09-06-2022

The twenty finalists for the Aga Khan Award 2022

Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Exhibition,

Twenty architectural works from 16 different countries around the world, from Indonesia to Cape Verde, will compete as finalists in the 2022 edition of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) to win a share of the generous final prize of $1 million. The finalists were selected by an independent jury from among 463 architectures nominated for the 15th biennial award.



The twenty finalists for the Aga Khan Award 2022

Until 30 June, on the occasion of the London Architecture Festival and as part of the King’s Cross Outdoor Art Project, a photo exhibition of the twenty finalist projects of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) 2022 will be on display at King’s Cross. The shortlist was announced on 2 June in Geneva, and the twenty finalists were selected by an independent jury whose members include architect Francis Kéré, winner of the AKAA and Pritzker Prize in 2022. The projects competing for the award are buildings constructed between 2017 and 2021 and active for at least one year.

The AKAA is part of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), which, through its agencies in 30 different countries around the world, fosters cultural, social and economic initiatives to improve quality of life and create opportunities for people, regardless of their origin or religious faith. There are many areas of interest for the network agencies, from essentials such as education, health, agriculture and food safety, to the cultural arena with art, music, architecture, urban planning, and the preservation of cultural and environmental heritage, disaster reduction and crisis management. The Aga Khan Award for Architecture was launched in 1977 and has since honoured 121 projects and documented over 10,000 of them. The selected works must not only satisfy the functional aspects for which they are built, but must represent architectural excellence in their fields of reference, in the improvement and development of the community, in the reuse of abandoned areas or the conservation of cultural heritage, without overlooking environmental protection and landscape design. In addition, special attention is given to projects involving the use of local resources and innovative technologies that can trigger a virtuous circle of growth for the community. The award is in fact not only aimed at architects, but also identifies the clients and the various workers who played a key role in the development of the project.

(Agnese Bifulco)

Images courtesy of Aga Khan Award for Architecture (AKAA) and architects

Captions:
01 From left to right: Niamey 2000, Rehabilitation of the Manama Post Office, Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response, Issy Valley Improvement.
02 From left to right: Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, Urban River Spaces, Wafra Wind Tower, Jadgal Elementary School.
03 From left to right: Lanka Learning Centre, Tulkarm Courthouse, Expandable House, CEM Kamanar Secondary School.
04 From left to right: Blimbingsari Airport, Flying Saucer Rehabilitation, Outros Bairros Rehabilitation Programme, Le Jardin d'Afrique.
05 From left to right: Aban House, Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University, Rehabilitation of Tarsus Old Ginnery, Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House.

Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2022 shortlist (photo collage)
Rehabilitation of Manama Post Office, Manama, Bahrain, by Studio Anne Holtrop; (01)
Community Spaces in Rohingya Refugee Response, Teknaf, Bangladesh, by Rizvi Hassan, Khwaja Fatmi, Saad Ben Mostafa; (01)
Urban River Spaces, Jhenaidah, Bangladesh, by Co.Creation.Architects / Khondaker Hasibul Kabir, Suhailey Farzana; (02)
Outros Bairros Rehabilitation Programme, Mindelo, Cape Verde, by OUTROS BAIRROS / Nuno Flores; (04)
Lilavati Lalbhai Library at CEPT University, in Ahmedabad, India, by RMA architects / Rahul Mehrotra; (05)
Blimbingsari Airport, Banyuwangi, Indonesia, by andramatin; (04)
Expandable House, Batam, Indonesia, by ETH Zurich / Stephen Cairns with Miya Irawati, Azwan Aziz, Dioguna Putra and Sumiadi Rahman; (03)
Aban House, Isfahan, Iran, by USE Studio / Mohammad Arab, Mina Moeineddini; (05)
Argo Contemporary Art Museum & Cultural Centre, Tehran, Iran, by ASA North / Ahmadreza Schricker; (02)
Jadgal Elementary School, Seyyed Bar, Iran, by DAAZ Office / Arash Aliabadi; (02)
Renovation of Niemeyer Guest House, Tripoli, Lebanon, by East Architecture Studio; (05)
Wafra Wind Tower, Kuwait City, Kuwait, by AGi Architects; (02)
Issy Valley Improvement, Ait Mansour, Morocco, by Salima Naji & Inside Outside; (01)
Niamey 2000, Niamey, Niger, by united4design / Yasaman Esmaili, Elizabeth Golden, Mariam Kamara, Philip Straeter; (01)
Tulkarm Courthouse, Tulkarm, Palestine, by AAU Anastas; (03)
CEM Kamanar Secondary School, Thionck Essyl, Senegal, by Dawoffice; (03)
Lanka Learning Centre, Parangiyamadu, Sri Lanka, by feat.collective / Noemi Thiele, Felix Lupatsch, Valentin Ott and Felix Yaparsidi; (03)
Le Jardin d'Afrique, Zarzis, Tunisia, by Rachid Koraïchi; (04)
Rehabilitation of Tarsus Old Ginnery, Tarsus, Turkey, by Sayka Construction Architecture Engineering Consultancy; (05)
Flying Saucer Rehabilitation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, by SpaceContinuum Design Studio / Mona El Mousfy. (04)


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