BSI Swiss Architectural Award 2008

First edition
Winner
Solano Benitez (Paraguay)
Candidates
3LHD (Saša Begović, Marko Dabrović, Tanja Grozdanić, Silvije Novak), Croatia; David Adjaye, Great Britain; Manuel e Francisco Aires Mateus, Portugal; Jesús Aparicio, Spain; Gion A. Caminada, Switzerland; Alfonso Cendron, Italy; Dominique Coulon, France; Richard Francis-Jones, Australia; Sean Godsell, Australia; Thomas Heatherwick, Great Britain; Rick Joy, USA; Alberto Kalach, Mexico; Francisco Mangado, Spain; Luis L. Mansilla, Emilio Tuñón Alvarez, Spain; Rahul Mehrotra, India; Quintus Miller, Paola Maranta, Switzerland; Marco Navarra (NOWA), Italy; Office dA (Monica Ponce de Leon, Nader Tehrani), USA; Valerio Olgiati, Switzerland; Promontório Architects (João Perloiro, João Luís Ferreira, Paulo Perloiro, Paulo Martins Barata, Pedro Appleton), Portugal; Saša Randić, Idis Turato, Croatia; João Alvaro Rocha, Portugal; Enric Ruiz Geli (Cloud 9), Spain; S-M.A.O. (Juan Carlos Sancho, Sol Madridejos), Spain; Beniamino Servino, Italy; Shuhei Endo, Japan; The next ENTERprise (Marie-Therese Harnoncourt, Ernst J. Fuchs), Austria; Antonio Jiménez Torrecillas, Spain; Wang Shu, China