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FINAL JURY REPORT
Piran, 21 November 2025
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
Petr Pelčák
The jury was led by Eva Mavsar, Špela Nardoni Kovač, Vesna Perovnik and Tatjana Sirk.
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
All Piranesi winners receive a chair of Slovenian architect and designer Niko Kralj, donated by our sponsor Rex Kralj.
Glass sculpture for Piranesi Award was designed by young Slovene architect Ajda Racman who won 1st prize at student tender, organized in 2017 by DESSA gallery and Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The sculpture was made in famous Steklarna Rogaska/Rogaska glassworks.
After considering all the projects, the jury decided to mention following projects:
Mentions of 3 projects from students:
Ode to the Hall | Former Hornig Factory, Graz, Austria | 2024-2025
Students: Sophia Pechmann, Andreas Nätscher
Mentor: Univ.-Prof.i.R. Dipl.-Ing. Architekt Hans Gangoly
Dunakeszi Peat Lakes | Dunakeszi, Hungary | 2025
Student: Boglárka Számuel
Mentor: Balázs Falvai Dla
Hello Again, Palace of Youth | Prishtine, Kosovo | 2025
Student: Lindon Bytyqi
Mentors: Dipl. Architekt ETH FAS SIA Felix Wettstein, Dipl. Architekt ETH, Dr. Sc. ETH Marcel Bächtiger
Mentions of 5 projects from architects:
KinderKunstLabor | St. Pölten, Austria | 2024
Architects: SchenkerSalviWeber
The Osjek Mosque | Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina | 2024
Architects: Kenan Brčkalija & Adnan Harambašić (AHAKNAP)
Double villa Bukovac | Zagreb, Croatia | 2024
Architects: Hrvoje Njirić, Iskra Filipović (njiric+ arhitekti)
Chapel of the Virgin Mary in Na Pískách | Čečelice, Czech Republic | 2024
Architects: Adam Cigler, Martin Junek (Chrama)
Contrappunto Badhaus | Bressanone, Italy | 2024
Architects: Gerd Bergmeister, Michaela Wolf (Bergmeisterwolf)
After considering all the projects, the jury decided that awards go to:
International 2025 Piranesi Student Honourable Mention
The Longhouse | Jesenice, Slovenia | 2024-2025
Student: Ela Grasselli
Mentors: prof. Maruša Zorec, doc. Uroš Rustja
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)
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)
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)
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.
Congratulation to all the 2025 Piranesi winners and nominees!
