Selected

Old Tower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church

Berlin, Germany

New exhibition planning and extension in the Old Tower of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church: heneghan peng architects, Dublin, with Ralph Appelbaum Associates, Berlin, and artist Susan Philipsz win first prize.

Storm King Art Center, Arrival, Conservation & Fabrication | New York

New York

Storm King Art Center is a 500-acre outdoor museum located in New York’s Hudson Valley, where visitors experience large-scale sculpture and site-specific commissions under open sky. The welcome and arrival sequence builds upon the outdoor ethos of Storm King with essential buildings shaping an outdoor room, a welcoming “lobby” which gently guides visitors from arrival into Storm King.

National Gallery of Ireland, Historic Wings Refurbishment | Dublin

Dublin, Ireland

The National Gallery of Ireland houses the National Collection of European and Irish Fine Art and has evolved over 150 years through a number of significant alterations and expansions. The refurbishment of the historic wings is part of an overall master plan that aims to develop a coherent and accessible circulation system through the various layers of the Gallery.

The Grand Egyptian Museum | Giza, Egypt

Giza, Egypt

The site for the Grand Egyptian Museum is located at the edge of the first desert plateau between the pyramids and Cairo. It is defined by a 50m level difference, created as the Nile carves its way through the desert to the Mediterranean, a geological condition that has shaped Egypt for over 3,000 years.

Palestinian Museum | Bir Zeit

Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine

The terraced landscape of Palestine has embedded within it its history. The approach to the Palestinian Museum is to draw on this history of the terraced landscape, embedding the museum into its immediate site and drawing from this site to tell a larger story of a diverse culture.

Giant’s Causeway Visitors’ Centre | Northern Ireland

Antrim, Northern Ireland

The Giant’s Causeway lies in Northern Ireland’s Causeway Coast World Heritage Site, a landscape of cliffs formed by hexagonal basalt stones, agricultural landscapes and cliffside walks. Utilising the large difference in level across the site, two folds are created in the landscape. One, extending the line of the ridge, accommodates the building. The second, extending the level of the road, screens the car park from view.

Mittelrheinbrücke | Sankt Goar Sankt – Goarshausen Germany

Sankt Goar, Germany

The Mittelrheinbruecke is located in the World heritage site of the Upper Middle Rhine Valley. The design takes a simple approach, create a structure as low, as horizontal and as thin as possible in order to minimise the visual impact.

Berlin Botanic Gardens Entrance & Visitors’ Centre | Berlin

Berlin, Germany

With Studio Qwertz.

The new entrance and visitors’ centre are organised as a sequence of happenings and moments connecting the existing geometries of the site with the new café, shop, exhibition and ticketing along the main route and reflecting the diagonal axis of the museum in the timber structure of the roof of the visitor centre.

City Museum Tonofenfabrik | Lahr, Germany

Lahr, Germany

The listed Tonofenfabrik, the old Clay Oven Factory, is situated in the historic centre of Lahr in Germany, close to the medieval castle ‘Storchenturm’ and the remains of the medieval town wall. The building is reinvented as a City Museum creating a destination for tourists and residents and connecting with the history and heritage of Lahr.