Award Ceremony
These are the winners of the DETAIL Award 2024!
With 527 entries from 40 countries, this year's Detail Award saw record participation. In addition to the three main prizes, the jury presented a Students' Award and a special prize for Circular Building, donated by USM. Four projects received an honourable mention. The Detail Readers' Award goes to our readers' favorite project. We present the winners below.
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Winner of the DETAIL Award 2024
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DETAIL Award 2024
Earthern Social Housing in Ibiza
Barcelona-based architectural duo Peris + Toral Arquitectes has realised 43 flats made of clay on Ibiza, setting new standards in social housing construction.
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DETAIL Award 2024
Conversion of a Wine Warehouse in Basel
The former Coop wine warehouse in Basel’s Lysbüchel neighbourhood was transformed into a multistorey residential building, designed to accommodate residents of all ages and diverse lifestyles.
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DETAIL Award 2024
Palais de l’Alma Daycare Centre in Paris
The daycare centre in the courtyard of the Palais de l’Alma by Atelier Régis Roudil Architectes is defined by its use of natural materials – rammed earth and wood – blending harmoniously with the surrounding garden.
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DETAIL Circular Building Award, sponsored by USM
Temporary Sports Halls, Zurich
Pool Architekten have developed combinable and reusable modules for temporary sports halls.
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DETAIL Students’ Award 2024
Real Montages. Architectural Elements in the Open
The design project “Real Montages – Architectural Elements in the Open” prompts deeper critical reflection on the importance of engaging with and responding to existing structures.
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DETAIL Readers’ Award 2024
In the icy landscape of Greenland
Dorte Mandrup's Kangiata Illorsua Visitor Centre is a shelter, meeting place and viewpoint in the Arctic landscape between the Unesco-protected Kangia Icefjord and the town of Ilulissat on Greenland.
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Honourable Mention DETAIL Award 2024
House without Cement in Munich
This timber house by Florian Nagler Architekten, nestled within a garden, extends the living and office space of the main building in Munich Pasing, while contributing to the goal of urban densification.
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Honourable Mention DETAIL Award 2024
Tobacco Factory in Linz
For the revitalisation of the listed Haus Havanna in Linz, Kaltenbacher Architektur conceived a new facade design made of 70,000 glass blocks.
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Honourable Mention DETAIL Award 2024
House 1736 in Barcelona
At the heart of House 1736 is a light-filled atrium. Harquitectes designed a robust and monolithic low-cement concrete structure that helps to regulate temperature, humidity and acoustics.
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Honourable Mention
Wangen Tower
The Wangen Tower in the Allgäu region is a landmark visible from afar and an accessible vantage point. The curved, large-format components use the shrinkage of the wood to shape themselves.
Award Ceremony
We would be delighted to welcome you on December 2, 2024 from 5:00 p.m. in Munich or online. Register now to celebrate with us in Munich or in the livestream. The number of participants in presence is very limited.
We cordially invite you to the award ceremony of the DETAIL Award 2024. Together with the winners and nominees of the award and other international guests from architecture and the industry, we would like to celebrate the award-winning projects. Good architecture must be duly honored.
The award ceremony will be held in English.
Programme
16:30 h: Admission
17:00 h: Award Ceremony
19:00 h: Get-Together
22:30 h: Official End
Location
Haus der Architektur
Architektenkammer Bayern
Waisenhausstraße 4
80637 Munich
DETAIL Readers' Award
Voting for the DETAIL Readers' Award is closed. The winner will be announced at the award ceremony on December 02, 2024.
