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Europe's best Buildings: Mies van der Rohe Award winners go on view

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Jul 30, 2020

Grand Parc Bordeaux transformation in Bordeaux, France, designed by Lacaton & Vassal architects, Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture. Photo: Anna Mas.

The standout projects of one of the world’s most significant architectural honors, The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award, are the subject of the new exhibition Europe's best Buildings which opened in Vienna, Austria today. 

A spectacular transformation of three 1960s housing blocks in Bordeaux, France was selected last year as the main winner of the biennial award, and four other projects in Belgium, Spain, Germany, and Albania reached finalist spots. 

The forty buildings shortlisted from 383 projects nominated from 36 European nations — all projects are conversions of or additions to existing buildings — can now be inspected up-close until October 12th at the Architekturzentrum Wien.

Grand Parc Bordeaux: before and after the revamp. Photo: Philippe Ruault.

"The Covid-19 crisis is clearly showing the importance of good housing developments, along with new combinations of living and working and a city of short distances with functioning neighborhoods and generous public spaces," reads the exhibition's announcement. "Although the current edition of the biennial EU Mies van der Rohe Award was awarded by the jury in 2019, its architectural responses to pressing social issues could not be more topical."

Grand Parc Bordeaux. Photo: Philippe Ruault.

"The main prize has been awarded to a ground-breaking housing project: a radical transformation of three apartment blocks from the 1960s in Bordeaux by architects Lacaton & Vassal in collaboration with Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin. In the words of one resident, the addition of ‘instant winter gardens’ lends the 530 social housing units ‘the spatial generosity of villas’ — whereby the architectural extension also functions as a buffer zone, replacing conventional façade insulation."

Finalist: Terracehouse Berlin in Berlin, Germany, designed by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon and Muck Petzet Architekten. Photo by Erica Overmeer.

"Among the projects to have reached the finals that have more extensive presentations in the exhibition is the Lobe Block Terrace House in Berlin (DE) by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon and Muck Petzet Architects, a radical example of an open-use architectural structure where the fusion of private and public space becomes a living experiment."

Finalist: PC CARITAS in Melle, Belgium, designed by architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. Photo by Filip Dujardin.

"For the PC Caritas project, a pavilion in a psychiatric clinic in Melle, Belgium, de vylder vinck taillieu are realising the conversion of a ruin into a multi-story public open space."

Finalist: Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Center in Plasencia, Spain, designed by SelgasCano. Photo by Iwan Baan.

"The Placencia Auditorium and Congress Centre in Plasencia (ES) by selgascano presents itself as an optimistic entity in a structurally weak region. What resembles a chimera between appearance and reality on passing by becomes a versatile place for cultural and social activities on entering."

Finalist: Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, designed by 51N4E, Anri Sala, Plant en Houtgoed, and iRI. Photo by Filip Dujardin.

"[...] in Tirana (AL), 51N4E in collaboration with Anri Sala have broken the burdening monumentality of the communist architecture by redesigning the central Skanderbeg Square. In doing so, the architects work both with a relational elevation of the human perspective when crossing and using the plaza, and with the ‘cosy’ fraying of its edges."

Emerging Architect Prize: School refectory in Montbrun-Bocage, France, designed by BAST. Photo by BAST.

"The Emerging Architect Prize has been awarded to BAST from Toulouse for the conversion and extension of a village school in Montbrun-Bocage (FR). The new cafeteria frames the intimacy of the schoolyard while opening up a view of the idyllic rural surroundings."

RELATED NEWS Lacaton & Vassal's 'housing transformation' in Bordeaux wins 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award
RELATED NEWS Five finalists announced for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award

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Europe's best Buildings: Mies van der Rohe Award winners go on view

By Alexander Walter|

Thursday, Jul 30, 2020

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Grand Parc Bordeaux transformation in Bordeaux, France, designed by Lacaton & Vassal architects, Frédéric Druot Architecture and Christophe Hutin Architecture. Photo: Anna Mas.

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The standout projects of one of the world’s most significant architectural honors, The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award, are the subject of the new exhibition Europe's best Buildings which opened in Vienna, Austria today. 

A spectacular transformation of three 1960s housing blocks in Bordeaux, France was selected last year as the main winner of the biennial award, and four other projects in Belgium, Spain, Germany, and Albania reached finalist spots. 

The forty buildings shortlisted from 383 projects nominated from 36 European nations — all projects are conversions of or additions to existing buildings — can now be inspected up-close until October 12th at the Architekturzentrum Wien.

Grand Parc Bordeaux: before and after the revamp. Photo: Philippe Ruault.

"The Covid-19 crisis is clearly showing the importance of good housing developments, along with new combinations of living and working and a city of short distances with functioning neighborhoods and generous public spaces," reads the exhibition's announcement. "Although the current edition of the biennial EU Mies van der Rohe Award was awarded by the jury in 2019, its architectural responses to pressing social issues could not be more topical."

Grand Parc Bordeaux. Photo: Philippe Ruault.

"The main prize has been awarded to a ground-breaking housing project: a radical transformation of three apartment blocks from the 1960s in Bordeaux by architects Lacaton & Vassal in collaboration with Frédéric Druot and Christophe Hutin. In the words of one resident, the addition of ‘instant winter gardens’ lends the 530 social housing units ‘the spatial generosity of villas’ — whereby the architectural extension also functions as a buffer zone, replacing conventional façade insulation."

Finalist: Terracehouse Berlin in Berlin, Germany, designed by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon and Muck Petzet Architekten. Photo by Erica Overmeer.

"Among the projects to have reached the finals that have more extensive presentations in the exhibition is the Lobe Block Terrace House in Berlin (DE) by Brandlhuber+ Emde, Burlon and Muck Petzet Architects, a radical example of an open-use architectural structure where the fusion of private and public space becomes a living experiment."

Finalist: PC CARITAS in Melle, Belgium, designed by architecten de vylder vinck taillieu. Photo by Filip Dujardin.

"For the PC Caritas project, a pavilion in a psychiatric clinic in Melle, Belgium, de vylder vinck taillieu are realising the conversion of a ruin into a multi-story public open space."

Finalist: Plasencia Auditorium and Congress Center in Plasencia, Spain, designed by SelgasCano. Photo by Iwan Baan.

"The Placencia Auditorium and Congress Centre in Plasencia (ES) by selgascano presents itself as an optimistic entity in a structurally weak region. What resembles a chimera between appearance and reality on passing by becomes a versatile place for cultural and social activities on entering."

Finalist: Skanderbeg Square in Tirana, Albania, designed by 51N4E, Anri Sala, Plant en Houtgoed, and iRI. Photo by Filip Dujardin.

"[...] in Tirana (AL), 51N4E in collaboration with Anri Sala have broken the burdening monumentality of the communist architecture by redesigning the central Skanderbeg Square. In doing so, the architects work both with a relational elevation of the human perspective when crossing and using the plaza, and with the ‘cosy’ fraying of its edges."

Emerging Architect Prize: School refectory in Montbrun-Bocage, France, designed by BAST. Photo by BAST.

"The Emerging Architect Prize has been awarded to BAST from Toulouse for the conversion and extension of a village school in Montbrun-Bocage (FR). The new cafeteria frames the intimacy of the schoolyard while opening up a view of the idyllic rural surroundings."

RELATED NEWS Lacaton & Vassal's 'housing transformation' in Bordeaux wins 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award
RELATED NEWS Five finalists announced for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture—Mies van der Rohe Award

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