Young Talent
Works
1587 results
Culture
Abyss Junction
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Shaomin Alex He
The Abyss Junction aims to recontextualise the peripheral industrial town of Eisenerzs, located in the Austrian Alps. Through the framing of views toward the industrial sites and the summits of the hikes, the building becomes a platform that disrupts the existing industrial continuum.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Infrastructure
rbl+1
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Timo Bauer
The project develops a multifunctional energy infrastructure and rethinks existing monofunctional systems in the context of climate change. It integrates transport, and energy production, creating new public spaces and transforming the place into a techno-natural habitat for both people and nature.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
gene{t}rative
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Salma BENSALEM · Marie FREDIANI
gene{t}rative explores, through theatrical scenography, new ways of designing spaces in the era of generative AI models, highlighting the importance of collective intelligence and challenging the way theater set traditions are approached.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
MAiLLe
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Julia WURTH · Wongsun YOO
MAiLLe – a French term meaning “network” – proposes a new marketplace as a sustainable alternative to the MALL, rethinking its supply system and its architecture. Relying on the river, the building unlocks new urban possibilities and reconnects communities through water, under one roof.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
A Time-Slowing Machine
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Clémentine SOUDEE · Thelma VEDRINE
A Time-Slowing Machine rethinks Basel’s marginal industrial north by blending conceptual architecture with landscape restoration of the Wiese, a Rhine tributary. Featuring a social circus and open-water baths, it repurposes infrastructures to explore time, space and the slow motion of its structure.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Infrastructure
A new lease on life
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Loris ELLENA-MEHL
By turning what was once a boundary into a point of connection, the new quays of Ivry stitch together, unite. They describe the poetry of a neglected place that brings Paris and Ivry together around a common climatic issue, around a void, a breath, a new lease on life.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
And the End is always open.
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Florian Oertli
The work explores the question of the extent to which transformation is a precondition for preserving the quality of a place. It is about design-strategies that focus on the everyday, the existing. Architecture is understood as a constantly ongoing process and not as a statically completed object.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Merciful Shadows
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Samuel Caplice · Paddy Doyle
Merciful Shadows explores how architecture can embody acts of mercy in Naples, inspired by Caravaggio’s The Seven Acts of Mercy. Three civic programs—The [Ex]change House, Vinorium, and Lost Lives Archive, reinterpret Caravaggio’s work into architectural gestures to respond to social issues.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Social welfare
Women’s Shelter in an Urban Context
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Astrid Matell
Exploring an alternative to traditional women’s shelters, where safety does not mean exclusion. Inspired by monasteries, it reintroduces the “thick wall” concept. The framework balances openness, enclosure, and thresholds as protection strategies — creating a community orientated emergency housing.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
The [Anti]Festival of Conservation
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Alex Macheta
The [Anti]Festival of Conservation in Naples challenges the city’s tourist-driven identity loss.Through five interventions across two districts, it reimagines neglected spaces, revives local crafts and fosters dialogue between past and present, inviting participants on an immersive cultural journey.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Landscape
The River and the Risk
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Hartung Leonie
The project deals with flood prevention and spatial design potentials in the Ahr Valley after the flood disaster in 2021. Five future scenarios were developed, based on extensive research on insurances, laws, regulations, risk-zones, traditional landscape techniques as well as flood cooperatives.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Education
Learning from the Woodlands
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Mariano Managò
“Learning from the Woodlands” deals with the planning and design of a vocational school for carpenters in the Elz Valley, located in the southern Black Forest. The project envisions a school for contemporary timber construction, deeply rooted in the examination of the challenges of the region.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Against Extinction
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Aoife Marie O’Connor · Aleksandra Polak
Utilising dual realities in the Gulf of Pozzuoli, The Festival of Extinction preserves knowledge from our most climate vulnerable communities. The architecture manifests the extinction scenario caused by inaction, finding redemption by slowing capitalistic processes as collaboration is celebrated.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Prophetic Diffractions
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Ailbhe Boland · Emma Walsh
