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EUmies Awards 2026 Unveil 410 Nominated Works and the Jury Led by Smiljan Radić

Antonia Piñeiro — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:30:00 +0000

The EUmies Awards are organized annually by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission, with the support of the European Union's Creative Europe Programme. Based on the principle that "architecture is not merely a technical or aesthetic matter, but a cultural, environmental, and democratic issue," this 19th cycle of the Prize brings together 410 works from 40 countries and 143 regions across Europe. Beyond recognizing contemporary architecture projects, the Awards also aim to reflect European values such as cultural diversity, sustainability, democracy, and solidarity. This year, most nominated works (23%) are residential projects, including both collective and single-family housing, followed by cultural (13%) and educational (12%) programs. The selection shows a balance between transformations of existing buildings (44%) and new construction (56%), while 12% of the nominees are transnational works and 33% of the studios are 10 years old or younger, underscoring the growing visibility of emerging practices.

Thoravej 29 / pihlmann architects

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:00:00 +0000

Floor slabs tilted into staircases, facade elements reworked into pavement, fittings transformed into furniture – the transformation of Thoravej 29 allows the building to recycle itself. It reflects a pragmatic approach to the available resources, reassessing the value of the existing by treating the building as its own material bank.

BRF Smedjan Courtyard Building and Gatehouse / Högberg Gillner Arkitektur

Hadir Al Koshta — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000

Tredje Långgatan is characterized by a varied urban block structure, with a wide range of building volumes from low to high. Remnants of small-scale industrial buildings coexist with robust brick structures and plaster façades from the decades around the turn of the last century. The buildings meet the street with rough-hewn natural stone bases or rusticated ground floors. The courtyard façades are marked by light-colored plaster surfaces with darker window frames.

"Helping the Existing to Reconfigure Itself": In Conversation with Søren Pihlmann, Curator of the Danish Pavilion

Antonia Piñeiro — Fri, 30 May 2025 05:30:00 +0000

Søren Pihlmann is the curator of the Danish Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale. The exhibition, commissioned by the Danish Architecture Center, is titled Build of Site, and focuses on exploring sustainable architectural practices through the lens of reuse and resourcefulness. Pihlmann's proposal transforms the existing Danish Pavilion, located within a historic building complex in the Biennale's Giardini, into an active exhibition space for material experimentation. The installation highlights techniques that incorporate recycled and bio-based elements. The Pavilion offers visitors the opportunity to observe ongoing experimental processes, witnessing how building resources are creatively reimagined for new uses. In this on-site interview, ArchDaily editors spoke with the curator about the ideas behind the project and the challenges its execution represents.

Meet the Full List of the 65 National Pavilions at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale

Reyyan Dogan — Wed, 07 May 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Titled Intelligens. Natural. Artificial. Collective. and curated by Carlo Ratti, the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale will be holding the 19th International Architecture Exhibition from May 10 to November 23, 2025.

House 14A / pihlmann architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 03 May 2024 06:00:00 +0000

Embodying a non-hierarchical collage of traces from changing times, House14a reflects the ongoing narrative of its evolution. Rather than presenting itself as a completed work, it embraces its role as a phase within an ongoing process. Each element, whether rough or refined, old or new, is equally valued, and gains relevance through processing, assembly, and the possibility of continuous adaptation.

Vollerup House / Høyer Arkitektur

Paula Pintos — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The summer house is on the Northwest coast of Zealand in an area with forest and fields. It's an hour and a half drive, north of Copenhagen.

Spacon & X: Pioneering Experience-Based Architecture Through Defying Industry Norms

Nour Fakharany — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 04:30:00 +0000

Spacon & X is a Copenhagen-based design and architecture studio that works to create spatial identity across different mediums. Their cross-disciplinary work boasts a fusion between traditionally separated fields, contributing to a holistic physical brand experience. Chosen by ArchDaily as part of our 2023 New Practices, the studio works with an explorative approach to architecture, design, event planning, and production.

Making Every Part of Architecture Visible: Kim Lenschow Exposes the Hidden Story of Materials

Maria-Cristina Florian — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 08:30:00 +0000

The built environment represents, for most of us, the background of everyday life, and yet, when we look at a building, we rarely understand what it is made of. In doing so, we also fail to understand its impact on us and on the larger systems of nature. Office Kim Lenschow aims to draw attention to this and to provoke critical thinking in relation to architecture and the materials that make it. By focusing on small-scale, mostly residential projects, the office seeks to reveal this hidden narrative of materials and cultivate more awareness and engagement with the structures surrounding us. For their involvement in the exploration of materials and sustainable development, Office Kim Lenschow has been selected as one of the ArchDaily 2023 New Practices. Every year since 2020, ArchDaily has curated and highlighted emerging offices that bring a new perspective to the field of architecture and design.

