Buildner Announces Winners of 6th Annual Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial Competition
Buildner has revealed the winners of its 6th Annual Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial Competition, which seeks designs for memorials at former nuclear test sites, in alignment with the 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The top honor was claimed by Hamzeh Ahmad Hasan Al-thweib from Jordan for his work titled 'The Suspended Seconds.' The second place went to Andreea-Mihaela Nicolae and her team from Aecom EC Romania for 'Below The Unseen.' Frederic Gapinski from New Zealand secured third place with 'The Silence Beneath.' The Buildner Student Award was presented to Tất Sĩ Minh Lê and his team from Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University for 'The Remains, the Sound and the Wound.' Honorable mentions were given to entrants from Indonesia, Hungary, Portugal, the United States, and Ukraine. The next silent competition by Buildner will close on 18 June 2026.
Key facts
- Buildner announced winners of the 6th Annual Last Nuclear Bomb Memorial Competition.
- The competition supports the universal ban on nuclear weapons.
- The 2017 UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was adopted on the 75th anniversary of the 1945 bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
- The silent competition prohibits text, titles, or annotations.
- First prize: Hamzeh Ahmad Hasan Al-thweib (Jordan) for 'The Suspended Seconds'.
- Second prize: Andreea-Mihaela Nicolae, Tabark H Felaih, Mara Ioana Constantin, Alexandra-Stefana Fartais (Aecom EC Romania) for 'Below The Unseen'.
- Third prize: Frederic Gapinski (New Zealand) for 'The Silence Beneath'.
- Buildner Student Award: Tất Sĩ Minh Lê, Tra My Do Nguyen, Minh Phú Nguyễn (Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University, Vietnam) for 'The Remains, the Sound and the Wound'.
- Honorable mentions: Abraham Chintianto (Indonesia), Valentina Fesenko (Hungary), Carlos Manuel Da Silva Bessa Pinto and Ana Leonor Peixoto Nogueira (Portugal), Aleksa Milojevic (United States), Fang Guo (United States), Oleksii Zolochevskyi and Oleksandra Savchuk (Ukraine).
- Buildner's next silent competition, Museum of Emotions #8, closes on 18 June 2026.
- Other ongoing competitions: MICROHOME 2026, Mujassam Watan Urban Sculpture Challenge, The Next House: USA.
Entities
Artists
- Hamzeh Ahmad Hasan Al-thweib
- Andreea-Mihaela Nicolae
- Tabark H Felaih
- Mara Ioana Constantin
- Alexandra-Stefana Fartais
- Frederic Gapinski
- Tất Sĩ Minh Lê
- Tra My Do Nguyen
- Minh Phú Nguyễn
- Abraham Chintianto
- Valentina Fesenko
- Carlos Manuel Da Silva Bessa Pinto
- Ana Leonor Peixoto Nogueira
- Aleksa Milojevic
- Fang Guo
- Oleksii Zolochevskyi
- Oleksandra Savchuk
Institutions
- Buildner
- United Nations
- Aecom EC Romania
- Ho Chi Minh City Architecture University
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics
- Bessa Pinto Arquitetos
Locations
- Nagasaki
- Japan
- Hiroshima
- Jordan
- Romania
- New Zealand
- Vietnam
- Indonesia
- Hungary
- Portugal
- United States
- Ukraine