40 shortlisted works 2026
January 8, 2026
Highlighting today’s renewed architectural culture across Europe
Press release in English, French, Catalan, Spanish, Italian and Danish + Annex.
The EUmies Awards recognise how architecture across Europe is embracing innovation, sustainability, and long-term social impact. This year, the jury underlined the growing alignment between architecture, urban planning, and governance to meet the ambitions of the European Green Deal and to shape resilient, high-quality environments for all.
“Freshness” emerged as a key theme, reflected in projects that bring new ideas and perspectives while thoughtfully transforming existing structures or proposing innovative new constructions. The selection spans 36 cities in 18 countries, from major metropolitan contexts to very small towns, demonstrating the rich diversity of contemporary European architecture.
The shortlist also highlights the importance of public investment, local engagement, and collaborative practice. Most works were designed by studios based in the same region, alongside transnational and transregional teams. Combining emerging and established practices, the 40 works illustrate how creativity, responsibility, and contextual sensitivity continue to shape Europe’s architectural culture today.
Sport & Leisure
Public Swimming Pool Großfeldsiedlung
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illiz architektur
Sabrina Mehlan · Stefanie Wögrath · Petra Meng
The training swimming facility in Vienna’s Großfeldsiedlung connects to the existing indoor pool from the early 1980s by means of two cantilevered bridges. A three-dimensional, vegetated steel structure envelops the glazed timber-construction swimming hall with a green veil.
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Culture
Charleroi Palais des Expositions
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Architecture winners
AgwA · architecten jan de vylder inge vinck
architecten jan de vylder inge vinck · AgwA
Renovation of a 1950s convention centre. The stripped central hall transforms into covered urban terraces. Targeted interventions prioritize flexibility and circulation. Demineralization turns black ground into a continuous green park. The building as it was but never seen before.
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Education
USquare Feder
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Callebaut architecten · BC architects & studies · evr-Architecten bvba · VK architects+engineers
Bart Verstappen · Bram Derudder · Wouter Callebaut · Emile Deroose · Cedric D’haese · Wesley Degreef · Christopher Wejchert
Usquare Feder exemplifies urban mining at the architectural scale. The project valorises existing structures and reclaims on-site resources to create a new research and living environment. Through circular design and bio-based innovation, it redefines how heritage can host contemporary uses.
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Culture
Abby Kortrijk
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Barozzi Veiga · Tab Architects
Fabrizio Barozzi · Alberto Veiga · Tom Debaere · Bert Bultereys
The project for Abby Kortrijk extends and transforms the historically significant Groeninge Abbey into an art space for site-specific exhibitions and public events. The new architecture—a series of well-considered interventions—enhances the site’s history while providing new spaces for the future.
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Culture
Multifunctional Hall in Imperial Spa
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Petr Hájek ARCHITEKTI
Petr Hájek · Nikoleta Slováková · Martin Stoss
The Imperial Spa (design by Fellner & Helmer) in Karlovy Vary (UNESCO), a 19th-century listed national cultural monument, has been reborn as a cultural centre. At its core – a new heart – a freestanding steel-and-wood “robot” transforms the space into a concert, dance, cinema or theatre hall.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Thoravej 29
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pihlmann architects
Anna Wisborg · Carsten Buur Udbye · Isabella Priddle · Jakob Rabe Petersen · Søren Pihlmann
Thoravej 29 transforms a 1967 factory in Copenhagen into a public hub for art and community. Through unconventional studies and execution, 95% of the materials stayed on site, showing how existing buildings – even the disregarded – can be revitalised through curiously caring for what is at hand.
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Landscape
Grønningen-Bispeparken
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SLA
Stig L Andersson · Alexandra Vindfeld Hansen · Sune Rieper
Grønningen-Bispeparken is Copenhagen’s latest and most radical climate park to date, where form follows nature and architecture’s foremost task is to create spaces for life – all life. Rainwater flows through a series of stormwater basins, which, when dry, double as social places for the community.
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Health
Centre for Health
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Dorte Mandrup A/S
Dorte Mandrup
Centre for Health demonstrates architecture’s transformative potential, using thoughtful design to restore dignity, promote activity, support rehabilitation and enhance life quality for people affected by lifestyle-related illnesses. A new community space using low carbon building techniques.
