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LINZ. Daidalos Architecture Prize goes to offices Kaltenbacher/Steinbauer, Dunkelschwarz and Schremmer-Jell. Awards for a renovation in the tobacco factory, the Schafbergbahn valley station and the Linz cloth factory.
The Upper Austrian architecture prize Daidalos was awarded for the sixth time on Thursday evening in the Linz Promenade Galleries. It was an exciting event and an atmospheric celebration.
From 75 submissions, the jury nominated 14 projects in two categories and for a special prize. The jury consisted of Heidi Pretterhofer, Viennese architect and building culture professor in Linz, the Graz architect Christian Tabernig and OÖN architecture critic Georg Wilbertz.
Picture gallery: Daidalos 2024: Big celebration for the architecture prize winners
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The winners of the Daidalos 2024: the Kaltenbacher and Steinbauer offices with the renovation of Haus Havanna in the Linz tobacco factory, the Dunkelschwarz office with the new construction of the Schafbergbahn valley station in St. Wolfgang and Schremmer-Jell with the renovation and conversion of the cloth factory in Linz- meadows.
What would Behrens have done?
“There is a great architecture and competition culture here in Upper Austria,” said Peter Salem from Kaltenbacher from Lower Austria: “We were warmly welcomed and were intensively busy for three and a half years.” When the tobacco factory was being renovated, people thought about it: “What would Peter Behrens (planner of the tobacco factory almost 100 years ago, note) have done if he were to turn the tobacco warehouse into an office building?”
- OÖN TV: Daidalos 2024: Big celebration for the architecture prize winners
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Michael Höcketstaller from the Salzburg office Dunkelschwarz spoke of a “special building site between lake and mountain”. Many aspects had to be taken into account, from infrastructure to gastronomy to nature conservation. “Everyone pulled together.”
On the company’s 50th anniversary, the Linz office Schremmer-Jell won the Daidalos for a revitalization 25 years ago. “There is so much in our project that is highly topical today. A district center with encounter quality has been created.”
- The evening of the awards ceremony in the live stream:
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The OÖNachrichten initiated the Daidalos and developed it together with the Chamber of Civil Engineers for Upper Austria and Salzburg. Other partners include Energie AG, Hypo Oberösterreich, WAG, Land Oberösterreich, Neue Heimat, WSG and afo architekturforum Oberösterreich.
“I’ve been self-employed for more than 20 years. You might think you’ve seen everything, but that’s not the case. There’s always something new and fascinating,” said Civil Engineering Chamber President Cora Stöger. Architects section chairman Michael Strobl spoke of “tremendous challenges in the future”: “There is a lot to do, we have to develop projects, places and cities together.”
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Energy, interest, housing
Energie-AG CEO Leonhard Schitter emphasized that the ambitious corporate strategy envisages climate neutrality by 2035. “Green over fossil fuels, we take that seriously, it’s about the future of our children.”
Hypo-Oberösterreich CEO Klaus Kumpfmüller explained: “We expect interest rates to fall significantly over the course of the year, which will benefit everyone who finances.”
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Robert Oberleitner, managing director of Neue Heimat, sees “reconstruction, photovoltaics and electromobility” as the three central topics that are taken into account in all residential construction projects.
WSG boss Stefan Hutter said that architects are increasingly being invited to contribute ideas, which result in a variety of ideas towards sustainability.
For State Councilor Michaela Langer-Weninger, who took over the patronage of the special prize, architecture says “a lot about the client, time and society”. She is particularly happy about wooden construction.
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The prize winners
Kaltenbacher/Steinbauer: The Lower Austrian architectural firms Kaltenbacher and Steinbauer won in the “Valuable Substance” category with Haus Havanna, a conversion of the Linz tobacco factory.
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From the jury’s reasoning: When revitalizing a more or less windowless tobacco warehouse from the 1930s into a building that offers offices and workshop rooms, the working group took a consistent approach that fits almost inconspicuously into the historical ensemble in a monument-appropriate manner .
Dark black: The Salzburg architectural firm Dunkelschwarz won in the “Sophisticatedly Planned” category with the new construction of the valley station of the Schafbergbahn in St. Wolfgang.
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From the jury’s statement: The project succeeds in combining a technically and functionally demanding construction task with a symbolic architecture. This not only reflects the important tradition of industrial and train station architecture, but also combines impressively with the scenic qualities of the place.
Schremmer Jell: The Linz architectural firm Schremmer-Jell won the special “Proven Buildings” prize, which focuses on older buildings and plans, with the revitalization of the cloth factory in Linz-Auwiesen (mixed use).
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From the jury’s statement: The planners integrated, among other things, a new church space into the high-quality historic factory building, which creates a fascinating atmospheric effect thanks to its differentiated, bright lighting and the spatial layering of the external boundaries.
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Alexander Zens
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Alexander Zens
