MIPIM AWARDS 2025 FINALISTS ANNOUNCED

The 39 finalists of the MIPIM 2025 Awards representing countries across the globe — from Canada to Oman to Japan — have been selected for the final ceremony in Cannes

 MIPIM, the global urban festival, unveils the 39 finalists for this year’s MIPIM Awards, celebrating the world’s most visionary real estate project, both built and in the making, shaping the future of our cities and communities.

The finalists represent 22 countries, ranging from the US to Oman to Japan, with Germany, Denmark, France, The Netherlands and Brazil having the most shortlisted projects.

This year’s MIPIM Awards finalists include:

·         Arbor, Bankside Yards, London (The UK), one of the most ambitious developments underway in Central London.

·         Booking.com City Campus, Amsterdam, standing at 65,000m², one of Europe’s largest urban developments (The Netherlands)

·         DOXS NKLN, Berlin, a transformative urban renewal project along the Neukölln Ship Canal (Germany)

·         Florianópolis Multihospital, a decommissioned airport terminal transformed into the city’s first public multi-hospital centre (Brazil)

·         National Concert Hall, Vilnius, a project selected from over 250 worldwide, this musical complex features four grand halls (Lithuania)

·         One Dojima Project, Osaka, a new landmark for Osaka known as a ‘city of water’, which will welcome the World Expo 2025 (Japan)

·         Sky Mirrors, Luzhou, an underground Liquor Culture Experience Centre preserving the mountain and sky views (China)

·         Terminal Warehouse, New York, the largest adaptive reuse project in NYC in recent history (The US)

·         Harmony, La Garenne Colombes, a transformation of a former industrial wasteland into a bespoke office for electric utility company (France)

·         Sultan Haitham City, Muscat, the pedestrian-focused infrastructure that prioritises affordability, inclusivity, and environmental health (Oman)

·         UN17 Village, Copenhagen, the world’s first property development to incorporate all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals into a single project (Denmark)

The full list of 2025 finalists can be found on MIPIM Awards website.

Categories for MIPIM Awards include: Best Conversion Project, Best Cultural, Sports and Education Project, Best Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Project, Best Industrial & Logistics Project, Best Mixed-Use Project, Best Residential Project, Best Urban Regeneration Project, Best Workplace Experience, Best New Development and Best New Mega Development.

The winners will be selected by both the jury’s and MIPIM registered delegates’ votes, cast online and on site. In addition to the category winners, a ‘Special Jury Award’ will be awarded to the jury’s favorite project among all. The winners will be announced at the MIPIM Awards ceremony on the 13th of March at the Palais des Festivals, Cannes.

The jury, chaired by Véronique Bedague, CEO of Nexity, France, consists of high-level experts, including:  

·         Melike Altinişik, Founder, Melike Altinişik Architects, Türkiye

·         Stéphanie Bensimon, Head of Real Estate, Ardian France, France

·         Aaron Block, Co-founder & Managing Partner, Metaprop, US

·         Guy Grainger, Global Head of Sustainability Services & ESG, JLL, UK

·         Ann Gray, CEO, Gray Advisors, US

·         Karim Habra, Global Co-Head of Real Estate, Partners Group AG, Switzerland

·         Jani Nokkanen, Partner and CIO, Nrep, Finland

·         Justin Sullivan, President, RICS, UK

·         Camilla Van Deurs, Partner & Adj. Professor, Nordic Office of Architecture, Denmark

·         Katarzyna Zawodna-Bijoch, President & CEO, CEE Region, Skanska Commercial Development Europe, Poland

This year, the jury focused on projects that seek to enhance the built environment’s prospects, in line with ESG goals. The six key criteria are overall sustainability, originality of the concept, architectural qualities, integration of the project in its environment and community, quality of the user experience, economic contribution.

MIPIM Awards Jury Chairman, Véronique Bedague, said:

“The shortlisted projects truly exemplify the diversity and innovation shaping the future of our built environment. From transformative urban regeneration to groundbreaking mixed-use developments, each finalist demonstrates excellence in design, sustainability, and purpose.

This year’s finalists span 22 countries, demonstrating the truly global reach of the competition. The jury was particularly impressed by the exceptional quality of conversion projects across various categories, highlighting the ingenuity in reimagining spaces to create environments where people can live, work, and thrive.”

Each year MIPIM attracts over 20,000 delegates from over 90 countries comprising key decision-makers in the real estate sector, national governments and city leaders.

Earlier last week, MIPIM announced the keynote speaker, as well as major speakers, which include José Luis Martínez-Almeida Navasqüés, Mayor of Madrid; Einar Thorsteinsson Mayor of Reykjavik; and Haris Doukas, Mayor of Athens. International delegations and political leaders from across Europe will be joined by representatives from Japan, Canada, the USA, Mexico, Brazil, Saudi Arabia, India, Türkiye, Oman, the UAE and Qatar, amongst others. New delegations attending MIPIM for the first time include Bahrain, Uzbekistan and South Korea.

MIPIM 2025 will take place on 10-14 March 2025 in Cannes, France.