The two award-winning projects have been chosen from an initial group of 362 works nominated for the EUmies Awards 2024. 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 finalist and winning works form an inseparable whole to better understand the paths that contemporary architecture takes to address sustainability, social equity, technological advances, health and well-being, cultural preservation, resilience and adaptation, viability economic and globalization within an ethical practice, both ideologically and pragmatically.
2024 WINNER
→ Campus pavilion of the Technical University of Braunschweig, GERMANY
Architects.- Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke.
Client.- Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Architects.- Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke.
Client.- Technische Universität Braunschweig.
The building is awarded for its ability to challenge limitations and preconceptions about sustainability, creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through an unforgiving and carefully detailed structure. He has pursued a clear architectural idea, revised it and pushed it to the limit. More than a building, it could be understood as a versatile system that fuses technological advances with a flexible and reusable principle.
"The new study pavilion on the grounds of the Technical University of Braunschweig is an open space designed to host various educational activities. The concept follows the principle of a superstructure that allows the user to change and reconfigure the layout of the building to meet the constantly changing requirements in a rapidly developing campus context. Through its highly flexible design, the pavilion becomes ephemeral and therefore responsive. This ensures that its current relevance as a new typology is perpetuated.”
The authors, Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition to build this pavilion in 2015. They are the youngest winners of the EUmies Awards.
Gabriel García Márquez library by SUMA Arquitectura. Photograph by Jesús Granada.
EMERGING ARCHITECTURE 2024
→ Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona, SPAIN
Architects.- SUMA Arquitectura.
Client.- Barcelona City Council (BIMSA).
Architects.- SUMA Arquitectura.
Client.- Barcelona City Council (BIMSA).
The Library acts at the city level, contributing to the neighbourhood's transformation and opening up as a new outdoor and indoor public space. This wooden structure unfolds as a rich sequence of monumental and domestic spaces that welcome neighbours and citizens, providing them with comfortable environments for learning, teamwork and community engagement. With meticulous attention to detail, the authors have thoroughly examined and pushed the library program to its maximum.
"The only flat and open area in the mountain village of Piódão regains its dignity as a welcoming lobby and meeting place. What was previously a parking lot has been redesigned, paved and partially shaded with traditional materials and techniques. The space has been returned to its people following their material and constructive culture."
The authors, Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano founded the SUMA Arquitectura studio in 2005 and won the competition to build the library in 2015.
The winners were announced on April 25 at the CIVA, Center for Information, Documentation and Exhibitions on cities, architecture, landscape and urban planning of the Brussels-Capital Region, within the framework of the European Conference on Architectural Policies (ECAP) under the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Following the announcement, a dialogue took place between Normunds Popens (Deputy Director General for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture of the European Commission), Frédéric Druot (president of the jury of the EUmies Awards 2024), Nikolaus Hirsch (artistic director of CIVA) and Anna Ramos (director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe), providing an international platform to discuss key concerns related to social, ecological, cultural, technical, political and economic aspects.
The winners were announced on April 25 at the CIVA, Center for Information, Documentation and Exhibitions on cities, architecture, landscape and urban planning of the Brussels-Capital Region, within the framework of the European Conference on Architectural Policies (ECAP) under the Belgian presidency of the Council of the European Union. Following the announcement, a dialogue took place between Normunds Popens (Deputy Director General for Education, Youth, Sports and Culture of the European Commission), Frédéric Druot (president of the jury of the EUmies Awards 2024), Nikolaus Hirsch (artistic director of CIVA) and Anna Ramos (director of the Fundació Mies van der Rohe), providing an international platform to discuss key concerns related to social, ecological, cultural, technical, political and economic aspects.
The EUmies Awards Day, which includes the awards ceremony, will take place on May 14, 2024, at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and the Palau Victòria Eugènia in Barcelona, kicking off the Barcelona Architecture Weeks.
The EUmies Awards Day, open to everyone, will include:
-The "EUmies Awards Talks" with winners, finalists, selected candidates, clients, media and people interested in discussing the emerging topics highlighted by the jury, at the Palau Victòria Eugènia;
-The "EUmies Awards 2024" exhibition (May 14-June 26) with models, texts, videos, sketches and drawings of the 40 selected works and a summary of the 362 nominated works. It will take place at the Palau Victòria Eugènia;
-The awards ceremony at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion;
-The Out & About program aims to discover architecture with the authors and promoters of the 40 finalist works invited to organize events in their buildings and share their experiences with everyone. This program is organized in collaboration with Guiding Architects.
-The "EUmies Awards 2024" exhibition (May 14-June 26) with models, texts, videos, sketches and drawings of the 40 selected works and a summary of the 362 nominated works. It will take place at the Palau Victòria Eugènia;
-The awards ceremony at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion;
-The Out & About program aims to discover architecture with the authors and promoters of the 40 finalist works invited to organize events in their buildings and share their experiences with everyone. This program is organized in collaboration with Guiding Architects.
The Fundació Mies van der Rohe organizes the EUmies Awards with the support of the Creative Europe program of the European Union, which this year celebrates 10 years.
