7 projects in the race for BNA Best Building of the Year 2025

The nominees for the Netherlands' premier architecture award have been announced. Seven projects are in the running for the title BNA Best Building of the Year 2025. The professional jury led by chairman Ingrid van Engelshoven announces the nominees today and will declare the winner on June 5. The architecture prize of the BNA will be awarded for the twentieth time. You can vote for the nominees for the public award until May 14.

"Among the nominees, we saw that good cooperation between architects, clients and other stakeholders contributes to quality. We also saw in them an eye for the context and a desire to add value within it." Says jury president Ingrid van Engelshoven, former Minister of Education Culture and Science.

The award for the BNA Best Building of the Year is presented to the project with excellence in a broad sense: in addition to the architectural quality, the use and experience value, the added social value and the quality of the collaboration are also considered by the jury. 

The Best Building of the Year election has a public award in addition to the professional jury award for which online voting is available. Go to www.gebouwvanhetjaar.nl to vote.

Award ceremony BNA Best Building of the Year 2025 

On Thursday, June 5, at the New Institute, the jury will announce which building will succeed Faculty ITC, the winning building in 2024, as BNA Best Building of the Year. The jury will also award an incentive prize to a project that excels in innovation or by a young talent developed in the architectural industry. The Audience Winner will also be announced during the presentation of these awards. 

In honor of the 20th anniversary edition of the award, an exhibition in the New Institute will also be presented that is an ode to "20 years of BNA Best Building of the Year. The prestigious award, since its first presentation in 2006, emphasizes the significance of architecture for society, culture and economy. Winning buildings are embedded in the Dutch collective memory. Previous winners include Rotterdam Central Station and the renovated Singer Laren. 

From nearly eighty entries, the jury chose the seven nominees: 

Netherlands American Cemetery Visitors Centre, Margraten

Architectural firm: KAAN Architects

Client: American Battle Monuments Commission

Beaufort, Zeist 

Architectural firm: Orange Architects

Client: Slokker Vastgoed BV i.c.w. NCB Projectrealisatie

Two residential buildings in Hattem

Architectural firm: Groothuijse de Boer Architects 

Client: Ontwikkelingsmaatschappij Hattem B.V.

University Center Psychiatry, Groningen

Architectural firm: Atelier PRO Architekten and Vakwerk Architects

Client: University Medical Center Groningen

EnergyHub050, Groningen

Architectural firm: The Union Architects

Client: Alfa-college

Office full of Waste, Katwijk 

Architectural firm: Popma ter Steege Architects

Client: national real estate company

National Holocaust Museum, Amsterdam

Architectural firm: Office Winhov

Client: Jewish Cultural Quarter