Europe’s Finest Contemporary Architecture on Show in Frankfurt
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The best of European architecture is to be presented at DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt this fall in a new exhibition organized in collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona. “Europe’s Best Buildings” will pr
Europe’s Finest Contemporary Architecture on Show in Frankfurt
The best of European architecture is to be presented at DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt this fall in a new exhibition organized in collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe Foundation in Barcelona. “Europe’s Best Buildings” will present finalists and shortlisted contributions of the 2015 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award, the continent’s most prestigious award for architects.Awarded biennially, the prize honors exceptional architecture built in the previous two years. Providing a survey of Europe’s finest, the show will present nominated projects as well as the winner of 2015, the Philarmonic Hall in Szczecin, Poland, by BarozziVeiga. An immersive audiovisual setup with photographs and individual soundscapes aims at creating an authentic experience of the presented projects.One of the appeals of the award exhibition is the wide range of geographies and architectural types it covers. Among the highlights on view from the list of finalists are Archea Associati’s geomorphically inspired Antinori Winery in the hills of Chianti between Siena and Florence, Italy, and Bjarke Ingel’s subterranean Danish Maritime Museum in Helsingør, that reminisces the aesthetics of a dry dock and provides intriguing anatomical views in its basin-like center. Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey’s Saw Swee Hock Student Centre at the London School of Economics, with its characteristically faceted red brick façade, will be represented, as will Lederer, Ragnarsdóttir and Oei’s Ravensburg Art Museum in Southern Germany, a building constructed of salvaged bricks from a former 14th-century monastery near the Belgian border that organically integrates itself into the picturesque medieval old town of this southern German city.Highlights from the shortlist include Spanish firm RCR Arquitectes’ Soulages Museum in the French town Rodez; Foster + Partners’ Marseille Vieux Port, in Marseille; Nikiforidis-Cuomo Architects’ Redevelopment of the New Waterfront in Thessaloniki; Rem Koolhaas’s OMA’s monumental “city in the city” De Rotterdam in Rotterdam; Henning Larsen Architects’ Moesgaard Museum in Højbjerg, Denmark; Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos’ Centre d’Art Contemporani in Córdoba; Cruz Y Ortiz Arquitectos’ work on the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; Birou de Arhitectura’s “Urban Spaces” Dogarilor Apartment Building in the Romanian capital Bucharest; and Berlin firm Sauerbruch and Hutton’s Immanuel Church in Cologne.“Europe’s Best Buildings. European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2015” is on view from September 10 through October 23, 2016 at DAM – Deutsches Architekturmuseum Frankfurt, Germany. Click here for more information. For more information on the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award, click here.See an exhibition preview in the slide show. Read more
