C wingampus from the Technical University of Brunswick in Germany, and designed by architects Gustav Düssing and Max Haack, is the grand winner of the Mies van der Rohe Architecture Prize 2024. “Creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through a carefully detailed structure,” reads the statement from the Technical University of Brunswick in Germany. European Union and Mies van der Rohe Foundation Contemporary Architecture Awards.
In the Emerging Architecture category, which also included the integrated restoration of the square and tourist office in Biodão, a village in the municipality of Arganil, a project by architects João Branco and Paola del Río of Studio Branco del Río, and Gabriel García Márquez, the library was the winner in Barcelona of studio SUMA, founded by Elena Orti and Guillermo Sevillano.
The jury stressed that the library contributed “to transforming the neighborhood.” [Sant Martí de Provençals]“It opens up as a new external and internal public space.” Thanks to its wooden structure, it “unfolds into a rich series of monumental spaces, but also domestic spaces that welcome neighbors and citizens, providing them with comfortable environments for learning, teamwork and social interaction.”
This announcement was made today, Thursday, in Brussels, by the Director of Culture, Creativity and Sports at the European Commission, George Hausler, Together with Frederic Dru, president of the jury for the 2024 edition, “after selecting the five finalists for the Architecture Prize, the jury conducted long deliberations to select the winning work,” the statement said, adding that the debate was lively and lively. With different positions.
In turn, the Commissioner Responsible for Innovation, Research, Culture, Education and Youth, Ileana Ivanova, stressed that the winning works “reflect the principles of the new European Bauhaus, bringing environmental transformation to people’s daily life and living spaces.”
The two award-winning projects were selected from an initial pool of 362 nominated works. The jury also considered that the duo of German architects had embarked on the design of this pavilion Campus From the university, it was commissioned by Brunswick Technical University, “with a clear architectural idea, which he reworked and pushed to the extreme”. More than just a building, they see the winning project as “a multi-use system that combines technological innovations with a flexible and reusable principle.” Gustav Dusing and Max Haack founded their studio in 2015 and won the competition to build this pavilion in 2017. .
Opened in 2022 Gabriel García Márquez LibraryIn Barcelona, a success story among neighborhood residents San Marti, La Vernida that it there It sticks. “With careful attention to detail, the authors of the architectural project meticulously examined and promoted the library program,” the jury considered Miss Fan Give Rohi Emergent. Last year, this Catalan library actually received the Best Public Library of 2023 award from the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA). Elena orti that it Guillermo Sevillano establish studio SUMA Arquitectura in 2005, having won the competition promoted by the municipality to build the library in 2015.
The awards ceremony is scheduled to take place on May 14 at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. During that day, in addition to an exhibition displaying all the works nominated for this session, there will be lectures and discussions with the architects of the winning and finalist works.
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