VELUX Architectural Competition 2024/25

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Daylight shapes rooms and inspires people. This makes it one of the most powerful tools in architecture. To honor this significance, the VELUX Architectural Competition 2024/25 is awarding prizes to the best daylight solutions in buildings from Germany, Austria and Switzerland.

Projects could be submitted again in the period from June 2024 to February 2025. The jury meeting took place in Lindau at the end of March and the nominated projects will be announced shortly.

We cordially invite you to celebrate the award winners with us in Munich on 25 June 2025.

Registration award ceremony

The finalists

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Five finalists emerged from a total of 79 projects submitted from Germany, Austria and Switzerland at the jury meeting.

See the finalists here

Prizes

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A total of 12,000 euros in prize money has been announced for the three award winners. The distribution of the prize money among the individual winners is the responsibility of the jury. The jury reserves the right to award recognitions of special quality.

Dates

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Start of competition: 1 June 2024

Competition ends: 28 February 2025

Jury meeting: 28 March 2025

Award ceremony: 25 June 2025

Online Documentation: July 2025

Learn more about our Daylight Talks:

"On Daylight" Housing and Urban Planning: A Daylight Talk by Jan Gehl

Around 1960 the paradigms for city planning were radically changed. Modernism became dominant, focus moved from a city of  Spaces to the city of Buildings surrounded by left over space.  Cities for People became an overlooked and forgotten dimension.  

To the talk

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The Jury

Chris Schroeer Heiermann, Architect Cologne

Chris Schroeer-Heiermann studied architecture in Eugene and Copenhagen. Since 2000 he has been running his own architectural office in Cologne, with which he mainly designs single-family and multi-family houses, residential and commercial buildings.

Klaudia Ruck, Winkler+Ruck Architekten

Klaudia Ruck studied architecture at the Graz University of Technology, lives and works in Klagenfurt and has been running Winkler+Ruck Architekten together with Roland Winkler since 2016. Particular interest is in building in existing buildings; School buildings, public buildings and museum buildings.

Peter Hutter, Barão-Hutter Atelier

Peter Hutter grew up in northeastern Switzerland and graduated from ETH Zurich. He worked in Peter Zumthor's office and founded Barão-Hutter Studio in 2010 together with Ivo Barão. Since 2020, working as a specialist judge in competition proceedings.

Jakob Schoof, DETAIL

He graduated in architecture from the University of Karlsruhe in 2000 and joined Detail in 2009. For 20 years, the deputy editor-in-chief of Detail has been involved in the media communication of architecture.

Christian Krüger, VELUX Germany

After training as a carpenter in East Westphalia, he studied architecture at the Technical University of Braunschweig. Since 2010, he has been leading the architecture team at VELUX Germany.

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