7 Finalists 2026
Balancing Innovation and Context
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The jury considers the 7 finalist projects of the EUmies Awards 2026 exemplary contributions to the future of European architecture. They show how architecture can respond to local conditions and broader societal challenges, creating inclusive, high-quality environments for living, learning, and gathering.
These works balance innovation with sensitivity to context. Some transform overlooked areas—industrial zones, small villages, or peripheral districts—while others intervene subtly in larger cities. In every case, architects are guided by a deep understanding of social, cultural, and environmental forces shaping contemporary life.
What unites them is a focus on the human dimension: architecture that enhances everyday life. Rigorous yet playful, experimental yet grounded, these projects demonstrate the enduring value of thoughtful design in a Europe facing political, environmental, and social challenges.
The 7 in the Archive.
5 Architecture finalists
Culture
Charleroi Palais des Expositions
EUmies Awards 2026
Architecture winners
AgwA · architecten jan de vylder inge vinck
architecten jan de vylder inge vinck · AgwA
Renovation of a 1950s convention centre. The stripped central hall transforms into covered urban terraces. Targeted interventions prioritize flexibility and circulation. Demineralization turns black ground into a continuous green park. The building as it was but never seen before.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Social welfare
Rehabilitation of Vapor Cortès – Prodis 1923
EUmies Awards 2026
Architecture finalists
H ARQUITECTES
David Lorente · Josep Ricart · Xavier Ros · Roger Tudó
The new Prodis headquarters transforms the old Vapor Marquès warehouses into an inclusive center organized around a recovered passage that becomes a new street for the city. The new intervention introduces wooden structures, skylights, and passive systems while respecting its original character.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Industrial
Lot 8, LUMA Arles – Renovation of Le Magasin Électrique
EUmies Awards 2026
Architecture finalists
ASSEMBLE · Atelier Luma · BC architects & studies
James Binning · Joe Halligan · Maria Lisogorskaya · Adam Willis · Laurens Bekemans · Ken De Cooman · Jan Boelen · Baptiste Chatenet · Daniel Ireland
In 2019 the Luma Foundation commissioned Assemble and BC Architects to transform a 19th-Century train depot in Arles into Atelier LUMA, a design lab exemplifying bioregional design, using Camargue resources, regenerative materials and local knowledge for a sustainable, socially engaged architecture.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Sport & Leisure
Josephine Baker – Marie-Jose Perec Sports and Cultural Centre
EUmies Awards 2026
Architecture finalists
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Gustavo Silva-Nicoletti
The project creates a new cultural and sports facility hosting regional competitions. It forms a major hub integrating existing facilities and reconnecting the area with neighbouring districts. Its textile-roof hall offers natural light and ventilation, becoming a symbolic urban landmark.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Commerce
Gruž Market in Dubrovnik
EUmies Awards 2026
Architecture finalists
ARP / Peračić-Veljačić
Dinko Peračić · Miranda Veljačić
Adjustable and carefully shaped canopy/roof, lightweight and optimistic in its appearance, floats above the marketplace and articulates spatial and cultural relations. At once, it gives integrity to the market square, new life to the heritage, public climatic shelter and new identity to the city.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
2 Emerging finalists
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Multi-Service Cultural Centre Le Foirail
EUmies Awards 2026
Emerging finalists
Betillon & Freyermuth* · Crypto Architectes
Betillon Raphaël · Guillaume FREYERMUTH · JEAN BAPTISTE FRIOT
A radical hall in Laguiole, open and reversible, rooted in a proud rural territory with limited means. Rejecting pastiche, it acts as a unifying public space, a flexible machine-building able to adapt over time and nurture collective energy and local identity. Built with local resources set to grow.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
Culture
Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama
EUmies Awards 2026
Emerging winners
Vidic Grohar Arhitekti
Anja Vidic · Jure Grohar
The project involves adaptive reuse of a former industrial hall in to Temporary National Theatre, during renovation of its historic building in the city, preserving its architectural elements while addressing contemporary performance needs and ensuring cultural and architectural sustainability.
EUmies Awards Architecture & Emerging