Constituted as a ‘psicofavola’ or ‘psycho-fable’ and based on Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic tale “The Last Man,” the project involves the reinscription of feminist identity into the landscape of the Phlegraean Fields in Naples, through an architectural triad, facilitating feminist learning and healing.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Behcinar: incompatible scenarios, blurred traces and a lost garden
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Theoni Gkesiou
The current project redefines the typology of the enclosed garden, expanding its boundaries as an active design element. By integrating social space, it fosters interaction, collaboration, and new ways of inhabiting the degraded urban landscape, transforming it into a dynamic, engaging environment.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Heterotopia
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Ayça Tuğran
Heterotopia for Urban Hacking redefines public space through interventions that dismantle, reappropriate, and expose infrastructures to create dynamic spaces for memory and discourse. By integrating enclaves & armatures by heterotopias, it merges history, urban layers, and human interaction.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Infrastructure
ecstatic nexum[s]*
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Mehmet Derin Incekas
Santorini’s eruption left a circular fragmentation in the Aegean, reflects natural rhythms and geopolitical tensions. “ecstatic nexum[s]*” introduces self-sustaining research hubs, blending permanent and temporary structures to create new spatial rhythms that bridge cultural and territorial divides.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
More than a Machine
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Katharina Maria Bitschnau
As Stockholm expands, former industrial areas like Värtahamnen and Norra Djurgårdsstaden are redeveloped, raising land values around the brutalist Silo 1. With its original use obsolete, this project explores how the structure can be reimagined for the post-industrial era.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Landscape
Anti-Ditch
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Gal Shachor
The Anti-Ditch is an architectural approach, envisioning the integration of a new maintenance strategy and an economic scheme. It aims to enhance multiple natural processes for the alternative management of toxic nutrient flux of the American landscape, setting a new agenda for future architects.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Tracing Thermaikos coast: Revival of a forgotten resort
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Konstantina Potsou
This project aims to revive its 1960s character by preserving nature and introducing cultural, recreational, and exploratory spaces. With minimal interventions, it fosters heritage, sustainability, and community engagement.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
Aflenz Awakening
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Leo Hollmann
Aflenz, like many Austrian villages, suffers from a dying centre, declining population, and widespread vacancy. Tourism decline over decades demands a Nanotourism concept: reactivating vacant sites, transforming the public space, and establishing an Albergo Diffuso concept.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Cotonificio Cantoni – Transformation of a cotton spinning mill on Lago di Como
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Max Passgang
The Cotonificio Cantoni in Bellano, built in 1902, stands vacant, dividing the town and disconnecting key landmarks. The project transforms the former factory into a creative hub with workshops, public walkways, and residential spaces, reconnecting the town, river, and railway station.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Food & Accommodation
METECHO
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Evangelia Moschou · Maria Effrosyni Varsami
“METECHO is a narrative that takes place in an abandoned monastic fortress in Epanomi. The story is about the revival of the spirit of the place, through references of history and interpretations of the communal monastic ritual, whose dynamic evolution prevents anything alive from becoming static.”
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Office
Design of an office building as part of the redevelopment of the ASI industrial complex in Marcianise
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Marcella Zanchetta
The thesis explores the redevelopment of the ASI area in Marcianise and the design of an office building on a former RAI Radio Antenna site. It features flexible spaces within a 20x20m grid. Non-work functions enhance comfort, while the outdoor area serves as a public park for the community.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Comparison with Zaha. Expansion of the MAXXI museum in Rome
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Ubaldo Mangiacapra
A complementary building at the MAXXI Museum, part of the “Grande MAXXI” expansion, features a 6×6 m grid of arches, integrating space, matter, and light. With a strong focus on sustainability, it seamlessly connects interior and exterior, balancing classical heritage with contemporary innovation.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Rescripted Neapolitan Realities
Young Talent 2025
YT Finalists
Kieran Maye · James Pearce
The Vele di Scampia, once a modernist vision, now stand as symbols of decay and erasure. Shaped by both architecture and myth, they hold a contested identity. This project restages them as cultural archives, using participatory filmmaking to reshape their narrative and reconnect them with Naples.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
From Stockholm to Munich. References from Denmark and Sweden in Munich’s Post War Architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Bramann Florian
this study is the first to directly compare eight Munich buildings with their Danish and Swedish references. Moreover, it becomes evident that the sources of inspiration for these Munich Post-War buildings were not always in Sweden or Denmark, but often stemmed from shared precedents.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Water-Mine
