30.04.2020 The central reception building on the Museumsinsel Berlin, designed by David Chipperfield Architects, has been awarded the Architekturpreis Beton in 2020.
James-Simon-Galerie
Built from plans by David Chipperfield Architects, the James-Simon-Galerie on the Museumsinsel Berlin (Museum Island) has won the 2020 Architekturpreis Beton, an architectural prize for structures made out of concrete.
An interdisciplinary jury ‒ whose members included Susanne Wartzeck, president of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA, Association of German Architects) ‒ considered 143 submissions in selecting four equally ranked winning projects (among them the James-Simon-Galerie) and four awards.
The InformationsZentrum Beton has been awarding the prize in cooperation with the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) since 1974. It honours outstanding achievements in architecture and engineering; works whose quality is shaped by the design, construction and technological possibilities that concrete offers as a building material.
