project got less than 5% of online votes – perhaps the team needs to attempt an integrated approach to rigging online ballots … same goes for the teams at the O2 Arena, King’s Cross St Pancras station and Urban Splash’s Fort Dunlop.

Postscript

• The polls may be closed, but you can still watch videos of all the shortlisted projects at www.building.co.uk/projectoftheyear.

• Ken Shuttleworth on Melbourne and Manchester www.building.co.uk/buildingtv.

• Full coverage of the ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Awards in 'ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Awards: 'This is the most fantastic industry' '