International 2015 Piranesi Award

John Hill

24. November 2015

Piranesi Award: Market and Fish Market, Vodice, 2015 (All photographs courtesy of Piran Days of Architecture)

The recipients of the 27th Piranesi Awards were announced last week at the conclusion of the Piran Days of Architecture in Slovenia.

From the 38 nominated projects culled from 8 countries in the Alpe Adria region and Central Europe (Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia), the Piranesi Award was given to the Market and Fish Market in Vodice, Croatia designed by Dinko Peračić. The jury* commended the project as "an example of successful urban and social renovation. Amidst a highly touristic area, this project focuses the sense of community."

Further, the jury honed in on the striking wood-framed roof: "Continuing the existing urban typology, the translucent canopy unifies the urban block. This materially restrained structure is welcoming, delivering a light, positive and social environment. The project succeeds in delivering high value community space with well considered and limited resources. "

Piranesi Award: Market and Fish Market, Vodice, Croatia

International 2015 Piranesi Honorable Mentions were given to two projects: the Museum of Vučedolska Culture in Vukovar, Croatia designed by Radionica arhitekture + Vanja Ilić; and the Deads of the University – World War II Memorial at the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities in Budapest, Hungary designed by Farkas Albert, Ildikó Bujdosó, Dénes Fajcsák, Eszter Lukács, Ákos Polgárdi, János Róth DLA, Levente Szabó DLA and Nóra Szigeti, MM Group and Hetedik Studio.

Honorable Mention: Museum of Vučedolska Culture, Vukovar, 2015

The jurors praised the museum in Vukovar: "Like the findings themselves, the archaeological museum of Vukovar is closely connected to the ground. More than that, the goal of its layout is integration into landscape. Outer, as well as inner walkways follow the topography of the slope in a way that the visitors are not aware that they have overcome four levels."

Honorable Mention: Museum of Vučedolska Culture, Vukovar, 2015

In regards to the memorial in Budapest, the jury commented: "This memorial very powerfully, but discreetly embeds within the building fabric of the university buildings the name register of 198 Jewish teachers and students killed during World War II. The project avoids the big gesture and is an exemplar in the art of "Less is More." In spite of its length of 280m, this memorial remains invisible to those who do not wish to see or find, but it evokes the most powerful memory for those who wish to know and find."

Piranesi Honorable Mention: The Deads of the University – World War II Memorial, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Humanities, Budapest, 2015

Finally, from the 20 students’ projects selected by the faculites of architecture from Graz, Vienna, Split, Zagreb, Pescara, Trieste, Budapest, Ljubljana, Maribor and AA London, an International 2015 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention was given to "Ri-abitare le megalopoli dei paesi in via di sviluppo: h2ousing" by students Matteo Carsillo and Andrea Pauletich from Università degli Studi di Trieste with mentors Giovanni Corbellini and Giulio Paladini.

Student Honorable Mention: "Ri-abitare le megalopoli dei paesi in via di sviluppo: h2ousing"

The jury commented: "This project starts with clear social and contextual ambitions and explores the urban and environmental potential of its constituent elements. The idea offers a multitude of interconnecting possibilities which this project imaginatively tries to grapple with."