Architectural & Design Awards “Bringing light to life” 2020

28/02/2020 - Architectural & Design awards “Bringing light to life” is an annual VELUX competition for architects and designers from CEE region, who treat the daylight in the architecture as one of the most important components for developing healthy buildings and environment. The daylight coming from the roof brings to every building the key factors for well - being - light, ventilation, fresh air and space.

In this 6th edition of the Architectural & Design awards “Bringing light to life” Seven countries from CEE region participated with projects in 3 categories – Family houses, Public and residential buildings and Renovations with more than 130 projects.

The winners were announced on 13/02/2020 in Belgrade, where the official ceremony took place. In the event, around 150 architects from 5 countries participated and celebrated the “daylight in the buildings”.

Global Winner
Score: 356 points
Project: BS_257 - Guest Houses, Bulgaria;
Authors: 'HO_RA' – arch. Andrey Hodkevich, arch. Vladimir Rainovski

Winner Residential and Public Buildings
Score: 350
Project: Parents' house, Tuzla, BiH
Author: arch. Emir Salkic

Winner Family Houses
Score: 338
Project: KK House, Turkey
Author: arch. Kerem Piker

Winner Renovations
Score: 350
Project: Gundulicev venac Beograd, Serbia
Authors: arch. Ela Nesic and Danilo Nedeljkovic 

The jury that evaluated all 136 projects consists of architects from every country with many years of experience in architecture and construction. All of them are well recognized and highly appreciated among the countries:

Bulgaria - Arch. Ivo Petrov - Ivo Petrov Architects;
Romania - arch. Serban Tiganas - dico si tiganas;
Bosnia and Herzegovina - arch.Vedina Babahmetovic - ENTASIS;
Th North Macedonia - arch. Martin Panovski - RADiUs ;
Serbia - arch.Vladimir Lovrić - ARCHISOLAR;
Montenegro - arch. Filip Aleksic - FAADU;
Turkey - arch. Kerem Erdinoglu - ecarch;
and winner of last year eddiiton - MODELART Architects.

For the latest information, regarding the start of the Architectural & Design awards “Bringing light to life” 2020, you can check on the web site: https://bll.velux.com/en/.