Nykredit Architecture Prize
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The Nykredit Architecture Prize is the largest Danish
architecture prize. Founded by the Nykredit Foundation, it is awarded annually to awarded annually to a person, or group of persons, who have personally, or through their work, made a significant contribution to the building industry in the form of architecture or planning, etc. The recipient receives DKK 500,000, making it one of the largest architecture prizes in the world in terms of prize money
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In 1991 the Nykredit Foundation began awarding the Motivation Prize to talented young architects who have made an impact on the architecture scene. The recipient receives DKK 100,000.
Denmark
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architecture prize. Founded by the Nykredit Foundation, it is awarded annually to awarded annually to a person, or group of persons, who have personally, or through their work, made a significant contribution to the building industry in the form of architecture or planning, etc. The recipient receives DKK 500,000, making it one of the largest architecture prizes in the world in terms of prize money
Prize money
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In 1991 the Nykredit Foundation began awarding the Motivation Prize to talented young architects who have made an impact on the architecture scene. The recipient receives DKK 100,000.
Recipients
| Year | Recipient(s) |
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| 1987 | Henning Larsen Henning Larsen Henning Larsen is a Danish architect.He is internationally known for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadhand the Copenhagen Opera House... Jørn Utzon Jørn Utzon Jørn Oberg Utzon, , AC was a Danish architect, most notable for designing the Sydney Opera House in Australia. When it was declared a World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007, Utzon became only the second person to have received such recognition for one of his works during his lifetime... Ulrik Plesner |
| 1988 | Johann Otto von Spreckelsen Johann Otto von Spreckelsen Johann Otto von Spreckelsen was a Danish architect.He was born in Viborg and studied at the Viborg Katedralskole and Royal Academy of Arts in Copenhagen, and later served as director up to his death.... Erik Reitzel Erik Reitzel Erik Reitzel was for many years a professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and at the Technical University of Denmark, in the disciplines of bearing structures and structural design.... (engineer) 3XN 3XN 3XN is a Danish architectural practice with head office in Copenhagen.-History:The company was founded in Århus in 1986 as Nielsen, Nielsen & Nielsen by Kim Herforth Nielsen, Lars Frank Nielsen og Hans Peter Svendler Nielsen. The latter left the company, which is today led by a partner group of... Carsten Hoff Susanne Ussing Susanne Ussing Susanne Ussing was a Danish artist, architect and ceramicist. The feminine world fascinated her. In 1989 she received the Eckersberg Medal.Some of her works:... |
| 1989 | Sys Hartmann (art historian) Poul Ingemann Erik Einar Holm Tegnestuen Kvisten |
| 1990 | Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten Tegnestuen Vandkunsten a/s, often referred to simply as Vandkunsten, is a Danish architectural firm founded in 1970. Vandkunsten were awarded the Alvar Aalto Medal in 2009 for being a "modern interpretor and elaborator of Alvar Aalto's ideological heritage". This was the first time that the Alvar... Arkitektgruppen Århus |
| 1991 | Ib and Jørgen Rasmussen Inger and Johannes Exner Klaus Eggers Hansen (editor) |
| 1992 | Erik Christian Sørensen KHR Arkitekter KHR Arkitekter KHR Arkitekter A/S, formerly known as KHRAS, is a Danish architecture company founded as Krohn & Hartvig Rasmussen in 1946. The company was founded by Gunnar Krohn and E. Hartvig Rasmussen. During the 1960s, the company started focusing on European styles applied to public buildings in Denmark... Mogens Brandt Poulsen |
| 1993 | Tegnestruen Jørgen og Inge Vesterholt Torben Schønherr (landscape) Jeppe Aagaard Andersen (landscape) |
| 1994 | Troels Hasner Ole Justesen |
