2022 EU Mies Award reward a University and a residential building
25/04/2022.
[BCN] Spain
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
metalocus, JOSÉ JUAN BARBA
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe have revealed the winner of the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award:
The Jury considered the winner in the Architecture category
- Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects
and
in the Emerging Architecture category
- La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol. Arquitectura Cooperativa
- Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects
and
in the Emerging Architecture category
- La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol. Arquitectura Cooperativa
In an edition marked by the pandemic, which delayed its celebration and generated an extension of the period to include proposals completed according to the new calendar. The Jury of the Prize highlights the importance of architecture that delves into the possibility of changing mindsets and policies and the relevance of inclusiveness.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Alice Clancy. 2. La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Dennis Gilbert.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Dennis Gilbert.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Dennis Gilbert.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Jim Stephenson.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Dennis Gilbert.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Dennis Gilbert.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Alice Clancy.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Alice Clancy.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Alice Clancy.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Alice Clancy.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
Town House - Kingston University by Grafton Architects. Photograph by Ed Reeve.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Baku Akazawa.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Baku Akazawa.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Lacol.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Lacol.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Baku Akazawa.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Baku Akazawa.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Chopo.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Lacol.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation of Barcelona.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation of Barcelona.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Cooperative Architecture. Photograph by Municipal Institute of Housing and Rehabilitation of Barcelona.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Lluc Miralles.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Álvaro Valdecantos.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Álvaro Valdecantos.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Gabriel López.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Gabriel López.
La Borda - Cooperative Housing by Lacol, Arquitectura Cooperativa. Photograph by Gabriel López.
The two award-winning projects have been chosen from a list of 532 works from 279 in 41 European countries. After the first selection of 40 projects, 5 finalists were visited by the jury accompanied by the authors of the works, clients or promoters and users.
The 2022 Prize edition is the last edition under which the UK was eligible and therefore the Town House has been able to win. From now on, entities from the United Kingdom are not eligible since the United Kingdom signed on 1 February 2020 the withdrawal from the European Union.
2022 WINNER
→ Town House - Kingston University in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Architects.- Grafton Architects
Program: Education.
The 2022 Prize edition is the last edition under which the UK was eligible and therefore the Town House has been able to win. From now on, entities from the United Kingdom are not eligible since the United Kingdom signed on 1 February 2020 the withdrawal from the European Union.
2022 WINNER
→ Town House - Kingston University in London, UNITED KINGDOM
Architects.- Grafton Architects
Program: Education.
The client is Kingston University and it is rewarded for its remarkable environmental quality that creates an excellent atmosphere for studying, dancing, gathering and being together. The building creates an emotional experience from within and through the multi-level façade colonnade that creates a domestic atmosphere on different levels. It accommodates dance, library and study spaces using layers of silence and layers of sound which work perfectly well together. This is the first time that a university building wins the architecture prize and it shows that there is a need for public educational projects with the quality of this one, which dignifies people’s lives through education and being together and gives the same educational possibilities to everybody.
“Inspired by the progressive educational vision presented in the brief, and the wish to connect with the community, we responded by arranging the program in a three-dimensional matrix, one singular complex space that links the various elements of the brief, giving at the same time to each part its identity, a place where spaces and uses interlock, and connect physically or visually, creating an environment that encourages overlap and exchange.”
EMERGING ARCHITECTURE 2022
→ La Borda - Cooperative Housing in Barcelona, SPAIN
Architects.- Lacol. Arquitectura Cooperativa.
Program.- Collective housing.
This cooperative project is transgressive in its context because although housing production is mainly dominated by macroeconomic interests, in this case, the model is based on co-ownership and co-management of shared resources and capacities. The model goes beyond the specific project of cooperative housing: the studio is also run as a cooperative where fourteen professionals with different expertise offer a role model and an active tool for promoting political and urban change from within the system, based on social, ecological and economic sustainability.
“La Borda cooperative housing is a self-organized development to access decent, nonspeculative housing. The cooperative prioritised making a building with minimal environmental impact, both in its construction and its lifetime. Another basic objective is to eliminate the possibility of energy poverty among its users, which some of them suffered due to the high cost of energy. The initial strategy of the project to reduce energy demand has been the optimisation of the program, renouncing the underground car parking, grouping services and reducing the surface of the houses.”
On 12 May, the Awards Ceremony will take place at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.
The jury was formed by Tatiana Bilbao, Francesca Ferguson, Mia Hägg, Triin Ojari, Georg Pendl, Spiros Pengas and Marcel Smets.
The €60,000 biennial prize, which is the most prestigious in European architecture, was launched in 1987 to highlight the contribution of European architects to the development of new ideas and technologies in contemporary urban development. It is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
The jury was formed by Tatiana Bilbao, Francesca Ferguson, Mia Hägg, Triin Ojari, Georg Pendl, Spiros Pengas and Marcel Smets.
