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Posted by : Frédéric LouisUnder : Architecture Buzz, Architecture Competitions, Architecture Events, Art Buzz, Art Competitions, Art Events, Buzz, Competitions, Design Buzz, Design Competitions, Design Events, Events, Graphic Competitions
on : 05 10th, 2009 |
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- Sphere: memorial design
- Location: Kronprinzenpalais Berlin
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- Dates: Exhibition starts 5 May 2009
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- Link: click to see Tagesspiegel
- Source: Author
Wolfgang Thierse, Vice President of the German Bundestag, attends the opening of the exhibition of the 532 proposed designs for the Freedom and Unity Memorial at the Kronprinzenpalais on May 5, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. Germany’s Federal Office for Civil Engineering and Regional Planning had sponsored an open competition for the memorial, which is to commemorate German reunificiation in 1991, though the jury failed to decide on a winning entry and the competition will be held again under different conditions. Many of the people who entered the competition are furious over the result.
It seems difficult to understand how it is possible that more than 500 Offices worked on open competition organized by the state and that at the end nobody get honored! It is also useless to remind that many time in those kind of competitions, architects, designers and artists are working for free.
I try myself to do the competition, but after few weeks it come out that the difficulties we are facing are probably due to the complexity of the topic or to the unclear or too ambitious will of the organizer. We finally decided not to take part.
Are the 500 participants (people who submits their work) not good enough or was the question bad formulated by the client. Are some organizations involved protecting the participants?
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- arge art und com/graft
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- Axel Schultes & Charlotte Frank
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- Björn Kern
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- Christoph Roselius
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- Ingo Niermann-& Ralf Plugfelder
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- Roland Unterbusch
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- Zvi Hecker
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- Hanns Meyer
Frédéric Louis Fourrichon, Berlin
