Europe’s Best Buildings

Every two years, the exhibition 'Europe's best Buildings — The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture.Mies van der Rohe Award' places a focus on outstanding architecture from Europe, having become a veritable crowd-puller.

Prizes are awarded to projects whose visionary character provides orientation or even serve as manifestos for the development of contemporary architecture. In recent years the Award has completed a remarkabe shift, extending the view beyond iconic new buildings in the search for groundbreaking treatments of existing buildings. For the conversion and addition to the existing substance is an important contribution on the path to a CO2 neutral society.

For 2024 the jury, consisting of Martin Braathen (Oslo), Pippo Ciorra (Rome), Tinatin Gurgenidze (Tbilisi/Berlin), Adriana Krnáčová (Prague), Sala Makumbundu (Luxembourg), Hrvoje Njiric (Zagreb) and chaired by Frédéric Druot (Paris/Bordeaux), has nominated 362 submissions from 98 countries.

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