The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture or Mies van der Rohe award is a prize given biennially by the European Union

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 and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona

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, 'to acknowledge and reward quality architectural production in Europe'. The prize was created in 1987 as equal partnerships between the European Commission

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, the European Parliament

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 and the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona. The contest is open to all the works completed in Europe within the two-year period before the granting of the Prize.

List of award winners

Year	Architect(s)	Building	Location
1988	Alvaro Siza	Banco Borges e Irmão	Vila do Conde
1990	Sir Norman Foster	New Stansted Airport Terminal London Stansted Airport -Cargo:-Statistics:-Infrastructure:-Terminal and satellite buildings:Stansted is the newest passenger airport of all the main London airports. The terminal is an oblong glass building, and is separated in to three areas: Check-in concourse, arrivals and departures...	London
1992	Esteve Bonell and Francesc Rius	Municipal Sports Stadium Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona Palau Municipal d'Esports de Badalona, most frequently called the Pavelló Olímpic de Badalona is an arena in Badalona, Catalonia, Spain. The arena holds 12,500 people, and it is primarily used for basketball, though it's also an habitual home for music concerts and other municipal...	Badalona, Barcelona
1994	Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners	Waterloo Station Waterloo station Waterloo station, also known as London Waterloo, is a central London railway terminus and London Underground complex. The station is owned and operated by Network Rail and is close to the South Bank of the River Thames, and in Travelcard Zone 1....	London
1996	Dominique Perrault Dominique Perrault Dominique Perrault is a French architect. He became world known for the design of the French National Library, distinguished with the Mies van der Rohe Prize in 1996....	Bibliothèque Nationale de France Bibliothèque nationale de France The is the National Library of France, located in Paris. It is intended to be the repository of all that is published in France. The current president of the library is Bruno Racine.-History:...	Paris
1998	Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor is a Swiss architect and winner of the 2009 Pritzker Prize.-Early life:Zumthor was born in Basel, the son of a cabinet-maker...	Kunsthaus Bregenz Kunsthaus Bregenz The Kunsthaus Bregenz presents temporary exhibitions of international contemporary art in Bregenz, capital of the Austrian Federal State of Vorarlberg...	Bregenz
2001	Rafael Moneo Rafael Moneo José Rafael Moneo Vallés is a Spanish architect. He was born in Tudela, Spain, and won the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 1996. He studied at the ETSAM, Technical University of Madrid from which he received his architectural degree in 1961. From 1958 to 1961 he worked in the office in Madrid...	Kursaal Centre Kursaal Palace The Kursaal Convention Center and Auditorium is a complex comprising several spaces: a great auditorium, many-use halls and exhibition halls. It was designed by Spanish architect Rafael Moneo, and is located in Donostia-San Sebastián...	San Sebastián
2003	Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid Zaha Hadid, CBE is an Iraqi-British architect.-Life and career:Hadid was born in 1950 in Baghdad, Iraq. She received a degree in mathematics from the American University of Beirut before moving to study at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.After graduating she worked...	Car Park and Terminus Hoenheim North	Hoenheim, Strasbourg
2005	Rem Koolhaas Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural...	Netherlands Embassy Berlin Netherlands Embassy Berlin The Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin is the Netherlands's diplomatic mission in Berlin, Germany....	Berlin
2007	Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos Mansilla+Tuñón Mansilla+Tuñón Arquitectos is a Spanish architecture firm founded in Madrid in 1992 by Luis M. Mansilla and Emilio Tuñón Álvarez ....	Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y León Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León The Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, better known as the MUSAC, is a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain....	León
2009	Snøhetta	Norwegian National Opera and Ballet Oslo Opera House The Oslo Opera House is the home of The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, and the national opera theatre in Norway. The building is situated in the Bjørvika neighborhood of central Oslo, at the head of the Oslofjord. It is operated by Statsbygg, the government agency which manages property for...	Oslo
2011	David Chipperfield David Chipperfield Sir David Alan Chipperfield CBE, RA, RDI, RIBA is a British architect, born in London. He has offices in London, Berlin and Milan, and a representative office in Shanghai...	Neues Museum Neues Museum The ' is a museum in Berlin, Germany, located to the north of the Altes Museum on Museum Island.It was built between 1843 and 1855 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler, a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The museum was closed at the beginning of World War II in 1939, and was heavily...	Berlin

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