The 5 Architecture finalist works are the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery in Ostrava (Moravia-Silesia, CZ) by KWK Promes (Katowice, PL); the Study Pavilion on the Campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Lower Saxony, DE) by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke (Berlin, DE); the Reggio School in Madrid, (Community of Madrid, ES) by ANDRES JAQUE / OFFICE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION (Madrid, ES); the Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano / Santa Lucia de Tallà (Corsica, FR) by Amelia Tavella Architectes (Aix en Provence, FR); and the Häge in Lund (Scania County, SE) by Brendeland & Kristoffersen architects (Oslo, NO).
The 2 Emerging finalist works are the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona (Catalonia, ES) by SUMA arquitectura (Community of Madrid, ES) and the Square and Tourist Office in Piódão (Central Portugal, PT) by Branco del Rio (Coimbra, PT).
Plato Contemporary Art Gallery
By saving a historic building and turning it into an art gallery, we have introduced a solution that makes art more democratic. By rotating the walls in an unusual way, it goes outside the building. We transformed the space around the gallery, which had previously been contaminated, into a biodiverse art park for the benefit of local residents.
Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
The study pavilion on the TU Braunschweig campus is an innovative and highly flexible learning environment that promotes social exchange and interdisciplinary knowledge generation between students and teachers alike and represents a counter-model to spaces of hierarchical knowledge transfer.
Reggio School
The design, construction and use of the Reggio School is intended to exceed the paradigm of sustainability to engage with ecology as an approach where environmental impact, more-than-human alliances, material mobilization, collective governance and pedagogies intersect through architecture.
Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François
French studio Amelia Tavella Architectes renovated and extended a 15th-century convent on the island of Corsica, adding a perforated copper volume. Built-in 1480, the part-ruined Saint-Francois Convent is positioned on a hill overlooking a village and mountainous landscape.
Hage
Hage is a high quality public space that should both work as a short term space for public discussion, events and workshops, while also, in a long-term perspective, offer a meditative, beautiful urban space and garden at the heart of a new neighbourhood. Open to everyone, it is a response to the question of how to build a new community: start with social space.
Gabriel García Márquez Library
The García Márquez is a pioneering and landmark library that culminates a three-decade plan building these facilities in Barcelona. It serves a working class and vindictive neighborhood, lacking significant investment for years, that demanded its “people’s palace” ever since and now enjoys the “best new library in the world”, according to IFLA.
Square and Tourist Office, Piódão
The only flat and open area of the steeped village of Piódão is given back its dignity as welcoming lobby and gathering place. What was previously a parking lot has been redesigned, paved and partially shaded using traditional materials and techniques. The space was given back to its people following their material and constructive culture.