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Urban planning
Masterplan for Carlsberg Byen
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entasis
christian cold · signe cold · dorte dalgaard · trude mardal · lin skaufel · Sofie Elkjaer Jensen
The urbanization of Carlsberg Brewery pose a question of importance for most European city: How do we create an urban district that unite environmental, social, economic and architectural sustainability with experienced quality? The entasis answer was to embrace the complexity of a true city.
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Infrastructure
DH Ecoenergy Plant #1
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FRPO Rodríguez & Oriol
Pablo Oriol Salgado · Fernando Rodriguez Ramirez
This small building is the visible part of a whole that remains hidden from view. It is the head of a new energy infrastructure for the city of Palencia. A District Heating network promoted by the company DH Ecoenergías, a brave pioneer in the energy transformation of Spanish cities.
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Ephemeral
Round About Baths
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Leopold Banchini Architects
Leopold Banchini
Round About Baths is a temporary public bath that transforms an inaccessible roundabout fountain in Logroño into a communal space. It challenges car-dominated urban planning by creating a site for care, ritual, and civic intimacy at the heart of traffic.
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Culture
Interventions in the Monastery of Santa Maria de Sijena
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Pemán y Franco · Sebastián Arquitectos
Luis Franco Lahoz · Mariano Pemán · Sergio Sebastián
It is the intervention in the ruined areas of a monastery founded in 1188, closely linked to the Crown of Aragon and with a complex evolution, which suffered a destructive fire in 1936 and which currently, once the criteria of intervention have been established, is immersed in a process of recovery of its architectural values
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Urban planning
Plaça Major – Public Space. Heritage, Housing and Urban Life
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Un Parell d’Arquitectes · Pep de Solà-Morales Arquitectes · Quim Domene
Guillem Moliner · Eduard Callís · Clàudia Calvet · Pep de Solà- Morales · Quim Domene
The project aims to regenerate the Plaça Major of Olot, highlighting heritage, rehabilitating façades and reactivating vacant homes. With the community, a reurbanitzation project is dismissed, and investment is made in the buildings, given their role in defining the character of the space.
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Social welfare
Rehabilitation of Vapor Cortès – Prodis 1923
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Architecture finalists
H ARQUITECTES
David Lorente · Josep Ricart · Xavier Ros · Roger Tudó
The new Prodis headquarters transforms the old Vapor Marquès warehouses into an inclusive center organized around a recovered passage that becomes a new street for the city. The new intervention introduces wooden structures, skylights, and passive systems while respecting its original character.
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Collective housing
GREENH@USE 140 Social Housing in 22@ BCN
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peris+toral.arquitectes · L3J Tècnics Associats
Marta Peris · Jose Toral · Jaime Pastor
Mixed-use social housing project with senior, rental, and refugee units. A bioclimatic atrium that reduces energy demand through its thermodynamic performance while fostering community life, and a prefabricated structure that minimizes concrete use, CO₂ emissions, and construction time.
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Single house
10K House
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TAKK // Mireia Luzárraga + Alejandro Muiño
Alejandro Muiño · Mireia Luzárraga
“10k House” is the refurbishment of a 50 m² flat in Barcelona, carried out with a material execution budget of only 10,000 euros, aiming to update the home according to new models of use and environmental awareness within the framework of the current affordable housing crisis and climate change.
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Sport & Leisure
Tammela Stadium
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JKMM Architects
Samuli Miettinen · Asmo Jaaksi · Teemu Kurkela · Juha Mäki-Jyllilä · Alli Bur · Harri Koski · Kristian Forsberg · Hannele Eriksson-Anttilainen · Salla Oikkonen · Tuomo Toivola · Tommi Varis · Joonas Väkiparta
Tammela Stadium transforms a historic football ground in central Tampere into Finland’s first hybrid stadium block, combining top-tier football facilities with housing, commerce centre, and public spaces – embodying sustainable, dense city living and a thriving sense of community.
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Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
Third Place Flow
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Office Zola architectes
Laure Gahéry · Edouard Guyard
Facing Vannes railway station, the transformation of a former industrial complex reinvents a neglected site into a luminous, flexible third place devoted to wellbeing, work, and social exchange. The project reconciles heritage and contemporaneity through a restrained and sensitive architecture.
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Single house
M37 house in Contis
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BAST · LITTORAL
Mathieu Le Ny · Benjamin Coustes
This house for a retired couple is located in a seaside housing development without cutting down any trees. Compact, it creates its own outdoor space: a patio separating the house from the outbuilding. With a wooden frame, flat roof and windows facing the patio, it blends in with the forest.
