European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Mies Van Der Rohe Award 2003

Over 20 authors including Christine Boyer, Alessandra Ponte, Peter Smithson, Richard Haag.
Old Europe" is beginning to show strong signs of renewed vitality, to judge from the results of this latest edition of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award 2003. And not only because 269 works were selected, or because the number of competing countries (particularly those of Eastern Europe) is steadily increasing, but also by virtue of the high average standard of the entries, particularly of the winning project and 40 runners-up featured in this catalogue.