Founded in 1989 and led by Csaba Nagy and Károly Polus, Archikon is one of Hungary's most respected and awarded architectural practices, with a thirty-five year portfolio dedicated primarily to public and community buildings across Budapest and beyond. The practice has built its reputation on innovative reconfigurations of existing buildings that respect the character and history of what already exists while creating something genuinely new, a philosophy that has placed Archikon at the centre of Budapest's most significant heritage revitalisation projects.

AllesWirdGut is an interdisciplinary architecture practice founded in Vienna in 1999 by Andreas Marth, Friedrich Passler, Herwig Spiegl and Christian Waldner, with offices in Vienna and Munich and a team of 85 architectural designers, engineers and thinkers. With more than 80 completed projects across 38 European cities and New York, the practice operates across the full spectrum of architectural typologies, from subsidised housing and passive-energy office buildings to cultural venues, educational campuses, retail environments and interior design, always guided by the same foundational conviction: good architecture is not about costing more, it is about doing more.