BARBARA CAPPOCHIN ARCHITECTURE PRIZE

The award is one of the initiatives promoted by the Barbara Cappochin Foundation, along with the Order of Architects of Padua, for the biennial architecture exhibition of the same name. Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga, winners of the 2011 edition, were selected from among 383 architectural projects completed between July 2008 and June 2011 in the 4 categories covered by the competition: residential/ commercial/office/mixed use buildings; public architecture; landscape architecture and interior architecture.

Fabrizio Barozzi and Alberto Veiga?s new headquarters for the Consejo Ribera De Duero (a centre for promotion of “Ribera del Duero” D.O.C. wine) was assigned the most important award, the International Barbara Cappochin Prize. The judges chose it ?because it combines the aesthetic, functional and sustainable qualities the Prize is intended to promote?.

Prizes and acknowledgements also went to other projects, such as the “Giancarlo Ius” Gold Medal awarded to Spanish architect Jaime Magen for the Environmental Department of Saragozza, the honourable mentions for architect Marìa Hurtado de Mendoza?s Centro Madrid Salud de Usera (Spain), Claudio Nardi?s Museum of Contemporary Art in Krakow (Poland) and Rubens Cortes?s “Marìa Lejárraga” Public Library in Granada (Spain).
(Agnese Bifulco)

Photographs: courtesy of Fondazione Barbara Cappochin

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