The jury for region Europe nominated projects to receive a total of USD 220,000 prize money at a meeting on June 23/24, 2005, at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland:
- Mohsen Mostafavi (Head of Jury), Dean, College of Architecture, Art & Planning, Cornell University and Past Chairman, Architectural Association (AA), United States
- Marc Angélil, Professor of Urban Design, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Member of the Management Board and Member of the Technical Competency Center of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland
- Kees Christiaanse, Professor of Urban Design, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Mario Cucinella, Director, MCA Integrated Design, Italy
- Cristina Díaz Moreno, Principal, AMID/Cero9, Spain
- Anne-Françoise Jumeau, Architect, Peripheriques Architects, France
- Hansjürg Leibundgut, Professor for Building Technology, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich), and Member of the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland
- José Morales Sánchez, Professor, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, Spain
- Matthias Sauerbruch, Architect, Sauerbruch Hutton Architekten, Germany
- Hans-Rudolf Schalcher, Professor of Planning and Management in Construction, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich); Member of the Management Board and Head of the Technical Competence Center of the Holcim Foundation, Switzerland
- Radu Teacă, Associate Professor of Architecture, "Ion Minuc" University of Architecture and Urbanism (UAUIM), Romania
- Kaspar Wenger, Country Manager, Holcim (Schweiz) AG, Switzerland