DAM Award 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

DAM Award 2011
Awards ceremony and exhibition in Frankfurt

Shortly before the end tells the German Architecture Museum (DAM), the winner of this year's "DAM Award for Architecture in Germany 2011" with. The jury of curators, architects and architectural critics, chaired by Peter Cachola Schmal, Director of the German Architecture Museum voted unanimously for the sensitive reconstruction of the east wing of the Museum of Natural History in Berlin and the establishment of the "wet collection" by Diener & Diener Architekten (Berlin ).

The jury stated that it is managed by Diener & Diener reconstruction, "creating new classics for dealing with the stock, as has already succeeded Hans Döllgast 54 years ago with the rebuilding of the Alte Pinakothek in Munich" one. Particularly with the use of detailed concrete casts of the remaining brick layers and their interaction with the precise inventory of the building was "a puzzle of time and matter. In the new, which replaced the old lost the trace of the old is cast. It sounds like a contradiction, but the reconstruction has radically radically subtle and subtly. The result is a building that gives the impression of unity, without denying its historical wounds. "

Other winners include the refuge Oberwiesenthal by AFF Architekten, the MRI research building in Berlin-Buch, architect Glass Kramer Löbbert and the house decoration in Frankfurt am Main by Meixner Schlüter Wendt Architekten. The presentation of the "DAM Award for Architecture 2011 "and the opening of the exhibition" The 23 best buildings to / from Germany, "the show is all in the context of this award winning building, take place at the end of January. The publication "DAM Yearbook 2011" is already published by Prestel Verlag.

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