Christian Kerez, assistant professor at the ETH and Christian Kerez in Zürich, was awarded the first prize at the Architecture competition for the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Poland. Libeskind, a juror at that competition on the scheme: "...it's a wonderful and avantgarde building and it fits nicely to the neighboorhood of the (stalinist) Culture and Science Palace..."...
The Museum at the Plac Defilad, which is undergoing a transformation to become an agora (...) is scheduled to open 2010. Christian Kerez previously has designed and built together with Morger Degelo from Basle, the Liechtenstein Museum of Art. via: dialog | sasha cisar| images of the competition | images of the Liechtenstein Art Museum
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Opinions by jury members about the design:
„.... Daniel Liebeskind.- My favourite was the design submitted by the finnish-polish team from Grupa 5/ALA. Beautiful, small, incredibly sculptural”, and:
„The design was the favourite of many jury members, but we could not give it the main prize. That would have required a change in the master plan of the square. This could have lasted 5 years – explains the Secretary of the Competition Jury Jacek Lenart- the only thing we could do was give it an honourable mention.”
from Rzeczpospolita, 19.02.2007
A joint team of ALA (Helsinki) and GRUPA 5 were awarded the only special honourable mention award. The team cooperated with artist Jaroslaw Kozakiewicz.
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