Here you can see all nominated projects again.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Hotel Marcel by Becker + Becker
In 1969, Marcel Breuer designed the office and research building for the Armstrong Rubber Company in New Haven, USA. Becker + Becker converted the iconic building into a 165-room boutique hotel.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Residence Kazemat Koningsweg
The holiday home Kazemat Koningsweg by JCR Architecten in the Netherlands is hidden in the landscape. The small holiday home is embedded in the ground and covered with natural flora.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Fire training tower in Barcelona
The Fire Training Tower in Vall d'Hebron, Barcelona, with its exposed brick facades, echoes the material of the city walls and the residential towers in the neighbourhood.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Conversion of Homerton College in Cambridge
For the growing number of staff and students at Homerton College, Feilden Fowles designed a sensitive extension.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Living in the centre, living in the neighbourhood
The cultural landscape is our greatest common asset in the Alpine region. In harmony with their surroundings, good buildings strengthen the power of a place.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Amant in New York
Amant is a cultural centre located in the industrial area of North Brooklyn, SO - IL. It consists of an ensemble of four buildings spread over two city blocks.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Swimming pool in Brittany
The new swimming pool in Saint-Méen-Le-Gran uses resources sparingly by utilising and extending the existing building.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Opera Park in Copenhagen
Cobe Opera Park is a green oasis next to the Royal Opera House in Copenhagen's Inner Harbour. It is divided into six gardens with fauna from all over the world, including a subtropical garden in a greenhouse.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Performative house in Zurich
The new replacement building by EMI Architekt:innen for the residential building on Stampfenbachstrasse in Zurich is a lightweight, prefabricated timber construction based on the existing basement floors.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Grain Test Storage Berlin
Characterised by its striking funnel-shaped warehouse ceilings, this listed historic warehouse building is one of the most important early examples of concrete construction technology in Germany.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Factory Lisbon
Julian Breinersdorfer Architects has transformed the historic pasta factory on Lisbon's waterfront into office spaces.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Isarphilharmonie in Munich
The Isarphilharmonie by gmp architects in Munich forms the centre of the Gasteig HP8 with the historic Hall E and is planned as a temporary performance venue.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
San Juan de Ruesta in Aragon
The hermitage of San Juan de Ruesta, at the foot of the Pyrenees, is a stopover for pilgrims on the Pilgrim's Way to Santiago de Compostela.
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Nominee DETAIL Readers‘ Award 2024
Maison Gonner in Luxembourg
Heisbourg Strotz Architectes (hsa) transformed the historic Maison Gonner into a shelter for hikers on the Minett Trail in the Unesco Biosphere Reserve in the south of Luxembourg.
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DETAIL Readers’ Award 2024
In the icy landscape of Greenland
Dorte Mandrup's Kangiata Illorsua Visitor Centre is a shelter, meeting place and viewpoint in the Arctic landscape between the Unesco-protected Kangia Icefjord and the town of Ilulissat on Greenland.
The DETAIL Award is one of the most important international awards in architecture. We launched it in 2005 with the aim of raising public awareness of the importance of building culture and the work of architects.
The prize honors completed building projects with exemplary character - worldwide and regardless of typology. Success in the competition is not determined by the size and amount of the construction budget. Much more important are a convincing overall concept, a consistently implemented sustainability strategy, successful details and a coherent choice of materials. Renowned jurors have supported the DETAIL Award from the very beginning. These included Dominique Perrault, Odile Decq and Louisa Hutton. The list of past award winners ranges from Toyo Ito to ALA Architects, Snøhetta and David Chipperfield Architects.
The DETAIL Award is taking place for the eleventh time this year. In addition to the main prize, the jury will once again present the DETAIL Award for students and universities for a completed construction project or a realized prototype. USM will award a special prize for circular building. The winning project in the DETAIL Readers' Award will be chosen by DETAIL readers in an online vote from a shortlist selected by the jury.
This year's DETAIL Award is supported by Additive Tectonics, USM and Tonality, among others.
© Boris Storz
Process
Submissions could only be made online from 1 March to 1 June 2024. Following the competition phase, the DETAIL editorial team nominated the most outstanding projects for the jury meeting.
