LONDON — 3-4 December 2026 | Barbican Centre & partner locations | Conferences, Live Jury, Awards Gala, Networking
KEY FACTS
Event: SHARE Architecture Festival & Awards 2026 — Third Edition
Date: 3-4 December 2026
Venue: Barbican Centre (main hub) & partner locations, London, United Kingdom
Invited countries: 21 (Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, Uzbekistan)
Awards submissions: Free until 31 July 2026 — awards.share-architects.com
Organiser: SHARE Architects, founded by Florin Mindirigiu
SHARE Architecture Festival 2026 is the third edition of an annual international gathering organised by SHARE Architects — the architecture platform active across Central and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus for nearly three decades. The Festival brings together the SHARE Architecture Awards Live Jury, an Awards Gala, international architecture conferences, and collateral networking programmes, hosted at the Barbican Centre and partner offices in London.
SHARE Architects will hold the third edition of its Architecture Festival in London on 3-4 December 2026. Anchored at the Barbican Centre, with additional events at partner offices and locations across the city, the festival expects to bring together over 200 architecture offices from its 21 invited countries: Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey and Uzbekistan.
The announcement marks a significant step for an organisation that has spent nearly three decades running architecture conferences across the region. Founded by Florin Mindirigiu, SHARE Architects currently organises more than 25 events a year in over 20 countries, building a professional network of more than 50,000 architects. Previous editions of the Festival were held in Athens (Greece) and Dornbirn (Austria).
The choice of the Barbican Centre as the event’s main hub follows the venue’s positioning as Europe’s largest multi-arts venue and one of the continent’s most recognisable works of post-war architecture. Designed by Chamberlin, Powell and Bon and completed in 1982, the complex is Grade II listed and sits at the heart of the City of London.
SHARE Architecture Festival 2026: Programme at Barbican Centre
The 2026 festival programme at the Barbican Centre and partner locations includes international architecture conferences with speakers from across the network, the SHARE Architecture Awards Live Jury — in which shortlisted architects present their projects before an audience of peers — an awards gala, and a series of collateral networking events.
SHARE Architecture Awards 2026: Free Submissions Open Until 31 July
The SHARE Architecture Awards are an international competition that invites architects from 21 countries across Central and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus to submit work across all typologies: residential, public, cultural, urban interventions, heritage and emerging practice. The 2026 edition is the third.
The jury process is conducted in public. Shortlisted architects present their projects live before a panel of international jurors and a professional audience — a format that distinguishes the SHARE Awards from more conventional closed-jury processes.
Free submissions are open until 31 July 2026 at awards.share-architects.com
Florin Mindirigiu, Founder of SHARE Architects, on the London Edition
“For nearly three decades, SHARE has worked from a single conviction: that extraordinary architecture is being made across our entire region — and that it deserves to stand alongside the best work in the world. The cities in our network are building at a pace and complexity that the rest of the world is only beginning to notice. The Festival exists to make that work visible. The Awards exist to name the best of it — in public, in front of peers, with no closed rooms and no closed juries. We created this platform because architects in Tashkent, Tbilisi, Yerevan and Sarajevo were producing extraordinary work that had no international stage. London changes that. The Barbican — a building that was once rejected and is now celebrated — is exactly the right place to ask what architecture is truly for, and to answer that question with the work of 21 countries.”
Frequently Asked Questions About SHARE Architecture Festival 2026
What is SHARE Architecture Festival 2026?
SHARE Architecture Festival 2026 is an international architecture event taking place on 3-4 December 2026 in London, United Kingdom. Now in its third edition, it is anchored at the Barbican Centre and extends to partner offices and locations across the city. The programme includes architecture conferences, the SHARE Architecture Awards Live Jury, an Awards Gala, and networking events.
How can architects submit projects to SHARE Architecture Awards 2026?
Project submissions for the SHARE Architecture Awards 2026 are free until 31 July 2026. Architects can register at awards.share-architects.com. After 31 July, a late registration fee applies.
What are the SHARE Architecture Awards?
The SHARE Architecture Awards are an international competition open to architects from 21 countries across Central and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus. Projects can be submitted across all typologies. The jury process is public: shortlisted architects present their work live before an international jury panel and a professional audience.
About SHARE Architects and SHARE Architecture Festival
SHARE Architects is an international architecture platform founded by Florin Mindirigiu, active across Central and South-Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus for nearly three decades. It currently organises more than 25 architecture conferences per year in over 20 countries, reaching a professional community of more than 50,000 architects.
SHARE Architecture Festival is the flagship annual event of the SHARE Architects network. The first two editions were held in Athens (Greece) and Dornbirn (Austria). The 2026 London edition — the third — also hosts the third edition of the SHARE Architecture Awards.
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