The €60,000 biennial prize, which is the most prestigious in European architecture, was launched in 1987 to highlight the contribution of European architects to the development of new ideas and technologies in contemporary urban development. It is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
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Yvonne Farrell - Shelley McNamara. Grafton Architects
Grafton Architects was established in 1978. Directors Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara are both graduates of UCD, are Fellows of the RIAI, are International Honorary Fellows of the RIBA and are elected members of Aosdána, the eminent Irish Art organisation.
Teachers at the School of Architecture at University College Dublin from 1976 to 2002, they have been visiting professors at Accademia d’Archittettura, Mendrisio, EPFL, Lausanne, held the Kenzo Tange chair at GSD Harvard and the Louis Kahn chair at Yale University.
They have been external examiners at numerous universities including Cambridge University and The London Metropolitan School of Architecture. As well as public lectures in Dublin and abroad, including the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin and the Royal Academy in London, they have lectured widely in European and American Schools of Architecture.
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara. 2020 PRITZKER ARCHITECTURE PRIZE
Arquitectura Cooperativa. Lacol
Lacol is an architecture cooperative set up in 2014 in the Sants district (Barcelona). They work with architecture for social transformation, as a tool to intervene in the immediate environment critically.
Currently, it is a team of 14 people who work in various fields of architecture. Their lines of work focus on these five axes: Construction; Cooperative Housing; Pa icipation; Exhibitions and Stage Design; and Urbanism.
The main axis of work on which they apply the knowledge of other fields is the cooperative housing. They have specialized in the promotion of this model as well as in the process of participation of the promotion of the future inhabitants. The most relevant case has been the housing cooperative La Borda, where, in addition to carrying out the architectural project, they have participated in its promotion and all the learning process has been systematized through the book “Habitar en comunidad“ (Libros de la Catarata, 2018).
They are currently building La Balma, a similar housing cooperative in Poblenou, and accompanying several projects in the promotion phase in other places.
In order to promote and make viable the replicability of the model, we work in the design of public policies, advise municipalities, and give conferences and write articles in different publications. Lacol is part of La Dinamo, a foundation for the consolidation of cooperative housing in Catalonia.
Awards
• Prize “Ciutat de Barcelona” 2018.
• Prize on Built Construction in Architecture at the BBConstrumat 2019.
• Nominated at the Début Award Lisbon Triennale (announced October 5th 2019).
• Mention at the Bonaplata 2018 awards for a study on the industrial heritage of Vilassar de Mar.
• Prize AJAC for the housing coop project “Coop de falç”, together with Arqbag.
Books published by Lacol
• “Construir en col·lectiu” (CAT/ESP/ENG), Pol·len Edicions 2018.
• “Habitar en comunidad”, with La Ciutat Invisible, Libros de la Catarata/Arquia, 2018.
• “El Vilassar de Mar Fabril”. Pagès edicions, 2018.
• “Inventari de Can Batlló. Teixint una història col·lectiva.” Curated by Lacol. Riera de Magòria, 2013.
Currently, it is a team of 14 people who work in various fields of architecture. Their lines of work focus on these five axes: Construction; Cooperative Housing; Pa icipation; Exhibitions and Stage Design; and Urbanism.
The main axis of work on which they apply the knowledge of other fields is the cooperative housing. They have specialized in the promotion of this model as well as in the process of participation of the promotion of the future inhabitants. The most relevant case has been the housing cooperative La Borda, where, in addition to carrying out the architectural project, they have participated in its promotion and all the learning process has been systematized through the book “Habitar en comunidad“ (Libros de la Catarata, 2018).
They are currently building La Balma, a similar housing cooperative in Poblenou, and accompanying several projects in the promotion phase in other places.
In order to promote and make viable the replicability of the model, we work in the design of public policies, advise municipalities, and give conferences and write articles in different publications. Lacol is part of La Dinamo, a foundation for the consolidation of cooperative housing in Catalonia.
Awards
• Prize “Ciutat de Barcelona” 2018.
• Prize on Built Construction in Architecture at the BBConstrumat 2019.
• Nominated at the Début Award Lisbon Triennale (announced October 5th 2019).
• Mention at the Bonaplata 2018 awards for a study on the industrial heritage of Vilassar de Mar.
• Prize AJAC for the housing coop project “Coop de falç”, together with Arqbag.
Books published by Lacol
• “Construir en col·lectiu” (CAT/ESP/ENG), Pol·len Edicions 2018.
• “Habitar en comunidad”, with La Ciutat Invisible, Libros de la Catarata/Arquia, 2018.
• “El Vilassar de Mar Fabril”. Pagès edicions, 2018.
• “Inventari de Can Batlló. Teixint una història col·lectiva.” Curated by Lacol. Riera de Magòria, 2013.
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