David Chipperfield Wins Mies van der Rohe Award for His Neues Museum Berlin

Well that’s about the fastest turnaround from shortlist to winner set of announcements we’ve ever seen. Just a few days back, we told you that the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, or the Mies van der Rohe Award, had just released its set of six finalists for the biennial award. Now here we are with the winner: David Chipperfield for his Neues Museum Berlin. Back in those far off days when we were discussing the shortlist, we were pulling for Bernard Tschumi’s Acropolis Museum, despite the inclusion of a handful of regularly-winning starchitects But don’t get us wrong: we love Chipperfield’s

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