Public Choice Award

For ten years, Beta has been awarding quality architectural initiatives and projects in Romania, Hungary and Serbia. The international jury for each edition is made up of renowned architects, and the awards reflect our determination to promote authors and projects with a beneficial impact on the built environment.

For the first time in this competition, we have introduced the People's Award, through which we aim to improve the connection between architects and the general public, emphasizing the importance of architecture that directly addresses the values and needs of society.

We all live in and use the city and the spaces that architects design, so we want the Beta Awards to recognize the preferences of the general public. The Public Award is our way of bringing quality architecture closer to the general public and promoting those architectural projects that make us proud of the cities we live in. Each person can vote for one project in the categories of Built Space, Interior Space, Public Space, Graduate Projects and Research.

The public vote will be open together with the awards exhibition and will run until the end of the competition, when the project with the most votes will be awarded at the Beta 2024 Awards Gala.

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Non-residential / New

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Bogdan Demetrescu

Author(s) / Team representatives

Bogdan Demetrescu

Profession

architect

Collective/office

D PROIECT S.R.L.

Co-authors/team members

Cristina Milici, Andreea Simici, Robert Jianu, Daiana Maciulschi, Alexandrina Ciortuz, Andrei Chindriș

External collaborators

PALD ENGINEERING, PATHS ROUT, SELLM, CASS DESIGN, STUDIO PEISAJ, FCV TRIDIMENSIONAL ART, ELECTRIC EYE, HYDROLINE

Project location

Timișoara, str. Avram Imbroane nr. 56, România

Budget in euros

20.000.000 euro

Usable area

12.900 mp

Project start date

2012

Construction completion date

martie 2023

Client

S.C. PROMPT REAL ESTATE SOLUTIONS S.R.L

Builder

SC PALD ENGINEERING S.R.L.

Website

See Website

Photo credits

Bogdan Demetrescu, Alexandrina Ciortuz, Andrei Chindriș

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Text presentation of the author/office in English

Bogdan Demetrescu is the founder of the architecture office D PROIECT from Timișoara and is a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism in the city. The experience of over 20 years of designing and guiding students is the basis of a portfolio that covers all stages of the profession.

Project description in English

AMAZONIA represents the end of a long, winding and fragmented road of the project started in 2012 which brought together all the challenges of a balneo-tourist and leisure complex. The period of design and execution has gone through challenging stages in recent years that have been completed in a private investment that brings an increase in the quality of life of the city and the region. Timișoara and Banat have a history related to water, which forces the recovery of culture from the landscape. The Bega before it was channeled could be compared to an Amazonian arm. The forest disappeared over time, the water course straightened, the birds left, the people remained but moved away from the waters. AMAZONIA is a project about rediscovering the benefits of water. The project represents the indoor aquapark stage that completes all the services offered by the existing beach. The presence of this project in the selection of the BETA project competition is meant to question how we as architects relate to complex projects through program, execution as well as through the long design time and accompanying throughout the process. The project questions the relevance of endurance in the profession and how we relate to such programs.

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