updated, August 2000

UIA

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

BENEDICTUS AWARDS 1998
International prize for the architecural use of laminated glass

OBJECTIVES

PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE WINNERS

COMPOSITION OF THE JURY

The jury was composed of the following three architects:

• Sara Topelson de Grinberg, UIA President (Mexico)
• Charles Blomberg, architect, Rafael Viñoly Architects PC (USA)
• Richard Hough, architect, Ove Arup & Partners (Australia)

1998 PRIZE WINNERS

• First prize, in the commercial buildings category:

Jean Marc Ibos, Myrto Vitart (France) for the Fine Arts Museum in Lille (France).

The members of the jury appreciated the extension to the Museum which they perceived as a pertinent illustration of the passage from the 20th to 21st century. The innovative use of the reflective characteristics of the glass creates a play of illusions inviting the visitor to explore the "presence of a new architecture, end of century architecture which announces the dialogue with the next century".

 

• First prize, in the residential buildings category:

Aneta Bulant-Kamenova & Klaus Wailzer (Austria), for the conversion and extension of the Sailer house in Salzburg, a project in which the architects created a successful intermediate space, integrating both interior and exterior.

Sailer house in Salzburg (Austria), arch.: Aneta Bulant- Kamenova & Klaus Wailzer (Austria). Photo: Ruber Steiner.

• Mentions :

• G.J. van den Belt (Netherlands), for the Stedelijk Museum Zwolle in Amsterdam;
• James Carpenter (USA) with Kohn, Pederson & Fox, for the refractive glass wall of the First Hawaiian Bank in Honolulu;
• Kauffmann Theilig & Partner, Frei Architekten (Germany), for the "Kurklink" in Thuringe;
• Florence Lipski and Pascal Rolet (France), for the "ESISAR" School of Engineering in Valence;
• Murphy and Jahn (USA) for a bus shelter in Paris
• Agustin Hernandez (Mexico) for the Calakmul Building in Mexico
• Theo Hotz (Switzerland), for ABB Power Generation Ltd. in Baden Aargau
• Hans Ulrich Imesch (Switzerland), for "Telecab 200'0"