We are pleased to share with you the list of 40 shortlisted works competing for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award announced by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe.
Architects: Olson Kundig – conceived as a secure and unexpected retreat nestled into a rock, the Pierre celebrates the materiality of this site. From certain angles, the house almost disappears into nature.
Design: MM18 Arquitetura. Airbnb is inspired by houses of hosts to create environments of meeting rooms. The materials used and decoration seek to follow to the letter what is there in the selected homes.
Design: B.E Architecture. Creating a personal connection to the heritage of the client, the house on Cassell Street is referential of an ancient Byzantine building. The strong rectilinear form, made from natural stone, has a quality of looking older than it is.
Architects: baukultur/ca. House 46H has recently been transformed from of a 110-year-old house into a contemporary, highly sustainable home and, even though strictly modern, its exterior complements the traditional Beaches neighbourhood.
Design: Peter Barber Architects. Beautiful new homeless facility providing high quality residential accommodation, with training and counselling facilities, laid out around a new courtyard garden, winner of an invited architecture competition, shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award.
Architects: OMA – Shortlisted for Mies van der Rohe 2017 Award. The Fondazione is not a preservation project and not a new architecture. Two conditions that are usually kept separate here confront each other in a state of permanent interaction – offering an ensemble of fragments that will not congeal into a single image.
Architects: Studio de Lange. The design plan is minimalist and the material scale is monochrome. It includes natural stone, exposed concrete and aluminum, all found in varying quantities on the exterior as well as interior of the home.
Design: MODA
MoDA was approached in early 2015 to reimagine an existing commercial building on Main Street in the historic mining town of Canmore, Alberta into a mixed-use development of retail, office, residential and warehouse.
Design: Architect Prineas. This project is a 1950s home, which has been reconfigured internally. Two outdoor rooms connect the house and garden using a complimentary language to the original.
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The Economist Building refurbishment news – “Walking to the entrance of our building, across a rather austere plaza, we sometimes pass groups of architecture students in drab, well-cut clothes and interesting glasses.”
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The £4m theatre building includes a 220 seat auditorium and stage with full flying capability, ‘back of house’ accommodation, conference facilities, fully flexible studio theatre, and foyer / restaurant spaces which respond to the existing urban fabric by forging a new link between the differing public realms to the ‘front’ and ‘rear’ of the site