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The renovated Modern Art Centre (CAM) of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon has been voted "Building of the Year" in Cultural Architecture by the international platform ArchDaily, which awards awards.
The new building, inaugurated in September 2024, was redesigned by Japanese architect Kengo Kuma, in collaboration with the Portuguese architecture studio OODA, and includes the Engawa structure, which serves as a framework and connection to the foundation's garden, designed by Lebanese landscaper Vladimir Djurovic.
The award jointly recognises the work of Kengo Kuma's studio (KKAA), the Portuguese studio and Djurovic's (VDLA).
The Archdaily platform awards architecture prizes in different categories every year, and the winners are chosen by public vote.
In a statement, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation recalls that the architectural design of the renovated CAM proposes "a holistic integration of all elements of the landscape", between the building and the surrounding garden, in the foundation's spaces.
Japanese architect Kengo Kuma was inspired by the Engawa typology, “which is often found in traditional Japanese houses,” and the concept “is reflected in several features of the building,” the foundation says.
This concept, manifested in the enormous curved exterior roof of the Modern Art Center, underscores the idea of “an open and accessible art center, where everyone is encouraged to make this their own space.”
In the housing sector, the ArchDaily Awards recognized the project for Fazenda Canuanã, in Formoso de Araguaia, Brazil, by Brazilian architecture firms Rosenbaum and Terra e Tuma Arquitetos.
In the hotel category, the award went to the Elysée Montmartre Hotel project in Paris, designed by the French firm Policrónica, which included the participation of architects Marta Moreira, Margarida Matos and Gabriel Rocha, among others, in the design.
