Our winning proposal for New EU Parliament Building
The European Parliament announced the international competition to renew the SPAAK
Building in May 2020, with the objectives to set a positive example of sustainable and
regenerative building, and to engage in dialogue with citizens and the city. EUROPARC’s
proposal stood out from the 15 submitted designs, and was officially named the winner of the first prize in July 2022. The jury commended the project for both its functional and symbolic qualities, calling it “… a genuine re-use proposal that offers an enhanced interface with the public and a new architectural expression to the building with useful sustainability features.”
EUROPARC is composed of architectural studios JDSA / Julien De Smedt Architects
(DK/BE), Coldefy (FR), CRA-Carlo Ratti Associati (IT), NL Architects (NL) and Ensamble
Studio (SP), with the support of engineering companies from UTIL (BE) and Ramboll (DK).
Together, these teams account for over 30 different nationalities in their ranks. Its formation emphasizes a new approach to architecture, one that prioritizes collaboration and orchestrates the know-how of different disciplines, instead of relying on individualism and singular decision-making, a common practice in the past century.
