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Education
Public Library in Choszczówka
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Ambient
Magdalena Pios · Zofia Sobolewska · Julianna Skuz · Rafał Chmielewski · Antoni Kostrzewa
Our goal was to create a place for the local community with inspiring architecture and environmental awareness— energy-efficient, based on renewable resources, using low-emission and natural materials, blending into the surrounding nature and local context.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Social welfare
Home for the Homeless – House of Cordial Mother of God
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
xystudio
Filip Domaszczyński · Dorota Sibińska · Marta Nowosielska
The shelter for homeless, disabled and sick people on the city’s outskirts is an example of regenerative architecture which raises awareness of homelessness and connects people from various social groups. It is privately founded, economical design that complements the city’s emergency-aid policy.
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Culture
OKO – Interactive Fairy Tale and Animation Centre
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Nizio Design International
Mirosław Nizio
The Interactive Centre of Fairy Tales and Animation OKO in Bielsko-Biała, designed by Nizio Design International, marks a new chapter in the history of the Animated Film Studio. It merges culture, education, and technology, celebrating the birthplace of Polish animation.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Visitors’ Centre at the Auschwitz – Birkenau State Museum
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Kozien Architekci
Katarzyna Kozień-Kornecka · Magdalena Kozień-Woźniak · Marek Kozień
The project focuses on the ruined former camp slaughterhouse as a centerpiece of a compact composition of the Visitors’ Centre. It is located in the area that for years served as a bus workshop base, beeing now connected with the Memorial grounds by passages emerging from beneath the ground.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Widna Haven – Community Centre and Library
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
PB STUDIO, STUDIO MANIA, IPA
JAKUB PIÓRKOWSKI · ADRIAN MANIA · FILIP KOZARSKI
The Community Centre and library buildings are an investment by the City of Gdynia in one of its main districts. The scope of the project includes two public buildings and the development of the surrounding area – a public square with a fountain and seating, public terraces, footpaths and greenery.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Industrial
Corcet Headquarters
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Nuno Melo Sousa
Nuno Melo Sousa
Headquarters for a family business atop a rural hill in Penafiel, Portugal. Prefabricated concrete structure, local granite, and green patios define a functional yet monumental building, blending industrial uses with spatial clarity and contextual integration.
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Food & Accommodation
The Lince Santa Clara Hotel
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Atelier Carvalho Araújo
José Manuel Carvalho Araújo
The intervention at the Convent of Santa Clara results from a set of rehabilitation and expansion works to convert it into a hotel, while preserving its existing heritage value.
The project adopts a fluid and continuous spatial approach, where no space is temporarily closed off and none is residual.
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Health
Carcavelos Health Complex
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Simão Botelho · Studio-J · Duoma
Simão Botelho · Joana Jordão · Mário Serrano · Margarida Fonseca
The Carcavelos Health Complex integrates four medical services within a new public garden that acts as a catalyst for healing and community life, creating a space of care and inclusion for local residents, patients and staff, and strengthening the relationship between healthcare and everyday life.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Health
VHIR – Vall d’Hebron Research Institute
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
BAAS arquitectura · Espinet/Ubach
Jordi Badia · Jero Gutiérrez · Miquel Espinet
The building is embedded into the hillside, like agricultural terraces, to create a flat promenade and extend the natural landscape over its roof. This approach initiates a strategy to form a large Hospital Park that connects the two neighbourhoods on either side of the Vall d’Hebron Campus.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Urban planning
Market Hall
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
BRA
Simon Masson · Timothée Chateau
The project embraces a “do more with less” vision: preserving and enhancing existing structures, minimizing demolition and optimizing the framework.It anchors the hall within the village, creating a strong dialogue with its surroundings and transforming it into a visible and unifying civic landmark.
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Collective housing
«A Nacional» Building
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Menos é Mais Arquitectos Associados, Lda.
Cristina Guedes · Francisco Vieira de Campos
The opportunity to rehabilitate and reuse the building of the Insurance Company ‘A Nacional’ (1919/25) by architect Marques da Silva, which was vacant, arose from the initiative of the developer to change its function from offices to domestic use.
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Social welfare
Farma toMy – Training Home and Social Farm
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Arche
Piotr Grochowski · Wojciech Kolęda · Anna Skorupka
toMy Farm is a social and ecological farm that empowers people with disabilities through work, training, and community living. Built from timber in a circular, energy-efficient form, it reflects the cyclical nature of life and agriculture, merging tradition with sustainability and inclusion.
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Industrial
Aragon Grup Headquarters
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Ene+Ene Arhitectura
Mihai Ene · Adela Ene
The headquarters for Aragon Grup near Bucharest aims to redefine industrial architecture in a rural landscape. A linear prefabricated steel structure in vivid yellow recalls rapeseed fields, turning a functional complex into a distinctive territorial landmark and symbol of context.
