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 Annie Zentsch, Kathrin du Hamel, Bianca Bos and Aylin von Heyden have been awarded first prizes by the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology for their design proposals for an Orang Utan Care Center in Borneo. The project has been supervised by Paola Alfaro d'Alencon.
Francis Kéré is one of the five 2009 laureates of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
The purpose of the Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is to honour annually five living architects who move towards sustainability.
Francis Diébédo Kéré,
winner of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2004 and academic staff member of the Habitat Unit, has received an honorable mention in the zumtobel group award 2007 in the category 'research and initiative' for his elementary school buildings in Gando, Burkina Faso.
Jens Kärcher and Lukas Schwind, graduates from the Habitat Unit in 2007, have won the Daimler Real Estate Architecture Award 2008 with their diploma thesis on "Realizing Solutions for the Redevelopment of Dharavi, Mumbai, India." They have also won the second prize 2008 of the Holcim Awards "Next Generation". From the Comment of the Jury: "...This project has been commended due to its unique and robust strategy which is based on a sound and astonishingly mature in situ analysis." Click here for details .
André
Alexander, founder and chairman of the Tibet Heritage Fund,
alumni of the Urban
Management Program of the TU Berlin has been granted the Dubai
International Award for Best Practices to Improve the Living
Environment in October 2006 for the Leh Old Town Project. The award
was issued by the Dubai Municipality and the United Nations Human
Settlements Program.
Alexander
Jachnow, member of the academic staff of the Habitat Unit,
was recently awarded the Alonso Caso Silver Medal of the National
Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. This decoration of merit
honoured his investigative thesis about the development of a sub-centre
in Mexico City, he had presented in 2000. He received the medal
in April 2007 while conducting a summer school at the UNAM. It has
been the first time that this medal was awarded to a German academic.
Andrea
Hagn was awarded the 2nd prize of the Daimler-Chrysler
Award cycle 2005 for her diploma project "About the Impact
of Coastal Regulation Zone Rules on Slum Redevelopment in
Mumbai."
Marc Hölscher received the 1st prize of the MLP
Award 2005 and an honorable mention in the Daimler-Chrysler Award
2005 for his diploma project "Thirsty - Development of the
Oasis Town Nafta, Tunesia".
Antonia Schlegel received an honorable
mention in the MLP Award cycle 2005 and an Encouragement Prize of
the Holcim Foundation for her diploma project:
"Rehabilitation Strategy for the Old City of El Qesir, Egypt".
Francis Diébédo Kéré,
academic staff member of the Habitat Unit, is one
of the seven winners of the 2004
Aga Khan Award for Architecture with an elementary school in
Gando, Burkina Faso. The school has been built with the active participation
of the Gando villagers. The project originates from a design studio
at the Habitat Unit.
Susanne
Lorenz received several awards for her diploma project
"Urban Conservation in Shanghai", the ARCH+ Award in 2001,
a 3rd prize 2003 from Daimler Chrysler Real Estate (DCI) and a honourable
mention at archiprix 2003 Istanbul. Her project was also presented
at the Biennale in Beijing September 2004.
Jörg
Hanson and Ilja Corty received a second
prize in the Student Competition Festival at Cottbus University
2004 with their project "Cocoon-Housing" in Bali, Indonesia.
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Axel
Huhn and Berit Bachmann were awarded the
1st prize of the MLP and the VFFA Berlin Innovation Award for their
diploma project on "Intervention strategies for Urban Fringe
Areas of Mexico City". The project focused on the improvement
of regularization procedures for illegal settlements.
Three
projects from the Habitat Unit have been awarded a prize in a student
competition on the new location of the German Intelligence Service
(BND) which is expected to be transferred to Berlin.
The competition has been organized by the Senate for Urban Development
Berlin for students from the BTU Cottbus and the TU Berlin in Summer
2004. The winners from the TU are: Carlos Bermejo Pascual,
Luis Alberto Burred, Frederik Feller, Philipp Hintzen, Stefan Kels,
Andreas Pohl.
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