The 2024 call closed at the end of January with 415 works presented: 341 corresponding to the FAD Awards for Architecture and Interior Design, 21 to the FAD International Awards and 53 to the FAD Awards for Thought and Criticism. 51.5% of the proposals presented correspond to Catalonia, while 48.4% are located in the rest of Spain and 6.74% in Portugal.
The winning projects in all categories will be announced at a grand ceremony in which the FAD 2024 Awards and the Habitàcola Awards will be presented, which will be held on June 11 at the Disseny Hub Barcelona.
The FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards, established in 1958, are promoted by ARQUIN-FAD, the Interdisciplinary Association of Space Design of the FAD, they are the longest-running in Europe in the sector and one of the most prestigious in the Iberian Peninsula.
This year, Beth Galí has chaired the jury, with José Alberto Alonso Campanero, Mariona Benedito, Lucía Ferrater, Cristina Guedes and Gerard Sanmartí as members.
FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards Finalists
The jury notes a generalized homogenization, which can be seen in the "use of coincident materials and geometric compositions", in a "certain taste for everything that is vernacular" and in a "certain link of certain uses to the architecture itself."
Architecture Category:
1. DH Palencia (Castilla y León).
2. House 1736 (Barcelona).
3. 40 rental homes in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona).
4. 30 officially protected homes in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona).
5. Alfacs (Alcanar, Tarragona).
6. Restoration of hermitages on the Camino de Santiago (various locations) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
7. Rehabilitation of the Las Salesas Convent in Pamplona (Navarra) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
8. Living in Lime - 42 Social Housing in Son Servera (Balearic Islands).
Interior Design Category:
9. Cloud House (Madrid).
10. Gimaguas Barcelona (Barcelona).
11. Former Sant Sever Clergy Hospital (Barcelona) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
12. Children's area of the Nou Barris library (Barcelona).
13. Rehabilitation of the agricultural cooperative for a multipurpose and cultural space in Flix (Tarragona) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
City and Landscape Category:
14. Three landscape essays: mobile ecosystems (Madrid).
15. Enhancement of the Arab Tower and wall in the Cerro de las Torres (Álora, Málaga) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
16. Through the Branches (Riaza, Segovia).
17. Praça e posto de Turismo (Piodão, Portugal).
Ephemeral Interventions Category:
18. Alcalá 31's Extreme Makeover: An Architecture for Juan Muñoz (Madrid) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
19. RHIZOMA (Chillida Leku Museum, Hernani, Gipuzkoa).
20. The Construction of a Country (Madrid).
21. Lost Forest (Donosti).
FAD International Awards Finalists
The sensitivity they show towards the changes to which contemporary architecture is subjected, in its relationship with climate and nature, is highlighted. They are projects that want to build friendly and comfortable environments, and thus improve the lives of their users by avoiding formal mannerisms. Two characteristics are repeated in many projects, the prominence of vegetation, respect for what exists and local construction traditions.
1. Bucareli Reurbano (Mexico City, Mexico).
2. Center Rog (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
3. Bohinj Nursery School (Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia).
4. Lumen Learning Center. Paris-Saclay University (Gif-Sur-Yvette, France).
5. NURSERY 1306 Plants for Timisoara (Romania).
6. EMH headquarters and offices in Villeurbanne (France).
FAD Thought and Criticism Awards Finalists
A wide range of topics: the rehabilitation of convent ruins from biological perspectives, the problems of abandoned water parks and water stress, a compendium of essays focused on Chinese architecture of recent decades or a multi-scalar reflection on the relationship between food, human digestion and territorial ecosystems. Also monographs, on the Portuguese architect Fernando Távora and another on the Casa Fullà, by Clotet and Tusquets.
1. RUINS, SCARS AND MARKS, Rehabilitation process of the Church of San Agustín in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
2. Fernando Távora: Novo/Antigo - Works / Fernando Távora: New/Old - Works.
3. End of Season.
4. Chinese universe: a look from within.
5. The Fullà House. Everything was per fer and everything was possible.
6. Faktur: Documents and Architecture. Number 5.
7. Foodscapes Total Recipes.
The winning projects in all categories will be announced at a grand ceremony in which the FAD 2024 Awards and the Habitàcola Awards will be presented, which will be held on June 11 at the Disseny Hub Barcelona.
The FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards, established in 1958, are promoted by ARQUIN-FAD, the Interdisciplinary Association of Space Design of the FAD, they are the longest-running in Europe in the sector and one of the most prestigious in the Iberian Peninsula.
This year, Beth Galí has chaired the jury, with José Alberto Alonso Campanero, Mariona Benedito, Lucía Ferrater, Cristina Guedes and Gerard Sanmartí as members.
FAD Architecture and Interior Design Awards Finalists
The jury notes a generalized homogenization, which can be seen in the "use of coincident materials and geometric compositions", in a "certain taste for everything that is vernacular" and in a "certain link of certain uses to the architecture itself."
Architecture Category:
1. DH Palencia (Castilla y León).
2. House 1736 (Barcelona).
3. 40 rental homes in Sant Feliu de Llobregat (Barcelona).
4. 30 officially protected homes in Sant Just Desvern (Barcelona).
5. Alfacs (Alcanar, Tarragona).
6. Restoration of hermitages on the Camino de Santiago (various locations) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
7. Rehabilitation of the Las Salesas Convent in Pamplona (Navarra) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
8. Living in Lime - 42 Social Housing in Son Servera (Balearic Islands).
Interior Design Category:
9. Cloud House (Madrid).
10. Gimaguas Barcelona (Barcelona).
11. Former Sant Sever Clergy Hospital (Barcelona) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
12. Children's area of the Nou Barris library (Barcelona).
13. Rehabilitation of the agricultural cooperative for a multipurpose and cultural space in Flix (Tarragona) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
City and Landscape Category:
14. Three landscape essays: mobile ecosystems (Madrid).
15. Enhancement of the Arab Tower and wall in the Cerro de las Torres (Álora, Málaga) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
16. Through the Branches (Riaza, Segovia).
17. Praça e posto de Turismo (Piodão, Portugal).
Ephemeral Interventions Category:
18. Alcalá 31's Extreme Makeover: An Architecture for Juan Muñoz (Madrid) - Re-FAD Award Applicant.
19. RHIZOMA (Chillida Leku Museum, Hernani, Gipuzkoa).
20. The Construction of a Country (Madrid).
21. Lost Forest (Donosti).
FAD International Awards Finalists
The sensitivity they show towards the changes to which contemporary architecture is subjected, in its relationship with climate and nature, is highlighted. They are projects that want to build friendly and comfortable environments, and thus improve the lives of their users by avoiding formal mannerisms. Two characteristics are repeated in many projects, the prominence of vegetation, respect for what exists and local construction traditions.
1. Bucareli Reurbano (Mexico City, Mexico).
2. Center Rog (Ljubljana, Slovenia).
3. Bohinj Nursery School (Bohinjska Bistrica, Slovenia).
4. Lumen Learning Center. Paris-Saclay University (Gif-Sur-Yvette, France).
5. NURSERY 1306 Plants for Timisoara (Romania).
6. EMH headquarters and offices in Villeurbanne (France).
FAD Thought and Criticism Awards Finalists
A wide range of topics: the rehabilitation of convent ruins from biological perspectives, the problems of abandoned water parks and water stress, a compendium of essays focused on Chinese architecture of recent decades or a multi-scalar reflection on the relationship between food, human digestion and territorial ecosystems. Also monographs, on the Portuguese architect Fernando Távora and another on the Casa Fullà, by Clotet and Tusquets.
1. RUINS, SCARS AND MARKS, Rehabilitation process of the Church of San Agustín in San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
2. Fernando Távora: Novo/Antigo - Works / Fernando Távora: New/Old - Works.
3. End of Season.
4. Chinese universe: a look from within.
5. The Fullà House. Everything was per fer and everything was possible.
6. Faktur: Documents and Architecture. Number 5.
7. Foodscapes Total Recipes.
