We believe every town is different; every place is in some way fantastic. Fantastic Norway aims to embrace this fact and through dialogue transform it into architecture.

«Building» is not merely a physical notion: Architects can also build identity, pride, cohesion and strategies. We believe that every design process needs to embrace this fact, to truly reveal the potential of the local and for the architect to gain the “silent knowledge”: Knowledge you can’t read out of maps and statistics. The knowledge only the locals possess. 

Members of the Jury

• Stefano Boeri (Italy)
• Gary Chang (Hong Kong, China)
• Odile Decq (France)
• Rudy Ricciotti (France)
• Georgi Stanishev (Bulgaria), Vice-president of the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation,  head of the Bulgarian office of the Foundation
• Vyacheslav Glazychev (Russia)
• Andrey Chernikhov, president of the Iakov Chernikhov International Foundation (Russia)

Besides the laureate, the following nominees also received a special mention of the Jury at the press conference:

Nikita Asadov (Russia)
L.E.FT - Makram el Kadi & Ziad Jamaleddine (USA)
standardarchitecture (China)
Decolonizing Architecture (Israel)
Alejandro Aravena (Chile)
Jean-Christophe Quinton (France)
Feld 72(Austria)
Paisajes Emergentes (Colombia)
Ronald Rietveld (Netherlands)

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