Grand Prix Casalgrande Padana: Award Ceremony on 5 December

The 13th edition of the Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix reaches its final stage: the award ceremony will be held on December 5, 2025 in the new Auditorium at the Casalgrande Padana headquarters.

The competition, an international benchmark for the dialogue between architecture and ceramic design for over thirty years, will reward the works that best interpret the aesthetic, technological, and sustainable potential of the ceramic material.
The winners will be announced during the event, while the evening will be enhanced by a special musical moment: a flute concert by Maestro Andrea Gramellini, which will accompany the announcement of the winners in a unique interplay of architecture, design, and art.
Once again, the Casalgrande Padana Grand Prix confirms its mission to celebrate design excellence in a context that unites culture, experimentation, and creative languages.

The competition aims to recognize and value projects in which ceramic is not merely a finishing touch, but a true design element—in form, function, and innovation. The jury examined over one hundred projects from Italian and international studios, realized between 2022 and 2024. The evaluation process considered a wide range of aspects, including compositional and formal originality, the integration of ceramic materials into structural solutions, environmental sustainability, technological efficiency, and the idea of ceramic as a design "expansion."

The international jury
The selection committee, chaired by Franco Manfredini (Casalgrande Padana), is composed of leading figures in the world of architecture, design, and specialized journalism: Simon Keane-Cowell (Editor in Chief of Architonic), Tarik Abd El Gaber (Architect and Deputy Editor of D’Architectures magazine), Alessandra Ferrari (Architect from the National Council of Architects of Rome), Sebastian Redecke (Architect and Editor of Bauwelt magazine), Alessandro Valenti (Architect, Editor of ABOUT and elledecor.it), and Matteo Vercelloni (Architect and Editorial Consultant for INTERNI Magazine).

The finalist project
Below, the shortlisted projects, divided by category. They represent some of the most interesting contemporary explorations of ceramic materials applied to architecture — from large-scale urban contexts to smaller interventions — addressing challenges of context, lifecycle, and technological innovation.

LARGE SURFACES AND FACADE CLADDINGS
School Complex in Busca (Cuneo) – Studio Settanta7, Daniele Rangone
Colosseum Metro Station, Rome – Department of Architecture and Projects, La Sapienza / Filippo Lambertucci, Andrea Grimaldi
Regina Pacis Parish Centre, Velletri – Cossu Toni Architetti, Cristiano Cossu, Andrea Cavicchioli, Ada Toni
Nunziare II Residential Building, Aversa (Naples) – Cecere Management, Raffaele Truosolo, Marino Giustino
Fontana and Monte Po Metro Stations, Catania – Gestione Governativa Ferrovia Circumetnea / Muving Architettura Ingegneria Territorio, Loredana Cucinotta, Antonio Trapani, Daniele Zito, Emanuele Perrotta, Ignazio Lutri
Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia AF517 – Student Housing in Asnières-sur-Seine / Cyber Place Innovation Hub in Cesson-Sévigné, Rennes / Redevelopment of EAI Residential Complex (former infantry school), Montpellier / Milano 3.0 Residential District, Milan
REM Station, Montreal (Canada) – Baccalauréat, Catherine Laflamme

OFFICE, COMMERCIAL, PUBLIC, and SERVICE BUILDINGS
New Secondary School, Puos (Alpago) – Facchinelli-Daboit-Saviane
New Refectory and Industrial Kitchen, Pontifical Oriental Institute, Rome – SMT Studio, Mauro Castreghini, Mauro Gajani Saffi
Hotel Fedora, Campitello di Fassa (Trento) – Fabio Mariani Architetti
Roberto Rocca Innovation Building / Humanitas, Pieve Emanuele (Milan) – FTA Studio, Filippo Taidelli
Tournesol Aldebert Bellier Swimming Pool, Taverny (France) – Arcos B, Étienne Chauvelier
Ironmonger Row Bath Spa, London (UK) – SAUNA 360, Jeff Le Clos

RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
Swimming Pool at Podere Necione, Asciano (Siena) – Eumezz Srl, Martha Mezzedimi
Villa Dellago, Torre di Benaco (Verona) – JM Architecture, Jacopo Mascheroni
HOUSE RS – HOUSE KD, Szczecin (Poland) – Anna Thurow Architecture and Interiors, Anna Paszkowska-Thurow, Krzysztof Thurow
Dom na Staszelowce, Koscielisko (Poland) – Studio Formy, Agnieszka Burzykowska-Walkosz