The AR Award for emerging Architecture is the biggest and the best award for young architects in the world and gives $15,000 in prize money. Inaugurated in 1999, it was intended to bring wider international recognition to a talented new generation of architects and designers, so the awards have attracted entries from more than 80 countries, representing every inhabited continent.
Awards are for built or manufactured work only, and besides building, the full range of design activity, from landscape and urban spaces and cutlery can be submitted.
3LHD won an award for the pedestrian bridge at Rijeka, Croatia, which besides being an ingenious engineering structure is an important and life-giving complement to the public spaces of the city, and a simple and moving monument to the fallen in the Balkan wars.
