EUmies Awards 2024 Exhibition in Vienna
Architekturzentrum WienOctober 3, 2024
January 20, 2025
Europa’s Bestebauten / Europe’s best Buildings
Every two years, the Europe’s Best Buildings exhibition highlights outstanding architectural projects from Europe and has become a veritable crowd puller. In 2024, the main award will once again go to an educational building: The Study Pavilion on the Technical University of Braunschweig campus by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke offers a flexible and innovative learning environment. The winner of the “Emerging Architecture 2024” prize is the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura (Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano). Out of the 362 nominated projects from 38 countries, a total of 40 projects were selected for the exhibition by the prominent jury chaired by the French architect Frédéric Druot, including two projects from Austria: the Neubaugasse Townhouse in Vienna by PSLA Architekten and IKEA Wien Westbahnhof by querkraft architekten.
The exhibition includes the 362 nominated works that form an impressive cartography of the best European architecture of the last two years. These works, spanning 38 European countries, 125 regions, and 240 locations, are found in unique places in the northern hemisphere of our planet. Following the Earth’s meridian, the group of works creates the map of the EUmies Awards 2024, from the icy landscape of Greenland to a subtropical banana field in the Canary Islands.
The exhibition features models, texts, videos, and drawings of the shortlisted works and an overview of the 362 nominees as well as on the Austrian works.
LINA European Architecture Platform participants Estelle Barriol and Fanny Bordes of Studio ACTE have overseen part of the exhibition’s furniture, and Tiago Casanova has created the video of the finalist emerging work. The exhibition is supported by USM Modular Furniture, the Swiss modular furniture firm, which will be used on this occasion to present the original models of the projects and the accompanying audiovisual material.
The exhibition opens at the Architekturzentrum Wien on 2 October at 19:00 with the participation of:
Hannes Swoboda, President Az W
Angelika Fitz, Director Az W
Anna Ramos, Director Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Barbara Steffner, EU Commission Representation in Austria
Curator: Anna Sala (Fundació Mies van der Rohe)
Coordination: Jordi Garcia (Fundació Mies van der Rohe)
Guided visits: AzW
Mounting: AzW + Fundació Mies van der Rohe
Videos: Nihao Films (Xavi Campreciós, Pep Martín), Tiago Casanova and the authors of the shortlisted works
Modular furniture: USM
Wood structures: Jorge García Olaya
Wood stools: Studio ACTE (Estelle Barriol and Fanny Bordes)
Steel stools: Jorge Vidal studio
Models: each architecture studio
Surface: 300m2
Visitors: 7,250 people
Collateral activities: AzW
