The seven finalists for this year's edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award have been revealed and include a Czech art gallery, an urban space in southern Sweden and a copper-clad convent in France.
The nominated projects include five architecture finalists and two emerging finalists from six different countries.
Above: The Reggio School is nominated in the architecture category. Photo by Jose? Hevia. Top image: a convent in France is also a finalist. Photo by Thibaut Dini
In the architecture category, the nominees include two educational projects ? The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany by Gustav Düsing & Max Hacke and The Reggio School in Spain by Andres Jaque's Office for Political Innovation. It also includes two transformations of historic buildings. These are the adaptive reuse of a slaughterhouse that was turned into an art gallery in Ostrava, the Czech Republic, by KWK Promes and the Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François in Sainte-Lucie-de-Tallano, France, by Amelia Tavella Architectes.
The Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François has a copper-clad volume. Photo by Thibaut Dini
The Rebirth of the Convent Saint-François is a project involving the renovation and extension of a 15th-century convent with a perforated copper volume.
Häge in Lund, Sweden, by Brendeland & Kristoffersen Architects is the fifth finalist in the architecture category. The design features an enclosed garden, as well as a corten-steel pav...