LUCA Architecture Award Exhibition Invites Dialogue on Luxembourg’s Buildings

On Wednesday 22 July 2026, Chronicle.lu participated in the Luxembourg Center for Architecture’s (LUCA) participatory tour, “Looking Together”, which invited attendees to investigate the recent nominees and winners of the 2026 edition of the Luxembourg Architecture Award (LAA).

The tour, presented in English, was held at LUCA’s premises in Luxembourg-Clausen and welcomed around 20 participants, who were guided through the installation by LUCA Pedagogy and Mediation Officer Melissa Aries.

Melissa Aries began by providing information on the establishment of and work undertaken by the Luxembourg Center for Architecture, describing it as “a bridge between the people and [Luxembourg’s] architecture” - as well as detailing the history of the Luxembourg Architecture Award and how it has changed over the years to encompass more categories. 

She remarked: “We had an approach to represent an award for sustainability, one for construction quality, one for transformation, one for social life, so it represents more the challenges that architecture is facing today.”

The main part of the exhibition features long tables bedecked with detailed information and images about the various architecture projects selected for participation in the architecture competition.

Melissa Aries explained to the tour the make-up of the each of the categories of the LAA (Building Sustainability; Realising with Precision; Dialogue with Existing Buildings; Living Together; the Audience Award) and provided insightful descriptions of each project, detailing the reasons for their inclusion in each specific category.

Each category is given its own presentation area, often featuring models of the project, examples of the materials used in their construction, along with schematics of the structures.

Throughout the tour Melissa Aries invited the attendees to participate by sharing dialogue amongst each other by asking questions about each design, how they felt they fitted into the categories they had been selected to represent and if they felt they were worthy for inclusion.

The projects on display range from the construction of new office and communal buildings built from sustainable materials and designed to create temperature-controlled environments, through to the careful redevelopment of buildings once left in disrepair but now given new life through considered approaches to how such buildings should be resurrected for future generations.

The installation also includes a section dedicated to “Representing and Documenting” the photographic works of Christian Aschman, projects by architect Céline Zimmer and the artwork of Rita Wolff. A section is also dedicated to the Villa Kutter, detailing the extensive historical research undertaken as part of the restoration of Luxembourg's first modernist building.

Other architectural projects undertaken in the Grand Duchy which did not feature in the LAA are also given exposure as part of a large gallery display inside installation area.

The exhibition is free to attend (registration is recommended) and is open until Saturday 10 October 2026.

A limited edition catalogue of the winning and nominated projects is also available from LUCA for €30.

Further information about the exhibition can be found at: https://luca.lu/evenements/luxembourg-architecture-award