Awards

Mies van der Rohe Award 2024 finalists

20/02/2024

Colegio Reggio in Madrid (Spain), Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

The finalists for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award – have been announced: five for the main Architecture accolade, and two for Emerging Architecture.

The five shortlisted for the main Architecture accolade are: Colegio Reggio in Madrid (Spain), Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation (Madrid, Spain); Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke (Berlin, Germany); Convent of Saint-François in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, Corsica (France), by Amelia Tavella Architectes (Aix-en-Provence, France); Plato Contemporary Art Gallery in Ostrava (Czech Republic), by KWK Promes (Katowice, Poland); and Hage in Lund (Sweden), by Brendeland & Kristoffersen architects (Trondheim, Norway).

The two Emerging Architecture finalists are: the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona (Spain), by SUMA arquitectura (Madrid, Spain); and the Square and Tourist Office in Piódão (Portugal), by Branco del Rio (Coimbra, Portugal).

The winners will be announced on 25 April at an event to be held at the CIVA (Center of Information, Documentation, and Exhibitions on the city, architecture, landscape, and urbanism of Brussels – Belgium), with a conversation among a representative of the European Commission; the chairman of the international jury of the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Frédéric Druot; the director of the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion, Anna Ramos; and CIVA director Nikolaus Hirsch.

EUmies Awards Day, with the awards ceremony as highlight, is set to be held on 14 May 2024 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona and at tghe Palau Victòria Eugènia, and besides speeches by the authors of the winning and runner-up works, there will be debates with architects, clients, political officials, and jury members.