Media-TIC, Barcelona, Spain, designed by Cloud 9 based in Spain , has beaten off competition from hundreds of buildings around the globe to win the ‘World Building of the Year 2011’ award at the prestigious World Architecture Festival (WAF) Awards in Barcelona.
The idea of flying, the spirit of the place, the structure of the historic airfield – the new building for the Museum of Aviation takes up these references intellectually and synthesises them into an expressive and emblematic structure.
How would you feel if you were to receive a telephone call saying you had been awarded the Pritzker Prize? It happened to architect Souto de Moura while he was working in his studio in a small Portuguese town. He was surprised and he did not believe it at first. When it was confirmed he stated that he regards this award as a great personal success and that this is also a recognition for Portugal, where all his works are.
Creative usage of different panels should result in a project that realistically reflects the idea of contemporary architecture and affirms architecture itself. Similar to Mies van der Rohe’s pavilion for the Exhibition in Barcelona, the Architecture Pavilion should represent a “universal, timeless and spaceless building”.
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