XXVII. Grand Prix of Architects – The National Prize for Architecture 2020 was awarded to the City Hall of Modřice

This year’s XXVII. edition of the Grand Prix of Architects – National Award for Architecture 2020 – the great blue cube – was won by Municipal Hall Modřice – team Vojtěch Sosna, Jakub Straka, Jáchym Svoboda, Atelier bod architects and the main project engineer Ing. Jan Svoboda.

The jury awarded small blue cubes – in the following categories:

New Building — Church of Blessed Mary Restituta, Brno-Lesná – Atelier Štěpán s.r.o. / author Marek Jan Štěpán, collaboration František Brychta, Vanda Štěpánová, Jan Vodička and Marin Kopecký

Renovation — Headquarters of LASVIT – ov architects s.r.o. – Jiří Opočenský, Štěpán Valouch


Family House — Family House in the Dyje Valley in Znojmo – Ladislav Kuba, Tomáš Pilař, Norbert Walter / Kuba & Pilař architects

Architectural Design and Renovation — Jan Palach Memorial in Všetaty – Miroslav Cikán, Pavla Melková, MCA Atelier

Since last year, awards have also been given for:

Urbanism — Revitalization of the Prague Embankments – Ing. arch. MgA. Petr Janda

Landscape Architecture and Garden Design — Tree House – Jan Tyrpekl, Jaroslav Kejř, Jan Hyk, Adam Ulrich

Interior — House of Wine – CHYBIK + KRISTOF ARCHITECTS & URBAN DESIGNERS

A new feature of this year's edition is a special cube for sustainable construction. This award is given in cooperation with the Czech Council for Sustainable Buildings, which is the expert guarantor of this category. The winner of this category became AMOS Primary School for Psáry and Dolní Jirčany – Ondřej Píhrt, Štefan Šulek, Ondřej Laciga – small silver cube

Three honorable mentions were also awarded:

True Village Stop – Ing. arch. David Ptáček / DPA

Renewal of the AVU School of Architecture – Marcela Steinbachová, Vít Holý and team

The third honorable mention was awarded to the Faculty of Architecture CTU, Institute of Design II. / Atelier Hlaváček–Čeněk, 1:1 lab

The Award for Lifetime Contribution in 2020

was awarded to akad. arch. Jiří Lasovský – great red cube – this award is given by the Council of the Architects' Association.

Jiří Lasovský – born April 15, 1926 in Olomouc. He studied at the Czech Technical University in Prague. The School of Architecture of Professor Jan Sokolu and Professor Otto Rothmayer. His portfolio includes the previous Professional School of Woodworking, specialization in Carpentry.
The profession and lifelong mission of Jiří Lasovský was architecture with the aim of authentically creating and sensitively shaping a beautiful and purposeful environment in which we all live. He dedicated his professional career for a long time to the Prague Project Institute from 1953-1986, where he worked in the 1960s as the head of a complex studio. His teams designed some of the largest urban complexes in Prague in Pankrác and the Master Plan for South City and Holešovice. He was also a co-author of the concept of an experimental housing complex at the Invalidovna in Karlín, Prague - 1966. A great testament to the complexity of his work (Gesamtkunstwerk) is the realized series of row houses Na Hřebenkách in Prague.
Jiří Lasovský designed and implemented, among other things, a unique lighting system in the Rothmayer Hall at Prague Castle. A common feature of his work was the design of applied arts, artistic work with architectural detail, and small architecture in public space. In his lifelong work, which ranges from concept to detail and to large urban complexes, it is remarkable how Jiří Lasovský managed to energetically reorient from pencil working methodology on a drawing board to contemporary creation.

Composition of the jury of this year’s XXII. edition of the competition:
Fokke Moerel – Netherlands – MVRDV – chairwoman of the jury
Christian de Portzamparc – France
Peka Salminen – Finland – PES Architects
Tanja Buijs Vitkova – from the Slovak Republic, living in Rotterdam
Dan Merta – Czech Republic – Gallery Jaroslava Fragnera

In this year’s XXVII. edition of the GPA – National Award for Architecture 2020, 180 projects were submitted.