German Architecture Annual 2021Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, Peter Cachola Schmal (Editors)DOM Publishers, Year

Hardcover | 9 x 11-2/4 inches | 256 pages | 350 illustrations | German/English | ISBN: 9783869227740 | 38.00?

PUBLISHER'S DESCRIPTION:
The German Architectural Annual, edited by the German Architecture Museum (DAM), has been documenting contemporary architectural projects in Germany for the past 40 years. This year´s edition of the annual presents the shortlist of 25 buildings selected by the jury for the 2021 DAM Preis for Architecture in Germany. The building reviews, written by architectural critics, along with large-format photographs, provide a deep insight into those works.
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dDAB COMMENTARY:
At the beginning of this year the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) awarded the 2021 DAM Preis for Architecture in Germany to MVRDV and N-V-O Nuyken von Oefele Architekten for WERK12, a five-story mixed-use building near Munich's Ost station that is part of the larger Werksviertel district. Fans of MVRDV, like me, no doubt felt the five-story mixed-use building wrapped in terraces and stairs looked familiar, recalling another building in Germany by the Dutch firm: the Netherlands Pavilion at the 2000 World Expo in Hannover. In the pages of this book devoted to the award, the editors admit as much too, writing that "MVRDV have not only drawn on their illustrious early period" around Expo 2000, "they have also c...