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Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Eds.)
German Architecture Annual 2021
The DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2021 has been awarded to MVRDV and N-V-O Nuyken von Oefele Architekten for the Werk 12 in Munich. "Brash, glamorous and open to the wildest mix of usage. Architecture like this has great future potential" was the comment by jury member Amber Sayah on the flexible and multi-use spatial experiment with its distinctive facade, situated on a former industrial site. The three other finalists are the Wohnregal in Berlin by FAR frohn&rojas, the Gebäudeintegrierte Dachgewächshaus und Verwaltungsgebäude (building-integrated rooftop greenhouse and administrative centre) in Oberhausen by KUEHN MALVEZZI with atelier le balto, as well as the Hochschule für Schauspielkunst Ernst Busch (Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts) in Berlin by O&O Baukunst.
Since its launch in 2007, and from 2017 onwards with cooperation partner JUNG, the annually presented DAM Prize has been awarding outstanding buildings in Germany. The German Architecture Annual 2021 presents the winning project and the finalists together with the shortlisted entries from Germany and by German architects. In their contributions, respected authors provide in-depth portrayals of the 25 projects that were chosen by a jury for the DAM Prize for Architecture in Germany 2021. Curators of the museum, together with renowned architects and architecture critics, chose this year's finalists from a pool of some one hundred nominations.
The German Architecture Annuals document more than just a cross section of the most noteworthy buildings completed each year. The individual volumes also reveal which building tasks are of particular importance and currently at the forefront of public discussions - as the nominations are not limited in regard to typology, building size or use. The broad spectrum of tasks can be seen in the longlist, which has already been presented in the Architectural Guide Germany 2021 (available in German). It is conspicuous that an increasing number of projects allow for a combined form of use or are designed that way from the outset. Residential housing is the other major theme. Refurbishments and developments, the deliberate use of recycled materials or timber reflect a current discourse on sustainability and reduction of the carbon footprint. This is also something that is covered in an interview in which the physicist Wolfgang Kessling, from Transsolar KimaEngineering, introduces approaches on how building services can function efficiently without the need for high-tech equipment. In a further essay on a more general topic, the architect Barbara Brakenhoff, one of the project directors of the Bundesgartenschau (the biennial federal horticultural show) 2019 in Heilbronn illustrates how it became the pioneering project of a participatory urban development strategy.
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