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The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Mies van der Rohe Award has just announced the first 449 works competing in its 2022 edition. Selected from 279 cities in 41 countries, the projects have been nominated by European independent experts, the national architecture associations, and the Prize Advisory Committee.
Initiated in 1987 the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, organized by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe and the European Commission since 2001, is awarded biennially to works completed within the previous two years and exceptionally, this time, 2, 5 years. 449 works, completed between October 2018 and October 2020, are competing for the 2022 Award. Revealed today by the European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, the list of nominees includes for the first time architectural works from Armenia, Moldova and Tunisia. This first selection will be joined in September by a new group of nominated p
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Grafton’s Kingston University Town House is one of the contenders
Grafton’s Kingston University Town House, Heatherwick’s Maggie’s Centre in Leeds and Mole’s Marmalade Lane co-housing in Cambridge have all been longlisted for a prestigious EU architecture award.
Marks Barfield’s Cambridge mosque and Niall McLaughlin’s Auckland Tower in County Durham are also contenders for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, known as the Mies van der Rohe Award.
The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe today announced 449 projects from 279 cities in 41 countries had made it to the first part of the longlist. A second longlist will be unveiled in the autumn taking in more recent projects. The organisers had to extend the biennial award programme into an extra year because the pandemic forced a halt to judging visits.
Walters & Cohen’s extension to Newnham College, Cambridge has been nominated for the prestigious EU Mies van der Rohe Award.
The Dorothy Garrod Building is the first project by a UK architect known to be in the running for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture which is open to UK and EU-based architects and to projects across Europe.
The first of two longlists will be announced next week. The pandemic has set back the award’s normal biennial schedule as judges are unable to visit the nominated buildings. The eligibility period will be extended, with the second longlist published in September, a shortlist revealed in January 2022 and the winners announced in April 2022.