Kindergarten Nová Ruda, a small world for children to discover

Today we rediscover the BigMat International Architecture Award ‘19 Czech Republic National Prize, the Kindergarten Nová Ruda in Liberec by Petr Stolín Architekt. Kindergarten Nová Ruda was awarded with the National Prize for Czech Republic in the 2019 BigMat International Architecture Award, described on the words of one of the members of the jury, the prestigious […]

Casa da Severa by José Adrião: spatialness, materiality and urban experience

Following BigMat’s commitment to focus on smaller-scale buildings in its 2021 Architecture Award, we start today a series which will go through the best examples of projects fitting that typology that have been awarded in the last editions. Casa da Severa by Portuguese architect José Adrião was awarded with the National Prize for Portugal in […]

„Currents“ and „Beeline“, double intervention by SO – IL at MAAT Lisbon

MAAT is activated with the architectural project designed by NY-based studio SO –IL „Beeline“. The intervention turns the museum into a landscape of encounters and conversations, taking audiences through elevated pathways, stage areas, audio stations, workshop zones and a media room. This large temporary intervention, especially commissioned to host the programme, takes over the entire […]

The French architecture studio Bruther wins the seventh edition of the Swiss Architectural Award

The Paris-based office founded by Stéphanie Bru and Alexandre Theriot –upcoming member of the jury panel of the ‘21 BigMat Architecture Award- will receive the award in April 2021 in the Teatro dell’Architettura auditorium at Università della Svizzera italiana in Mendrisio. The seventh edition of the Swiss Architectural Award has been granted to Bruther, the French […]

Alberto Campo Baeza, Spanish National Prize for Architecture 2020

The architect, also winner of the BigMat International Architecture Award ’15 Grand Prize, was granted on December 23rd the highest honour for architects in Spain in recognition for a lifetime’s dedication to architecture and teaching. The Spanish architect was appointed unanimously as the winner of the 2020 Spanish National Prize for Architecture, the highest recognition […]