Twelve urgent projects that match the demands of our time: Meet the 2025 EUmies Awards Young Talent finalists

Twelve EUmies Awards Young Talent finalists were announced to coincide with the start of this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale. 

Among the finalists, projects addressing the need for criminal justice and prison reform, the impetus to adaptively reuse historic structures instead of demolition, support the global logistics supply chain, and reclaim disappearing office spaces as housing stood out as salients related to the Biennale’s 2025 theme: Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective.

The competition is open to all qualifying master’s degree projects taken from architecture schools located in countries participating in the Creative Europe Programme. They were: The Belmonte Tomato Farmers Cooperative by Jim Wyatt-Gosebruch (School of Art, Architecture and Design - London Metropolitan University); Poolside Politics by James Langlois (School of Architecture and Cities - University of Westminster); Reimagining Urban Vernacular (Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning - University of Sydney); Bridging the Maribyrnong by Santiago Borda Orellana (School of Architecture and Urban Design - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology); and Dynamics of an Overexploited Territory by Aloysius Goh Jun De (Department of Architecture - The National University of Singapore).

The announcement of the three Young Talent winners will be held in June during the EUmies Awards Day in Venice.

People and Outlaws in Tananger, Norway by Karla Hvidsten (Faculty of Architecture and Design - Norwegian University of Science and Technology)

Tabacalera by Irene Calero Pagés (Madrid School of Architecture - Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Sacred by María De Sotto Martín (Madrid School of Architecture - Polytechnic University of Madrid)

Other Monuments by Guillermo de Alfonso Sánchez (Vallès School of Architecture - Polytechnic University of Catalonia)

Brave News Axis by Spyridon Loukidis, Markos Georgios Sakellion, and Georgios Thalassinos (School of Architecture - National Technical University of Athens)

Rescripted Neapolitan Realities by Kieran Maye, James Pearce (School of Engineering and Architecture, SEFS -University College Cork & Munster Technological University)

Beyond Demolition by Toni Lee Marie Bethäuser, Kimberly Rahn (Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences - Leibniz Universität Hannover)

Ruining the Ruinous Ruin by Jeanne Azemar, Solena Espelt, Nathalie Godon (Faculty of Architecture La Cambre Horta - Free University of Brussels)

Street runners: Supporting infrastructure for the workforce of the supply chain by Marios Gerontas (School of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering - Aristotle University of Thessalonik)

Forest & Phoenix by Vera Kellmann, Carolina von Hammerstein (Faculty VI, Planning, Building and Environment - Institute for Architecture - Technical University of Berlin)

Hotel Interim by Andreas Stanzel (Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism - Bauhaus-Universität Weimar)

Three Chimneys Archipelago by Valentina Ciancaglini, Giulio Giannico (Department of Architecture and Arts -IUAV University of Venice)