The nominations for the ARCH Award 2016 are already known

Every year during this time, nominations are decided for one of the most prestigious Slovak architectural awards - the ARCH Award, an accolade given for the best architectural achievement in Slovakia for the past period. The international editorial board of the ARCH magazine has selected the nominees for the 19th time and has chosen truly diverse entries. The buildings assessed were published and reviewed in the ARCH magazine from 7-8/2015 to 6/2016. According to the statutes, the editorial board nominated 10 works in a three-round selection.

Kindergarten. Community center. Residential buildings. Mixed-use building. Family house. Restoration of the church interior. Footbridge and bicycle bridge. Completion of the site. Company headquarters. Mixed-use house. Ten diametrically different objects, but only one award. Which of them will become the laureate of the ARCH Award 2016 this year and receive an artistic artifact from academic sculptor Jozef Hodor, who embodies the ARCH Award?

Nominations for the ARCH AWARD 2016

• House LJM, Miloslavov-Alžbetin Dvor (n/a / Benjamín Brádňanský, Vít Halada)
• Community Center Máj, České Budějovice (SLLA Architects / Michal Sulo, Miriam Lišková, Jozef Skokan)
• Headquarters of GUMEX Slovakia, Nitra (paulíny hovorka architects / Braňo Hovorka, Martin Paulíny)
• Mixed-Use Building Vavrišan - Construction Modifications and Extension, Vavrišovo (bátik.bobák.architekti / Martin Bobák, Martin Bátik, collaboration: Pavel Bobák)
• Kindergarten Guliver, Banská Štiavnica (+uniformarchitects / Richard Murgaš)
• Footbridge and Bicycle Bridge SK/PL, Sulín - Muszyna-Żegiestów (zerozero / Irakli Eristavi, Pavol Šilla, collaboration: Arcus / Jerzy Bajer, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, statics: Maciej Zuchowicz, Andrej Jackanin)
• Residential Buildings Avana, Stupava (architekti.sk / Martin Rezník, Matúš Polák, Juraj Makový, collaboration: Silvia Kračúnová)
• Completion of the MZV SR Area, Pražská Street, Bratislava (Ján Pavúk, Ilja Skoček, collaboration: Irenej Šereš, Danica Jurkovičová)
• Mixed-Use Building Miletičova 5, Bratislava-Ružinov (Compass architects / Juraj Benetin, Miroslav Čatloš, Juraj Česelský, Matej Grébert)
• Restoration of the Interior of the R. C. Church of St. Lawrence, Brutovce (Tomáš Bujna)

The laureate of the ARCH Award will be selected from the nominations by an international expert jury from September 12 to 14, 2016, which will personally visit all 10 nominated works. The members of the jury are Andrea Bacová (editor-in-chief of the ARCH magazine, Slovakia), Bettina Götz (Austria), Martin Jančok (Slovakia), Igor Kovačević (Czech Republic), and Peter Lényije (Slovakia). The formal announcement of the laureate of the ARCH Award 2016 will take place on November 10 at the Moyzes Hall in Bratislava.

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About the ARCH Award
The ARCH Award is a prize from the ARCH magazine concerning architecture and other cultures. The editorial board of the magazine established it in 1998 with the intention of highlighting remarkable works from the domestic architectural scene. The award is given annually for an architectural work that the international jury
(which alternates renowned architecture critics from Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Hungary, and Slovakia) recognizes as the most distinctive architectural act reflected in the past period on the pages of the ARCH magazine.