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Contest Honors Emerging European Architects and Designers

A total of 32 architects and architecture firms and eight industrial designers made the Europe 40 Under 40 list.

Mairi Beautyman -- Interior Design, 3/25/2008 1:00:00 AM

Who are the brightest rising architecture and design stars in Europe? The results are in for the prestigious Europe 40 Under 40, organized by the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and the Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design.

A total of 32 architects and architecture firms and eight industrial designers made the list. Honorees -- young architects, landscape architects, urban planners, industrial designers, graphic designers, and fashion and textile designers who are under the age of 40 who are working independently or in a firm or on a specific project where they are the lead designer -- were singled out by a jury of architecture and design practitioners.

Entries in the architecture category included corporate architecture, skyscrapers, institutional projects, religious buildings, civic and political structures, planning projects, urban renewal, restoration/renovation, residential architecture for single family and multi-family dwellings, stores, residential or commercial interiors, sports and transportation centers, institutions, parks, monuments, and public environments.
In the industrial design category, the jury sifted through the newest office and home furniture, household items, and bathroom fixtures.

Recipients hail from 15 European nations: Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Turkey, and Spain.

A complete list of recipients is below.

• 3RW Architects: Ingfeld, Bennet, Henning Frohsdal, Henning Fronsdal, Jakob Rostvik, Susanne
Puchberger, Sixten Rahliff, , and Haakon Rasmussen (Architects , Norway)
• Odd Klev (Architect, Norway)
• Nikita Barinov (Architect, Russia)
• Fabrizio Barozzi (Architect, Spain)
• Sasa Begovic (Architect, Croatia)
• Marc Botineau (France)
• Cécile Brisac (Architect, Great Britain)
• Bita Azimi-Calori (Architect, France)
• Stéphene Cottrell/ Jérôme Michelangeli (Architects, France)
• Jan-Hendrik De Groote (Designer, Germany)
• Julien De Smedt (Architect, Denmark)
• Patricia Sabin Diaz/Enrique M. Blanco Lorenzo (Architects, Spain)
• Marc Eggert (Architect, Germany)
• Paul Flowers (Designer, Germany)
• Raphael Gabrion (Architect, France)
• Bjarke Ingels (Architect, Denmark)
• Aysin Ipekci (Architect, Germany)
• Robert Konieczny (Architect, Poland)
• Tomasz M. Konior (Architect, Poland)
• Marc Krusin (Designer, Great Britain)
• Gabriele Lelli (Architect, Italy)
• Marianthi Liapi (Architect, Greece)
• Elodie Nourrigat (Architect, France)
• Kostis Oungrinis (Architect, Greece)
• Luke Pearson (Designer, Great Britain)
• Niccolo Poggi (Designer, Italy)
• Wolfram Putz (Architect, Germany)
• Kristof Pycke (Designer, Belgium)
• Roberto Ragazzi Architect, (Portugal)
• Amir Sanei (Architect, Great Britain)
• Matthias Schmidt (Architect, Germany)
• Thomas Stein (Designer, Germany)
• Oliver Schweizer (Designer, The Netherlands)
• Melkan Gursel Tabanliouglu (Architect, Turkey)
• Amin Taha (Architect, Great Britain)
• Andrew Todd (Architect, Great Britain)
• Alberto Veiga (Architect, Spain)
• Thomas Willemeit (Architect, Germany)
• Gerhardt Wittfeld (Architect, Germany)
• Cem Yurtsever (Architect, Turkey)