Overall Jury Statement The final selection for Koppelbrug, Amersfoort demonstrates a shared commitment to combining urban density, mobility, and public life into an integrated whole. The winning project, A Good Sport, succeeds through its synthesis of structure, adaptability, and livability; the runner-up, Assembly City, reimagines flexibility and reuse as a dynamic architectural system; and the honourable mention, H.E.A.R.T.Y. HUB, enriches…
Overall Jury Statement The final selection for Kop van Isselt, Amersfoort reflects a collective commitment to shaping a sustainable, mixed, and resilient urban district rooted in the reuse of industrial heritage. The winning project, Re: Isselt, defines an adaptive and circular development framework; the runner-up, Parkplein aan de Eem, articulates a synthesis of architecture and landscape; and the special…
Overall Jury Statement The final selection for Stadhuisplein, Amersfoort reflects a shared ambition to craft a vibrant cultural quarter rooted in the city’s historical and spatial character. The winner, Cultural Archipelago, offers an adaptable framework that prioritizes reuse and small-scale cultural energy; the runner-up, Fragments of History, proposes an elegant urban composition that expands the network of public spaces;…
Overall Jury Statement The jury sees the Otto Scheltusflat as a key opportunity to transform a post-war housing block into a socially engaging and spatially open part of Amersfoort’s urban fabric. The winning proposal, ont mOeTTO me halverwege, succeeds through its integrated vision combining architectural renewal, social activation, and environmental awareness into a coherent and inspiring…
Overall Jury Statement The final selection for Amicitia, Amersfoort reflects a shared ambition to reweave a fragmented architectural object into the living tissue of the city. The winner, Capriccio: Beyond the Analogue, achieves this through delicate addition and reinterpretation; the runner-up, Old Walls, New Ties, through incisive transformation; and the special mention, Amicitia Exchange, through refined architectural cohesion and reconnection.…
Overall Jury Statement The final selection for Flint, Amersfoort highlights three distinct yet complementary strategies for transformation: Reverse Structuralism translates the site’s structuralist legacy into a framework for the future; Flintkwartier boldly reimagines it as a new residential fabric; and Ctrl Alt Flint preserves its cultural function through adaptive reuse. Together, they demonstrate that transformation is not only about architectural form but also…
E18_Awards Save the date! – Thursday February 5, 2026 | 17:30–19:30 The municipality of Amersfoort is the host city for the Europan18 session in the Netherlands, centred on the theme Re_sourcing. In close collaboration with local stakeholders, the Europan process in Amersfoort explores how existing spatial, social, material and institutional resources can be re-activated and re-interpreted…
Amersfoort – 6 Locations Flint, Amersfoort WinnerReverse Structuralism (SI186)Authors: Gabriel Deliancourt, student in architecture (DE), Paul Moritz Keul, student (DE)Team location: Stuttgart , GermanyRunner-upFlintKwartier: re-value, re-use, re-connect (UW318)Authors: Thomas Rosema, architect (NL), Remon Mulder,urban planner (NL)Team location: Rotterdam, NetherlandsSpecial mentionCTRL ALT, FLINT ! (MY181)Authors: Hans Prieur, student in architecture (FR), Kimberley Bellamy, student in architecture…
7 days left before the E18 results!Results announcement on the 17th November 2025 at 8:00am (UTC+2) on www.europan-europe.eu
Amertsfoort – Re_sourcing We are delighted to announce the remarkable jury for this session:Just a few weeks until we get to know the next generation of young professionals who’ve been hard at work on the six amazing locations in Amersfoort for Europan 18! The E18 Session features a professional jury comprising 9 main members, supported…
The City of Tilburg seeks opportunities in the combination of accommodating its growth and reactivating urban life in peripheral postwar neighborhoods. The aim is to attract and retain residents, in particular young generations, to improve the socioeconomic status, to diversify the composition of population and to stimulate healthy and productive suburban living. Densification is part…
The City of Breda seeks opportunity to develop large-scale urban area within the city border and close to the historical center. The ambition is to make Breda a highly urbanized, international, and connected city by 2040. The housing challenge and anticipating climate change in ‘t Zoet serve as a lever to address the challenges of…
From the perspective of Breda, Schorsmolen presents an opportunity to transform a fragmented urban fabric into a vibrant and cohesive neighborhood. The vision is to create a mixed-use, socially inclusive, and sustainable neighborhood that celebrates its diversity and history. To achieve this, local housing corporations can play a crucial role in testing and implementing new…
The City of Tilburg seeks opportunities to accommodate its growth in the existing city. Densification of urban voids, in particular the ones near a public transport hub, with a strategic position in the city are a part of this strategy. This type of development is ideally suited to catalyze new interaction milieus, since it offers the…
