Prizes: All applications

As part of their renovation of a traditional noodle restaurant in Shiroishi City in Japan, Shotaro Oshima Design Studio have added a lightweight porch to an existing, historical structure. The new porch is characterised by veil-like layers of steel cables, strung in tension between the canopy and the ground, creating a delicate but intense threshold to the restaurant’s entrance. The white porch contrasts strongly with the renovated historical interior.

"Metabolism Reborn" evolves Kisho Kurokawa’s legacy into sustainable solutions. In 2023, Atelier OPA launched the world’s only road-legal Nakagin capsule trailer, realizing the "Homo Mobens" vision through engineering innovation. In 2024, we debuted the CLT Capsule, a sustainable timber redesign for carbon-neutral living. Our award-winning Cardboard Sleep Capsule addresses pandemic relief. Merging heritage with mobility, we bridge 20th-century icons with a green, inclusive future for all.

Chácara Edith Reserve is a privately protected Atlantic Forest sanctuary open to the community, integrating nature, culture and education. With accessible trails, environmental learning programmes, scientific research, cultural initiatives and community participation, it promotes inclusion, well‑being and conservation. The reserve demonstrates how private stewardship can create public value and inspire new models of shared urban nature.

An octagonal tower in Tokyo where bay windows become furniture, structure becomes environmental instrument, and carbonised cork becomes a living skin. On a 44 m² site accessed by a 2.3 m alley, four forces — human behaviour, microclimate, structure, and neighbours' windows — are unified into a single architectural system. Longevity is the most radical circularity.

"‘Love as a Bridge’ is a storytelling project that promotes peace and understanding through the timeless love story of Ali & Nino. Using creative narratives and immersive media, it inspires young people and communities to reflect on empathy, dialogue, and coexistence, turning love into a powerful tool for social change, peace and cultural connection."

Our aim is to investigate and promote alternative ways of living, working and caring in the community. Rooted in the landscape, the project proposes the integration of daily life, digital work, wellbeing practices, culture and artistic creation to combat urban burnout and modern disconnection. It explores the concept of eco-design as an artistic practice connected to nature, with a view to integrating and promoting new artistic languages.This is achieved through our space, programme and services

Our cities are sealed in asphalt, built for speed and convenience. In smoothing every crack, we have silenced the life beneath our feet. This project reopens the ground by breaking the asphalt and allowing soil, water, and pioneer plants to return. By following cracks, holes, and dents, these traces become habitats for flowers, insects, and urban biodiversity. What was once lifeless pavement can be broken up and rearranged into living ground, shared by humans and other species alike.

This project brings together 30 ambitious youth (15 girls and 15 boys), aged 15–18, from three municipalities in Kosovo for a hands-on, inclusive, and gender-smart STEAM program. Through entrepreneurship, creativity, and deep connections to the local startup and tech scene, participants—marginalized Roma youth and their peers from mainstream schools—will collaborate, innovate, and co-create solutions that make their communities stronger, fairer, and more vibrant.

[AI]identity is an AI-supported tool that helps cities rediscover and strengthen their unique spatial character. By analysing urban and architectural patterns, the system reveals structures that define local identity and supports more context-sensitive and sustainable urban development rooted in cultural continuity rather than generic design. The tool promotes regeneration, reduces spatial chaos and empowers communities to shape cities that are coherent, inclusive and rooted in place.

Stick Furniture looks into how furniture can be produced locally out of standardised aluminium extrusion, assembled and maintained by the people who use it. The project focuses on democratising manufacturing, easy repair and recycling.