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INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE AWARD (IAA)
The World's Foremost International Distinguished Building, Landscape Architecture, and Urbanism Awards Program
Since 2004, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with The European Center for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press, Ltd. have organized The International Architecture Awards as a way in which to honor the best, significant new buildings, landscape architecture, and planning projects designed and/or built around the world’s leading architects, landscape architects, and urban planners practicing nationally and internationally. The International Architecture Awards give an important global overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public worldwide.
The program is one of the Museum’s most important public education outreach initiatives produced throughout the year-to the Museum’s international audience.
The International Architecture Awards are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism from a global point-of-view.
The program pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.
This year’s program honors new (2021-2023) corporate, institutional, commercial, residential architecture, interiors, and urban planning, designed for both built and unbuilt projects alike.
ELIGIBILITY
All submissions must be the work of international architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for projects both in their respective countries and abroad. U.S. architecture firms headquartered inside or outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built or to be built, in the U.S. and around the world.
The Future Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona Receives the International Architecture Award IAA 2023
Balance between preservation of the essence of the original building, transparency and bonds with the local residents and city are key factors for this recognition
The Museum of Architecture and Design, Chicago Athenaeum, and the European Center for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies have just revealed the winning projects in their 2023 edition of the International Architecture Awards (IAA). Among these recognitions, the design by IDOM, Nikken Sekkei, and b720 for the Nou Camp Nou stands out.
The renewed design of Camp Nou seeks to achieve a balance between preserving and enhancing the essence of the Project by Mitjans, Soteras, and García-Barbón, inaugurated in 1957, and the concepts of openness, transparency, and connection with the city and the Les Corts neighborhood, as originally envisioned in the proposal by Nikken Sekkei and Pascual-Ausió Arquitectes in 2016.
The comprehensive transformation of Camp Nou will turn it into the largest stadium in Europe, with the capacity to accommodate 105,000 spectators. The project is characterized by preserving the structure of the two original stands from 1957, adding a new structure that houses the third stand, introducing double levels of hospitality areas, and a roof that covers the entire stadium capacity.
Sustainability is the essence of the stadium, showcasing the club's commitment to sustainable mobility, facilitating access by public transport and promoting electric mobility. Energy savings and efficiency will be achieved by installing 18,000 m2 of photovoltaic panels on the new roof, which will generate enough electricity to power 600 homes. And a geothermal system and an urban heating and cooling system will be installed that will reduce energy consumption by 30%, while the rainwater collected from the roof will be reused to irrigate all the vegetation on the future campus ten times a year. As for biodiversity, the native fauna is already protected and woodland cover has increased by 15%.
The future Spotify Camp Nou will incorporate state-of-the-art technologies, two 360º screens in the second and third tiers, and three 26x9 metre video scoreboards that will offer a new spectator experience. The security and access control system will also be improved, and the possibilities offered by 5G connectivity will be fully exploited.
The IAA Awards, in their twentieth edition, are one of the oldest international awards and rank among the most prestigious in terms of recognizing excellence in projects worldwide. In 2023, the competition received over 750 submissions.
The official awards ceremony will take place on September 15th at the Acropolis in Greece. Simultaneously, an exhibition of the award-winning projects will be inaugurated at the Contemporary Space Athens. Titled "The City and the World," this exhibition will be open to the public until October 1st.
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