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Arkitekter Uten Grenser Norge wins international BUILD Award
AUG has been awarded Best Sustainable Humanitarian Architecture Firm 2025 – Northern Europe by BUILD Magazine, as part of the Sustainable Building Awards. This international recognition highlights organizations that combine architectural quality with sustainability and social impact. The award acknowledges AUG’s long-term commitment to using architecture and urban planning as tools to improve well-being for vulnerable communities around the world. Through projects developed in collaboration with local partners, volunteers, and donors, AUG works to promote dignity, inclusion, and sustainable solutions rooted in local culture and resources. We are grateful for this recognition, which reinforces our mission and motivates us to continue working toward a more just and sustainable built environment. Read more about the award on BUILD Magazine’s website.
Will design a maternity hospital in Ukraine.
Architects Without Borders has won a competition for a hospital transformation project in Ukraine. Inspired by the Sonja Victoria Foundation and with a Ukrainian star architect on the team, they have high hopes for the project. Now, they are challenging the giants of the construction industry to make donations.
Architects Without Borders for a Better Life
A bell rings, and small children's feet drag slowly across a floor chilled by the morning cold. Tangled hair is brushed carefully but efficiently while breakfast is eaten at a sleepy pace. Sunbeams dance on the wall, and the door slams shut behind the child running off to school. There isn’t much that separates a morning in Oslo from a morning in a worn-down neighborhood in Buenos Aires.
For children in Norway, the school day is usually followed by activities, homework, a sandwich, and innocent play with friends — and that’s where the similarities end.
Ukrainian refugees in Oslo are designing buildings in their homeland.
Architects Without Borders Norway is an organization operating from Oslo. The client for the building is the organization KPK-Ukraine. The building has been designed by Ukrainian refugees Daria Reint, Kateryna Kuzmenko, Liliia Luherina, and Valentyna Getman, all of whom live in Oslo.
The project manager is Paola Bornaschella. The building will be constructed in Nevyts'ke in western Ukraine. The exhibition was opened by Norway’s Ambassador to Rome, Johan Vibe, and the Director of Architects Without Borders Norway, Alfonso Rengifo, at Palazzo Bembo on Friday, May 19, 2023.
From Ukraine to Venice
They fled to Norway from the bombs in Ukraine. The four architects could never have dreamed of being invited to one of the world's most prestigious architecture festivals.
Arkitekter uten grenser
We have made our way up to the attic of the Architects' House (Arkitektenes Hus) on Josefines gate in Oslo. For the past year, the humanitarian organization Architects Without Borders (AUG) has been based here. AUG works to "improve quality of life in education, housing, and health through architecture" in at least ten countries.
Alfonso Rengifo and Paola Bornaschella meet us there. Both were among the founders of AUG in 2016. Today, AUG has projects in Ukraine, Argentina, Kenya, Egypt, Tanzania, Cameroon, Zimbabwe, Italy, Laos, and Ethiopia, among others.
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