The Jury shortlists the 40 works of the EU MIES AWARD 2019

The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe are proud to announce the 40 shortlisted works that will compete in the 2019 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. 

The Jury – Dorte Mandrup, George Arbid, Angelika Fitz, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Kamiel Klaasse, María Langarita and Frank McDonald – met over three days in Barcelona to discuss the most relevant challenges that European contemporary society and its architecture are facing.    

The 7 members of the Jury have chosen 40 works which highlight the opportunities and the trends of today’s architecture in the European territory: adaptive reuse, housing and culture.

The shortlisted works are spread out in 17 different European countries. 7 of them are in France, 6 in Spain, 4 in Belgium, 3 in Austria and 3 in Denmark. Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Romania have 2 shortlisted works and Albania, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Portugal, Serbia and Slovakia 1 work each.

It is the first time that Albania, Serbia and Slovakia have a shortlisted work.

For the first time there are shortlisted works in Arezzo, Billund, Bratislava, Freyming-Merlebach, Hammershus, Kilkenny, Laulasmaa, Leeuwarden, Melle, Matarranya region, Montataire, Montbrun- Bocage, Plasencia, Sant Ferran de ses Roques, Ternat, Tirana, Ullastret and Viborg, increasing the number of places that support architecture quality.

In the selection of 40, Culture is the most represented program with 15 works (museums, cultural centers, music theatres and an auditorium/congress centre). There are 6 Education buildings (schools, university buildings and libraries), 5 Collective housing works, 3 Mixed use constructions, 2 Industrial centers, 2 Single houses, 1 Health, 1 Infrastructure, 1 Office, 1 Social welfare, 1 Sport & Leisure and 1 Urban Planning work.

383 works were nominated for the award and the expert Jury drew up a shortlist of 40.

The 40 shortlisted works are:

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Skanderbeg Square	Urban planning	AL	Tirana	51N4E, Plant en Houtgoed, Anri Sala, iRI	Brussels, Tirana, Leuven, Tirana

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
House of Music Innsbruck	Mixed use	AT	Innsbruck	Erich Strolz, Dietrich | Untertrifaller Architekten	Innsbruck, Bregenz

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Aspern Federal School	Education	AT	Vienna	fasch&fuchs.architekten	Vienna

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Performative Brise- Soleil	Collective housing	AT	Vienna	StudioVlayStreeruwitz ZT-GMBH	Vienna

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Residential care center KAPELLEVELD	Social welfare	BE	Ternat	architecten de vylder vinck taillieu	Ghent

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
PC CARITAS	Health	BE	Melle	architecten de vylder vinck taillieu	Ghent

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Ryhove Urban Factory	Industrial	BE	Ghent	Trans	Ghent

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
De Krook library	Education	BE	Ghent	Coussée & Goris architecten, RCR Arquitectes	Ghent, Olot

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Residential and studio building at the former Berlin flower market	Collective housing	DE	Berlin	Ifau, HEIDE & VON BECKERATH	Berlin, Berlin

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Terracehouse Berlin	Mixed use	DE	Berlin	Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon, Muck Petzet Architekten	Berlin, Munich

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Streetmekka Viborg	Sport and leisure	DK	Viborg	EFFEKT	Copenhagen

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Hammershus Visitors Centre	Culture	DK	Hammershus	Arkitema Architects, Christoffer Harlang	Aarhus, Hellerup

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
LEGO House	Culture	DK	Billund	BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group	Copenhagen

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Arvo Pärt centre	Culture	EE	Laulasmaa	Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos	Madrid

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Life Reusing Posidonia/ 14 social dwellings in Sant Ferran, Formentera	Collective housing	ES	Sant Ferran de ses Roques	IBAVI	Palma

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Civic Centre Lleialtat Santsenca	Culture	ES	Barcelona	HARQUITECTES	Sabadell

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Centre	Culture	ES	Plasencia	selgascano	Madrid

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Desert City	Mixed use	ES	Madrit	GARCIAGERMAN ARQUITECTOS	Madrid

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
House 1413	Single house	ES	Ullastret	HARQUITECTES	Sabadell

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Solo House	Single house	ES	Matarranya	OFFICE Kersten Geers David Van Severen	Brussels

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Helsinki Central Library Oodi	Education	FI	Helsinki	ALA Architects Ltd.	Helsinki

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
The Perret Hall – Cultural Centre	Culture	FR	Montataire	Atelier d’architecture Pierre Hebbelinck, HBAAT – HELEEN HART — MATHIEU BERTELOOT	Liege, Lille

