Markthal has been selected as the winner of the World Architecture News (WAN) Mixed-Use Award 2014 in the Completed Projects sub-category. 

The judges were unanimous in feeling that the project had pushed the boundaries of the typology and highly praised the schemes architecture as well as public realm.

Christopher Choa, a member of the panel, said: “It has the spirit of a civic market place, but by combining it with other uses it makes the market all the better, and it also points perhaps to how big market structures can exist in the future. The market itself is probably the best, most enlightened public realm and looks at how to interweave with one or two things that are probably more private.” 

Pascal Wensink also noted: “It’s such strong architecture, and incredibly brave, and it’s pulled off.”

The mixed-use award celebrates buildings which are an 'effective and original mix' of two or more functions.