PAVILION of SLOVENIA for EXPO OSAKA 2025 - WINNER of the UNBUILT Award 2024

Dekleva Gregorič Architects has been announced as the winner of the inaugural Buildner’s UNBUILT Award 2024, a groundbreaking global competition celebrating unrealized visionary projects transcending boundaries.

A distinguished international jury, including leaders from Neri&Hu, Mecanoo, MOS, and ArchDaily, praised the pavilion for its innovative sustainability and circularity, employing zero-waste principles, as well as its aesthetically and technically impressive design, awarding it first place in the medium-scale category. The pavilion's design embodies Slovenia’s environmental ethos, capturing its identity as the Green Heart of Europe by radically reducing carbon emissions by 87,600 kg CO2 with a rented structure and a unique temporary tree nursery functioning as a rooftop “Slovenian forest.”

The Pavilion of Slovenia won first prize in a national competition. However, it will not be constructed in Osaka due to the allocation of public funds for flood recovery in Slovenia in 2023. This professional recognition celebrates architecture’s potential to inspire and redefine sustainability.

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swiss architectural award 2022 – nomination

Dekleva gregoric architects are honored to be nominated for the prestigious Swiss Architectural Award 2022. The award aims to spotlight architects not older than 50 years from all over the world that, through their work, have made a significant contribution to contemporary architecture by sensitivity to the ethical, aesthetic and ecological issues and, at the same time, encouraging public debate on the role of architecture in contemporary society.

Dekleva gregoric architects (Aljosa Dekleva, Tina Gregoric) were one of the nominees among  26 candidates from 14 countries, selected by the committee of advisors consisting of internationally renowned architects and architecture critics. The jury chaired by Mario Botta selected Xu Tiantian, founder of DnA studio from China as the winner of the  SAA 2022.

The prize ceremony on 4th May 2023 will also launch the exhibition of the works submitted by the candidates at the Teatro dell’architettura Mendrisio of the Università della Svizzera italiana.

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AFFORDABLE HOUSING NOVO BRDO – PLECNIK MEDAL 2022

dekleva gregoric architects are honoured to receive the Plecnik medal 2022 for the largest affordable housing project to this date and a rare opportunity to redefine the potential of a contemporary neighbourhood with the importance of quality homes and a range of public spaces. Developed by the Housing Fund of the Republic of Slovenia with the support of the Council of Europe Development Bank. A new community is already starting to emerge. The immense impact project has framed the new community's conditions to almost 500 diverse residents, families, couples, singles, elderly, and students. It has been an intense design and communication process, from winning the open competition in 2016, formalising the master plan, developing details, and following an immense construction site to the grand opening in 2022.

It is remarkable to receive the Plečnik Medal, which honours excellence in the fields of completed works, architectural theory, criticism and publication in 2022 that marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of architect Jože Plečnik. Thank you to the whole dg team and further to all the collaborators, engineers, and devoted clients for acknowledging the importance of the quality of a sustainable living environment, either in the intimacy of each home to multiple common spaces or a specific set of outdoor atmospheres.

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SUNKEN DESIGN STUDIO – GOLDEN PENCIL AWARD 2020

We are thrilled to inform you that our project Sunken design studio has been awarded the golden pencil award 2020 for an outstanding realization.

Authors: Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič, Lea Kovič

[HOME AT ARSENALE : BIO26 AJDOVščina underpass | 14.11.2019

We are thrilled to see [Home at Arsenale] - a curated library on home and dwelling, initially created as the Slovenian pavilion at Venice Architecture Biennale 2016, reinstated in Ljubljana as part of BIO26 – Common knowledge. 

The present edition of the curated library at Ajdovščina Underpass is redesigned and reinstalled as a new site-specific wooden installation. It is reacting to the conditions of its new context, reusing the wood with visible patina from Venice and reviving its role as a temporary library with 250 books, sharing its knowledge during BIO26. 27 internationally acclaimed architects, artists, critics and curators from various backgrounds were invited to each select around 10 books on the notion of home and dwelling to share their expertise and thus create the curated library of collective knowledge. Join us - from today until early Feb 2020 - and browse through amazing selection of books related to the challenging notion of home and dwelling in the centre of Ljubljana! 

Curators: Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič, Installation design: dekleva gregorič architects, produced by Museum of Architecture and Design, photo by Klemen Ilovar

Nanotourism AT Oslo Architectural Triennale 2019 | 27.9.2019

Nanotourism contributes to the crucial topic of Degrowth at Oslo Architectural Triennale 2019. AA nanotourism Visiting School is exhibiting at this year’s OAT two case studies of nanotourism developed from 2014 to 2016 in Vitanje, Slovenia. ‘KSEVT hotel’ is a site-specific experience of 3D sleeping in a precisely-engineered ‘levitation suit’, allowing individual visitors overnight stays in KSEVT suspended in mid-air. ‘Gravity: A User’s Manual’ is a wine-tasting experience based around a wearable ‘glass’ of wine, where visitors must engage themselves in a custom-designed suit through series of choreographed movements in order to air and taste the wine. Scale 1:1 interactive prototypes and an extensive catalogue of AA nanotourism case studies from its international locations are part of the main collection of ‘The Library’ at the National Museum of Architecture in Oslo and will be on show until 24th November 2019.

Frank Gehry Visiting Chairs in Architectural Design | 02.9.2019

We are pleased to announce that Tina Gregorič and Aljoša Dekleva will hold the 2009-10 Frank Gehry International Visiting Chair in the Daniels Faculty.

As joint chairs, Tina and Aljoša will lead a program of study on collective housing with the Daniels Faculty's third-year Master of Architecture students. They will also deliver a public lecture on October 10.

WINNER! SCIENCE CENTre – international COMPETITION | 22.2.2018

Our project was a winning proposal at an open international competition for the new national Science centre in Ljubljana.

The Science Centre is designed as a system of circular pavilions located within a park helps retain the open and green characteristics of the site, upgrading and refining it with its specific program and design. The Science Centre's circular pavilions, enrobed in their green surroundings, inform passers-by and those viewing it from up above, like from the Ljubljana Castle, of the fact that science and nature coexist. We are aware of the Centre's role in generating community spirit, linking together existing programs within the Trnovo neighbourhood and creating a new urban image of the southern entrance to the city centre. 

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PREŠEREN FUND RECIPIENTS 2018 | 7.2.2018

Architects Aljoša Dekleva and Tina Gregorič were honoured with the Prešeren Fund Prizes for their accomplishments over the past three years. They were hailed for designing some of the finest examples of Slovenian contemporary architecture.

"They are distinguished by ingenious conceptual, technological and design innovation, refined restraint in their approach and sensitivity to cultural dimensions of living, to broader urban or natural landscape space, to the past and heritage."

Among their projects over the past three years, the Prešeren Fund jurors highlighted the University Campus Livade in the coastal town of Izola, Slovenia's pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale and the design of the 2017 exhibition on architect Stanko Kristl at the Ljubljana Museum of Architecture and Design.

Slovenska Street – nominatION for 2017 Mies Award | 12.01.2017

Slovenska Street Renovation nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2017. Project was developed in collaboration with three Katušić Kocbek arhitekti, Sadar+Vuga, Scapelab and Studio Kristof.