NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Nest City Lab is an urban lab dedicated to regenerative practices. The space in the heart of the @22 innovative district of Barcelona offers a live version of the sustainability goals of the city. 1800 m2 of renovated old industrial building with an indoor edible forest at its core, shared spaces for sustainable activities as an urban aeroponic farm, a post-industrial kitchen with plant based organic and km 0 focus and a well being studio based on the reconnection with natural cycles.

The sports hall is located in the small town of Nový Hrozenkov, nested in the valley of the Bečva River, which flows through the Vallachian landscape in the eastern corner of Czechia. The architects wanted to bring to the small town contemporary architecture that would fit in while introducing something fresh and original for local communities. The main concept of the building was to highlight the potential of the rural landscape and link it with a generous glass wall to the indoor play area.

Energy Cooperative WEnCoop is the first energy community for women entrepreneurs in Europe. Involves 66 members, all members of the Greek Association of Women Entrepreneurs -SEGE and strikes to assist equal chances for their members. Each member benefits from financial gains to energy costs and is able to operate in the energy sector, and increase its family income. WEnCoop operates a PV park, the energy produced is to be used in electromibility actions and free quantities will be allocated to v

The project aims to push the fundamental understanding of the potentials of biogenic materials in architecture with three main questions: How can architecture be created so it fully contributes to the green transition of society? How can architectural design increase the use of biogenic
materials in construction to help decreasing CO2 emissions? How can radical biogenic architecture be developed when integrating knowledge from traditional building culture/-craft with new building processes?

What could a street look and feel like in 2030? Even though streets form a central part of our urban landscape, the design of streets has remained somewhat unchanged for the past 100 years. In the face of global challenges, how could streets better respond to our needs, people and nature? Kera New Street is a glimpse into that future, an experimental and a spatial entity that invites people to experience and envision future streets along with the sustainable solutions needed to implement them.

"build_shift" is an independent platform that publicizes jobs in the built environment sector that are serious about sustainability and fairness. Since its launch in July 2022, we have published around 500 impactful jobs from more than 20 European countries. The platform's ultimate goal is to bring together committed individuals and organizations as we believe that we can only achieve a climate-friendly and socially just transformation in the building industry if we team up and work together.

Tunèa is a citizen-based cultural project aimed to reactivate and evolve the connection between the Carloforte coastal community, on San Pietro island in Sardinia, and the marine ecosystem marked by the Thunnus thynnus route. The symbiotic evolution between community culture and tuna ecology can still be read here thanks to the existence of one of the last fixed tuna fisheries in the Mediterranean, but global economic dynamics related to the tuna market threaten to make it slowly disappear.

What used to be a grey and sealed transit point, mostly occupied by fringe groups is now a high quality place for everyone: The Praterstern Vienna is crossed and visited by up to 150,000 people every day. Plenty of new trees, a water feature and lush greenery add to the visual improvement, and an underground sponge city stores fresh water for heat periods. Together with KENH Architekten, social workers and other experts we created an inclusive, green breather amidst the urban hustle and bustle.

The Styrum Sports Park in Mülheim an der Ruhr is a family and generation-friendly sports and neighbourhood park that links numerous local offerings. The park’s landscape, which was developed with the active participation of local citizens, offers a number of low-threshold but also challenging and unusual activities.

Ágora is an institutional cooperation network of local councils, promoted and coordinated by the Provincial Council of Pontevedra (Deputación de Pontevedra), aimed at claiming public space as a fundamental right of citizenship, where people are a priority.
The local councils that are members of this network are committed to implementing policies to regain their public spaces for people promoting active mobility, by following the 10 principles established by the Ágora Network.