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Social welfare
Come Here, Sit
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Mark Tay
Intertwining concerns of the waning Singaporean hawker trade and an ageing population, this project puts forth a reimagination of the chair as a form of personal and spatial storytelling to rehabilitate elder agency, bring new cultural context to the hawker centre and form strong community identity.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Social welfare
Santurapia
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Cristina Mantrana Gallego
Located in Finca de Vista Alegre, Santurapia transforms an old abandoned building placing it as a link between the existing Occupational Centre and its greenhouses. The project includes modules for animal-assisted therapies and a landscape design giving the setting a distinctive character.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Social welfare
Beyond bare life
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Medina Ćatović
Project addresses the Rohingya refugee crisis, migrations and evolution of Cox’s Bazaar Camp, aiming to target the uncontrolled shelter growth and bring urban regeneration. The orphanage design carries the potential to transcend bare life conditions, as a reference for mitigating social issues.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Social welfare
PECC: Penang Elderly Community Centre
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Wai Yee Loh
PECC (Penang Elderly Community Centre) is an integrated senior living resort in Penang, featuring a proposed-built Active Living Resort that provides accommodation and services to active seniors who are looking for independent living and assisted living.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Health
Remodeling. Adaptation of a building
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Theresa Emilia Schleinitz
This thesis examines the term ´Umbau´ (remodeling) as a feminist metaphor for restructuring the social-economical system, and as a tool for architecturally remodeling existing structures – concluding that architecture can create sustainable, inclusive spaces to contribute to gender equality.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Health
Care Through Culture
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Gerd Parlade
The project explores a prototype of a micro-hospital for rural and marginalized areas that is culturally competent through the use of Transcultural Nursing Theory from an architectural perspective to provide better design solutions aside from addressing healthcare needs for the community.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Broken House 3+1 Engagements
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Yana Pencheva
Set in Sevlievo, BG, where architecture and the everyday seem distant, the project reimagines an old house as a site of learning, repair, and collective care. The materials and rituals embedded in traditional making offer a quiet call to reimagine a more engaged and empathetic architecture practice.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Remind Me of Remeți
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vincent van Spaendonk
Remind Me of Remeţi explores the architecture of migrant work, tracing the transnational exchange between rural Romania and metropolitan Paris. Through a speculative scenario, the project examines how architecture can engage with the instability of migrant labor, economic agency, and belonging.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Building on Layers of Narrative Sediment
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Nina Čegar
The project proposes a spatial strategy for revitalizing The Old Fairground – Staro Sajmište – a complex site in central Belgrade. Architectural interventions aim to reinterpret the site’s layered history, transforming it into a memorial park that reflects its evolving narrative.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Virtual construction in existing buildings
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Tolgahan Gücüyeter
We Are Together turns abandoned department stores into hybrid spaces merging architecture with the Metaverse. Using AR it links vacant stores in Stuttgart, Berlin, and Wuppertal, preserving urban structures while creating new social and commercial hubs that redefine spatial and digital interaction.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Aleph
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Agustín Espí Cea
Rocks, volcanoes and waves sculpt the culture of Lanzarote, the soul of an island that is dying at the hands of the foreign. This soul is the Aleph, a volcanic rock on the coast that gives meaning to the island’s capital. A building based on Magic Realism, a union between the fantastic and the real.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
IANUA
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Carlos Montero Pérez
Located within the future Vallès Metropolitan Avenue, the project reconnects urban and natural spaces through a modular, demountable design based on Design for Disassembly. This approach ensures a sustainable, ecological solution adaptable to different environments and contemporary urban challenges.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Deep Fragmentation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Anna Higgisson
