Antwerp City Hall wins top European Heritage Award
Antwerp City Hall is among the five winners of the Grand Prix of the European Heritage Awards 2025, announced on Monday by the European Commission and Europa Nostra at a ceremony at the House of the Radio in Brussels.
The 16th-century landmark received the prize in the Conservation and Adaptive Reuse category. Described as “an icon of Antwerp’s Renaissance architecture”, the Unesco World Heritage-listed building was praised for combining historical authenticity with modern sustainability and accessibility.
The restoration has revived the City Hall as a “vibrant administrative centre and meeting place for residents and visitors”.
Thirty laureates were shortlisted in June, including Brussels’ Solvay House and the Flemish Heritage Trees Project. From these, the jury selected five Grand Prix winners and one Public Choice Award recipient from 24 European countries. Each Grand Prix winner receives 10,000 euros.
Other winners included the Glacier Archaeology Programme - Secrets of the Ice (Norway), Pro Monumenta - Preventive Maintenance of Monuments (Slovakia), Hedgehog’s Home - Inventing a Better World (Serbia) and Inge Bisgaard (Greenland). The Public Choice Award went to the restoration of Madrid’s Puerta de Alcala, chosen by more than 10,000 voters online.
The award ceremony marked the highlight of the European Cultural Heritage Summit, held in Brussels from 12-15 October, organised by Europa Nostra with support from the EU’s Creative Europe programme and Belgium’s National Lottery.
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