NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

It is known construction sector in general and, building materials particulary have one of the largest environmental footprints. In 2009, Bambusa Estudio born with the aim of showing bamboo as a sustainable nature-base alternative material for industrial sector and particulary for construction.
Bambusa is spanish technical office which provides comprehensive services of outdoor and indoor bamboo structures design, consultancy, construction and workshops on bamboo construction techniques in EU

Cooking history is a project about recovering traditional recipes, using season products, produced localy and ecologicaly. In this project a young person cook with an older person, promoting generational exchange.
This project is about culture, youth, learning, promote volunteering, sharing and being ecologicaly awarned. The resoult of the project are, 12 videos, one per each month of the year (you can find them on Youtube with more than 10.000 views), and a recipes book.

Now more than ever, L’Étoffe de l’Europe® (The Fabric of Europe) embodies the material woven together by European nations, using the 27 flags of EU members. The data weaving is that of the European construction from 1957 to 2022 and beyond. It symbolizes the sense of belonging of the EU’s 450 million citizens while expressing their cultures' diversity. It embodies a Europe formed by the interweaving of ties, relations between nations, flows of people and goods, and information exchange networks.

Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural landscape in West Greenland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2018, the Fjeld pavilion by Konstantin Ikonomidis is designed to celebrate and promote the Inuit intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. Characterized by the two fjords that meet on Sarfannguit’s eastern tip on the hills, the pavilion’s location has been carefully chosen by the local community, site manager Paninnguaq Fleischer-Lyberth and architect.

The R2C project's main objective is to further strengthen our connection with nature using contemporary cultural and creative scenes of Hungary and Serbia and our mutual cultural identity represented in the rivers. Historically, rivers are not only a main source and center of life, but carriers of meaning for human interaction. This project will bring the rivers and their use in the focus, and involve a local society in creating platforms and interventions in the settlements of both countries.

The City of Uzice implements the concept of inclusive protection and promotion of the river Djetinja gorge. Interventions include applying innovation logic to restore people-nature-culture connectivity and social cohesion through technologically enabled inclusive, participative, transparent, responsible, responsive and accountable interactions and transactions. Improving of management system of protected natural area in order to secure long-term existence the most endangered species and habitats

After a long time of separation by the railway, heavy traffic and industrial structures, the Trenčín regains its riverbanks. Thanks to temporary structures, cultural events and placemaking, people of Trenčín are learning how to make relationship with the space that would become a new central district in the future. The long-term participatory decision making, which was behind the architectural competition and the change in the city’s land-use plan, thus continues at the site.

Grey goes Green in a Golden process (1) provides children in densifying cities with inclusive, diverse, and accessible spaces to play ; (2) empowers children and their communities to take climate action, learning how they can adapt their city to climate-challenges, through a fun, hands-on process. (3) provides cities with tools how to turn the little leftover spaces into climate-adaptive play spaces while empowering their young citizens;

The MLF has refurbished a new medical outpatient clinic to offer free medical examinations to the homeless and socially marginalised. Specialist examinations in the areas of dentistry, cardiology, dermatology, otorhinolaryngology, pneumology, gynaecology, ophthalmology and psychiatry are offered to all persons who request them. All this in a 200 m2 space equipped with technologically advanced medical equipment, a completely new dental department.

The small village of Rippershausen in southern Thuringia is located in an economically weak part of Germany. For this village, a group of architecture students planned and detailed a long wooden colonnade to create an architectural symbol of the sense of community and the connection between people. In an intensive participatory process, the students built this extraordinary structure together with people from the village community, and it has been actively used ever since.