The architect Sergei Tchoban won the European Prize for Architecture 2018, the award established jointly by The European Center for Architecture Art Design and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum. This prize is awarded annually to architects who are working in several European countries.
The official press release says: “Sergei Tchoban has been selected as this year’s Laureate of The European Prize for Architecture for his powerful designs and a unique design vision that celebrates the best of modernist buildings that are internationally iconic, complex, enigmatic, provocative, and profoundly artistic”. “His architecture encompasses an endless variety of forms, surfaces, colors, poetry, using the most contemporary methods of planning and sustainable solutions with the purpose of achieving the highest intellect and, ultimately, a complex cultural content”, says Christian Narkiewicz-Laine, President and CEO of The Chicago Athenaeum. “He has been instrumental in shaping in our time an unprecedented and inspiring discourse between art and architecture with the keen ability to bridge and transform imagination and the creative mind into the actual built works”.
Previous Laureates include: Bjarke Ingels (Denmark), Marco Casagrande (Finland), Alessandro Mendini (Italy), Santiago Calatrava (Spain/Switzerland), Manuelle Gautrand (France). The formal ceremony will be held at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece on September 28, 2018. An exhibition “Sergei Tchoban: Visionary Architect” opens in Athens that same evening.
Neva Towers multifunctional complex
The Hyatt Regency Moscow hotel in Petrovsky Park
Reconstruction of the Grand Sports Arena Luzhniki
The Wine House residential complex
Nevskaya Ratusha business area
Novy Zelenograd residential complex
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