Europe's best Buildings: Mies van der Rohe Award winners go on view

The standout projects of one of the world’s most significant architectural honors, The European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture/Mies van der Rohe Award, are the subject of the new exhibition Europe's best Buildings which opened in Vienna, Austria today.  A spectacular transformation of three 1960s housing blocks in Bordeaux, France was selected last year as the main winner of the biennial award, and four other projects in Belgium, Spain, Germany, and Albania reached finalist spots.  The forty buildings shortlisted from 383 projects nominated from 36 European nations — all projects are conversions of or additions to existing buildings — can now be inspected up-close until October 12th at the Architekturzentrum Wien. Read the full post on Bustler