| 1995 | Boje Lundgaard Lundgaard & Tranberg Lundgaard & Tranberg Arkitekter is a Danish architectural firm, based in Copenhagen Denmark. It is most noted for the Tietgenkollegiet student housing in Ørestad from 2006 and the Royal Danish Playhouse on the Copenhagen harbourfront from 2008... |
| 1996 | Søren Robert Lund Søren Robert Lund Søren Robert Lund is a Danish architect with his studio located in Copenhagen, Denmark.Lund studied architecture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen from 1982–1989.... |
| 1997 | schmidt hammer lassen Schmidt hammer lassen Schmidt hammer lassen architects is an international architectural practice founded in 1986 in Aarhus, Denmark. It currently has four offices in Aarhus, Copenhagen, Oslo and London.... |
| 1998 | DOMUS arkitekter |
| 1999 | Dissing+Weitling |
| 2000 | Knud Friis Gehrdt Bornebusch Vilhelm Wohlert Vilhelm Wohlert Vilhelm Wohlert was a Danish architect.Wohlert was educated at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts' School of Architecture, where one of his teachers was Kaare Klint. In 1958 he and his partner Jørgen Bo started work on the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, a project on which they would work for... |
| 2001 | Sven-Ingvar Andersson (landscape) |
| 2002 | Julien De Smedt Julien De Smedt Julien De Smedt is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural practice Julien De Smedt Architects Julien De Smedt (born 3 December 1975 in Brussels) is a Belgian-Danish architect based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2006 he founded the architectural... Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels Bjarke Ingels is a Danish architect. He heads the architectural practice Bjarke Ingels Group which he founded in 2006. In 2009 he co-founded the design consultancy KiBiSi... |
| 2003 | Malene Hauxner Malene Hauxner Malene Hauxner is a landscape architect, author and educator and currently professor of Theory, Method and History at KVL, Denmark. Hauxner has enjoyed a reputation as an unrivalled analyst of landscape architecture in the context of the breakthrough and subsequent transformations of modernism... (landscape) |
| 2004 | Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson Olafur Eliasson is a Danish-Icelandic artist known for sculptures and large-scale installation art employing elemental materials such as light, water, and air temperature to enhance the viewer’s experience. In 1995 he established Studio Olafur Eliasson in Berlin, a laboratory for spatial research... (visual artist) |
| 2005 | Lene Tranberg Lene Tranberg Lene Tranberg is a Danish architect, head architect and co-founder of Lundgaard & Tranberg.-History:Lene Tranberg was born in Copenhagen in 1956. In 1977, she was admitted to the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture where she studied under Erik Christian Sørensen... |
| 2006 | C. F. Møller Architects Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller Arkitektfirmaet C. F. Møller, internationally also known as C. F. Møller Architects, is an architectural firm based in Århus, Denmark. Founded in 1924 by C. F. Møller, it is today the largest architectural firm in Denmark based on number of employed architects. About half the revenue is earned... |
| 2007 | Dorte Mandrup Dorte Mandrup Dorte Mandrup-Poulsen is a Danish architect, founder and owner of the architectural practice Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter which is based in Copenhagen, Denmark.-Biography:... |
| 2008 | CEBRA CEBRA CEBRA is a Danish architectural practice founded in Århus in 2001 by the architects Mikkel Frost, Carsten Primdahl and Kolja Nielsen. The practice is primarily occupied with building design but over the last few years an increasing number of planning projects has been developed in the office as... |
| 2009 | Entasis Entasis (company) Entasis is an award-winning Danish architecture firm based in Copenhagen. It takens its name from the Greek word for tension.-History:Entasis was founded by Christian and Signe Cold in 1996... |
| 2010 | Stig L. Andersson Stig L. Andersson Stig L. Anderson is a Danish landscape architect, founder and Creative Director of Copenhagen-based SLA which has developed into a interdisciplinary organisation working with landscape, urban spaces and urban planning.... |
Nykredit Motivation Prize recipients
- Lars Bendrup (TRANSFORM)
- 2007: Dan Stubbergaard
- 2008: ONV Arkitekter
- 2009: POLYFORM
- 2010: Mette Lange