Well, I’m a bit surprised. Only a day to go before close of polling in our “Stirling of Stirlings” – to decide the best building of the past 175 years – and some famous names aren’t making the cut for our final shortlist.

Wot, no Foster? And no Lutyens? And no Royal Festival Hall?

Maybe the fact that Lutyens and Foster both had three buildings each out of our list of 49 meant that some of their votes cancelled each other out. I must add up the total votes cast per architect and see how Norm compares to Ned. I’m also a bit sad not to see either of the two Stirling buildings make it through – unless there’s a last-minute voting spurt, of course. 

Their loss is the gain of Rogers (Pompidou Centre) and Grimshaw (Eden Project), not to mention the oddity of this vote – Congress House, HQ of the TUC, by David du Rieu Aberdeen.

As I write, this has pushed the Royal Festival Hall off the top spot for its period. I didn’t think that many knew about it. Has the trades union movement been voting en masse? 

It’s also a phoenix-from-the-flames moment for the Crystal Palace, the only building on our putative shortlist that, um, doesn’t exist any more. It burned down in 1936, remember. 

But who is the most popular so far out of all our architects? Well, on the basis of numbers of votes cast per building, it has to be our old friend Toshie. That’s Charles Rennie Mackintosh, for his Glasgow School of Art. Does this make him favourite to be the overall winner, once our judges congregate on Monday? We shall see. They’re an opinionated lot.