Through the process of ‘Deep Fragmentation’ – a methodology and concept inspired by the Beat Writers’ ‘cut-up’ technique and a Cursed Island off the coast of Naples – this project responds to the threats of the climate crisis within the Bay.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Terra Mortem
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Xiangyu Li · Jia Hao Low
Due to the lack of calamity, the abandoned town of Rione Terra is revitalised, as our thesis suggests. The proposal reclaims the abandoned town as a research site. The Earth Observatory may be used as an exemplar on different dangerous sites like Pozzuoli with similar conditions.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Sacred Landscape
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Lucy Hegarty
This thesis project responds to the need for a new way of thinking about sites of anthropogenic violence. The project proposes a site strategy and three buildings for the Bagnoli Works in Naples – a site polluted with heavy metals of the steel industry once situated there.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
STRUCTURE (&) CHANGE. An adaptive system for redensification in the urban context of the Gründerzeit
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Matthias Treviranus
STRUCTURE (&) CHANGE deals with the rapidly changing needs of our society when it comes to to housing and general urban public life. The project is an adaptive system, which on the one hand can be interacted with and changed by the users, on the other hand be applied to different sites in the city.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
The weight of time
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jana Riernössl
The work deals with the question of how art offers a possibility of remembrance of the Shoah. It is divided into two books, the first contains a poetic examination and the latter the architectural design. It reflects spaces of memory in three structures: Kreuzstadl, Erinnerungsgitter, Zeitgehöft.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Life underground
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Clarissa Fabri
Urban expansion leads to land sealing, biodiversity loss, and rising temperatures. This project repurposes the underused Votivpark parking garage in Vienna into underground living space. Through courtyard architecture, it ensures natural light and energy efficiency while preserving surface greenery.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Fiction Machine
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Axel Gillblad
Architecture is the stage that enacts intriguing and emotional stories of life. In a time where social sustainability must be trivialised in war-stricken Ukraine, this project explores the role of a theatre in fostering civic engagement, by blurring the boundaries between performance and audience.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
The Servant’s Tale
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Jonathan Andersson
This is an architectural✏️ prototype 🏗️🛠️ of setting the standard for the 👁️VISIBLE👀 domestic servant 👀🛎️💙. This prototype is a statement of a multi-purpose dwelling 🏢🏠 where hierarchies🪜 between people of labour 🛠️👷 and people of leisure 🛋️😌 are challenged💪 and ignored👂❌.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ecosystem Strategies for Urban Co-Habitation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Franziska Vey
Challenging anthropocentric planning, the framework offers 8 strategic steps to achieve resilient co-habitats for our future. It empowers voices from human, flora, fauna, and water as equal protagonists and utilizes natures ecosystem and adapts the concepts for regenerative urban design strategies.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ankara Exquis
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Nusret Atakan Harmancı · Alp Yılmaz
The project introduces a methodology for reading and designing the city of Ankara and its collective memory. Using the Surrealist game Cadavre Exquis (Exquisite Corpse) as an analogy, it explores ways to re-fold natural and cultural fragments by linking them across various dimensions of fold lines.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Athens, the Old Acropolis Museum. Rediscovering Traces of the Ancient.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Matteo Mornata · Simona Talerico · Annalisa Vaghi
The thesis proposes a project for the Acropolis of Athens, creating a dialogue between ancient and modern. The intervention focuses on the Old Museum, uncovering hidden archaeological traces and new exhibition spaces. An expanded atrium and hypogeal area reveal remains of the Sanctuary of Pandion.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Vieiros Mines: beyond memory.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Rita Almeida Baptista
On the steep slope leading to the river in Amarante, lies the abandoned Vieiros Mining Complex, the core of this project.
The proposal envisions a Museum and Residential Spaces while preserving the Historical Structures, honoring its past.
A first step in restoring this site as a Place once more.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Religion
GAROÉ
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marta Morato Costa
Garoé is a sacred space—a hidden temple in the red stone quarry. Three ethereal tensile structures descend delicately shaping and inhabiting the wounded landscape.
