updated, August 2000

UIA

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS

RESULTS

BENEDICTUS AWARDS 1999
International prize for the architecural use of laminated glass

OBJECTIVES

PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE WINNERS

COMPOSITION OF THE JURY FOR THE 1999 AWARDS

The jury met in Dallas, (Texas-USA) on 7 May 1999. It was composed of the following three architects:

• Timothy MacFarlane (United Kingdom);
• Jean Marc Ibos (France);
• Tom Mayne (USA).
  

1999 AWARDS : Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette (France) , Georg Marterer (Austria)

Once again this year a realisation by the French architects Odile Decq and Benoit Cornette was awarded the Benedictus Prize - the School of Economic Science and the Law Library of the University of Nantes (France).

The Benedictus Award, in the residential buildings category, went to Georg Marterer, for the individual pre-fabricated house "TEE House", in Vienna (Austria).

SCHOOL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE AND LAW LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NANTES

"The pertinence and the efficiency of this design lies in the perfect adequacy of means used to answer both programmatical and financial objectives. The obvious skill of the architects, the use of glass and more generally, the architect's relationship to technology are clearly expressed here as a way to fulfill a will. The jury was particularly impressed by the coherence between the conceptual strategy and materiality."

School of Economic Science and the Law Library of the University of Nantes (France), arch : Odile Decq et Benoit Cornette. .

TEE HOUSE, IN VIENNA

"Simple, elegant, it is understated, understandable, accessible, adaptable, portable and flexible. This is an exquisite example of intelligently using a pallet of simple structural elements to create a pleasing house which could be easily constructed and changed."

"TEE House", in Vienna (Austria), arch : Georg Marterer

MENTIONS

The jury awarded nine special mentions.

• Manuelle Gautrand & Associés (France), for a toll station on the A16 motorway, between Abbeville and Boulogne.
• Behnisch & Partner (Germany), for spa facilities, in Bad Elster.
• FLT/Happold Architecture and Engineering, jointly with Kiss + Cathcart (USA), for the BIPV glass pavilion, designed in the framework of the "Under the Sun" exhibition in New York.
• Foster and Partners, Sir Norman Foster (United Kingdom), for the renovation and conversion of the Reichstag in Berlin (Germany).
• Igenhoven Overdiek Kahlen und Partner (Germany), for the RWE AG Headquarters in Essen.
• Ken Yokogawa Architect and Associates, Inc (Japan), for the glass house in Tsuyama-shi, Okayama.
• Masakatsu Tukuora Architects, Koji Tokuoka (Japan), for the VO building in Osaka.
• Schulitz + Partner (Germany), for the "Skywalk" pedestrian walkway in Hanover.
• Samyn and Partners sprl (Belgium), for the Walloon branch forestry treatment facility in Marche-en-Famenne.