Competition results Gusen

On 16 and 17 June 2025, a jury met to rank the submissions in the EU-wide competition for the expansion and redesign of the Gusen Memorial, which has been running since September 2024. The two-stage, open, anonymous competition was organised by the Burghauptmannschaft Österreich in cooperation with the Mauthausen Memorial.
The submissions provide designs for the overall landscape planning, architectural design and urban development of several plots of land on the site of the former camp, based on a previously developed master plan. This master plan was drawn up over the course of an eighteen-month participatory process involving a wide range of stakeholder groups. This project will significantly expand the existing Gusen Memorial, creating a place of remembrance and education for the future. 
At the end of January, the jury met to select eight design proposals from all submissions during the first stage of the competition. In the second stage, these shortlisted concepts were revised and further developed to address additional tasks, then evaluated and ranked by the jury. In the next phase, the Burghauptmannschaft Österreich and the Mauthausen Memorial will enter into negotiations with the first placed team.
All submissions for the second stage of the competition can now be viewed at gusen-memorial.org .
A presentation of the appointed planning team and its design is scheduled for the autumn in the Gusen / St. Georgen region, following the successful completion of the negotiation procedure.
The team at the Mauthausen Memorial, the Burghauptmannschaft Österreich and the jury extend their sincere thanks to all competition participants in the first and second stages for their valuable contributions to shaping a vision for the future memorial site.