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Urban planning
1818URCAR – Rehabilitation of the Public Space of Avenida Carvalho Araújo
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Belém Lima Arquitectos
António Belém Lima
CONTINUING THE AVENUE
Rehabilitation of Avenida Carvalho Araújo, Vila Real
URBAN DESIGN
The project aims to regulate traffic, prioritize pedestrians, and create a memorable setting that highlights the site’s historical and physical qualities.
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Collective housing
Apartment Building on Rua Roberto Ivens
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
ursa
Luís Ribeiro da Silva · Margarida Quintã
The apartment building on Rua Roberto Ivens in Matosinhos results from a cooperative initiative by four families who jointly acquired a plot to construct their homes: two three-bedroom units, one two-bedroom, and one one-bedroom apartment, all vertically stacked with similar floor areas.
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Single house
Red House
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Pacarizi Studio
Gezim Pacarizi
The house balances outside and inside living in the garden of a coastal village. The living volume and rooms are arranged around an open court with the pool at its center. The grand stair continues the courtyard space to the roof level, opening vistas toward nearby and distant landscapes.
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Commerce
Bairro Padre Cruz Market Hall
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
REDO architects
Diogo Figueiredo
The renovation of Bairro Padre Cruz Market Hall transforms the existing building by restoring its main hall and adding an overarching timber roof that unifies and extends the programme, reconnecting the market with the neighbourhood’s public life.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
MET Tirana Building
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Mario Cucinella Architects
Mario Cucinella
The MET Tirana Building is a new residential and office complex along Boulevardi Zhan D’ark, near the Pyramid of Tirana. Conceived as a carved architecture, it stands as an expressive and monumental landmark integrating nature, light, and urban regeneration into the city’s core.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
Building Rehabilitation of the Bairro do Cerco do Porto
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
José Gigante Arquitecto, Lda · Virgínio Moutinho Arquitectos
Virgínio Moutinho · José Gigante · Manuel Fernando Santos
The Cerco do Porto neighborhood was built in 1963 as part of the Estado Novo’s social housing policies and expanded in 1991 with the aim of rehousing disadvantaged populations living in slums and precarious housing in the center of Porto. It consists of 34 social housing blocks, with 4 to 5 floors, totaling 892 dwellings.
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Industrial
Quinta de Adorigo Winery
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Atelier Sérgio Rebelo
Sergio Rebelo
The Quinta de Adorigo Winery in Portugal’s Alto Douro, a UNESCO region, blends tradition, innovation, and sustainability. Its curvilinear form mirrors vineyard slopes, while interpreting vernacular structures. The use of materials minimize environmental impact and pursue harmony with the landscape.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Government & Civic
Making of a Garden
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Studio Precht
Chris Precht · Fei Precht · Gregor Hoheisel · Claudio Araya Arias
A building made of wood and air, rooted within a courtyard. It changes with time: the wood turns silver-grey, the plants grow dense. Slowly, the structure yields to nature. A quiet transformation where architecture dissolves into landscape.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Urban planning
Inclusive Public Space – Waterfront on the Danube
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Wolfhouse Productions · Iris Popescu Architecture · Ana-Monica Săbău BIA
Iulian Canov · Marius Vasile · Iris Popescu · Monica Săbău
A derelict riverbank in Mahmudia, Romania, is transformed into an inclusive gateway to the Danube Delta. Through a participatory and multidisciplinary approach, the new waterfront becomes a tourist attraction and also a community-building infrastructure for diverse ways of experiencing public space.
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Landscape
Revitalization of the Feroviarilor Park
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Vlad Sebastian Rusu Architecture Office · Studio 82 SRL
Vlad Sebastian Rusu · Octav Silviu Olanescu · Anamaria Olanescu
The project aims to integrate the Somes River, as the ecological axis of the park, becoming a component of its ecological system. Through wetland creation, native vegetation, and layered public uses, it restores a dynamic link between nature, city, and community.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Sport & Leisure
Češča vas Pool Complex
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
ENOTA
Dean Lah · Milan Tomac
The Češča Vas Pool Complex is part of the Novo mesto Olympic Center. With its partly embedded and subtle appearance, it preserves existing spatial relationships and connects with both the built and natural surroundings.
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Culture
World of Volvo
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Henning Larsen
Martin Stenberg Ringner
World of Volvo is a 22,000 m² experience center in Gothenburg where three monumental glulam “tree trunks” form a forest-like canopy. Inspired by the Swedish concept ‘Allemansrätten,’ it immerses visitors in Volvo’s history, innovation, and nature, pioneering large-scale timber construction.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Ephemeral
Drawing Theater
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Studio Ossidiana
Studio Ossidiana, Giovanni Bellotti · Alessandra Covini
An open-air Drawing Theatre in Iași’s main square transforms the ground into a stage for collective drawing — a mineral landscape where people compose, erase, and redraw ephemeral bas-reliefs, turning the public square into a living scene of gestures, traces, and encounters.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Ephemeral
Thread
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Studio Akane Moriyama
Akane Moriyama
Extending from a rooftop to the city’s main square and hidden courtyard, a 138-metre-long fabric installation reveals the city’s environmental conditions, translating light, wind, and rain into a tangible experience.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Education
COAF – Child and Family Centre
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Alberto Campo Baeza
Alberto Campo Baeza
SUB UMBRA ALARUM TUARUM
A nursery for the COAF (Children of Armenia Fund) in front of the Ararat Mount. A shaded grey concrete space for the protection of children in a white box. A 20×20 metre square lattice structure with equidistant pillars, resembling a large table, made of exposed concrete.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Food & Accommodation
Lumen Coffee 1936
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
snkh.
