In May, the ECOLA Award 2019 for architecture was announced for the ninth time

Porota ECOLA Award 2019, led by French architect Manuelle Gautrand (Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Paris), awarded four first prizes on May 17, 2019, in Stühlingen. The awards in the "New Buildings" category went to Aires Mateus Architects from Lisbon for the project Meeting Center in Grândola in Portugal and AIM Studio for the project Local Community Center Gošići in Tivat, Montenegro. The Berlin architectural firm Bruno Fioretti Marquez won in the "Modernization / Renovation / Reconstruction" category with the project Reconstruction and Expansion of Wittenberg Castle, and in the same category, Spanish architects TEd' impressed the jury with their project Can Picafort – 4 Tourist Apartments. Examples of all the winning works of the ECOLA Award 2019 can be found at www.ecola-award.eu.

The ECOLA (European Conference of Leading Architects) awards have been announced this year for the ninth time. The international ECOLA conference and ECOLA Award are organized since 2000 by Sto AG in collaboration with the Federal Association for Construction and Facades. The ECOLA Award is given for the most significant new buildings or reconstructions in Europe, realized in recent years, "which are as a whole or in part characterized by the use of plaster on the facade or interiors." The awards are announced in two main categories – "New Buildings" and "Modernization / Renovation / Reconstruction".

The prerequisite for inclusion in the selection was the application of plaster as a building material, which influences the architecture of the building. 30 projects were included in the "Modernization / Renovation / Reconstruction" category, while 81 belonged to the "New Buildings" category. The international jury consisted of Manuelle Gautrand (Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Paris, France) as chair of the jury, Prof. Valentin Bearth (Bearth & Deplazes Architekten, Chur, Switzerland), and Andreas Cukrowicz (cukrowicz nachbaur architekten, Bregenz, Austria). The jury members met on May 17, 2019, at the Sto SE & Co. KGaA headquarters in Stühlingen in the Black Forest. After evaluating all 111 projects from 27 European countries, which were included in the selection after careful evaluation by 19 nominating jurors from 18 countries, the jury awarded four first prizes.

The awards ceremony will take place as part of the ECOLA conference from September 26 to 28, 2019, in Tallinn, Estonia. All contest winners and competing and nominating jurors will participate in the congress. The conference allows for an intensive analysis of plaster as a building material through lectures and workshops, focusing on its practical use and technical and creative development.

Winners of the ECOLA Award 2019

Category "Modernization / Renovation / Reconstruction"
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Category "New Buildings"

Meeting Centre in Grândola, Portugal
Aires Mateus e Associados, Lisbon, Portugal
www.airesmateus.com

Local Community Center "Gošići", Tivat, Montenegro
AIM Studio, Podgorica, Montenegro
http://aim-studio.me