On the occasion of our 10th anniversary, Outsider magazine presented its first architectural award.
The award highlights projects that, in our view, make a significant contribution to contemporary architecture. After several meetings with the professional jury, we established five categories:
Open Cities, Local Interventions, Heritage and Renovation, Housing Solutions, and Architecture. An additional category was an essay on the theme “Being an Outsider.”
Honorary jury members: Juhani Pallasmaa, Takaharu Tezuka, Yui Tezuka
Jury: Dr. Živa Deu, Aleš Gabrijelčič, Gregor Turnšek, Alenka Korenjak, Luka Jerman, Tadej Zupančič, Nina Granda, Matevž Granda
The public call, published in December 2024, received 156 project submissions and 24 essays. The requirement was that the projects had to be built in Europe after 2015. The jury selected three projects in each category, and the honorary jury members chose two grand prize winners:
Juhani Pallasmaa selected Urban Tertiary Forest (Fieldwork, Andrej Bernik) – a poetic transformation of a degraded urban area into a vibrant green structure.
Yui and Takaharu Tezuka awarded Kunstsilo (Bax studio, Boris Bežan; Mestres Wåge; Mendoza Partida) – an impressive renovation of an industrial silo into a cultural center.
Selected Projects:
Category: Heritage and Renovation
Biro Gašperič: House for Five Free Spirits (winner in the category)
Mima Suhadolc: Preserving the Original
Muhamed Hamidović: Ferhat Pasha Mosque
Klavdij Zalar, Tadej Torč, Anže Rovanšek, Medeja Košir: The The Keeper’s House Radovljica
Marko Hedl: The Black Kitchen for a New Century
Robert Dolinar, Vid Klančar: The First Phase of the Renovation of the Šentjošt Parsonage
Category: Open Cities
Arcadis Landscape Architecture & Urban Design: Reconstruction of the Driebergen-Zeist Station near Utrecht (winner in the category)
Prostorne taktik: New footbridge in the Croatian town of Trogir
Sadar + Vuga: Vrtača railway underpass in Nova Gorica
Chybik+Kristof: Manifesto Market
Fieldwork architecture, Andrej Bernik: Tertiary Forest
Category: Architecture
Bax Studio, Mestres Wåge & Mendoza Partida: Kunstsilo (winner in the category)
Kjellander Sjöberg: Gjuteriet
ATAMA: Factory for Common and Reuse, Kortrijk, Belgium
Navor and Od-do arhitektura: Pedenjped Kindergarten, Ljubljana
Vo-id, Akka: Ankaran Cemetery
Category: Local Interventions
Mojca Lorber, Jure Markota, Aleš Rupreht, Anja Šuler: Where is the Space? (winner in the category)
Atelier Ad Hoc: Space for Solidarity
Wagon Landscaping: Still Alive
AO16: RIPERAJ – Repair caffe
Danilo Milovanović: Through artistic actions, cleverly draws attention to obvious spatial anomalies in public space
Category: Housing Solutions
Lukas Imhof Architektur: Lindenhof Multi-Family House (winner in the category)
KOGAA: DADA Distrikt
Déchelette Architecture: Earth social housing
ARREA: Renovation of a house on the main square in Novo mesto
Jernej Girandon: Low-cost self-built housing
Authors of Selected Essays:
James Tait, Kinga Gacsályi, Meghna Sanyal, Oluagabakan Pope-leo Adeoye, Valérie de V
