Photographer: © Anna Mas
EUmies Awards 2022
In mid-May, the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona hosted the Mies van der Rohe Awards 2022 ceremony. JUNG is proud since this year to be a partner to this renowned architecture prize, which is awarded by the European Union.
2022 Architecture Award Winner
Grafton Architects,
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara
Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara co-founded Grafton Architects in 1978 after graduating from University College Dublin in 1974. They are members of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland (RIAI), honorary international members of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), members of Aosdána and professors at the Academia in Mendrisio, Switzerland. In 2018, they were curators of the Venice Architecture Biennale with their manifesto: Freespace. Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell were the winners of the 2020 Pritzker Prize.
Town House - Kingston University, London
The Town House of Kingston University, London, by Grafton Architects is awarded for its remarkable spatial quality that creates an excellent atmosphere for studying, dancing, gathering, and community.
The building houses dance, library and study spaces, with various silence levels and sound zones. The Mies van der Rohe Award is given to a university building in order to set an example for the increasing need for educational projects of the highest quality. Grafton Architects can demonstrate a great deal of expertise in educational building construction.
Two other projects by the office were nominated for the EUmies Award 2022: the Institut Mines Télécom in Paris and the Toulouse School of Economics in Toulouse. Luigi Bocconi University in Milan was a finalist in 2009.
Photographers: © Ed Reeve, Dennis Gilbert, Alice Clancy, Jim Stephenson
2022 Winner of the Emerging Architect Award
Lacol Arquitectura Cooperativa, Barcelona
Lacol is a collaboration of young architects that came together in Barcelona in 2009. Their goal is to create sustainable architecture in way that is ecological, social and cooperative. "We believe that cities can only be transformed through the active participation of the people who inhabit them and through proactive action.
Architects make an important contribution within the urban dynamic to putting citizens' concerns on paper. Among other things, we stimulate debates and discussions about the use of spaces, urban models, citizen participation and the restoration of cultural heritage," they explain, describing their participatory approach.
LA BORDA Cooperative Housing, Barcelona
Lacol's La Borda cooperative housing complex in Barcelona is exceptional both in terms of its conception and its realisation process. While housing production is usually dominated by macroeconomic interests, this model is based on co-ownership and the shared management of resources and capacity. The La Borda project continues to go beyond just being a building project for the housing cooperative. The studio is also run as a cooperative by 14 professionals with different expertise. Together, they aim to be a role model and an active instrument for promoting political and urban change, based on s
Photographer: © L'IMHAB
EUmies Awards Day 2022
Photographer: © Anna Mas