Strandvejen 35 Summer House / Jesper Kusk Arkitekter

Hadir Al Koshta — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 23:00:00 +0000

At Følle Strand, Jesper Kusk Architects designed a tiny summer house measuring 46 optimized square meters. This project is inspired by the characteristic and historical fisherman’s houses of the area, aiming to create a downscaled and well-adapted built environment, where three small building volumes stand side by side, overlooking the bay of Kalø.

ÅBEN Brewery / pihlmann architects

Paula Pintos — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 02:00:00 +0000

Built in 1932 as a modern(istic) large-scale butchery in Copenhagen’s meatpacking district, since 1991 it has hosted a range of commercial businesses, today becoming a food production facility 2.0. Located within the city, ÅBEN restores the industrial legacy of the building and turns it inside out by inviting the public into the brewing processes, consequently blurring the contemporary distinction between public and production. Originally, the space functioned as the chill hall, where 980 carcasses hung from a robust meat hanging rail system for 12 hours until the caloricity had left their bodies. The rails are still present, but the carcasses are replaced with steel vessels connected by kilometers of exposed piping.

Thatched Brick Pavilion / RØNNOW LETH & GORI + CINARK

Paula Pintos — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 16:00:00 +0000

The Thatched Brick Pavilion is a pavilion built as part of the initiative ‘Housing Construction From 4 to 1 Planet – Next Generation Architecture’ by the two Danish foundations Realdania and Villum Fonden. The initiative sets out to explore and develop an architectural practice where we can build with a significantly reduced carbon footprint.

Villa Landluft / Kim Lenschow + pihlmann architects

Paula Pintos — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 11:00:00 +0000

At the gateway to central Aarhus, on the threshold between suburban residential housing and urban city blocks, lies Villa Landluft – a stately mansion built in 1897 with references to Italian Renaissance architecture. The name Villa Landluft, Danish for ‘Villa Country Air’, originates from a time when the house was situated far outside of central Aarhus. After more than a hundred years of urban development, this once proud mansion had declined into a dilapidated architectural alien – a last remaining bastion of a bygone era. The project reactivates an outdated building typology, which had become detached from its surroundings both aesthetically, functionally, and demographically.

Between Birch House / Kim Lenschow + pihlmann architects

Paula Pintos — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Manber Jeffries House / James Alder Architects

Luciana Pejić — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 10:00:00 +0000

Manber Jeffries House is an intricate, single-story, rear, and side extension to the ground floor flat of a substantial, semi-detached, Victorian villa in Willesden Green, London. The project, completed by James Alder in March of 2021, reworks a small area of the existing ground floor of the property and also provides a new kitchen and dining room extension that simultaneously operates as a vaulted garden room for the home.

Josephine Michau Selected as Curator of the Danish Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Biennale

Dima Stouhi — Wed, 25 May 2022 06:30:00 +0000

The Danish Architecture Center has announced that Josephine Michau is selected as the curator of the official Danish exhibition in the Danish Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. Under the working title “(Extra)ordinary Landscapes”, the pavilion will explore the theme of climate adaptation and coastal landscapes of the future, exploring the role of architecture with respect to the global climate and biodiversity agenda. The 18th International Architecture Exhibition will be held from May 20th until November 26th, 2023.

Art Hub Copenhagen / pihlmann architects + Archival Studies

Paula Pintos — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 12:00:00 +0000

Since 2019, Art Hub Copenhagen has been based in the Kødbyen, Copenhagen Meatpacking District. Within a couple of years, it will move to a new location. This temporary perspective is a premise that is turned into the general dogma: Every element must be reused. Nothing is discarded but rather revitalized through the alteration of function and appearance.

DTU Bioengineering Research Building / Mikkelsen Architects

Alexandria Bramley — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 21:00:00 +0000

DTU Bioengineering is an education and research building that is part of the overall strategy for the expansion of DTU. The building is connected to the existing buildings 224 and 223 and comprises laboratories, research facilities, and teaching facilities. The building acts as a link between the two existing buildings, 223 and 224. Building 224 has been modernised and has undergone an energy renovation, in connection with the new build. Mikkelsen Architects’ role included architecture services, user processes, preparation of outlines and project proposals, and the main project, and in connection with the execution, managed part of the tender, as well as project follow up and technical inspection.