Publication date: 
2016/02/12
The closing ceremony of the Inspireli Awards 2015 competition was held at the Art Restaurant Manes in Prague on 10 February. Its winner is Jakub Hoffmann of the Faculty of Architecture of CTU, who had captured the jury´s attention with his project for the Museum of Finnish Architecture in Helsinki.

Jakub Hoffmann worked on his project during his Erasmus exchange at Aalto University in Helsinki. It is a building for the Museum of Finnish Architecture for which he designed new premises for holding meetings, lectures and exhibitions. Inspireli Awards International Competition is intended for architects and designers under the age of 30. This year's event was attended by 250 students from 25 countries and 45 universities. Contestants presented photographs of their projects and realizations on the competition website. In the finals, work of 50 remaining contestants was judged by a professional jury headed by Bořek Šípek. The 25 member international jury was composed of professionals such as Zdenek Franek, Josef Pleskot, Ivana and Jan Benda, Petr Kolář or Robert Konieczny.

 Czech TV also informed about the event