The Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona has announced the 5 finalists of the renowned European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.

The five designs, selected by a jury composed by Stephen Bates, Gonçalo Byrne, Peter Cachola Schmal, Pelin Derviş, Dominique Jakob, Juulia Kauste and Małgorzata Omilanowska, are:

Kannikegården in Ribe, Denmark – Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects

The brick clad volume hovers above the city floor to expose an open ground floor with a 1000-year-old brick ruin integrated within.

Above and cover image: Lundgaard & Tranberg Architects, Kannikegården, Denmark.

© Photo Anders Sune Berg

Ely Court in London, UK – Alison Brooks Architects.

Ely Court is a 44 dwelling residential development within the South Kilburn Estate Regeneration Masterplan in the London Borough of Brent.

Alison Brooks Architects, Ely Court, UK. © Photo Paul Riddle

deFlat Kleinburg , Amsterdam, The Netherlands – NL Architects

De Flat is an innovative renovation of one of the biggest apartment buildings in the NL called Kleiburg, a bend slab, 400-meter-long and 10 + 1 story high. with 500 apartments.

NL architects, deFlat Kleinburg, Amsterdam.© Photo Stijn Spoelstra

The Rivesaltes Memorial Museum – Rudy Ricciotti

Designed by architect Rudy Ricciotti and agency Passelac & Roques, it is a 240-meter-long monolith buried in the ground, built in the site of a former military and internment camp in southern France which houses a memorial dedicated to a 70-year-long history of forced displacement of populations.

Rudy Ricciotti / Passelac & Roques, Rivesaltes Memorial Museum, France.

© Photo: Kevin Dolmaire

Katyn Museum, Warszava, Poland – BBGK Arkitekci

Katyn Museum commemorates a painful episode of Polish history which took place during the World War II when over a twenty thousands of Polish military officers and state officials were brutally murdered by the Soviet Secret Police.

BBGK Arkitekci, Katyn Museum, Poland. © Photo JuliuszSokołowski

The Jury will visit the 5 works in April. The Prize Winner and the Emerging

Architect Winner will be announced in Brussels on May 16.

The Award Ceremony will take place on 26 May 2017 at the Mies van der

Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona.