Living Breakwaters. A visionary green infrastructure project off the shore in New York. SCAPE and founder Kate Orff receive the fifth OBEL AWARD architecture prize

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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.

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Emissions

Seratech
2022

Architecture to eliminate all CO2 emissions from the built environment.

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Cities

15-minute city
2021

Architecture to offer new and daring solutions to the challenges of urbanisation.

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Mending

Anandaloy
2020

Architecture to repair, heal, and make our environment, in its many facets, whole again.

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Well-being

Water Garden
2019

Architecture to touch and inspire our senses and emotions.

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