Kristina Marinova - student, majoring in Architecture at Varna Free University "Chernorizets Hrabar" was among the awarded in the Buildings category of The CITY Academy. 15 of total 88 were the awarded projects of The City Academy Awards 2015. The prizes were presented at a ceremony at Sofia Event Centre on 15 July, preceded by an exhibition of the 88 projects of 90 Bulgarian Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree students majoring in architecture and technical sciences at leading Bulgarian and European universities. The event is part of the The City Academy 2015, which for the second consecutive year brought together young artists studying in Bulgaria and abroad.
The City Academy is a platform for communication between the generations of professionals, creating modern cities and buildings around the world and in our country. The aim is to stimulate and promote communication among the different generations of architects and engineers who share and pass on their professional and life experience in the most important and difficult time of the professional development of the young Bulgarian architects and engineers around the world and in Bulgaria – after graduating and in the first years in the profession.
Remember Bulgaria and no matter where in the world you work, think about your country and that it is alsopossible to implement such projects here, address the participants in the The City Academy Awards the Minister of the Regional Development and Public Works Lilyana Pavlova, who has been for a month now one of the young world leaders of the 26th edition of the prestigious World Economic Crans-Montana Forum in Brussels. It was difficult to define the winners, we would like to award all but the regulations do not allow, said Minister Pavlova. She took the initiative to support some of the projects so that they can be implemented under the integrated urban development plans with the support of representatives of professional organizations and business, academia and local government.