Each year, the jury sets a focus - an important global challenge - and awards a potential solution:
Adaptation
Scape
2023
Architecture to adjust ecological, social, and economic systems in response to climate change.
see winner
Emissions
Seratech
2022
Architecture to eliminate all CO2 emissions from the built environment.
see winner
Cities
15-minute city
2021
Architecture to offer new and daring solutions to the challenges of urbanisation.
see winner
Mending
Anandaloy
2020
Architecture to repair, heal, and make our environment, in its many facets, whole again.
see winner
Well-being
Water Garden
2019
Architecture to touch and inspire our senses and emotions.
see winner
Initiatives
In addition to the prize, the OBEL AWARD supports initiatives, such as fellowships, events, and publications, aligned with the overall values of the award and mission of the foundation.
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