From 17 to 19 September 2009, the Belarusian Union of Architects, under the direction of its President Alexander Korbut, organised the third edition of the International Biennial for Young Architects in Minsk during which the Leonardo prizes were awarded.

Under the auspices of the International Union of Architects, this edition met with resounding success. Almost 400 projects and realisations by young architects of under forty years from 28 European and Asian countries were submitted and presented to the international jury. The latter was composed of Yury Mamlin (Belarus), Tomaz Kancler (Slovenia), Andrei Kaftanov (Russia), Petar Arsic (Serbia), Kestutis Pempé (Lithuania), Sergo Sutiagin (Uzbekistan), Andrei Bokov (Russia), Sergei Babushkin (Ukraine) and Osman Aydin (Turkey).

The biennial is composed of two sections: one for projects and one for completed works. Entries represented urban planning, public or industrial facilities, individual or collective housing, landscape planning, commercial or residential interior design.

The grand prize in the completed works category was awarded to the German architects Ralph Brandt and Martin Simon (BRANDT+SIMON, Germany) for a housing scheme, in Berlin, entitled “Plain Tile House Berlin”.

Prizes and mentions were awarded in each category. View all the prize-winning projects on the Biennial web site in English:
http://bsa.by/konkursyi/iii-minsk-international-biennale-of-young-architects-leonardo-award-2009.html

in Russian:
http://bsa.by/konkursyi/iii-minskiy-mezhdunarodnyiy-biennale-molodyih-arhitektorov-leonardo-2009.html

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