updated, October 2001

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2001

BENEDICTUS AWARDS 2001
International prize for the architecural use of laminated glass

OBJECTIVES

PRESTIGIOUS PRIZE WINNERS

JURY FOR THE 2001 AWARDS

The jury met in Philadelphia (USA), on May 5, 2001. It was made up of the following three architects :

• Henry Cobb (USA) ;
  
• Odile Decq (France) ;
  
• Vassilis Sgoutas (Greece) UIA President.
  

2001 AWARD : RESULTS

	The 2001 Benedictus Award was given to Takashi Yamaguchi & Associates (Japan) for the design of the extensions added on to the Reigenko-ji imperial temple, built in Kyoto in 1638.
Yamaguchi’s work has the magic of pure architecture ; it combines simplicity of form and management of light. The lead instrument is laminated glass. This project demonstrates that it is possible to build a link to a previous culture and still speak in your own voice. Laminated glass makes a strong contribution to spirituality and space. (Jury comments)

In this category to recognise edifices destined for public use, the jury also awarded :

Three Exceptional Merit awards:

		Massimo d'Alessandro e Associati (Italy) for a telephone booth project in Rome.
		Auer + Weber in collaboration with Schlaich Bergermann und Parner (Germany), for the glass canopy that covers a tramway station in Heilbronn.
		Werner Sobek Ingenieure & Lamm, Weber, Donath, for a structure of cables and glass in Bad Neustadt (Germany).

Three Special Recognitions :

		Foster and partners (United Kingdom), for the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court, British Museum, London.
		Ten Arquitectos : Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta (Mexico), for the Habita hotel in Mexico City.
		Architekten Petry + Wittfoht (Germany), Falk Petry, Jens Wittfoht, Jürgen Greipel, Huai-Wen Chang, Josephine Kipper, for the parking stack at the DEGI company in Stuttgart.

Two special recognitions were also awarded in the residential building category :

		Vincent James Associates and James Carpenter Design (USA), for the Dayton house in Minneapolis (Minnesota).
		Ten Arquitectos : Enrique Norten and Bernardo Gomez-Pimienta (Mexico), for the IA house in the Valle de Bravos.

2002 AWARDS

The 2002 edition of the Benedictus Awards will be launched in October 2001. Information concerning this tenth edition of the awards will be available at that time on the Benedictus website at the following address :
www.dupontbenedictus.org

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