United States, British Architects Win Israel’s Wolf Prize
JERUSALEM.- British and American architects were named winners of Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize.
The Wolf Foundation said Wednesday that British architect David Chipperfield is being recognized for overseeing the reconstruction of Berlin’s Neues Museum in a building that had been abandoned since World War II.
His new building incorporated bricks, stairs and bullet holes from the original museum, which opened in 1855.
- British architect David Chipperfield poses in front of a of a computer generated image depicting the facade of the planned James Simon-Gallery on Berlin’s Museum Island, in Berlin, on Wednesday, June 27, 2007. The building is designed to serve as a reception center for the historic museum ensemble and is planned to be constructed by 2012
American architect Peter Eisenman designed the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, inaugurated in 2005. The foundation says Eisenman’s work “provides a new paradigm for memorialization.”
The winners will share the $100,000 award.
On Monday, the Wolf Foundation announced prizes in medicine, agriculture, physics and mathematics.
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