EU policy successes through architecture
This EUmies Awards exhibition showcases models of architectural works recognized by the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards, supported by Creative Europe, demonstrating how they have positively impacted our living environments in recent years. These include: housing projects that rejuvenate existing structures, enabling residents to shape their own homes; cultural facilities that strengthen a city’s connection to its natural surroundings, such as waterfronts that reflect the effects of climate change; educational buildings designed to foster optimal learning environments; cultural heritage projects that bridge the past with the future for a more resilient tomorrow; Innovative works from the new generation of architects, presenting bold visions for the future.
This exhibition was first featured at Berlaymont Piazza which became a meeting point for social interaction, a connection with nature and culture, and the privileged venue for temporary exhibitions.
Works on display that can be adapted to each venue:
Education
Study Pavilion on the campus of TU Braunschweig
EUmies Awards 2024
Architecture winners
Gustav Düsing · Büro Max Hacke
Gustav Düsing · Max Hacke
The study pavilion on the TU Braunschweig campus is an innovative and highly flexible learning environment that promotes social exchange and interdisciplinary knowledge generation between students and teachers alike and represents a counter-model to spaces of hierarchical knowledge transfer.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
Transformation of 530 dwellings – Grand Parc Bordeaux
EUmies Awards 2019
Architecture winners
Lacaton & Vassal architectes · Frédéric Druot Architecture · Christophe Hutin Architecture
Anne Lacaton · Jean Philippe Vassal · Frederic Druot · Christophe Hutin
The project consists in the transformation of 3 social housing’s buildings of 530 dwellings.
Built in the early 60’s, they needed a renovation after their demolition has been ruled out. The transformation of the dwellings full occupied, starts from the interior, to give them new qualities: more space, more light, more view, and upgrade the facilities.EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
DeFlat Kleiburg
EUmies Awards 2017
Architecture winners
NL Architects · XVW architectuur
Walter van Dijk · Xander Vermeulen Windsant · Kamiel Klaasse · Pieter Bannenberg
De Flat is an innovative renovation of one of the biggest apartment buildings in the NL called Kleiburg, a bend slab with 500 apartments, 400 meter long, 10 + 1 stories high.
Consortium De FLAT rescued the building from the wracking ball by turning it into a Klusflat meaning that the inhabitants renovate their apartments by themselves.EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
La Borda – Cooperative Housing
EUmies Awards 2022
Emerging winners
Lacol
Cristina Gamboa Masdevall · Mirko Gegundez Corazza · Eliseu Arrufat Grau · Pol Massoni Mangues · Carles Baiges Camprubí · Ana Clemente Granados · Laura Lluch Zaera · Núria Vila Vilaregut · Eulàlia Daví Borrell · Ernest Garriga Vallcorba · Jordi Miró Bover · Arnau Andrés Gallart · Lluc Hernández Torns · Ariadna Artigas Fernández
La Borda cooperative housing is a self-organized development to access decent, non-speculative housing. It contains 28 units (40, 60 and 75m²) and several community spaces: kitchen-dining room, laundry, multipurpose space, guestrooms, health space, storages, and exterior and semi-exterior spaces such as the patio, bike parking and terraces.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Collective housing
NAVEZ – 5 social units as Northern entrance of Brussels, Belgium
EUmies Awards 2017
Emerging winners
MSA / V+
SIMON Jean-Marc · SIMON Alain · MORITZ Benoit · DELOFFRE Julien · Thierry Decuypere
This housing project fulfills the local authorities double ambition: to represent the urban revalidation scheme with a landmark at the entrance of the city and to provide exemplary apartments for large families. The building develops passive bright apartments and establishes a dialogue with the infrastructure and a the heritage neighbourhood.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Health
PC CARITAS
EUmies Awards 2019
Architecture finalists
architecten de vylder vinck taillieu
What if a built environment that has lost its meaning and purpose and what if that building is not to be refurbished towards an other program or functionality and so by that is expected to be demolished…what if the building is just kept and prepared to become an experimental space to re-discover and -explore and -define possible other ways of life.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Norwegian National Opera & Ballet
EUmies Awards 2009
Architecture winners
Snøhetta
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen · Tarald Lundevall · Craig Dykers
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Commerce
Gare Maritime
EUmies Awards 2022
Shortlisted
Neutelings Riedijk Architects
Willem Jan Neutelings · Michiel Riedijk
GARE MARITIME BRUSSELS is the sustainable regeneration of the monumental freight station into a covered city district, a ‘city where it never rains’.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Education
Extension and Reconstruction of the Vizafogó Kindergarten
EUmies Awards 2022
Shortlisted
Archikon
Csaba Nagy · Károly Pólus · Ágnes Tőrös
New identity after socialist panel program
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum
EUmies Awards 2017
Architecture finalists
Rudy Ricciotti
Rudy Ricciotti
The Rivesaltes Memorial – Neither oblivion nor forgiveness
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Peripheral Cartographies
Young Talent 2023
YT Winners
Laura Hurley
EUmies Awards Young Talent
