Each year, the jury sets a focus - an important challenge - and awards a potential solution:
Embodied Emissions
Architecture must be a driving force in eliminating all CO2 emissions from the built environment and thereby contribute to a zero-carbon future.
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Cities
Architecture can and must offer new and daring solutions to the challenges of urbanisation.
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Mending
Mending though architecture is the careful and deliberate approach to repairing, healing, and making our environment, in its many facets, whole again.
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Well-Being
Well-being is fostered when the boundaries between architecture, landscape architecture, art, and environmentalism are blurred, and the result is able to touch and inspire our senses and emotions.
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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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