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Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
206 Lafayette – Restructuring and Densification of a Mixed-Use Block Including Offices, Social Housing and Stores
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DATA ARCHITECTES · THINK TANK architecture
Colin Reynier · Leonard Lassagne · Laure Veyre de Soras · Wilhelm Reitzer · Marine De La Guerrande · Adrien Pineau
206 Rue Lafayette in Paris transforms a dense urban plot while preserving 80% of the existing buildings. Through a strategy of architectural addition and subtraction, the project integrates housing, offices, and retail spaces, revealing the site’s richness and balancing heritage with contemporary uses.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Multi-Service Cultural Centre Le Foirail
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Emerging finalists
Betillon & Freyermuth* · Crypto Architectes
Betillon Raphaël · Guillaume FREYERMUTH · JEAN BAPTISTE FRIOT
A radical hall in Laguiole, open and reversible, rooted in a proud rural territory with limited means. Rejecting pastiche, it acts as a unifying public space, a flexible machine-building able to adapt over time and nurture collective energy and local identity. Built with local resources set to grow.
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Industrial
Lot 8, LUMA Arles – Renovation of Le Magasin Électrique
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Architecture finalists
ASSEMBLE · Atelier Luma · BC architects & studies
James Binning · Joe Halligan · Maria Lisogorskaya · Adam Willis · Laurens Bekemans · Ken De Cooman · Jan Boelen · Baptiste Chatenet · Daniel Ireland
In 2019 the Luma Foundation commissioned Assemble and BC Architects to transform a 19th-Century train depot in Arles into Atelier LUMA, a design lab exemplifying bioregional design, using Camargue resources, regenerative materials and local knowledge for a sustainable, socially engaged architecture.
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Sport & Leisure
Josephine Baker – Marie-Jose Perec Sports and Cultural Centre
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Architecture finalists
onze04
Gustavo Silva-Nicoletti
The project creates a new cultural and sports facility hosting regional competitions. It forms a major hub integrating existing facilities and reconnecting the area with neighbouring districts. Its textile-roof hall offers natural light and ventilation, becoming a symbolic urban landmark.
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Collective housing
56 Social Dwellings
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Jean et Aline Harari architectes
Jean Harari · Aline Harari
1- This mixed brick-and-wood development combines several residential typologies, including 15 patio houses in the lower section, 22 split-level duplex apartments, one large 10-room apartment, three duplex units, and 15 flats arranged around a connecting alleyway and a generous central garden.
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Education
Seed School: Growing Schools from Rammed Earth, Wood, and Recycled Concrete
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a+ samueldelmas architectes urbanistes
Samuel Delmas
The project’s guiding principle was to create an ideal learning and growing environment for children within a building designed with the right amount of the right material in the right place. It prioritized local sourcing, reused materials, bio and geo-based resources, and raw/finished solutions.
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Education
School of Music, Dance and Theater
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LINK architectes · Doucerain Lièvre Delziani Architectes
Glairoux Jerome · Chazalon Romain · Lafond Gerald · Lièvre Stephane · Doucerain Pierre · Delziani Arnaud
Anchored between town and nature in Sallanches, the EMDT school engages in dialogue with the alpine landscape. Organized on one level around a central patio, it fosters openness and exchange. Built in local wood and zinc, it blends sustainability with a strong, site-specific identity.
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Commerce
Gruž Market in Dubrovnik
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Architecture finalists
ARP / Peračić-Veljačić
Dinko Peračić · Miranda Veljačić
Adjustable and carefully shaped canopy/roof, lightweight and optimistic in its appearance, floats above the marketplace and articulates spatial and cultural relations. At once, it gives integrity to the market square, new life to the heritage, public climatic shelter and new identity to the city.
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Single house
Double Villa Bukovac
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njiric+ arhitekti
Hrvoje Njiric · Iskra Filipovic
The project is determined by the need to create an affordable habitat for two generations of the architect’s family. Restricted budget resulted in a highly condensed scheme of two tiny houses packed tightly, but keeping the villa-like qualities and generational autonomy. Living apart together (LAT)
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Education
The Dryer Workshop
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dmb műterem Ltd.
Balazs Falvai · Marton Nagy · David Török
The project creates an incubator house for the Department of Architecture, University of Debrecen by renovating a dilapidated building. The bricoleur’s attentiveness to the existing structure is in every detail – exposed surfaces, courtyard roof, evoking the old leather-drying space of the building.