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Davide Filipi · Giorgio Lana
Water-Mine explores the essence of memories within the architectural discourse on the recovery of mining areas subject to the persistence of industrial archaeology. The project creates tools, such as echoes and resonances, to evoke an implicit presence of water within the monumental washing plants.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Collective housing
Preserving the Past, Embracing the Future: Prospects for a Traditional Farmhouse
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Bodendörfer Anna-Lena
Using an 1864 Bavarian farmhouse as a case study, this project explores how existing structures in rural areas can be adapted for modern multi-generational living within a family and made more energy efficient with few targeted interventions.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
Ode to Joy
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Nominees
Maximilian Lewark · Josiane Schmidt · Alexander Throm
Ode to Joy explores how to preserve and transform a building not only in its materiality but also its ownership model and by doing so its role for the entire quarter. The project conceives a truly sustainable alternative to a real-life real estate operation by the European Commission in Brussels.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Three Chimneys Archipelago
Young Talent 2025
YT Finalists
Valentina Ciancaglini · Giulio Giannico
This thesis explores the regeneration of industrial heritage at Les Tres Xemeneies in Sant Adrià de Besòs. It examines urban voids left by deindustrialization and proposes reuse strategies to integrate the site into Barcelona’s periphery while preserving its historical and social value.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Imagining the Space and Time: The reconversion of the Clarissa’s monastery
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
João Belchior Soares Tomás Rafael
Studying Santarém’s former Clarissa convent, a site altered in the Estado Novo period leaving a lone cistern marking the cloister the only element. This thesis explores its rich archaeological and cultural past. It proposes a museological design connecting history, urban memory, and community.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Funerary
Sacred
Young Talent 2025
YT Finalists
María De Sotto Martín
Sagrado is a proposal for an atomised cemetery over La Palma’s new lava landscape. The project discovers this evolving landscape through a dynamic ritual and a sacred sequence of spaces where nature, materials, and atmospherics bear witness to the island’s transformation and collective memory.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Landscape
Continuous Lagoon
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Camilla Bocchieri · Greta Bonini
The research topic is the redevelopment of Porto Tolle power plant complex. The aim is to arrive at a scenario for the entire area, focusing not only on the feasibility of the work, but also on the preservation of the architectural features and the resilience of the lagoon landscapes and ecologies.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Design proposal for a Monastery of the Third Millennium
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Giuseppina Bosso
The Monastery for the third millennium is a courtyard building composed of multipurpose common spaces combined with flexible rooms for private use. A model adaptable to different places, according to a contextual redevelopment logic that can provide for expansions and volumetric subtractions.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Making the invisible visible
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Valeria Defilippis · Vittoria Pizzol
This thesis addresses the challenges of integrating archaeological sites in modern cities, emphasizing transformation projects for their conservation, valorization, and use. It explores these issues through a case study: the rehabilitation of the Acropolis archaeological site in Athens.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Landscape
The Lighthouse
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Khaleque Tanjina
Dhaka seems unlivable now with its lifeline Buriganga turned into a dumpyard. It is a hope that the design will create a positive impact on individual well-being, be a trendsetter for more sustainable developments in the city, change people’s attitude towards waste and turn them towards the river.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Culture
Tabacalera
Young Talent 2025
YT Finalists
Irene Calero Pagés
Tabacalera, located on Paseo de las Artes and considered a cultural landmark and a symbol of free expression for Madrid’s people, has been forgotten. This project shows the metamorphosis of industrial heritage by transforming the 18th-century tobacco factory into a new multifunctional arts centre.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Education
Labo(r)coop: Bridging Theory and Practice
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Louise Werner
Labo(r)coop is a project focused on addressing gaps within the architectural field. It is conceived as an architectural laboratory bridging theory and practice by offering hands-on learning for students, professionals, and the public.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Coal Station Reloaded
Young Talent 2025
YT Nominees
Dániel Péter Klenóczky
This project revitalizes a unique industrial site, preserving its heritage while adapting it for today. Expressive spaces, a curated visitor journey, and panoramic views create a dynamic dialogue between past and present, transforming the site into an engaging public experience.
EUmies Awards Young Talent
Distribution
by map
By edittions
- Map view
- Grid view
- Stats view