Finland's first high-rise wooden apartment building and OMA's Fondazione Prada art centre are among 40 projects shortlisted for the European Union's 2017 architecture prize, the Mies van der Rohe Award.
The biennial award ? named after German-American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ? is the most prestigious accolade in European architecture. It is awarded to the best building completed in the last two years by a European architect.
Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy, by OMA
The 40 projects shortlisted for the 15th edition of the ?60,000 (£51, 000) prize include four works each in France, Portugal and the United Kingdom, and three each in Denmark, Spain, Finland, the Netherlands and Norway.
Belgium, Germany, Ireland and Turkey each feature two shortlisted works, while Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Sweden each host one. The 40 projects were selected from 355 works nominated for the award by a jury led by UK architect Stephen Bates and including architects Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Dervi? and Dominique Jakob. 
Puukuokka Housing Block , Jyväskylä, Finland, by OOPEAA Office for Peripheral Architecture
A third of the works tackle the challenge of contemporary architecture in relation with built heritage, like the century-old distillery in Milan that OMA has turned into a new arts centre for Fondazione Prada and the European Hansemuseum, which includes the Lübeck Castle Friary monument.
Another third of the works are housing ? from collectiv...