Architettura

The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, designed by Ben van Berkel of UNStudio, has been awarded a prize by the jury of the German Architecture Prize 2007.
The award ceremony of the German Architecture Prize will take place on Dec 4th 2007 in München. Certificates and the prize money will be handed over from the Federal Minister of Germany for Traffic, Construction and Town Development, Wolfgang Tiefensee and Dr. Burckhard Bergmann, chairman of the board of directors of E.ON Ruhrgas AG and member of the board of directors of E.ON AG.

Photograph taken during the opening presentations
Photo credits:
© Wolfgang Günzel
Ben van Berkel, The Thing
MESO Digital Interiors, On Things Off Things On
Portikus, 2007

Exhibition - 'Ben van Berkel & the Theatre if Immanence' at Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
The group exhibition 'Ben van Berkel & the Theatre of immanence' is currently taking place at Portikus, in Frankfurt am Main and will run until Jan 13th 2008. The installation titled 'The Thing' consists of an advanced, site specific structure designed by Ben van Berkel, together with Prof. Johan Bettum and Luis Etchegorry and houses a series of works by artists and architects who have participated in the one-year long experimental project, entitled 'The Space of Communication', a project by the Städelschule Architecture Class. The exhibition aims to present the artistic and architectural results of this project to the public. Common to all the projects is that they address the social and inter-relational aspects of communication or spaces of communication. The built structure inside the Portikus is illuminated by multiple, precisely matched digital projections that both enhance and obscure the physical objects, adding information and disinformation, atmosphere and detail, playing on topics of presence, absence, body, and volume.