The seven finalists for this yr’s version of the Mies van der Rohe Award have been revealed and embrace a Czech artwork gallery, an city area in southern Sweden and a copper-clad convent in France.
The nominated tasks embrace 5 structure finalists and two rising finalists from six completely different international locations.
Within the structure class, the nominees embrace two instructional tasks – The Research Pavilion on the campus of the Technical College of Braunschweig in Germany by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke and The Reggio College in Spain by Andres Jaque’s Workplace for Political Innovation.
It additionally consists of two transformations of historic buildings. These are the adaptive reuse of a slaughterhouse that was became an artwork gallery in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, by KWK Promes and the Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, France, by Amelia Tavella Architectes.
The Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François is a mission involving the renovation and extension of a Fifteenth-century convent with a perforated copper quantity.
Häge in Lund, Sweden, by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects is the fifth finalist within the structure class. The design options an enclosed backyard, in addition to a corten-steel pavilion.
The 2 rising finalists this yr had been the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona, Spain, by SUMA Arquitectura and the Sq. and Vacationer Workplace in Piódão, Portugal, by Branco del Rio.
All seven finalists had been chosen for his or her inclusivity and risk to change into “international European fashions”.
“The jury considers that the seven finalist works encourage and change into references for native metropolis insurance policies which might change into international European fashions, as a result of all of them create high-quality inclusive residing environments,” the jury mentioned.
“Most of them rework and enhance the circumstances of somewhat small communities in locations that had gone by means of completely different processes of oblivion: former industrial areas and small rural villages. These works in greater cities are applied in somewhat peripheric areas, constructing robust associations with the present neighbourhoods.”
The jury was chaired by architect Frédéric Druot and likewise included architect Martin Braathen, architect Sala Makumbundu, CEO of consulting firm BSFY Adriana Krnáčová and founding father of Njiric+ Arhitekti Hrvoje Njiric.
The winners for each the structure and rising classes be introduced on 25 April 2024 throughout an occasion at CIVA (Centre for Info, Documentation and Exhibitions on the town, structure, panorama and concrete planning) in Brussels.
The Mies van der Rohe Award is given out by the European Fee and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
In 2022, the structure award was given to RIBA Gold Medal Award-winning studio Grafton Architects. The studio’s City Home, a collonaded instructing constructing designed for Kingston College in London, turned the final UK winner as tasks within the nation are now not eligible to participate after it left the European Union.
Earlier award winners additionally embrace a social housing revamp in France (2019) and Barozzi Veiga’s Szczecin Philharmonic Corridor in Poland (2015).
