YAC announces the winners of Pinocchio Children's Library Competition

YAC – Young Architects Competitions  has announced the winners of the design contest for the Pinocchio Children's Library, an ideas competition that was launched last September and aimed a designing the greatest international library dedicated to Pinocchio, the most famous puppet in the world.

The jury that assessed the submissions was noteworthy and included Italo Rota, Mario Cucinella, Fabio Novembre, Emmanuelle Moureaux, and others. There was a total cash prize of € 20,000, awarded to the winning projects: the 1^st prize – € 10,000 – was awarded to the French team “vGHcompany”, the 2^nd prize - € 4,000 – to the Polish team “Gierbienis + Poklewski” and the 3^rd one - € 2,000 – went to the Guatemalan team “De Oliveira Castro Arquitectos”. The 4 Gold Mentions – a prize of € 1,000 each – have been assigned to teams “OPV” (Italy), “OOLI” (South Korea), “DEPLUS ZATTI” (France) e “Pájaros mañaneros” (Spain).  Besides, 43 additional projects have been awarded 11 Honorable Mentions and 32 Finalist Mentions respectively.

Take a look at the winners below:

1st PRIZE – Team vGHcompany : Thomas van Gaver, Julien Hubert, Guillaume Dorne, Lucas Gomez, Alberto Morao, Marco Digrandi

2nd PRIZE – Team Gierbienis + Poklewski: Marcin Gierbienis, Damian Poklewski-Koziełł

3rd PRIZE – Team De Oliveira Castro Arquitectos: Roberto De Oliveira Castro, Karen Velásquez, Carlos Miguel Enriquez, María Isabel Garzaro, Mayra Lucía Juarez, Anya María Recinos, Carmen Ana Pacheco, Rodrigo Flores

GOLD MENTIONS:

Team OPV: Tecla Nencini, Michele Tobia

Team OOLI: Juhyun Bae, Heeseung Choi, Miju Suh, Soryun Lee

Team DEPLUS ZATTI: Paola Zatti, Victor Deplus

Team Pájaros mañaneros: Aina Roca, Robert Comas

Take a look at the Honorable Mentions in the gallery below!