Gustav Düsing-Büro Hacke & SUMA Arquitectura win the 2024 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award

ARCHITECTURE WINNER 2024 

Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke

The 2024 Winner of the Architecture Prize is the Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany, by architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, both with studios in Berlin. The client is the Technische Universität Braunschweig.

It is rewarded for its ability to challenge the constraints and imagery of sustainability, creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through an uncompromising and carefully detailed structure.

It has taken a clear architectural idea, scrutinized it and pushed it to the limit; more than being a building, it could be understood as a versatile system, merging technological inventions with a flexible and reusable principle. The authors, Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition to build the study centre in 2015. They are the youngest winners of the EU mies Awards Architecture Prize.

Facts & Credits
Title Studierendenhaus TU Braunschweig
Location Braunschweig, Lower Saxony, Germany
Architecture Gustav Düsing, Berlin, and Max Hacke, Berlin, Germany
Program Education

EMERGING ARCHITECTURE WINNER 2024 

Gabriel García Márquez Library by SUMA arquitectura

The 2024 Winner of the Emerging Architecture Prize is the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura founded by Elena Orteand Guillermo Sevillano in Madrid. The client is the Barcelona City Council–BIMSA.

The library acts at the scale of the city, contributing to the transformation of the neighbourhood by opening up as a new exterior and interior public space.

This wooden structure unfolds as a rich sequence of monumental and domestic spaces that welcome neighbours and citizens, providing them with comfortable atmospheres for learning, teamwork, and community engagement.

With meticulous attention to detail, the authors have thoroughly examined and pushed the library programme to its fullest potential.

The authors, Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano founded their studio SUMA Arquitectura in 2005 and won the competition to build the library in 2015.

Facts & Credits
Τitle Biblioteca Gabriel García Márquez
Location Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Architecture SUMA arquitectura, Madrid, Spain
Program Education

The finalist and winning works form an inseparable whole to better understand the paths that contemporary architecture takes to confront sustainability, social equity, technological advancements, health and well-being, cultural preservation, resilience and adaptation, economic viability, and globalization within an ethical practice and both ideologically and pragmatically.

Iliana Ivanova, Commissioner for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, said: “Architecture is a fundamental part not just of our European culture, but also of sustainabledevelopment and people’s well-being. The winners of the 2024 EU Prize for Contemporary Architecture–Mies van der Rohe Awards demonstrate this very clearly. Their works reflect the principles of the New European Bauhaus, bringing the green transition into people’s everydaylives and living spaces. My heartfelt congratulations to the architects and collaborators behind these endeavours!”

The EU mies Awards Day including the Awards Ceremony, will take place on 14 May 2024, at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and Palau Victòria Eugènia in Barcelona, launching the Barcelona Architecture Weeks.

The EU mies Awards Day, open to the public, will include:

• the “EUmies Awards Talks” with Winners, Finalists, Shortlisted, clients, architecture media and people interested in discussing on the emerging topics highlighted by the jury, in the Palau Victòria Eugènia;
• -the “EUmies Awards 2024 exhibition” (14 May-16 June) with models, texts, videos, sketches and drawings of the 40 shortlisted works and a summary of all 362 nominees, inthe Palau Victòria Eugènia;
• -the Awards Ceremony at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion;
• -the Out & About programme, aimed at discovering architecture with the authors and promoters of the 40 shortlisted works who have been invited to organise events in their buildings and share their experiences with everybody. This programme is organised together with Guiding Architects.

After Barcelona, the ‘EUmies Awards 2024’ exhibition will embark on its tour around Europe with an opening in Madrid at the Casa de la Arquitecturai n July; and at the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna in October.

The EUmies Awards are organised by the Fundació Mies van der Rohe with the support of the Creative Europe programme of the European Union. This year we celebrate 10 years of the Creative Europe programme.