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Georg Pendl and Elisabeth Senn (3rd
place): Not a traditional display window like the fashion shop
next door. Not a beautifully designed culture shop, but a sober
hall for multifunctional use, exhibition room, cinema and video
space together. Transparency is advertising, or the contrary
- and hence a challenge for those in charge. For the shy ones
- the second plane made of special glass serves as a veil. The
glass panel is the permitted silhouette, creates visibility along
the ideal street line, is also a wall for displaying information
and exhibits. On the window panel free urban space - administration
and service structures in an amorphous cube - urban furniture
- color for recognizability. Way up on the top the books - cultural
concentrate without sugar coating.
Jury's comments: An audacious minimalist
composition particularly in respect of the height and asymmetrical
positioning of the blue wall in relation to the canted form of
the red tower. Some doubts were expressed...to the undue grandeur
of the four story open-air lobby particularly since this seems
to have had the effect of restricting the overall area of the
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