Shortlist 2025
The jury has shortlisted 35 projects, complemented by 10 projects from the Young Talent Open. These include schools from Council of Europe member states that are not part of Creative Europe, as well as from Southeast Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. These projects are from 36 schools across 19 countries and address topics such as housing, reuse, climate emergency and resilience, resources, intergenerational fairness, youth, culture, and sport.
This selection will be part of the exhibition “Intelligens. Talent. EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025”, a Collateral Event of the Biennale Architettura 2025, which will open on May 9 at 17:00 at Palazzo Mora in Venice. On the same day, the 12 finalists of the EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 and the 5 finalists of the Young Talent Open will be announced.
The jury aims to highlight the richness found in the diversity of approaches to architectural, landscape and urban design. This selection of projects showcases various methods of teaching and learning architecture in an academic setting, emphasizing the importance of fostering a free and unrestricted environment to maximize students’ potential. Young Talent encourages academic exchange and strives to enhance the skills of architects at the beginning of their careers while also exploring the differences and similarities in architectural education worldwide.
23 results
Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Water and Resilience
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Vicente Mateus
Lisbon’s waterscape is an active urban agent. This project interweaves natural and artificial hydric systems, harvesting rain, recharging aquifers, and redistributing flows. Resisting containment, it curates a metabolic exchange where city and water co-evolve in adaptive reciprocity.
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Collective housing
New Ground Floors
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Aimilia Entouarnts Kaninia · Anastasia Tsioptsia
An alternative model of student accommodation is proposed through the reuse of empty ground-floor shops, constructing a network of spaces and human relationships. To examine our proposal under real-life conditions, an unused shop was found and made active, hosting a multitude of people and things.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Behcinar: incompatible scenarios, blurred traces and a lost garden
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Theoni Gkesiou
The current project redefines the typology of the enclosed garden, expanding its boundaries as an active design element. By integrating social space, it fosters interaction, collaboration, and new ways of inhabiting the degraded urban landscape, transforming it into a dynamic, engaging environment.
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Collective housing
Empty Beauties
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Lilly Irmer · Sophie Kalwa
The project explores repurposing office buildings for housing. Using a 1960s skeletal structure, it assesses adaptability, costs and CO₂ impact. By preserving key elements and integrating flexible systems, it promotes resource-efficient transformation over demolition, extending building lifespans.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Paral.lel Cultural Nexus
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Karine Bagdasaryan
The project transforms a non-consolidated block in Poble-sec neighborhood into public infrastructure, reactivating the abandoned Endesa factory. Prioritizing urban permeability and bioclimatic strategies, the intervention redefines contemporary hybrid spaces as catalysts for cultural exchange.
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Landscape
Grazing in rural regeneration and fire prevention
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Beatriz Madeira Duarte
The project seeks to propose a process of regeneration and transformation for a rural territory, abandoned and constantly affected by rural fires. Through a unifying gesture, applying the concept of commons on the margin of the Cabril reservoir, enabling the use of this dormant territory.
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Government & Civic
Hermetic architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Schäfer Lür
The project reimagines prisons by interpreting waiting not as enforced inactivity but as a productive process of self-reflection and reintegration. It aims to transform incarceration into a pathway for personal and social renewal, supporting this often-neglected process through architectural design.
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Collective housing
Repairing Robin Hood Gardens
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Monet Alexis
Facing its imminent demolition, Robin Hood Gardens, the large-scale housing project by Alison and Peter Smithson asks for urgent attention. Our project proposes the radical repair of the building and tackles simultaneously the precarious situation of student housing in the UK.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Centralen
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Signe Glud · Frederik Jordan Jensen
Centralen transforms a demolition threatened postal service building in Hillerød into a sustainable residential mixed-use hub. Using preservation theory, life cycle assessment and energy simulations, the project balances heritage values with low-carbon design redefining sustainable adaptive reuse.
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Social welfare
Continuity of Aging
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Klarisa Ach-Hübner
The thesis deals with an alternative solution to the current of health and social care for the elderly.
It addresses the problem of over-specialisation of care, which results in the deteriorating condition of the client being reflected in the need for more frequent changes of environment.EUmies Awards Young Talent
Landscape
Continuous Lagoon
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Camilla Bocchieri · Greta Bonini
The research topic is the redevelopment of Porto Tolle power plant complex. The aim is to arrive at a scenario for the entire area, focusing not only on the feasibility of the work, but also on the preservation of the architectural features and the resilience of the lagoon landscapes and ecologies.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Deep Fragmentation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Anna Higgisson
Through the process of ‘Deep Fragmentation’ – a methodology and concept inspired by the Beat Writers’ ‘cut-up’ technique and a Cursed Island off the coast of Naples – this project responds to the threats of the climate crisis within the Bay.
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Mixed use – Infrastructure & Urban
The Bridges of Radolfzell
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Lukas Boß
In different scales the project reshapes the area around the train station in Radolfzell as a new link between the city and the lake. Seven context related bridges implementing interconnectedness, a quality of public space and the potential for appropriation and identification to the suburban space.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Ecosystem Strategies for Urban Co-Habitation
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Franziska Vey
Challenging anthropocentric planning, the framework offers 8 strategic steps to achieve resilient co-habitats for our future. It empowers voices from human, flora, fauna, and water as equal protagonists and utilizes natures ecosystem and adapts the concepts for regenerative urban design strategies.
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Mixed use – Commercial & Offices
Sendling‘s Kitchen <3
Young Talent 2025
YT Shortlisted
Philipp Reidar Ludwig Schmitz
Sendling’s Kitchen develops a new typology. It combines the wholesale market with cooking, teaching and exhibition uses. It creates an experimental space for research, community and learning through infrastructure, construction and circular processes in the food industry.
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Young Talent Open
The EUmies Awards Young Talent 2025 is enriched with a parallel award, the Young Talent Open. The schools eligible to participate in this edition include those from Council of Europe member countries not part of Creative Europe, such as Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and Turkey, as well as invited non-European countries: Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, East Timor, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. Rules for Young Talent Open can be found here.
5 results
Urban planning
Entanglement and Public Affairs
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Holly Shannon
Entanglement and Public Affairs is a project which attempts to view the idea of policy, property and procurement differently to the current way of things. Through a series of interventions, the project interrogates and engages with the varying private and public realms of place.
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
Heterotopia
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Ayça Tuğran
Heterotopia for Urban Hacking redefines public space through interventions that dismantle, reappropriate, and expose infrastructures to create dynamic spaces for memory and discourse. By integrating enclaves & armatures by heterotopias, it merges history, urban layers, and human interaction.
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Culture
Queer Space/Protest Architecture
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Aaron Jin
Amid rising hostility toward Indonesia’s queer community, the project examines temporary architecture’s social impact through a queer cultural festival, whose symbolic scaffolding structures destabilise the colonial square, providing infrastructural support for interactions, activism and liberation.
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Culture
Tuareg Trails of Tomorrow
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
Blessing Sulaiman
This project explores the significant social and environmental effects that the Arlit community has faced. As the world clamours for eco-capitalist ideals, the people of Arlit pay the price. Now facing a new adversary can the Tuareg embrace a new strategy to restore the desert’s heartbeat?
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Mixed use – Cultural & Social
TO THE BRICKS THAT BUILT US
Young Talent 2025
YT Open Shortlisted
SI JIA LEE
This thesis challenges conventional paradigms of cultural tourism to bolster the economy of a shrinking town. It explores the possibilities of embracing the natural state of decay in both culture and architecture, speculating how cultures and communities can thrive beyond the physical realm.
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