In an all-day jury meeting, the nine specialist and expert judges selected the winning designs. The decision was unanimous: 1st prize in the realization competition goes to the interdisciplinary team of Staab Architekten with Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten.
Comments on the award winners
"The competition entry was able to win unanimously in the jury due to the very good translation of the spatial program into floor plans and building structures as well as due to the successful design expression for the planning task."
Petra Kahlfeldt, Senate Building Director and State Secretary for Urban Development
"The winning design manages in its own unique way to achieve a surprisingly relaxed structure through the staggered arrangement of 3 buildings in combination with courtyards and arcades, while at the same time leaving enough space and room for the neighboring buildings.
The clear urban planning, architectural and content-related concept clearly shows that a careful analysis of the historical site and the religious themes for the Jewish community form the concrete basis for the design."
Prof. Ulrike Lauber, Chairwoman of the jury
Office profile of the award winner Staab Architekten
Staab Architekten was founded in 1991 after winning the competition for the Neues Museum in Nuremberg. A major concern of the office's work is to condense the complex conditions of architecture into a simple, plausible form. Contextual, functional, economic and technical conditions play just as important a role as formal aspects that develop from the logic of the building. The focus is on concentrating on the essentials. This basic attitude is pursued in every detail with the careful, conceptual use of form, material and color. The office is dedicated to a wide range of different building projects, whether new buildings that are inserted into sensitive urban and landscape spaces or reinterpretations of listed buildings. Over the years, cultural buildings, research and administrative buildings have become the focus of the office's work.
Office profile of the award winner Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten Berlin GmbH
Atelier Loidl was founded in 1984 by Prof. Hans Loidl in Berlin. Today, Leonard Grosch, Bernd Joosten, Martin Schmitz, Felix Schwarz and around forty landscape architects work on national and international open space planning projects. We are convinced that design is an open and discursive process. Our designs are the result of a search for tailor-made and self-evident concepts that respond to people's needs and aspirations. We design precise places and rely on the quality of simple design elements. We avoid the superficial and superimposed effects with which today's event culture already overloads us. Usable places suitable for everyday use unfold their poetry in simplicity and timelessness.