This temple is a gesture of healing the scars of the territory, reviving ancient legends, and breathing life into once-forgotten spaces.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Anomalies of the Landscape
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Art Lubishtani
Ruins are more than remnants; they shape urban identity. This book explores Leukerbad’s “ruins” through art, architecture, and personal experience, revealing their cultural, historical, and emotional significance. Ruins are not decay—they are unfinished narratives, waiting to be reimagined.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Government & Civic
Hermetic architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Schäfer Lür
The project reimagines prisons by interpreting waiting not as enforced inactivity but as a productive process of self-reflection and reintegration. It aims to transform incarceration into a pathway for personal and social renewal, supporting this often-neglected process through architectural design.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Care at the center
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Klingler Theresa · Späth Viktor
Care centers extend care networks beyond the overburdened nuclear family by fostering egalitarian communal care. Through interactions with residents and experts at our research pavilion, we developed a needs-based concept for a model care center that places care at the heart of neighborhood life.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
L‘AGORA DU QUARTIER
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Paul Leon Pollack
In response to growing urbanization and loneliness, this project reimagines a shopping center in the Banlieues of Paris, transforming it into an inviting hub for people with all backgrounds. By creating divers, open spaces, it fosters community interaction and revitalizes the heart of the city.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Wanderlust
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Yuxuan Jiang · Theodoros Venetsanos
The project explores the reconnection of body and mind through architecture. On Insel der Jugend, a spatial journey unfolds, guiding visitors through detachment, immersion, and engagement. The design invites a sensory experience, reawakening physical awareness through space and movement.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ad memoriam: Salvia officinalis
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Magdalena von Fritsch
Ad memoriam: Salvia officinalis is about the reuse of a former shelter as a seed vault to save our biodiversity in case of natural disaster or war. The added research centre ensures preservation for future generations. A memorial for plants we´ve lost and a symbol of destruction as a warning.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Education
Darmstadt System
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Bea Johanna Engelmann
A flexible building for TU Darmstadt’s Faculty of Architecture, serving first as temporary faculty space and later as a guesthouse. Its adaptive design ensures sustainability, efficiency, and long-term campus integration.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Set table
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Julia Teresa Pérez Núñez
This is a table—not an object, but a manifesto. Six courses explore circularity, and reuse, transforming waste into space. Abandoned infrastructures become opportunities. By dismantling, we create an entropic network of prototypes, ruled by a vast platform, where architecture meets the user.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
ART CORNER
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Álvaro Yanes Cacho
This project promotes sustainable tourism in La Hiruela by regenerating decaying spaces while preserving tradition and culture, recovering the concept of ancient guilds. An acupuncture strategy is used to intervene in the ruins, adapting to the artisanal scale while preserving the traditional image.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Religion
Sacred precinct in the rocks’ shade
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Iliana Fioranti · Chrysoula Michopoulou
In an old quarries’ hill in the Tourkovounia range, Athens, we study the architectural expression of the sacred through designing an orthodox monastic complex. The monks as a constant human presence, distanced but not too far away, would “watch over” the hill and look after the city and its people.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
In search of the Minoan Path – Zākros Archaeological Museum
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Aris Gkikapeppas
This thesis focused on designing a museum at Zakros archaeological site, aiming for an underground “non-building” that blends in. In respect to the genius loci, aligning with the site’s character and creating a landscape gesture that reflects the “order” of Zakros without disturbing the environment.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Written in stone
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Mira Tomić
Space was found in the absence. Resting on leave.