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Museum of Arts, Nantes	Culture	FR	Nantes	Stanton Williams Architects	London

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
E26 (school refectory)	Education	FR	Montbrun-Bocage	BAST	Toulouse

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
‘Théodore Gouvy’ Theatre in Freyming-Merlebach	Culture	FR	Freyming-Merlebach	Dominique Coulon et associés	Strasbourg

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Transformation of 530 dwellings – Grand Parc Bordeaux	Collective Housing	FR	Bordeaux	Frédéric Druot Architecture, Lacaton & Vassal architectes, Christophe Hutin Architecture	Bordeaux, Paris, Bordeaux

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
ENSAE PARISTECH, Campus Paris-Saclay	Education	FR	Paris	CAB ARCHITECTES (CALORI AZIMI BOTINEAU)	Nice

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Lafayette Anticipations	Culture	FR	Paris	O.M.A.	Rotterdam

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
St. Mary’s Medieval Mile Museum	Culture	IE	Kilkenny	McCullough Mulvin Architects	Dublin

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
14 Henrietta Street	Culture	IE	Dublin	Shaffrey Architects	Dublin

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
M9 Museum District	Culture	IT	Venice	Sauerbruch Hutton	Berlin

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Prada productive headquarter	Industry	IT	Arezzo	Canali associati s.r.l.	Parma

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Musis Sacrum	Culture	NL	Arnhem	van Dongen – Koschuch Architects and Planners	Amsterdam

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Visitor center park Vijversburg	Culture	NL	Leeuwarden	STUDIO MAKS with the collaboration of Junya Ishigami & Ass.	Rotterdam

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Silesia University’s Radio and Television department	Education	PL	Katowice	BAAS arquitectura, Grupa 5 Architekci, Małeccy Biuro Projektowe	Barcelona, Warsaw, Katowice

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Lisbon Cruise Terminal	Infrastructure	PT	Lisbon	Carrilho da Graça	Lisbon

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Restoration, refurbishment of the headquarters of the order of architects of Romania. Bucharest branch	Office	RO	Bucharest	STARH – Birou de arhitectura (Florian & Iulia Stanciu)	Bucharest

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Occidentului 40	Collective housing	RO	Bucharest	ADN Birou de Arhitectura	Bucharest

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Reconstruction of Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade	Culture	RS	Belgrade	nooto, Dejan Todorović architect	Belgrade, Belgrade

Name	Program	Work country	Work city	Offices	Office city
Adaptation of the former factory Mlynica	Mixed use	SK	Bratislava	GutGut	Bratislava

Some of the topics that came up were the high number of works that tackle with existing constructions, the importance that collective housing continues to have throughout Europe, the need to plan and organise the territory and the importance of culture as a programme but also the importance of architectural culture.

Some of the quotes by the jury members that came up during the conversations are:

“The 40 works highlight a new agenda that asks for new ways of thinking. Excellence and skilfulness are inherent in all of them, but this is not enough; it is necessary that they also make an impact and make architects themselves think differently about the profession.”

“It is very refreshing to see how the architectural debate moves around Europe, changing its centre of discussion from one place to another over the years. This keeps architecture alive.”

Dorte Mandrup (Chairwoman)

Architect, Copenhagen

Founder and Creative Director of Dorte Mandrup

“More and more people see, feel and experience that architecture is not anymore about self-referentiality, about doing the most chic and shiny. Instead, it is really about improving our lives and the way we live together.”

Angelika Fitz

Cultural theorist and curator, Vienna

Director of the Architekturzentrum Wien

“The crisis has been like a warning but also an incentive to do more with less: more architecture with less material, less costs, etc. It is an evolution that we can see in the scale of the nominated projects, but we must also be aware of the ecological crisis and change the way we are living on the planet. This is not just about technology, materials, or insulating. It is really about how you plan and organise the territory.”

Ștefan Ghenciulescu

Architect, publicist and researcher, Bucharest

Editor-in-chief of “Zeppelin” and co-founder of “Zeppelin Association”

The five finalists will be announced on February 13 and the Award Ceremony will take place on 7 May 2019 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

Lectures, debates, exhibition opening and celebration will take place with the Jury members, Winners, Finalists, Clients and other guests and representatives. The 5 Finalist buildings and the Emerging Architect Winner work will be open to the public so that everybody can learn more about them in presence of their authors and critics, who will highlight their qualities.

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