Max Hacke Gustav Düsing   Germany   The organizational principle behind this project was based on the idea of a superstructure allowing for constant reconfiguration of the floor plan. The two-level, glass-clad building raised for the Technical University of Braunschweig, in the German

Grafton Architects   United Kingdom   A warehouse of ideas, a labyrinth of interlocking volumes, layers of welcome joining community and university, Town House came into existence born of Kingston University’s progressive educational vision. In this building, sound and silence, exuberant

Bast   France   Winner of the 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award for Emerging Architecture, this school cafeteria designed by the Toulouse firm Bast is located in Montbrun-Bocage, a commune in France’s Haute-Garonne department, close to the Pyrenees. Named E26, the timber

NL Architects XVW architectuur   Netherlands   Inspired in the ‘do-it-yourself’ philosophy, the intervention centers on the facade and the circulation cores, and leaves the finishes inside the apartments for the tenants to complete in the course of time.

Frédéric Druot Lacaton & Vassal Christophe Hutin   France   The housing crisis of the 1960s led to the construction in the northen part of the city of Bordeaux of the Cité du Grand Parc, a large-scale urban project that addressed the growing demand for dwellings in the aftermath of World War II. Now, in the f

Barozzi Veiga   Poland   Like a glacier splinter trapped in the heart of the city, the building gives character to an area that was much destroyed by bombings of the Allied air forces during World War II.

Henning Larsen   Iceland   In spite of the economic crisis, Iceland saw the completion of its most iconic building: Harpa. Its skin has been designed in collaboration with the artist Olafur Eliasson. 

Mansilla + Tuñón   Spain   The MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León) takes up a flat and large surface in the center of León, not too far away from the Plaza de San Marcos and the Ciudad de León Auditorium, and not too far from its emblematic cathedral. The bui

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   In 1997 David Chipperfield Architects won an international competition for the restoration of Friedrich August Stüler’s Neues Museum, originally built between 1841 and 1859. Located on Museum Island in the heart of the former East Berlin, the buildin

Snøhetta   Norway   La Asamblea Nacional de Noruega decidió en 1999 que la nueva Ópera de Oslo se emplazara en Bjørvika, una zona de la capital situada en la orilla de su fiordo. El edificio, cuya construcción supone el primer paso de un plan de desarrollo para esta áre

Rafael Moneo   Spain   San sebastián has always been dominated by the extraordinary features of its geography, but in many ways owes its current physiognomy to the coast wall that led to the construction of the Zurriola quarter in 1919. An exceptional spot in this new are

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max

‘Out & About. Discovering Architecture. EUmies Awards 2024’ will take place from April onwards in over 30 European places in which the shortlisted works of the prize are located. Organised by Creative Europe, Fundació Mies van der Rohe and t

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

The forty architectural works shortlisted for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Awards have been announced. The EUmies Awards for Architecture and Emerging are granted biennially to acknowledge projects c

The awardees are: María de la O Molina Pérez-Tomé (Madrid School of Architecture), for the project ‘Eden Archipelago’: Laura Hurley (School of Engineering and Architecture, SEFS of the University College Cork & Munster Technological University), for

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2022 have been announced in Brussels. Town House at Kingston Univertsity in London – by Dublin-based Grafton Architects, led by Yvonne Farrell and She

The European Commission and the Fundació van der Rohe have revealed the names of the finalists in the competition for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, five in the principal Architecture section an

The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation have announced the 40 works shortlisted for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, among which are 5 in Spain (85 social housing units in Cor

530 Dwellings in Bordeaux Refurbishing the collective housing constructions built during the boom of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the main problems in European cities. A problem that, faced with common sense and talent, can lead to projects that are

The jury of the Mies van der Rohe Award decided to give the ‘Emerging Architecture’ prize to the Toulouse-based firm BAST for the school cafeteria that it built in Montbrun-Bocage, a commune in France’s Haute-Garonne department, near the Pyrenees. Th

The revamp of housing estates erected during the developmentalism of the 1950s and 1960s is one of the major problems that European cities are now having to deal with. It is a problem that, if addressed with a combination of talent and common sense,

Fundación Mies van der Rohe   The works vying for this year's Mies Award have been announced, including six built in Spain. The prize-winning ceremony will take place on 7 May.

The biennial European Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has gone to the unique renovation of the deFlat Kleiburg residential complex in Amsterdam, built by the Dutch firms NL Architects and XVW architectuur. The other fina

Besides the Pritzker, the EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture – or simply the Mies van der Rohe Award – is the only trophy that gets hype in the more generalized communications media. Thus the great expectation surrounding the announcement of the

The Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Center in Reykjavik, by the Danish firm Henning Larsen Architects, designed in collaboration with the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson and the local studio Batteriid, is the 2013 winner of the biennial Mie

Neues Museum, Berlín Presented every two years, the Mies van der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture prizes the quality of architectural production in Europe. In the 2011 edition the prize has gone to the restoration of the Neues Museum of Berli

El proyecto de rehabilitación de una vivienda en el centro histórico de Gerona —diseñado por Ramón Bosch y Elisabet Capdeferro— ha merecido la Mención Especial Arquitecto Emergente en la última edición de los premios Mies van der Rohe. Concebido por

El premio Mies van der Rohe 2011 ha sido concedido al Neues Museum de Berlín, diseñado por Sir David Chipperfield, que suma este galardón al Gran Premio del Patrimonio Europeo 2010 recibido por el mismo edificio y a la Medalla de Oro del RIBA, distin

Norwegian National Opera & Ballet  With a biennial character and granted by the Mies van der?Rohe Foundation of Barcelona and the European Union, the main purpose of the Mies Award is to acknowledge the quality of architectural production i

Un iceberg transitable a orillas del fiordo, así se podría describir la Ópera de Oslo, obra del estudio noruego Snøhetta, ganadora del último premio Mies van der Rohe. El marcado carácter público del edificio, que resuelve la conexión de la ciudad co

MUSAC The Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León, also known as MUSAC, by the architectsLuis Moreno Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón, won the seventh edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award. Among the 272 proposals from 32 countries, the jury of inter

Gonzalo Sotelo   Influido en su juventud por la precisión estructural de su padre —ingeniero de puertos y canales—, Mendes da Rocha despliega una producción coherente reconocida con los premios Pritzker y Mies latinoamericano. En la entrevista contenida en este volum

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Luis Moreno Mansilla   Emilio Tuñón   Luis M. Mansilla: Many things that happen in life are a mix of intention and chance. My father was a naval engineer, but on my mother’s side, too, there were people connected to art. The time came to choose a path and I asked my twin brother, “What a

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