NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Does art need a lot of space and a lot of money?

Can only big cities have spectacular centers of contemporary art?

The activity of a miniature contemporary art center allows even a person from small towns to learn about art on a daily basis. It allows the artist to test low-cost, small-scale models, reducing the impact on the environment.It has created a community of people from a small town of Pobiedziska and they shared a passion for art and creativity.

Small is more.

The Open-air Museum of the Resistance uses digital tools to give access to the history hidden in our city. It enriches the places with information and value for an educational project aiming at involving the whole community. The developed project organizes the historical locations of the Italian liberation where partisans fought for freedom, in the city of Milan providing a map of the hot spots and gravestones that can be visited and they can deliver their storytelling to citizens and tourists.

TALYANA. It is the most romantic district of Varna, situated in the Old Town, with the highest concentration of cultural and historical heritage monuments and archeology. The area once the vibrant heart of the town was for long time left in decay. Thanks to the title European Youth Capital Varna won in 2017 young architects, artists, urbanists started its revitalisation. Now, it is far beyond a creative district. It’s a shared effort for preservation, economic development and social inclusion. 

Byproductplace is a digital platform that conenects the member of value chain with the potential power user throught and industrial symbiosis, where suppliers obtain econmic value and demanders minimize costs. Our missión is to reduce waste, giving a second useful life. We handle document management for each transaction to provide transparency, traceability of the origin of the waste thanks to our data analysis, categorization and it's performance towards another sector or the same

Between 2019 and 2020, Piazza Rossini has been the stage for a participative action of tactical urban planning. The temporary pedestrianization of the location promoted the redefinition of the use of the space in collaboration with the students from the Department of Architecture and numerous local stakeholders. A site-specific green area was co-designed to raise awareness on global heating and enhance a shared sense of ownership of the city’s cultural heritage.

MA-YA is a modular indoor bench designed not only to fit into spaces but also to create new ones.

Its structure is totally transformable and allows everyone to socialize, but also to create small intimate spaces where people can focus in their own activities.

MA-YA is not just a bench, it is also a seat, a room inside a room, a meeting point for all.

ADATO is a magazine - available in print and digital form worldwide. Point Nemo Publishing is its publishing house. Together, they form the Forum Nemo Studio - an international and Interdisciplinary network by and for young architects, art and culture professionals. All authors of ADATO become automatically members of the forum, which in analogue (print medium ADATO) and digital (ADATO digital & Nemo Studio) offers its members a platform for the presentation and discussion of their work.

Bosco Verticale is the prototype building for a new format of architectural biodiversity which focuses not only on human beings but also on the relationship between humans and other living species. The first example, built in Milan in the Porta Nuova area, consists of two towers that are respectively 80 and 112 metres high, housing a total of 800 trees, providing an amount of vegetation equivalent to 30,000 square metres of woodland, concentrated on 3,000 square metres of urban surface.

This is LOODS 21, an old industrial warehouse reactivated by the artistic community of Time Circus. Come to fix your bike, enjoy a beer near the canal or attend our many concerts and activities! With this initiative we aim to scale up our spaces with recicling and reusing philosophy. An improved cultural HUB for the city of Antwerp open to the public of all ages. Come and discover the potencial for innovation of LOODS 21 with us!

Imagine one possible future: It is plant-based, socially fair and ecologically sound — in rethinking given standards in design, material use, energy usage and bioclimatic design for the built environment.

How can we think it all together?

We answer in designing an entire ecosystem. In taking up the natural performance of our breathing world as our instructive co-designer. A biophilic systems-design-approach that introduces breathing into buildings.