Finalists Named for Mies Award

A total of 335 works in the 37 participating EU Culture countries were nominated for the prestigious 2013 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award. The jury (listed at bottom) narrowed down the nominations to a short list of five buildings. The winner of the Prize—given out by The European Commission and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe—will be announced in May.

Ghent, Belgium
Robbrecht en Daem Architecten and Marie-José van Hee Architecten

Copenhagen, Denmark
Topotek1, Superflex, and BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group

Reykjavik, Iceland
Batteríid Architects, Studio Olafur Eliasson, and Henning Larsen Architects

Alcácer do Sal, Portugal
Aires Mateus

Seville, Spain
J. Mayer H.

The jury: Wiel Arets, Chair of the jury/Wiel Arets Architects, Maastricht; Pedro Gadanho, Curator of Contemporary Architecture, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Antón García-Abril, Ensamble Studio, Madrid; Louisa Hutton, Sauerbruch Hutton Architects, Berlin; Kent Martinussen, CEO, The Danish Architecture Center (DAC), Copenhagen; Frédéric Migaryou, Director, Architecture & Design, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Ewa Porębska, Editor-in-Chief, Architektura-murator, Warsaw; and Giovanna Carnevali, Secretary of the Jury/Director, Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona.