描述
The EUmies Awards 2024 began its 18th cycle in May 2023, with a network of independent experts and the architecture associations from across Europe which submitted 362 projects for the jury’s consideration. These 362 works can be found in 38 European countries, representing 125 regions and 240 locations. These specific local contexts share similar or vastly different climate conditions.
Each of these works can be geolocated through specific coordinates that place them at unique points in our planet’s Northern Hemisphere. This cluster of projects creates an abstract map of Europe: the map of the EUmies Awards 2024. Following the lines of the meridians, this map is divided into fifteen horizontal bands, stretching from North to South and West to East, offering multiple ways to interpret the relationships between the 362 nominated works. Identified by fifteen different colours, from blue to red, including shades of green, yellow, and orange, each project is positioned within these bands, from the icy landscape of Greenland (1) to a subtropical banana grove in the Canary Islands (362).
This cartography serves as a map to chart your way through this book in which the 362 nominated works can be found organised through their coordinates within these coloured climate bands. That is why we have laid out each chapter as a sequence of pages full of photographs, maps and texts that illustrate each project in the form of a collage. Ordered in this fashion, this book highlights the selected works, the finalists and the winners, giving them more space to be explained in greater depth and in detail.
A series of seven texts accompany the finalists and the winning projects: James Payne reflects on Hage in Playing a City, the architects Bartosz Haduch and Michał Haduch discuss the Plato Contemporary Art Gallery[1], the critic Oliver Wainwright delves into the Reggio School[2] while the author Nina Bouraoui writes about the Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François in her text Vortex, and finally, Pedro Baia reflects on the delicate and invisible intervention of the finalist for the emerging award, the Piodão Square and Tourist Office. As for the two winning works, the director of the DAM, Peter Cachola Schmal, explains the origin of the TU Braunschweig Study Pavilion, while the art historian and communicator Josep Lluís Blàzquez highlights the local context of the Gabriel García Márquez Library as the winner of the emerging award.
As an introduction, we are presenting a series of reflections made by each member of the jury: Frédéric Druot, Martin Braathen, Pippo Ciorra, Tinatin Gurgenidze, Adriana Krnáčová, Sala Makumbundu and Hrvoje Njiric, a diverse group of professionals who have undertaken the task of establishing a framework for reflection on the state of European contemporary architecture based on the 362 works that make up the planetary map of the EUmies Awards 2024.
Foreword
5 Iliana Ivanova
7 Jaume Collboni
9 Anna Ramos
Insights
13 The Weather Will Be Fine Tomorrow – Frédéric Druot
16 Three Small Points -Pippo Ciorra
18 Posthuman Landscapes -Martin Braathen
20 Every Building Has a Story… and a Soul -Adriana Krnáčová
23 Temporary Structures rather than Permanent Works -Tinatin Gurgenidze
25 An Encouraging Trip through European Architecture -Sala Makumbundu
27 A Comprehensive Jury Process and Distinguished Result -Hrvoje Njiric
362 Works
29 A Cartography for the EUmies Awards 2024
30 Map of Works
49 estudioHerreros
54 Wingårdh Arkitektkontor
74 PART architects
86 Hage -Brendeland & Kristoffersen, Price & Myers [FINALIST]
99 Placing a City -James Payne [FINALIST]
115 Metropolitan Workshop
127 Studio Ossidiana
132 Study Pavilion on the Campus of the TU Braunschweig –Gustav Düsing, Büro Hacke [WINNER]
147 The TU Braunschweig Study Pavilion –Peter Cachola Schmal [WINNER]
150 June14 Meyer-Grohbrügge & Chermayeff
156 Floating e.V. Association
162 Pracownia Architektoniczna Aleksandra Wasilkowska
176 Studio SNCDA + Bureau Bouwtechniek
181 POOL IS COOL, Decoratelier Jozef Wouters
186 &bogdan
190 noAarchitecten
218 allmannwappner
226 PLATO Contemporary Art Gallery -KWK Promes [FINALIST]
240 Plato in Ostrava is an art gallery on the crossroads of past and future -Bartosz Haduch, Michał Haduch [FINALIST]
251 RAUM
262 querkraft architekten
266 PSLA Architekten
273 Architekti B.K.P.Š.
290 DEMOGO
294 KAL A, ARREA architekturni
300 MEDPROSTOR, arhitekturni stelje
305 MORE arhitekture
311 roth&čerina
316 SKROZ
321 MAIO, Studio Nomadic, Studio Peisaj
346 AV62 Arquitectos
353 Beaudouin Architectes, Ivry Serres Architecture
374 Paulo Moreira Architectures, Verkron
378 ATA Atelier, ENTRETEMPOS
386 Piódão Square and Tourist Office -Branco del Rio [EMERGING FINALIST]
399 A Difficult Equation for Piódão Square and Tourist Office -Pedro Baía [EMERGING FINALIST]
402 Óscar Miguel Ares. Contextos de arquitectura y urbanismo
408 Reggio School -Andrés Jaque – Office for Political Innovation [FINALIST]
423 Rainforest? Turn left after the drawbridge! Inside Madrid’s eye-popping living school -Oliver Wainwright [FINALIST]
427 HARQUITECTES
434 Gabriel García Márquez Library –SUMA Arquitectura [EMERGING WINNER]
447 Shadows and Reflections from the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Sant Martí de Provençals –Josep Lluís Blázquez [EMERGING WINNER]
451 Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François -Amelia Tavella Architectes [FINALIST]
463 Vortex -Nina Bouraoui [FINALIST]
470 Ruderal
483 peris+toral arquitectes
494 K-Studio
Epilogue
504 Bringing the Conversations Around -Ivan Blasi
Colophon
Indexs
511 Works per Countries
521 Works for Studios
EUmies Awards
534 Architecture Winners 1988-2022 Emerging Winners 2001-2022 Young Talent Winners 2016-2023
538 Jury, Advisory Committee, Independent Experts, National Associations, 2024
540 Credits
542 Imprint
544 Acknowledgements
