ghjdytThe First Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design, held in 2018, accepted entries from St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region based participants. The Awards coincided with the 300th Anniversary of the new Russian state administrative bodies establishment – the collegia, which had required a separate building. To select the best construction project, Peter the Great announced the first ever architectural competition. The work submitted by Domenico Trezzini was the best. This was how the globally known memorial of the Petrine Baroque appeared, the Twelve Collegia Building.
In total, 170 projects were submitted for the Awards 2018, and the Jury selected the winners of 10 basic and 2 special categories. The Awarding Ceremony for the winners and awardees of the Golden Trezzini Awards took place in the Naryshkin-Trubetskoy Mansion on November 29, 2018.
The Second Golden Trezzini Awards (2019) were all-Russian with limited international participation. 350 projects from over 50 cities and regions of Russia, Belorussia, Abkhazia, Great Britain, Latvia, UAE, Finland, and South Korea contested for main prizes at the Second Golden Trezzini Awards.
The winners were awarded certificates and designer Golden Trezzini figurines in the Atrium of the Commandant House within the Peter and Paul Fortress on November 27, 2019.
The Golden Trezzini Awards 2020 became international. In this regard, the International Council of the Awards was established in February 2020. The mission of the International Council is to promote architectural diplomacy, as well as to connect countries across the globe through participation of their architects, designers, renovators, and students in St. Petersburg-based competitions, exhibitions, and conferences, consolidated under the name of Domenico Trezzini.
Entries for 20 nominations of the Third Golden Trezzini were being accepted from April 15 till October 15, 2020. 744 applications from 59 countries have been sent to the Golden Trezzini competition. International panel of judges examined 60 finalists, submitted by organisations and individuals from 19 countries and selected 20 winners in the main categories. Besides, special prize from YIT for the Best Organisation of Architectural Environment for Sustainable Urban Development, special Lazar Khidekel Prize for the Best Innovative Architectural Project, and Premio del Pubblico (People's Choice Award) were to be awarded.
The Awards winners were announced and awarded with Golden Trezzini figurines and diplomas during the ceremony which took place at the Official Hotel of the State Hermitage, St Petersburg, on December 1, 2020.
Online entries for 2021 Golden Trezzini Awards were accepted from March 15 till October 1. The Organizing Committee received 1,031 applications from nominees based in 97 countries, which was one third more than last year.
All the projects approved for participation were assessed by the Qualification Committee, which selected three finalists in each of 20 major categories. In total, 60 projects from 26 countries were shortlisted as finalists. The international Jury evaluated the finalists’ projects to determine the winners. The laureates were announced and awarded on November 15 at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. Along with the winners in the major categories, a laureates of several special prizes were announced. For the first time, Genius Petropolis medal established by the Worldwide St. Petersburg Club in honor of Valentina Orlova (1946—2021), their first Chairwoman of the Board, was introduced and awarded. Special awards also included Lazar Khidekel Prize for the best innovative architectural project and Premio del Pubblico (people’s choice prize). After the ceremony, the Golden Trezzini Organizing Committee released the list of Honourable Mention and Special Mention certificates.
The event photos and videos are available here.
Applications for the 5th International Golden Trezzini Awards for Architecture and Design were open from March 1 till September 15, 2022. 1,123 applications from 74 countries were submitted. 2022 Golden Trezzini finalists list was published on the Awards' website on October 12, 63 projects from 16 countries having been shortlisted.
The winners were announced on November 15, 2022 in the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The list of winners included projects from Brazil, China, Cuba, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Spain, and Thailand. The winners and awardees were congratulated in the Hermitage Theater by Mikhail Piotrovsky, President of the Worldwide St. Petersburg Club, General Director of the State Hermitage. Mr. Piotrovsky also took part in awarding of the winners of the special Golden Trezzini Awards prize — the Genius Petropolis Medal named after Valentina Orlova, the 1st Chairwoman of the Board of the World St. Petersburg Club, and the organizers awarded him the prize ‘For making an outstanding contribution to promotion of the Architecture as Art concept’.
All the photos and videos of the event are available here.
In 2023, the 6th Golden Trezzini Awards received a record-breaking amount of entries – 1,229 from 72 countries in the fields of architecture, interior, exhibition design, scenography, urban sculpture, as well as facade and interior ceramic art. Two nominations were offered to students from the relevant universities. Finally, 22 projects from 10 countries became the best – from Belgium, Braz, India, Italy, China, Russia, the USA, Taiwan, Tanzania, and Finland (but for the winners in special nominations).
On November 15, 2023, the Awards' organizers held a gala ceremony and congratulated the winners of the 6th International Golden Trezzini Awards at the Hermitage Theatre. Mikhail Piotrovsky, General Director of the State Hermitage and Honourary Chairman of the International Council of the Golden Trezzini Awards, greeted the guests, along with Vladimir Zapevalov – Ambassador-at-Large, Representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg, Stefan Kloetzli – Minister of the Swiss Embassy in the Russian Federation, and Nazih El Naggary – Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt to the Russian Federation.
The photos and videos of the event can be found here.
Applications for the 7th Golden Trezzini Awards were open from February 15 till September 15, 2024. Nominees from all over the world are invited. The awarding ceremony took place on November 15, 2024, at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The full list of 2024 Golden Trezzini Laureates & Certificate Holders can be found here.
The 9th Golden Trezzini Awards entries were open from February 17 to September 17, 2025. The winners were be announced on November 21 during the ceremony at the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg. The full list of 2025 Golden Trezzini Laureates & Certificate Holders is available here.