Armine Snkhchyan · Ashot Snkhchyan
A reversible stainless-steel intervention within Yerevan’s oldest preserved interior from the 1930s. Lumen Coffee 1936 revives a former bookstore, revealing the “Oriental Art Nouveau” wooden setting and creating a refined dialogue between heritage and contemporary design.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Religion
Pauline Monastery
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
MOSSFERN Architecture
Arnold Macalik · Csaba Lázár · József Szilágyi-Bartha
The house is the home of a tight hermit community in the high hills. The core of the building is the chapel. This is the essence of the house. The monastic life pulsates and circulates in the spaces around it. Thus the house is not only a space for dwelling, but in some way transcends itself.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
KinderKunstLabor
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Schenker Salvi Weber
Michael Salvi
KinderKunstLabor in St. Pölten is a one-of-a-kind cultural building: neither museum nor playground, but a laboratory where children engage with contemporary art through play and exploration—designed from a child’s perspective with a serious commitment to art.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Wien Museum
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Čertov / Winkler+Ruck
Ferdinand Čertov · Roland Winkler · Klaudia Ruck
The first museum of the post-war period in Austria (1959, Haerdtl) was expanded and renovated. The new building components emerge from the large openings of the existing structure, creating a new sense of urbanity and an appropriate presence at Karlsplatz. In relation to the city space, it becomes an everyday place for everyone.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Single house
House for a Collection – Restauration of a Modernist Villa
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Attila KIM Architects
Attila Kim · Alexandru Szűz Pop · Adina Marin
The renovation of this interwar building takes an unconventional approach, prioritising the original architectural project over the built version. It reveals, for the first time, important elements once existing only on paper, bringing to life a century-old project hidden in Bucharest’s archives.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Office
Expansion Headquarter Windkraft Simonsfeld
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
juri troy architects
Juri Troy
The expansion of the headquarters of Windkraft Simonsfeld in Ernstbrunn has created new office, event and reception spaces. The combination of a timber structure and a rammed earth core fosters communication, promotes sustainability, and achieves Climate Active Gold certification.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Health
Klösterle – Time of Awaking
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
STUDIO LOIS ZT GmbH – Barbara Poberschnigg
barbara poberschnigg
Although the demand for building land is very high. Just like many historical buildings in the town center, the Klösterle has been standing empty for decades. An abandoned monastery next to a care center, this empty building presented an opportunity to revitalize a dormant part of the city center.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Single house
Dirnbergergut
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Moser und Hager Architekten
Michael Hager · Anna Moser
Transformation of a historic farmstead including a barn north of the Danube to house three units as a multi-generational home. The design preserves the barn’s massive brick structure, integrating a new inserted volume that contrasts yet harmonizes with the existing construction.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Food & Accommodation
Hotel Hirschen
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
NONA Architektinnen
Anja Innauer · Nora Heinzle
The Hotel Hirschen in Schwarzenberg’s historic center is part of a listed ensemble. The new bathhouse and renovated “Wälderhaus” form a sensitive addition that harmoniously blends into the surrounding while meeting the demands of contemporary hotel business and guest needs.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
Garden House and Raftsmen’s House
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
HERTL.ARCHITEKTEN
Gernot Hertl
Originating from a supply station for raftsmen at the river harbor the farm house was converted to what we call garden house because we inserted it as a new concrete structure into the ruin’s inner courtyard in the overgrown garden. Afterwards the building for overnight accommodation was renovated.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Archaeological Park of the Kalin Hadži Alija Mosque in Sarajevo
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Cantonal Institute for the Protection of Cultural, Historical and Natural Heritage Sarajevo · Context d.o.o. Sarajevo
Selma Karačević-Kapić · Narcisa Bašić-Gaković
The project redefines the relationship between heritage and the contemporary city. Through conservation, heritage interpretation and contemporary design, it transforms a fragmented site into an architectural experience where insight, sensitivity and expression create a dialogue between memory and place.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Health
Duinhelm
EUmies Awards 2026
Nominees
Raamwerk
Dendooven Freek · De Cock Gijs
The project consists of four care houses and a separate community center where a total of 40 people with mental disabilities live together. The houses are open towards the neighborhood, but also offer the necessary security and privacy for its users.
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