2019 Piranesi Award winners announced

 

26/11/2019

Piranesi Award is conferred since 1989, this year for the 31st time in a row. The international jury for the 2019 Piranesi Awards met on 22 November 2019 in Monfort Exhibition hall in Portorose.
Members of the jury, traditionally composed of every year Piran lecturers, were:  Koen Baeyens, Giovanni Barberis, Dario Castellin,o Valeria Cottino, Jernaja Fischer Knap, Toni Gironès, Basile Graux, András Pálffy,  Daniele Regis, Hugh Strange, Dejan Todorović and Rok Žnidaršič.
 
The jury was led by Eva Mavsar, Špela Nardoni Kovač, Damjana Zaviršek Hudnik and Tatjana Sirk.
 
For 2019 Piranesi award 47 architectural projects were nominated by national selectors from 10 European countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia.  34 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from 17 European Faculties of Architecture from Graz, Spittal, Vienna, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Pescara, Trieste, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Maribor, Belgrade, Novi Sad and AA London. 79 projects were sent to Piranesi exhibition.
 
Each winner receives design product of well-known Slovenian designer Niko Kralj, donated by our sponsor RexKralj. Glass sculpture for Piranesi Award is designed by young Slovene architect Ajda Racman who won 1st prize at student tender, organized in 2017 by Dessa Gallery and Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The sculpture was made in famous Steklarna Rogaska. 
 
After considering all the projects, jury decided that awards go to: 
 
International 2019 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention
Architecture of mind: Conceptual design of the University Psychiatric clinic Ljubljana – Polje, UL FA, EMŠ Architecture, Ljubljana, Master thesis, 2018
Student: Rok Staudacher; Menthor: assoc. prof. Tomaž Krušec 
 
International 2019 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Ranovation of the Main Square in Novo mesto, Slovenia, 2019
Architect: Atelier arhitekti 
 
International 2019 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Chiostri di San Pietro – San Pietro Cloisters, Reggio Emilia, Italia, 2019
Architects: ZAA Zamboni Associati Architettur
 
International 2019 Piranesi Award goes to: 
Neue Galerie und Kasematten / Neue Bastei, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 2019
Architect: Bevk Perović