The City of Etten-Leur seeks opportunities in the combination of accommodating its growth and reactivating urban life in the shopping center. The aim is to redevelop the large consumption-only shopping experience to a more mix-use locally rooted experience which will become a cozy “Central living-room” for everyone, embedded in existing historical character of Etten-Leur. Densification…
Waalwijk is fastest growing city in all of Brabant. This is a great incentive to facilitate the further development of companies in direct surroundings. This quantitative and qualitative leap requires that Waalwijk is an integral part of the larger urban network with good regional connections. Waalwijk urgently needs to accommodate its growth and establish a…
Bart van der Vossen (NL)Directeur Ruimte at Gemeente Utrecht, Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands (https://bartvandervossen.nl)Don Murphy (NL)Founder VMX Architects, Supervisor Schiphol Municipality of Amsterdam and Eindhoven (http://www.vmxarchitects.nl)François Chas (FR)NP2F Architects, Paris (http://www.np2f.com)Johan de Wachter (BE/NL)Founding partner at 2DVW Architecten, Owner at JDWA, Associate professor KTU (LT) (https://jdwa.nl)Martin Sobota (DE/NL)Architect, Founding Partner CITYFÖRSTER, Rotterdam (http://www.cityfoerster.net)Marieke Kums (NL)Founder…
learn more about each competition location, ask questions, and interact with site representatives. Europan is the longest-running and largest design competition in Europe for architects under 40 years old. The 51 locations of Europan 17 model the issues that are currently playing out in many parts of Europe. The Urban Region Breda-Tilburg (SRBT) is the…
Dear Europan competitors, Europan NL and the Stedelijke Regio Breda Tilburg (SRBT) are proud to announce six locations in the region for Europan 17. These sites have been and designated as “prototypical development sites” due to their unique characteristics. We are confident that these sites will provide a challenging and exciting context for the competition.…
Dormant green suburb to future-proof living The challenge is to propose a transformation strategy for the dormant green heart of Groenewoud into a socially connected, climate resilient architecture and ecologically thriving suburban living, at the same time which offering guidance for the wider area framework to be transformed into a future-proof garden city of the…
From consumption-only to resilient mixed-use The challenge is to replace a consumption-based, outdated spatial model of shopping with a new urban fabric that fosters the local economy and promotes a more resilient combination of spaces for housing, shopping, meeting and working, leading to a vibrant, open, and town center connected to the public mobility. Dear Europan competitors,…
Mixuse urban icon for the knowledge economy The challenge is to develop an iconic spatial intervention on this site to attract and retain talented individuals. Design a mixed-used iconic building cluster that incorporates innovative living typologies for various generations and income brackets, both local and international, which at the same-time create a highly connected open…
Socially connected and climate adaptive The challenge is to develop a long-term urban transformation strategy that offers a vision of ‘affordable living’ and testing alternative ‘living-together’ typologies. Propose public space and architectural design ideas for this hottest spot in Breda which is ear-marked for special attention in respect to climate adaptation, and is integral to the long-term…
New mobility hub at the heart of Waalwijk The challenge is to develop an extension to Waalwijk’s city center that fosters programmatic synergies and integrates a new mobility perspective moving away from car dependency, also intensifying the use of existing areas and building upon town’s historical morphology while introducing new housing typologies. Dear Europan competitors,…
‘Cultural quarter’ at the river Mark The challenge is to imagine a ‘curated cultural quarter’ that draws inspiration from the past to create a open, incisive and dynamic waterfront environment that brings together culture, city and ecology and functions as a regional attractor for (new) residents and (new) businesses to settle in Breda. Dear Europan…
The 17th Europan session is coming… Launch on the 27th March 2023! Competition of ideas followed by implementation processes. Open to Architects, Urban designers and Landscape designers under the age of 40! www.europan-europe.eu
We are happy to share Papaverwerf, Amsterdam designed by Europan 14 winners, UP4 in collaboration with Studioninedots. The process started in 2017 as the winning proposal of Europan 14 competition. According to expectations, construction of Papaverwerf in Amsterdam-Noord will start early next year. The project consists of three volumes, which are connected by a six-meter-high concrete…
Embrace Karlskoga Authors: CORNE STROOTMAN (NL), CHRISTIAAN SMITS (NL) – landscape architects Rotterdam, Nederland
Tracing domains Authors: IZABELA SLODKA (PL), XANDER VAN DIJK (NL) – architects Rotterdam, Nederland
Building Up on Values Authors: JONIAN SILAJ (NL) – architect urbanist, EIRINI XANTHOPOULOU (GR) – architect; Colaborators: IRAKLIS ROMANOPOULOS (GR), IRENE PIGHI (IT), ALESSANDRA BONACCIO (IT) – architects Rotterdam, Nederland