Take a look at the 71 new projects named 'best architects 23' award winners

This year’s best architects 23 competition has announced its annual list of winning projects that have distinguished themselves for their “abundant creativity and unconventional solutions” to real-world challenges felt by practitioners worldwide.

A total of 71 European (and one Asian) projects made the list, with another 8 being named to the gold category. “With such a variety of approaches, it was difficult to discern a dominant design trend,” the jury noted. “The winning projects stand out not so much for their style but rather for the strategical considerations and relish in experimentation they express.”

A publication featuring each winning design will be released in early fall.

“The period we are living in is one of questions and interrogations,” juror Daniel Zamarbide said in a statement. “Many of the pillars that we have taken too much for granted and have constructed in society seem to be tumbling down, even falling apart. These pillars that are collapsing are potentially a good metaphor for what goes on in the architectural milieu. We might not need those pillars anymore. Or we might like to work with other ones, more fragile, less imposing, less patriarchal.”

This is the award’s sixteenth edition overall as well as the seventh since it was expanded to include non-German-speaking countries in 2015. The next cycle begins again in January 2023. Scroll down to see a selection of the winning designs.

Residential Multi-family  

GOLD AWARD 

Jaeger Koechlin - Coming Going and Staying - Basel, CH

Edelaar Mosayebi Inderbitzin Architekten - Narzissenstrasse apartment house - Zurich, CH

AWARD

Phillipe Meyer - Habitation collective - Genf-Vernier, CH

Schoch Tavli Architekten - Villa Rose apartments - Hauptwil, CH

Michael Meier und Marius Hug Architekten - House on Belt Walk - Zurich, CH

Pool Architekten - Eggbühl-Areal - Zurich, CH

LIN.ROBBE.SEILER - La Gradelle housing - Cologny, CH

Lütolf und Scheuner Architekten - Schweighofpark AG apartment house, Schweighof - Kriens, CH

Lütolf und Scheuner Architekten - St. Anna Foundation apartment houses, Schweighof - Kriens, CH

Fruehauf, Henry & Viladoms - Boveresses Housing - Lausanne, CH

Haefeli Architekten - Fischer multi-family house - Döttingen, CH

Hurst Song - Apartment building in Untervaz - Untervaz, CH

DF_DC - Via Carona 6 - Paradiso, CH

Burkard Meyer Architekten - BäreTower, Ostermundigen - Bern, CH

Bayer & Strobel Architekten - KURT 2.0 social housing in Wolfsburg -Wolfsburg, DE

Anne Hangebruch Mark Ammann Architekten - A townhouse in Lübeck’s founding quarter - Lübeck, DE

Residential Single-family  

AWARD

Lionel Ballmer Architects - Small House - Haute-Nendaz, CH

Marte.Marte Architekten - House of Chambers - Feldkirch, AT

Inches Geleta - Zanini Porta House - Locarno, CH

LP architektur - Herzgsell single-family house - Altenmarkt, AT

9graden architectuur - House Lichtenberg - Amersfoort, NL

Camps Felip ARQUITECTURIA - HO16 - Girona, ES

D+S Heim Architetti - casa H - Tegna, CH

Giuliani Hoenger Architekten - Surber-Burri-residence - Regensberg, CH

ROBERT MAIER ARCHITEKTEN  - Black Trinity - Gauting, DE

schi.ke architektur - House for M - Landquart, CH

Pedevilla Architects - House G -Gossensaß, IT

Montemurro Aguiar Architetti - Casa in collina - Comano, CH

Uli Mayer Urs Huessy Architekten - Gapont - Triesen, LI

Schneider & Schneider Architekten - Split-Level Homes Aarau - Aarau, CH

Education Buildings

GOLD AWARD

Roman Sigrist Architektur - Trachslau schoolhouse - Trachslau, CH

AWARD

Reichel Schlaier Architekten - Daycare centre Jägerhalde - Stuttgart, DE

Wulf Architekten - Canteen and media centre, Darmstadt - Darmstadt, DE 

V-architekten - Zweiburgenschule Weinheim - Weinheim, DE

SPREEN ARCHITEKTEN - Ulm University of Applied Sciences - Ulm, DE

PSA Pfletscher und Steffan-Architekten - Sports hall at the Edelweiss barracks Mittenwald - Mittenwald, DE

Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter - Sporrsmeden Preschool - Markaryd, SE

Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter - Eldstaden Preschool - Falkenberg, SE

Burkard Meyer Architekten - Kerenzerberg Sports Centre, Filzbach - Filzbach, CH

Public Buildings

GOLD AWARD

Carlana Mezzalira Pentimalli - Public Library of Bressanone - Bressanone, IT

Rapin Saiz Architectes - Clos Bercher psychosocial care centre - Bercher, CH

AWARD

Atelier Pulver Architectes - Nautical Center - Nant, CH

Atelier ST - Goettingen Art Gallery - Göttingen, DE

Brückner & Brückner Architekten - Living memory | New town archive in Oberviechtach - Oberviechtach, DEWaadt

Hermansson Hiller Lundberg Arkitekter - Roedeby Care Home - Karlskrona, SE

Schoch Tavli Architekten -  Holdergarten care home - Obersommeri, CH

Soppelsa Architekten - Dual gymnasium Oberrueti - Oberrüti, CH

Steimle Architekten - Bauhaus UNESCO World Heritage Visitor Centre Bernau - Stuttgart, DE

Wolff Obrist architectes - La Sylvabelle Psychiatric Nursing Home - Waadt, CH

Other Buildings

AWARD

DEMOGO studio di architettura - Bivouac Fanton - Forcella Marmarole, IT

Sturm und Wartzeck - National Park Centre Ruhestein Black Forest - Ruhestein pass, DE

Infrastructure Buildings 

AWARD

BAYER STROBEL ARCHITEKTEN - Fire and rescue station  Wiesbaden-Igstadt - Wiesbaden-Igstadt, DE

MAK architecture - CAD-Orbe - Orbe, CH

mohr architekten - Neulengbach Stadt stop -Neulengbach Stadt, AT

Commercial/Industrial Buildings

GOLD AWARD

mehr* architekten - Brewery Hall Kirchheim unter Teck - Kirchheim unter Teck, DE

AWARD

Johannes Kaufmann und Partner Carpentry - Kaufmann - Reuthe, AT

Ludloff Ludloff Architekten - ophelis exhibition hall - Bad Schönborn, DE

G8A Architects and Rollimarchini Architekten - Tropical factory Saigon - Saigon, VN

Office/Administrative Buildings

GOLD AWARD

jessenvollenweider - Office for Environment and Energy, Basel - Basel, CH

AWARD

LIN.ROBBE.SEILER - The Global Fund Headquarter, Geneva - Geneva, CH

Schulz und Schulz - DBFZ German Biomass Research Centre - Leipzig, DE

Renovation and Addition 

GOLD AWARD

Roman Sigrist Architektur - esidential and commercial building Neustadtstrasse, Lucerne - Lucerne, CH

AWARD

Bauart Architekten und Planer - Brueckenkopf Bern | Umnutzung Buerohaus-in-Wohnen - Bern, CH

BONHOTE ZAPATA architectes  - Grosser Rat - Geneva, CH

BRH Architekten and Weberbuess Architekten - Primary schools Rittergasse Basel conversion and refurbishment - Basel, CH

Brückner & Brückner Architekten -  Renovation of St Bruno's Church - Niederwerrn, DE

bunq architectes - Renovation and extension of a 1930s apartment building - Nyon, CH

cheseauxrey associés -  Mayen in Les Grillesses - Sion, CH

Dario Wohler Architekten - Innovation Park conversion of the former fire station - Dübendorf, CH

Link Architectes - Stable-conversion - Chernex, CH

Fischer Architekten - Conversion Octavo II - Zurich, CH

Ludescher + Lutz Architekten - Vorarlberg State Library, conversion and adaptation - Bregenz, AT

Muck Petzet Architekten - Schlachtensee shared housing - Berlin, DE

Madeleine Architectes - Garden pavilion in Lausanne - Lausanne, CH

Steinbach Bernhardt Architekten and Tobias Finckh - Office in a barn - Öhringen, DE

Samir Alaoui Architectes - Conversion of a workers villa from the 1940s - Lausanne, CH

Interior Design

AWARD

bayer | uhrig - Columbarium in St. Mary’s Church, Kaiserslautern - Kaiserslautern, DE

BRH Architekten and Ines Fabian Neuhaus Kollegienhaus at the University of Basel assembly hall renovation - Basel, CH

KEGGENHOFF PARTNER - St. Victor Community Centre - Hamm-Herringen, DE