Violently clean stone cliffs and fields of the Brač quarries preserve the memory of the island’s proud history. In search for the most ethical method of rehabilitation, these monuments of changed, but mighty nature are given back to the islanders.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Museum of the 20th century
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Valeria Shchipitsyna · Lukas Hofmann · Daniel Flügge
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Education
Balance between human and nature in Hanság
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Klaudia Pénzes
The project bridges man and nature, serving research, ecotourism, and education. Aligned with sustainable architecture, it aids ecosystem study, preserves traditions, and promotes a pro-nature approach, fostering harmony between human and nature.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Refugee Camp in the City
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Gorkem Varlik
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Music Center Sofia
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Elena Bozova
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Unidad vecinal portales
Young Talent 2018
YT Nominees
margherita pisano · Linda Consiglieri
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
LIFE OF RURAL MATERIALS
Young Talent 2018
YT Nominees
Kristian Møystad Bjørnland · Ina Samdal
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Government & Civic
Temenos Bezigrad
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Wouter Verstraete
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Architecture Of Sedimentation: Water Cities and Living Grounds
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
DIAN CONG LIU
Architecture of Sedimentation destabilizes dominant imaginations of “ground” as a firm and solid substance, challenging also how territorial outlines fix landed resources in the cartographic map. The project explores natural sedimentation processes to suggest a new architecture of ground-making.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
TO THE BRICKS THAT BUILT US
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
SI JIA LEE
This thesis challenges conventional paradigms of cultural tourism to bolster the economy of a shrinking town. It explores the possibilities of embracing the natural state of decay in both culture and architecture, speculating how cultures and communities can thrive beyond the physical realm.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Centralen
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Signe Glud · Frederik Jordan Jensen
Centralen transforms a demolition threatened postal service building in Hillerød into a sustainable residential mixed-use hub. Using preservation theory, life cycle assessment and energy simulations, the project balances heritage values with low-carbon design redefining sustainable adaptive reuse.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Water and Resilience
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Vicente Mateus
Lisbon’s waterscape is an active urban agent. This project interweaves natural and artificial hydric systems, harvesting rain, recharging aquifers, and redistributing flows. Resisting containment, it curates a metabolic exchange where city and water co-evolve in adaptive reciprocity.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
ECHOES OF EXISTENCE
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
CLARABELLE PUN WAN YI
This thesis embarks on a poignant exploration of the interplay between humanity, post-humanism, and architecture amid a nation’s slow demise from rising sea levels, focusing on the relationship between life, digital legacy, and heritage preservation in a “phy-gital” nation rising through the tide.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Funerary
CIVITA DI BAGNOREGIO, the architecture of eternity
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Claire Boissiere
Located at the center of the village, this columbarium is a marker, an observer of erosion. It is embedded within the rock to survive and evolve in contact with its disappearance. This poured concrete structure will endure for over 500 years, beyond the disappearance of Civita di Bagnoregio.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
A Tepid Metonymy
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Hamish Saul
An adaptive reuse conversion of the derelict Tepid Baths in nipaluna/Hobart, lutruwita/Tasmania to a Cinema. Taking cues from the film montage practice of cutting and reassembling found film, existing fabric is reconfigured, sequence dictating meaning. New architecture without new material.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Preservation of Tradition – the language, the culture and the arts
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Tara Nic Gearailt
My thesis investigates the role of architecture in preserving cultural ideals that strengthens our expression of identity with an emphasis on the Irish language. I focus on the adaptive reuse of a derelict Art Deco Cinema, The Phoenix. It is the first architecture thesis written in Irish in Ireland.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
DT-CNTR
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Pietro Pucci · Nicola Roso
DT-CNTR proposes the transformation of the former Konepaja Train Factory in Helsinki into a sustainable Urban Data Center, capable of reusing waste heat for ancillary activities like a sports hub, triggering urban regeneration processes and turning the infrastructure into an asset for the community.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
X-DEPOT
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Paola Castellini
