ECC Awards 2025: Shortlisted Projects Announced

9 September 2025

The European Cultural Centre Italy (ECC Italy) is delighted to announce the 21 shortlisted projects for the ECC Awards 2025. All 207 practices from over 52 countries exhibiting in the seventh edition of Time Space Existence, were automatically eligible for the awards, offering an exciting opportunity for wider recognition in their respective fields. The winners of the ECC Awards will be officially announced during the closing event of Time Space Existence on 23 November 2025.

Since 2010, artists, architects, designers, and academics have been awarded by ECC Italy with the ECC Awards. Celebrating art, design, architecture and academic research, these awards recognise those rethinking space, people, materials, and perspectives to shape a better future.

A group of esteemed industry experts are carefully selecting the winners for this year’s edition of the ECC Awards. The jury is evaluating the shortlisted projects based on originality, execution, storytelling, and their ability to reflect on the biennial’s central themes of Repair, Regenerate, and Reuse, highlighted throughout the exhibition Time Space Existence.

The Jury

The jury is composed of five professionals working in the fields of architecture and design. 

• Ivan Blasi, Director of the EUmies Awards
• Amit Gupta, Founder & Editor in Chief at STIRworld
• Christele Harrouk, Editor in Chief at ArchDaily
• Ursula Schwitalla, BDA ao, Honorary Senator Tübingen University
• Martha Thorne, Writer, Curator, Consultant and Urbanist.

The Categories

This year’s edition of the ECC Awards will celebrate exceptional projects in the categories of Architecture, Design, University Project, and Art Installation.

• Architecture Project – Recognising outstanding built or unbuilt projects that redefine how we live, work, and interact with space;
• Design Project – Celebrating innovative design solutions that merge creativity with functionality;
• University Project – Showcasing visionary academic research work in architecture;
• Art Installation – Celebrating projects that adopt an artistic approach, utilising various media and/or creatively transforming the space.

The Shortlisted Projects

Architecture Project Category

• Celina Abba + Enrique Cavelier
  Country: USA 
  Title of the project: Plantation Futures
• arhitektura nova
  Country: Republic of North Macedonia
  Title of the project: Cultivating landscape: The site-sensitive approach in architecture
• ELEMENTAL and Holcim
  Country: Chile and Switzerland 
  Title of the project: Transforming buildings into carbon sinks. New biochar technology for incremental housing.
• Henriquez Partners Architects
  Country: Canada
  Title of the project: Symplasma
• Semillas
  Country: Peru
  Title of the project: The Museo Itinerante del Bosque (The Wandering Forest Manifesto)
• VUILD
  Country: Japan
  Titles of the projects: House for Marebito / Shodoshima The Gate Lounge / Timber Stadium / Learning Architecture for Learners / Hybrid Timber Condominium

University Project Category

• A interiors
  Country: Saudi Arabia
  Title of the project: Traditional with a twist
• DLR Group
  Country: USA
  Title of the project: Tactile
• Enter Projects Asia
  Country: Thailand
  Title of the project: Interwoven
• Metadecor, Airshade Technologies, Alumet, MVRDV, Van Rossum Engineers, ARUP, Kersten Group, Amolf Institute
  Country: The Netherlands
  Title of the project: SOMBRA
• Polyhedral Structures Laboratory, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania, Masoud Akbarzadeh
  Country: USA
  Title of the project: Diamanti

Design Project Category

• Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Faculty of Design
  Country: Germany
  Title of the project: Wooden Pavilion
• Slovak University of Technology, VA Gregor Smatanova
  Country: Slovakia
  Title of the project: Manor and small noble houses in Slovakia
• The Virginia Tech Honors College and Cloud 9
  Country: USA and Spain
  Title of the project: unEarthed / Second Nature / PolliNATION
• Rice University / Juan José Castellón / xmade
  Country: Spain, Switzerland and USA
  Title of the project: Impluvium Redux
• University of Washington, Daniel Winterbottom, Winterbottom Design
  Country: USA
  Title of the project: Negotiating the Boundaries of Legitimacy: A Healing Journey

Art Installation Category

• Alketa Misja
  Country: Albania
  Title of the project: Albanian Scapes
• Almost Studio + Nanette Carter
  Country: USA
  Title of the project: Excess Entitlements
• Middle East Institute, Columbia University
  Country: USA
  Title of the project: Water and Oil: Photographing Environmentalism, Diaspora, and Gender in Iran
• María Isabel Paz Suárez – Materia Arquitectura & Design
  Country: Ecuador
  Title of the project: Quito Fragmented
• WHYIXD
  Country: Taiwan
  Title of the project: Tender Soul of Ocean: A Marine Climate Preservation Initiative

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