News: a concert hall with a spiky roof in Poland and a terracotta winery buried beneath an Italian vineyard are between the five finalists in the operating for the European Union’s 2015 architecture prize – the Mies van der Rohe Award .
Philarmonic Hall Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland, by Barozzi Veiga – photograph by Hufton + Crow
These two tasks – by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga and Italian firm Archea Associati respectively – have been named alongside O’Donnell + Tuomey’s red brick pupil centre for the London College of Economics, BIG’s Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingør and the Ravensburg Artwork Museum in Germany by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei.
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Ravensburg Artwork Museum, Germany, by Lederer Ragnarsdóttir Oei – photograph by Roland Halbe
Named following German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the biennial award is the most prestigious accolade in European architecture and is awarded to a building finished in the last two many years by a European architect.
Danish Maritime Museum, Helsingør, Denmark, by Big – photograph by Rasmus Hjortshøj
The five buildings in contention for the 14th edition of the €60,000 (£45,000) prize have been picked from a shortlist of forty by a jury led by Italian architect Cino Zucchi, and also including Danish architect Lene Tranberg, Bolles+Wilson co-founder Peter L Wilson and the RIBA’s Tony Chapman.
Antinori Winery, San Casciano Val di Pesa, Italy, by Archea Associati – photograph by Leonardo Finotti
The jury will now pay a visit to all 5 buildings ahead of selecting an overall winner, which will be announced in a ceremony on eight Could at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona – a single of the architect’s most popular performs.
Saw Swee Hock Student Centre, London School of Economics, United kingdom, by O’Donnell + Tuomey – photograph by Dennis Gilbert
The 2013 winner was the Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre in Reykjavik, even though in 2011 it went to David Chipperfield’s Neues Museum renovation in Berlin. Other past winners incorporate Snøhetta’s Oslo Opera House and Peter Zumthor’s Kunsthaus Bregenz.
