The Gabriel García Márquez Library, located at number 219 Calle del Treball in Barcelona, has won the Emerging Architecture Award of the European Union / Mies van der Rohe Awards 2024.
This was announced by the Director of Culture, Creativity and Sport of the European Commission, Georg Häusler, together with the president of the 2024 jury, Fréderic Druot, at an event held today in Brussels.
The winner of the main award, The Architecture Prize 2024 has been the Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweigin Germany, by the architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, both with studies in Berlin.
For its part, The Gabriel García Márquez Library is a project by SUMA Arquitecturaa studio founded in 2005 by Elena Orte and Guillermo Sevillano in Madrid who won the competition to build the library in 2015.
The building stands out for acting on a city scale, contributing to the transformation of the Sant Martí neighborhood, opening up as a new exterior and interior public space.
Its wooden structure develops as a rich sequence of monumental and domestic spaces that welcome neighbors and citizens, providing comfortable environments for learning, teamwork and community engagement.
[Burr Studio, de los talleres para artistas en Carabanchel al diseño de la sala vip de ARCO]
With meticulous attention to detail, The authors have thoroughly examined and pushed the library program to its maximum.
A pavilion that challenges sustainability
The winner of the 2024 Architecture Prize, the University Campus Pavilion
Technique from Braunschweig, has been awarded “for its ability to challenge limitations and preconceptions about sustainability, creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through an unforgiving and carefully detailed structure.”
According to the jury, the project pursues a clear architectural idea, has revised it and taken it to the limit. More than a building, it could be understood as a versatile system that fuses technological advances with a flexible and reusable principle.
The authors, Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke, founded their studios in 2015 and won the competition to build this pavilion in 2015. They are the youngest winners of the EUmies Awards.
The Campus Pavilion of the Technical University of Braunschweig won after intense deliberations over four other finalists: The Hage, a mystical garden on the outskirts of Lund by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects in collaboration with Price & Myers; Colegio Reggio, a vertical school located on the outskirts of Madrid built by Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation; the Plato Gallery of Contemporary Art in Ostrava (Czech Republic), and the Renaissance of the Convent of San Francisco in Santa Lucía de Tallano (Italy), by Amelia Tavella.
The finalist and winning works, in the words of the jury, “They form an inseparable whole to better understand the paths taken by contemporary architecture. to address sustainability, social equity, technological advances, health and well-being, cultural preservation, resilience and adaptation, economic viability and globalization within an ethical practice, both ideologically and pragmatically.
[Premio Pritzker 2024: la arquitectura comunitaria y elegante de Riken Yamamoto, en imágenes]
EUmies Awards Day, including the awards ceremony, will take place on May 14, 2024 in the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion and in the Palau Victòria Eugènia in Barcelona, starting the Barcelona Architecture Weeks.
After Barcelona, the ‘EUmies Awards 2024’ exhibition will begin its European tour with an opening at the Casa de la Arquitectura in Madrid in July and at the Architekturzentrum Wien in Vienna in October. The photographic exhibition will begin its journey at KU Leuven Brussels coinciding with this announcement
