Piranesi Awards 2025
The recipients of the Piranesi Awards have been announced at the 42nd international conference Piran Days of Architecture. Piranesi Award has been conferred since 1989, this year for the 36th time in a row. The international jury for the 2025 Piranesi Awards met on 21 November 2025 in Monfort Exhibition Hall in Portorose. Members of the jury, traditionally composed of every year PIDA lecturers, were Palinda Kannangara, president of the 2025 Piranesi jury, Pau Bajet, Miha Dešman, Maria Giramé, Ognjen Krašna and Petr Pelčák.
For the 2025 Piranesi award 50 architectural projects were nominated by national selectors from 11 European countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czechia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovakia and Slovenia. 40 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from 20 European Faculties of Architecture from from Graz, Spittal, Vienna, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Pescara, Vaduz, Podgorica, Belgrade, Kragujevac, Novi Sad, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Maribor, Lucerne and London. All together 86 projects arrived at the Piranesi exhibition, 47 projects from architects, and 39 projects from students.
The traditional criteria of selection for the Piranesi exhibition were:
- Considered setting in an urban or natural space
- Spatial and design accordance with the context
- Contemporary innovative spatial plan and layout
- Respectful approach to the natural and cultural heritage
- Contemporary understanding of traditional and autochthonous architectural elements
- Innovative details
- Considered use of colour, materials, texture and light
Below, we present the award recipients and their projects.
International 2025 Piranesi Student Honourable Mention
The Longhouse | Jesenice, Slovenia | 2024-2025
Student: Ela Grasselli
Mentors: prof. Maruša Zorec, doc. Uroš Rustja
From the jury’s final report:
“The project uses time as a design tool, taking care of a post-industrial brownfield site. To do so, it unfolds different phases of operation using soil and landscape strategies as its starting points. The buildings subsequently reinterpret the warehouse typology with careful
tectonic explorations, incorporating material reuse while providing adaptable spaces for dwelling and communal living.”
International 2025 Piranesi Honourable Mention
Cemetery Ankaran | Ankaran, Slovenia | 2024
Architects: Uroš Rustja, Primož Žitnik, Mina Hiršman, Mateo Zonta (VOID architecture; architecture) and Ana Kučan, Luka Javornik,
Danijel Mohorič (studio AKKA; landscape architecture)
From the jury’s final report:
“Set on a sloping landscape between the hill and the sea, the cemetery is designed as a public walking path guiding visitors through a sequence of serene, interconnected terraces overlooking the sea. Clean architectural detailing and a sensitive play of light shape the
remembrance spaces and offer a peaceful environment to honour loved ones.”
International 2025 Piranesi Honourable Mention
Centre for Creative Industries and Innovations “Ložionica” & The House of eGovernment | Belgrade, Serbia | 2025
Architects: Anđela Karabašević Sudžum, Vladislav Sudžum (AKVS architecture)
From the jury’s final report:
“The project transforms Belgrade’s historic railway site and infrastructures through adaptive reuse and a new structure, weaving together a complex mix of offices and public programmes supported by an inventive, unconventional structural system. Its contemporary architectural expression negotiates the site’s challenging urban context, creating a dynamic dialogue between heritage and forward-looking design.”
International 2025 Piranesi Award
House and Beeyard | Balaton Uplands, Hungary | 2024
Architect: Péter Szabó, Emese Galamb (OKKA architects)
From the jury’s final report:
“The Jury recognises the project for the material exploration between the vernacular and the contemporary, reusing old damaged stone constructions in rammed concrete walls – a traditional local technique. Furthermore, its refined tectonic expression and dedication to
unique spatial situations releases the thresholds between the interior and the exterior and provides a sense of landscape which integrates the village within the realm of the house.”
Congratulations to all the 2025 Piranesi winners!
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