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| Architects share The German Natural Stone Award  The highlight of the Natural Stone Architects Forum at Stone+tec Nürnberg 2009, the 16th International Trade Fair Natural Stone and Stoneprocessing Technology, is the presentation of the German Natural Stone Award in the EventArea of the Exhibition Centre Nuremberg on the morning of Friday, 22 May 2009. The German Natural Stone Award 2009 will be presented to consultant architects Weinmiller Architekten of Berlin and kister scheithauer gross architekten und stadtplaner of Cologne. This year's architecture award, which is worth altogether 30,000 euros and attracted almost 70 entries, went to demanding building concepts that represent exemplary architectural quality, energy optimization and cost-effective design. The award paid tribute to outstanding planning achievements with aesthetically demanding, innovative and ecological solutions.The new building designed for the L-Bank Landeskreditbank Baden-Württemberg in Karlsruhe by Weinmiller Architekten of Berlin is a new urban unit which convincingly harmonizes with the baroque, fan-shaped city layout with its eight blocks pointing to the palace. The appearance of the building itself is decisively characterized by the quality of the natural stone used, a beige limestone solidly built in the style and size of Roman brickwork. The choice of the stone size intelligently cites the brick facings of the neighbouring buildings and interprets them anew through the unusual use of the natural stone. The new building designed for the city archive in Halle/Saale by kister scheithauer gross architekten und stadtplaner of Cologne is an architecturally convincing solution using independent material that answers the question of supplementing a historical building. As a direct inversion of the material used for the old building, the archive tower presents a tall natural stone block of shell limestone in which vertical openings have been cut and filled with bricks of the same colour as the old building as wall design. Special merits went to Günter Hermann Architekten, Stuttgart, for the headquarters of the German Federal Bank, Berlin; waechter + waechter architekten bda, Darmstadt, for the conversion of the plenary hall building of the Hessian State Parliament, Wiesbaden; and Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH, Berlin, for Block B of the Lenbach Gärten and The Charles Hotel, Munich. write your comments about the article :: © 2009 Construction News :: home page |