Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2024
Image: Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation, Reggio School, El Encinar de los Reyes, Madrid, Spain. Photo: José Hevia
ARCHITECTURE
IWLAB
Andrés Jaque
Marina Tabassum
Ciro Pirondi
Klaus K. Loenhart
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
Each year, the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture recognizes five architects who share the principles of sustainable development and a participatory architectural approach to the needs of society. Uder this year's theme "Architecture Is Education", the 2024 winners are Iyas Shahin and Wesam Al Asali, founders of the IWLAB laboratory (Syria); Andrés Jaque from the Office for Political Innovation, Dean of Columbia University School of Architecture (Spain/USA); Marina Tabassum, architect (Bangladesh); Ciro Pirondi, co-founder of L'Escola da Cidade (Brazil); and Klaus K. Loenhart, architect and landscape architect and director of the Institute of Architecture and Landscape at TU Graz (Graz/Germany).
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EUmies Awards 2024
Image: Gustav Düsing and Büro Max Hacke, Study Pavilion on the campus of TU Braunschweig, Germany, completion 2023. Photo: Iwan Baan
ARCHITECTURE
Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Büro Max Hacke
Architecture Prize
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 Büro Max Hacke, both with studios in Berlin. They are the youngest winners of the EUmies Awards Architecture Prize. The Study Pavilion 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.
Image: SUMA Arquitectura, Gabriel García Márquez Library, Barcelona, Spain, completion 2022. Photo: Jesús Granada
ARCHITECTURE
Gabriel García Márquez Library by SUMA Arquitectura
Emerging Architecture Prize
The 2024 winner of the Emerging Architecture Prize is the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona by SUMA Arquitectura, founded by Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano in Madrid in 2005. 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.
2024 Queen Sonja Print Award
Image: Tomas Colbengtson, Giela dájva (Language landscape), 2021. Oil on aluminium, 121 x 97 cm.
ART
Tomas Colbengtson
Queen Sonja Print Award
Tomas Colbengtson (b. 1957) is the winner of the 2024 Queen Sonja Print Award. Tomas Colbengtson grew up in a small Sámi village near Björkvattnet in Tärna, below the Arctic Circle in Sweden. In his work, he examines the way in which the colonial legacy has altered the lives and landscapes of the Sámi and other indigenous peoples. Having lost his mother tongue, Southern Sámi, he works with the visual arts, using the history and collective memory of the Sámi as a source for his art.
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K21 Global Art Award 2024
Image: Wang Tuo, The Second Interrogation, 2022. 3-channel video installation, still, colour, sound, 4k.
ART
Wang Tuo
K21 Global Art Award
The winner of this year's K21 Global Art Award is Wang Tuo (b. 1984 in Changchun, China). The award includes the purchase of his multi-channel video installation The Second Interrogation (2022). Wang Tuo weaves historical facts, cultural archives, fiction, and mythology into speculative narratives. Equating his practice to novel writing, he stages interventions in historical literary texts and cultural archives to formulate stories that blur the boundaries of time and space, fact and imagination. The artist’s work is a powerful examination of modern Chinese and East Asian history. His more recent work critiques contemporary conditions of censorship, more specifically the tensions within the push and pull between artist and authority.
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unRepresented – C-E-A
Image: Amélie Labourdette, Traces d'une occupation humaine, 2023. Triptych of 3 black and white silver prints on limestone fragments, 150 x 100 cm each. Unique pieces. © Amélie Labourdette
PHOTOGRAPHY
Amélie Labourdette
unRepresented – C-E-A
The second edition of the unRepresented fair, dedicated to artists who experiment with the image, took place last month. With the C-E-A / Association française des commissaires d’exposition, unRepresented is now supporting an artist exhibiting at the show. The first artist to benefit from this support is Amélie Labourdette whose practice explores the strangeness of our Kósmos through the photographic medium, aiming to grasp its intricate network, the intertwining between non-human and human natural entities. Calling for a re-writing of narratives, she invites humans to step out of an imaginary central position and suggests connecting to a story that is beyond humanity, blurring our linear perception of time where categories of past, present, and future intertwine in a conjunction of times.
FRAME Awards
Image: Shanghai Tan Gen Cultural Communication, Emptiness MUJI Eco Pavilion, China International Import Expo 2023. Photo: Shanghai Tan Gen Cultural Communication Co., Ltd
DESIGN
Emptiness MUJI Eco Pavilion
Winner of the Month for April
Japanese apparel and home goods retailer MUJI has earned the first spot in the April FRAME Awards round, with a trade-fair pavilion designed for China International Import Expo 2023. Conceived by Shanghai Tan Gen Cultural Communication, the temporary brand space Emptiness comprised 7,524 interlocking wooden elements, inviting visitors to systematically dismantle the screen over the course of six days – and each module saw later reuse for the building of home storage pieces. ‘This project exemplifies a forward-thinking approach to exhibition design, merging interactive, sustainable and brand-centric elements,’ says Servaas Vehmeijer, partner and managing director at The Invisible Party.
SaloneSatellite Award 2024
Image: Studio Ololoo, Deformation Under Pressure lamp. Photo: Courtesy of Salone del Mobile.Milano
DESIGN
Deformation Under Pressure by Studio Ololoo
First Prize
At Salone del Mobile.Milano, the SaloneSatellite Award focuses on the potential of young product designers under the age of 35. The winners of the 13th edition of the design prize were chosen from over 100 entries by a jury chaired by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, New York. This year, the jury awarded First Prize to the lamp by Chinese designers Studio Ololoo. The winning design, Deformation Under Pressure, was recognised for its experimental approach and innovative use of inflatable PVC with a tensioned aluminium structure.