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Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
Bicocca Superlab
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BALANCE ARCHITETTURA
Jacopo Bracco · Alberto Lessan
Bicocca Superlab is an urban regeneration project transforming a former industrial building into a carbon neutral workplace, merging exposed structure, adaptive spatial strategies and a light-reactive facade as a contemporary model of ethical innovation through a essential architectural approach.
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Culture
The Project of Time – Restoration of the Former Church of San Barbaziano
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Studio Poggioli
Caterina Poggioli · Federico Poggioli
The restoration of the former church of San Barbaziano returns a centuries-old building to the city as a state cultural venue. The project intervention preserves its character as an urban ruin, celebrating historical stratifications through conservative restoration and contemporary insertions.
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Culture
Stasys Museum
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IMPLMNT Architects
Greta Brimė · Aurimas Syrusas · Eglė Gečaitė · Ieva Sirijatavičiūtė · Aurelija Kniukštaitė · Jonė Virbickaitė · Kotryna Bajorinaitė · Ričardas Bertašius
Simplicity, logic, imagination – these are the three keywords that describe the project. Simplicity is expressed through the form of the building, logic through the layout, the building itself encodes the elements of the imagination that are discovered by the visitor to the building or public space.
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Landscape
Sundshopen – Norwegian Scenic Routes
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Rever & Drage Architects
Tom Auger · Martin Beverfjord · Eirik Lilledrange
Restoration of a long-used community bathing site at Sundshopen, where a new stone and timber jetty, dense forest with a path, and a small service building reconnect local residents and visitors with the landscape’s social, cultural, and ecological heritage.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Čoarvemátta – Sámi Theater, High School and Reindeer Herding School
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70°N arkitektur · Joar Nango · Snøhetta
Magdalena Haggärde · Joar Nango · Ida Elizabeth Halvorsen Kemp
Čoarvemátta is a cultural and educational hub in Kautokeino.
Inspired by Sámi heritage, it blends architecture with nature, supports reindeer herding and duodji, and fosters community. The building serves as a bearer and transmitter of Sámi culture through education and cultural expression.EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Landscape
Warsaw Uprising Mound
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TopoScape · Archigrest
Justyna Dziedziejko · Magdalena Wnęk · Maciej Kaufman · Marcin Maraszek
The Warsaw Uprising Mound is a park built atop a post-war landfill. It intertwines commemoration with everyday life, and a reclaimed brownfield with biodiversity. Reflecting on reconstruction, reuse, and nature’s resilience, it envisions a hopeful scenario for landscapes after catastrophe.
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Infrastructure
Graça Funicular
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Atelier Bugio
João Favila Menezes · Pedro Domingos · João Simões
In the context of a new dynamic promoting inclusive mobility and encouraging the use of public transport, the accessibility between the city’s downtown and the Castle hill was rethought, creating a continuous route that links the Miradouro da Graça to the Mouraria neighbourhood.
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Culture
Stjärnorp Castle Ruin
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Wikerstål Arkitekter / Tengbom Arkitekter
Erik Wikerstål
Stjärnorp Castle was built in 1654-62. After a violent fire in 1789 the main building remained a ruin, unprotected for 236 years.
Over the last ten years an extensive and careful conservation has been carried out, including masonry repair and new additions to ensure the preservation for the ruins future.EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama
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Emerging winners
Vidic Grohar Arhitekti
Anja Vidic · Jure Grohar
The project involves adaptive reuse of a former industrial hall in to Temporary National Theatre, during renovation of its historic building in the city, preserving its architectural elements while addressing contemporary performance needs and ensuring cultural and architectural sustainability.
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Education
Extension of a Primary School – New School Pavilion and Multipurpose Hall
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BAKYTA ARCHITEKTI
Ľubomíra Blašková · Róbert Bakyta
The project addresses the need to increase the capacity of the existing primary school in the village of Bernolákovo, near the capital of Slovakia – Bratislava. The task was also to create facilities for sports activities for the school, but also for the public and its cultural and social life.
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Landscape
Land of Wells
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Collective Bled el Abar
Ayoub Mounir · Vanessa Lacaille · Hamed Kriouane
Rehabilitating the Bir Ettin well is a key step in the Bled el Abar (‘Land of the Wells’ in Arabic) project. The initiative focuses on restoring water points in the Tunisian Sahara with local communities, using existing resources. Its goal is to safeguard life—both human and non-human—in the desert.
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