The project reuses the former Olivetti factory in Marcianise, transforming it into X-DEPOT, an innovative museum storage facility. Blending conservation with exhibition, research, and restoration, it revitalizes industrial heritage while enhancing cultural accessibility and collection management.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Upward Machine
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Chiara Fornaciari · Irene Gasparinetti
The industrial factory is a space that has a set of rules which govern the design of each of its components. Upward Machine represents the idea of a machine destined to evolve over time originally conceived as a tool for brick production, it is later reshaped to adapt to contemporary society.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
New philharmonic building in Sofia
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Stiliana Varsanova
The New Music Complex in Sofia aims to establish a dynamic cultural and educational hub, addressing Bulgaria’s need for a world-class concert venue. Despite the country’s musical talent, Sofia lacks a facility that meets modern artistic and acoustic standards.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Cultural Centre
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Darena Dupire
The project aims to transform the historic monastery into a modern cultural center while preserving its architectural and historic value. Incorporating exhibition spaces, a concert hall, workshops, a restaurant, and a hotel, it highlights local traditions, while integrating sustainable technologies.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Revitalization of the former Vetter`s brewery malt factory, as a preservation of a post- industrial value.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Oliwia Sikora
The former Vetter Brewery in Lublin, a unique piece of industrial heritage, is at risk of destruction. The revitalization project aims at making the use of the building, blending historical values with modern solutions, and giving it a new social and cultural role in the city’s identity.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Wood and Carpentry Center in Szklarnia (Lublin Voivodeship)
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Pawel Iwaniak
The centre’s design is an attempt to combine the tradition of wooden construction in material solutions, construction or execution techniques with a modern presentation of the shape, its combination with other elements of the urban composition and alternative finishing materials.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Architecture for archaeological landscapes of Inner Balkans
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Elvira De Felice
The project focuses on the rediscovery of Municipum S, a relatively unknown archaeological site in Montenegro. The main theme of the proposal is based on the interpretation of ancient ruins to define new narrative sequences of the river landscape in terms of accessibility, recognizability, and use.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Architectural Composition as an Acknowledgement tool for Archaeology. The case study of Paestum Archaeological Park
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Parastou Mollahosseinali
This thesis explores the potential of architectural composition to restore the spatial essence of archaeological sites. It proposes contemporary compositions to reintroduce the site’s original conditions, enhancing visitor experience and preserving authenticity.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
House of the Silesian Community. Adaptation of post-industrial sites in Bytom.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Dominika Bednarek
Design analyzes Upper Silesia’s contemporary challenges through its history, focusing on local issues in Bytom. It proposes solutions to enhance living conditions, blending industrial heritage with modern needs while promoting social cohesion, sustainability, and revitalization of industrial areas.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Meta-space: Formining
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vesna Janković
The thesis explores the complex relationships and boundary conditions that exist between new perspectives of temporality, allegory, memory, place and architecture by exploring how architecture can simultaneously bear witness to time itself – past and present, forever and time yet to come.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Genius Loci as the Cornerstone of the Design Process: In Search for the Spirit of the Place With the Use of Film Tools.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Aleksandra Cassino
The thesis explores the genius loci of Kazimierz Dolny through analysis, film, and artistic interpretation. The research includes the ‘Obyczajność’ film essay capturing the town’s heritage and atmosphere, resulting in a design of a Lapidarium building that blends in with the historic landscape.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Villa Altissimo: Circumstance and Project
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Nicola D’Addario
The project transforms a 19th-century building, Villa Altissimo, into an artist residency, fostering social interaction, cultural exchange, and artistic creation within a natural setting. It challenges the notion of heritage as untouchable, integrating historical elements with contemporary design.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
An Extension for the Art Museum of Bielefeld
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Andreas Richert
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Adaptable Porosity
Young Talent 2016
YT Nominees
Mohammad Jooshesh
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Museum of Arts and Culture of Cameroon
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Audrey Rita Laurelle Manga · Jospin Lionel Motho Tsio
