The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation have announced the list of nominated projects for the 2024 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, known as Mies van der Rohe Award. 

The list includes 362 significant works realized all over 38 different European countries, which have been nominated by European independent experts, the national architecture associations and the Prize Advisory Committee.

The EUmies Awards began its 18th Cycle in May 2023, with a network of expert nominators and the architecture associations from throughout Europe who submitted these 362 projects for the jury’s consideration. 

IKEA Vienna western station  / IKEA – the good neighbour in the city, Austria by querkraft architekten ZT gmbh. Image © hertha hurnaus, häusler christine

The jury will now select 40 outstanding projects and then visit the finalists, an opportunity to have interviews with the architects, their teams, the project clients, and those people on who the works have a repercussion.

This year’s jury is chaired by Frédéric Druot (Paris/Bordeaux), who will be accompanied by Martin Braathen (Oslo), Pippo Ciorra (Rome), Tinatin Gurgenidze (Tbilisi/Berlin), Adriana Krnáčová (Prague), Sala Makumbundu (Luxembourg), and Hrvoje Njiric (Zagreb).

See the list of the countries for 362 significant nominated projects for the 2024 Mies van der Rohe Award (arranged by number of works):

Spain: 29

France: 26

Germany: 21

Belgium: 18

Austria: 15

Greece: 14

Portugal: 14

Ireland: 13

Italy: 13

Lithuania: 13

Hungary: 12

Denmark: 11

Croatia: 10

Ukraine: 10

Czechia: 9

Poland: 9

Romania: 9

Bulgaria: 8

Finland: 8

Netherlands: 8

Sweden: 8

Albania: 7

Cyprus: 7

Montenegro: 7

North Macedonia: 7

Serbia: 7 

Slovenia: 7

Estonia: 6

Latvia: 6

Norway: 6 

Slovakia: 6 

Bosnia-Herzegovina: 5 

Luxembourg: 5

Kosovo: 3

Georgia: 2

Armenia: 1

Malta: 1

Tunisia: 1

Mortuary, Austria by Moser und Hager Architekten. Image © Gregor Graf

The 2024 EUmies Awards will recognise the best built works in Europe completed between April 2021 and May 2023. 

The 2024 cycle will reflect on the current challenges that citizens, architects, clients, developers, policy makers and other professionals are faced with in the context of the European Green Deal. 

The Seashore Rise, Greece by 314 Architecture Studio. Image © Panagiotis Voumvakis

The principal objectives are to achieve a thorough understanding of the transformation of Europe’s built environment; to recognise and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture; to accomplish a more sustainable environment, exchanging ideas and experiences on new approaches to sustainability endurance – promoting environmental, social and economic awareness through architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design as well as the collaboration with other cultural fields, the arts, and communication.

Son of a Shingle – Vaksali pedestrian bridge and underpasses, Estonia by PART architects. Image © TÕNU TUNNEL

Calendar

In January 2024, the EU Mies Awards will make an announcement of the 40 shortlisted works. In February 2024, the EU Mies Awards will make an announcement of the finalist works.

In April 2024, The European Commission and the Mies van der Rohe Foundation will announce the winners.

In May 2024, the EU Mies Awards Open Day will be held with conferences, debates, exhibition and an Awards Ceremony will be held in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.

In May, theEUmies Awards Out&About programme will be open to visit for the 40 shortlisted works; travelling exhibitions and debates.

Tomac Winery, Croatia by DVA ARHITEKTA. Image © Sandro Lendler

All decisions are discussed within the Advisory Committee, formed by Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona; Architekturzentrum Wien, Vienna; Cité de l’architecture et du patrimoine, Paris; CIVA, Brussels; Danish Architecture Centre, Copenhagen; DESSA Gallery, Ljubljana; German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt; Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre, Budapest; Museum of Architecture and Design, Ljubljana; Museum of Architecture, Wroclaw; Museum of Estonian Architecture, Tallinn; Museum of Finnish Architecture, Helsinki; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo; RIBA, London; The Berlage, Delft; and Triennale di Milano, Milan.

"Wildlife Observatory" in Los Pedroches, Spain by Rafael de La- Hoz Arquitectos. Image © Alfonso Quiroga Ferro

The Mies van der Rohe Award was initiated in 1987 after an agreement between the European Parliament and the Barcelona City Council, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award has been organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission since 2001.

The Prize is awarded biennially to works completed within the previous two years. The principal objectives are to achieve a thorough understanding of the transformation of Europe’s built environment; to recognise and commend excellence and innovation in the field of architecture; and to draw attention to the important contribution of European professionals in the development of new ideas with the undeniable support of clients and the involvement of those who will become the users of these places.

Top image in the article: Extension to Raubergstølen Mountain Lodge, Norway by Jensen & Skodvin Arkitektkontor as. Image © Jan Olav Jensen. 

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