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David Chipperfield received the Sikkens Prize
United Kingdom Architecture News - Apr 02, 2015 - 14:20 5318 views
David Chiepperfield image via FortanaArte
David Chipperfield received the Sikkens Prize yesterday afternoon at an awards ceremony held at the Royal Tropical Institute in Amsterdam.
The Sikkens Prize is one of the oldest independent art prizes in the Netherlands, celebrating the use of colour across a range of fields, primarily in art and architecture. Previous winners include Gerrit Rietveld, Le Corbusier, Donald Judd and most recently Bridget Riley. David Chipperfield is the 36th winner of the Sikkens Prize.
David Chipperfield at the ceremony image © Maarten van Haaff
The jury applauded a delicate balance between colour, material and texture in the signature spatial compositions, and in his laudatory speech Professor of Architecture Christian Rapp spoke of the sensitivity to context demonstrated throughout the work of the practice.
According to the jury: ‘Chipperfield’s work on the Neues Museum in Berlin is a magnificent example of his way of working. Like no other he knows how to combine the old with the new. In his spatial compositions he achieves a delicate balance between colour, material end texture. Chipperfield uses the colours provided by the architectural context and the building materials in an unemphatic yet expressive way.’
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