The Museum of Arts and Culture of Cameroon (MACC) is dedicated to preserving, exhibiting, and promoting the country’s rich artistic and cultural heritage. MACC fosters intercultural dialogue and global awareness of Cameroonian traditions through diverse artworks, artefacts, and historical documents.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Rewriting the Riverbank
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Xinyan Chen · Qianrong Shi
Mosul, a city on the Tigris, suffered destruction during the war and lost numerous civil infrastructures. Applying the rewriting technique, our project revives the absence/presence of city walls, monumental buildings, and urban infrastructure to balance diversity and unity, tradition and modernity.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Signifying Absences along Iera Odos: On the Temporality of the Permanent
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Vasileia Poulianiti · Paraskevi Nikoleta Steliou
This thesis examines Iera Odos as a transformative road-scape, where bodies and narratives intersect. It explores the road’s transformation through walking and time, revealing a space of memory, oblivion and loss. The design attempts to preserve a new archive of this continuously evolving landscape.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Poolside Politics
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Winners
James Langlois
A collective of marginalized citizens gathers at the water’s edge of Piscine Luminy, united by a vision to revive this once vibrant civic oasis. Through a construction-driven Radical Municipalism, they aim to reimagine/restore the beloved municipal pool, reclaiming it for the people of Marseille.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Tuareg Trails of Tomorrow
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Blessing Sulaiman
This project explores the significant social and environmental effects that the Arlit community has faced. As the world clamours for eco-capitalist ideals, the people of Arlit pay the price. Now facing a new adversary can the Tuareg embrace a new strategy to restore the desert’s heartbeat?
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Hotel Interim
Young Talent 2025
YT Winners
Andreas Stanzel
Hotel Interim reassesses the material and immaterial value of a soon to be demolished hotel in Halle. It explores how the vacant space could serve as an interim of the University of Arts, viewing the building as a resource, the space as a site for experimentation, and its current state as a stage.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Form Follows Tradition – A Tale of Craftmanship in East Africa
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Alberte Emilie Fogh Hansen · Rasmus Scott Bommersholdt Nørulf
This project examines the potential of blending culturally rooted traditional architectural practices with contemporary innovations. Using local materials and reinterpreting traditional building tectonics, the proposed design promotes energy efficiency, environmental awareness, and participation.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
From Terminus to Entrance.
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Oana-Antonia Filip
The main theme explores the issues of urban enclaves and works with such a site, a tram depot, an exception within the fabric in terms of scale, morphology, accessibility. Thus, from a transport infrastructure, a new infrastructure will be proposed with a strong social and educational character.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Health
ADHDventure
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Erika Jane Go
The Therapeutic and Wellness Hub for Children with ADHD provides specialized pediatric mental health treatment ranging from traditional therapy to wellness-centric treatments. It integrates architecture with therapy, prioritizing enrichment, healing, and autonomy with user-centric design solutions.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Extension to the Beaconsfield Cemetery: Offerings for Kairos
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Steph Papastavrou
As a community we do not have spaces to comprehend death. The project facilitates moments to take a breath, pause, exhale, and accomplish the critical act of engaging with death; to offer architecture that helps us encounter mortality, thereby encouraging a ‘good death’ for loved ones and ourselves.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
The Lepidoptera, FILM SCHOOL AND CULTURAL CENTRE (LLECCC!)
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marieta Martínez Cabrera
The mining industry in the Murcia region, not only left a serious environmental damage in its surroundings. It also left a big industrial complex, now in ruins, historically known as ‘La Maquinista de Levante’, which could become the cornerstone for the sustainable territory regeneration.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Religion
Mosque Redefined
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Fatih Sejfulla
This project challenges the static perception of mosque architecture, reimagining it as a living, responsive place that evolves with contemporary urban and environmental needs. By merging the basic spatial principles with contemporary materials, the outcome is more than just a place of worship.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Reimagining Urban Vernacular
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Finalists
Pierre Dalais
Technological progress has homogenized architecture, detaching it from local climates and identities. This project envisions a post-crisis world where AI-driven cities collapse, squatters reclaim high-tech ruins, creating low-tech shelters and redefining an urban vernacular beyond technology.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
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