NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

North of the Arctic Circle, two cities are about to become one due to mining activities, and will share city centre. The centrally located school Kunskapshuset (House of Knowledge) host the municipality’s upper secondary school and adult learning centres. The asymmetrical design breaks down the building’s scale and gives it an enduring and powerful architectural character. Great emphasis has been placed on creating a flexible and attractive educational environment.

Pixelbikes is an innovative startup that creates small vehicles for great little people. 

Small vehicles for great little people. 

Pixel Bike helps children to develop psychomotor skills.

The perfect complement for every boy or girl between 0 and 4 years old.

DinU is a product design concept aiming at inspiring new life styles. It is a device equipped with an in-built projector, a speaker and a system of sensors and a microcontroller that allow you to manage the data produced for domestic consumption (electricity, water, gas, etc.).The device aims to heighten the awareness of its users by generating sustainable and virtuous behavior while offering entertainment and fun. It can also be used as a voice assistant and for home automation control.

Centre Sant Jaume is a sustainable architectural project designed to give light to Badalona city, with an architectural solution that provides a high efficient cooling system with innovative lighting proposal. The aim is to improve social inclusion of children from 0-20 years in risk of exclusion. It is developed as a space that links aesthetics with user comfort and warmth. The project is interdisciplinary and collaborative and had the participation of local community since the beginning.

SKAIO is a 34 m high, 10‐storey timber‐hybrid structure that points the way forward for innovative architecture and future building methods. The building is a pioneer in ecologically sustainable residential construction: all details are planned in such a way that it can be demolished and thus recycled in a single type at a later date.The project offers new approaches in sustainable housing and solutions in view of the major socio-political challenges of the future. 

Centre Sant Jaume is a sustainable architectural project designed to give light to Badalona city, with an architectural solution that provides a high efficient cooling system with innovative lighting proposal. The aim is to improve social inclusion of children from 0-20 years in risk of exclusion. It is developed as a space that links aesthetics with user comfort and warmth. The project is interdisciplinary and collaborative and had the participation of local community since the beginning.

SKRYTA [slow design] Handmade lamps loaded with love and good stories.

Represented in design interiors all over Europe.

Material that has been thrown away, in the hands of someone who is far from the labor market and whose work ends up in a conscious design interior. A journey that creates many new unexpected values for the environment, the individual and society.

SKRYTA design highlight the power of craft and challenge how things are produced. Convinced that everyone can make a change.

The Buga Fibre Pavilion demonstrates how combining cutting-edge computational technologies with constructional principles found in nature enables the development of truly novel and genuinely digital building systems. Its load-bearing structure is robotically produced from advanced fibre composites only. This globally unique structure is not only highly effective and exceptionally lightweight, but it also provides a distinctive architectural expression and an extraordinary spatial experience.

The Temporary Market Hall centrally located in Stockholm is a prefabricated timber structure that is designed for ease of construction and after fulfilling its function will be re-used for another purpose at a different location. Winner of several architectural design awards the building has been a popular success with almost twice as many visitors as the adjacent historic Market Hall under the period of its refurbishment while attracting people from a broad cross section of society.

"Holiday Homes with a Story" is a project of branding rural and traditional accommodation facilities in Varaždin County (Croatia).

Each of the 45 houses tells a story about its owners and families, but also a story about the history and life of the local people, their customs and traditions. Holiday homes are a great example of connecting and involving whole local community with the aim of preserving the traditional values ​​of the area and their presentation to tourists.