A short film documents Smiljan Radić and the six other members of the jury visiting the seven works in the running for the prestigious EUmies Awards 2026, the winners of which were announced in April and given their prizes at a ceremony in Barcelona last month.
Far too many architecture awards are determined by juries from photographs, drawings, videos, and other forms of mediated presentations rather then firsthand visits. One of the few awards that requires jury visits is the EUmies Awards, which take place every two years and benefit, travel-wise, from the relatively compact nature of the European continent. For the 2026 awards, jury chair Smiljan Radić and the rest of the jury (Carl Bäckstrand, Chris Briffa, Zaiga Gaile, Tina Gregorič, Nikolaus Hirsch, and Rosa Rull) visited the seven finalist works over one week in March, from the 8th to the 15th. The winners were announced shortly thereafter, on April 16, and the awards were handed out during a ceremony at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona on May 12.
Watch a short, 4-minute film by Ivan Blasi that shows the jury flying and driving across Europe to see the finalists in person and speak with the architects:
Watch a short film about the Architecture winner, Charleroi Palais des Expositions in Charleroi, Belgium, by AgwA and architecten jan de vylder inge vinck:
Watch a short film about the Emerging Architecture winner, Temporary Spaces for Slovenian National Theatre Drama in Ljubljana, Slovenia, by Vidic Grohar Arhitekti:
More films on the other finalists can be found in the EUmies Awards 2026 playlist at YouTube.