Subsequently, on 2 July 2024, an international jury of esteemed experts selected the winning projects from the nominations for the DETAIL Award 2024, the DETAIL Award for Students and Schools of Architecture, and the shortlist for the DETAIL Readers’ Award.
The winning projects will be celebrated at the award ceremony on 2 December 2024 in Munich.
The competition is administered by DETAIL Business Information GmbH without recourse to legal action.
© Moritz Hoffmann
© Moritz Hoffmann
Award Categories
DETAIL Award
The DETAIL Award honours buildings distinguished by a compelling architectural concept. It highlights excellence in design, a comprehensive sustainability strategy, exceptional structural execution, and a harmonious choice of materials.
DETAIL Award for Students and Schools of Architecture
The DETAIL Award for Students and Schools of Architecture honours pioneering projects realized within the context of research and teaching. This prize is awarded to completed buildings or built prototypes that showcase experimentation, innovative processes, and technical details within an outstanding overall design. Submissions can be made by the supervising lecturer.
DETAIL Readers‘ Award
The DETAIL Readers’ Award is given to the project most favoured by DETAIL readers. The winner is selected through an online voting process hosted on the architecture platform detail.de.
Jury
An Fonteyne
noAarchitecten
Marc Frohn
FAR frohn&rojas
Sandra Hofmeister
Editor-in-chief DETAIL
Francesca Torzo
francesca torzo architetto
Markus Zilker
einszueins architektur
Conditions of Participation
The DETAIL Award 2024 welcomes projects of any building type completed worldwide after 1. January 2021. New builds, renovations, conversions, and extensions are eligible.
Registration, Application, Fees
The processing fee, which is paid via the online payment service Stripe, is due when the documents are submitted in full.
The processing fee for the DETAIL Award is EUR 125 (one project), EUR 185 (two projects), EUR 225 (three projects). The application is complete when the processing fee has been received. Participation in the DETAIL Award for students and universities is free of charge.
© Moritz Hoffmann Photography
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Prize Money and Honours
A total prize fund of 5,000 euros is available for the award winners. The jury is responsible for allocating the prize money to the individual prize winners. The jury reserves the right to award additional prizes for special quality. The jury’s decision and the result of the readers’ vote will be announced to all participants at www.detail.de/detailaward-2024.
One representative of the firm (or partner firm) of the winning project in each category will be invited to accept the award at the award ceremony in Munich on 2 December 2024.
Ablauf des Wettbewerbs
Die Einreichung erfolgt online vom 1. März bis 1. Juni 2024 unter www.detailaward-2024.alpha-awards.de. Im Anschluss wählt die DETAIL Redaktion am 20. Juni 2024 aus allen Einsendungen die überzeugendsten Projekte für die Shortlist der Auszeichnung aus. Im zweiten Schritt wählt eine renommierte internationale Fachjury aus der Projektauswahl unter Ausschluss der Öffentlichkeit am 2. Juli 2024 die Preisträger-Projekte für den DETAIL Award 2024, für den DETAIL Award für Studierende und Hochschulen sowie die Nominierungen für den DETAIL Readers‘ Award für Leserinnen und Leser.
Die Preisträgerprojekte werden bei der Preisverleihung am 2. Dezember 2024 in München mit Gästen aus Architektur, Industrie, Politik und Wirtschaft geehrt.
Das Verfahren wird von der DETAIL Business Information GmbH unter Ausschluss des Rechtswegs durchgeführt.
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Questions/FAQ
Questions about the DETAIL Award can be submitted by email to detailaward@detail.de from 1 March 2024 to 1 June 2024, 2 pm (CEST; Munich local time). Responses will be provided by DETAIL up to and including 1 June 2024. No colloquium will be held.
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Contact
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Submission: 1 March to 1 June 2024
Preselection by the Detail editorial team: 20 June 2024
Jury meeting: 2 July 2024
Voting Readers' Award: 1 August to 1 October 2024
Award ceremony: 2 December 2024