Architect shortlisted for top EU award
Swiss architect Bernard Tschumi has been shortlisted for the European Union’s prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award for Contemporary Architecture.
Tschumi, 67, has been selected for his design of the Acropolis Museum, which is located at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens.
Candidates for the €60,000 (SFr77,000) biennial prize are selected from nominations put forward by the Architects Council of Europe and other European architects associations.
Tschumi is one of six architects shortlisted for the 2011 prize, which will be awarded in June in Barcelona. Some 340 projects from 33 European countries were submitted for the prize.
Other nominees are David Chipperfield for the Neues Museum in Berlin, Zaha Hadid for the MAXXI Museum in Rome, Jean Nouvel for the Danish Radio Concert Hall in Copenhagen, Martine De Maeseneer for the Bronks Youth Theatre in Brussels and Koen van Velsen for the Rehabilitation Centre Groot Klimmendaal in Arnhem.
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