08.06.2026
The Hungarian Natural History Museum in Debrecen has been named a double winner at the 14th Annual Architizer A+Awards, receiving both the Jury Winner award in the Unbuilt Landscape category and the Popular Choice Winner award in the Unbuilt Institutional category. The A+Awards recognize architecture and projects that exemplify design excellence, innovation, and impact across the built and unbuilt environment.
Selected through an international competition, the 23,000 m² museum is set within the city’s historic Great Forest, where three overlapping landscaped ribbons rise from the forest floor to form a new destination for exhibition, education, and research. Conceived as a manmade hill in a forest clearing, the building integrates exhibition halls, learning spaces, and public amenities within a mass timber structure that is partially embedded in the landscape and clad in locally sourced timber.
