The 2025 New European Bauhaus Prizes celebrate 22 projects that reimagine the built environment with creativity, sustainability, and inclusion. From affordable housing solutions to transformative urban spaces, Europe is driving change from the local level.
The European Commission has announced the 22 winning projects of the 2025 New European Bauhaus (NEB) Prizes, recognising initiatives that integrate sustainability, inclusion, and aesthetics in tangible and transformative ways.
This year, in addition to the usual categories — which distinguish between established projects and emerging proposals from young talents — a special prize was awarded for innovative solutions in affordable and sustainable housing. This highlights the growing urgency to address the housing crisis through a creative and socially engaged lens. A new support line for small municipalities was also launched, acknowledging their key role in the ecological and social transition.
Among the winners are proposals such as 'Green Axes and Squares' in Spain, which reimagines urban space to prioritise people and nature, and 'die HausWirtschaft' in Austria, which combines affordable housing with shared spaces for work and care.
The geographical and thematic diversity of the selected projects — from the reuse of a factory in Ukraine as an innovation hub, to the use of hemp in Lithuania for circular acoustic panels — reflects a Europe committed to local solutions with global impact. Beyond financial recognition, these prizes consolidate the NEB as a leading platform for rethinking the built environment through deeply human and European values.
