Palace of culture Dresden wins DAM prize for architecture

Long, opinions on him: “demolition!” demanded a, “upgrading!” to the other. Finally, the Dresden Palace of culture was transformed into a concert hall – and now a architecture.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    The library in Dresden “cultivated”

    Red carpet, sound-absorbing boxes in the ceiling. The library in the modernized Dresden Palace of culture invites for undisturbed Learning and reading. Also the sensitive handling of the monument from the times of the GDR convinced the DAM of the Jury, and gave the for the tag responsible for the architectural office of the “DAM prize for 2019”.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    For the good sound in Dresden

    With the tag, above all, a modern concert hall in the Dresden Palace of culture. It has room for 1750 spectators and is a venue for the Dresden Philharmonic. But it is also a theatre stage, as well as the new Central library found space in the historic building.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Learning in honeycomb

    The pavilion-like building back together like a honeycomb in a beehive. Employees of the German society for International cooperation (GIZ) aim is to provide ideal conditions for open Learning. The new building for the GIZ Academy in Bonn, Germany, is the architect for a project of Waechter + Waechter. Your planning was one of the finalists of the DAM price.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Between the Old and the New

    With its simple external form of this new building blends into the historic town of Rottenburg. The small Episcopal city on the river Neckar has done so, as it seems, the urban balancing act. Thanks to the Stuttgart office of harris + kurrle architekten. This design was among the four finalists for the DAM price in 2019.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Shiny Sound

    The Berlin state Opera unter den Linden: it was several times destroyed and rebuilt. Now Berlin has modernized his living room again – with the help of the Berlin-Stuttgart office of HG Merz. The concert hall shines in a new splendor and also sounds better. This design made it to the Shortlist of the DAM price in 2019.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Lid-Ambience

    Of stacked cups the lid of the Corpus of this building think. The Munich-based architecture office Auer Weber has realized in Provence in France the hand ball game site, Arena du Pays d’aix – as a venue for the local Club, as well as for concerts, theatre, exhibitions and fairs. And it was on the Shortlist abroad.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Green Marina One

    And even a candidate on the Shortlist abroad: a model for Marina One were the terraces of the Asian rice field. The complex in Singapore reflects its multi-storey gardens, the diversity of the tropical Flora. The Ensemble of four skyscrapers built on the drawing Board by the German firm ingenhoven architects. An exhibition accompanied the DAM price in 2019 is still up to the 22. April 2019.

    Author: Stefan Dege


  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    The library in Dresden “cultivated”

    Red carpet, sound-absorbing boxes in the ceiling. The library in the modernized Dresden Palace of culture invites for undisturbed Learning and reading. Also the sensitive handling of the monument from the times of the GDR convinced the DAM of the Jury, and gave the for the tag responsible for the architectural office of the “DAM prize for 2019”.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    For the good sound in Dresden

    With the tag, above all, a modern concert hall in the Dresden Palace of culture. It has room for 1750 spectators and is a venue for the Dresden Philharmonic. But it is also a theatre stage, as well as the new Central library found space in the historic building.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Learning in honeycomb

    The pavilion-like building back together like a honeycomb in a beehive. Employees of the German society for International cooperation (GIZ) aim is to provide ideal conditions for open Learning. The new building for the GIZ Academy in Bonn, Germany, is the architect for a project of Waechter + Waechter. Your planning was one of the finalists of the DAM price.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Between the Old and the New

    With its simple external form of this new building blends into the historic town of Rottenburg. The small Episcopal city on the river Neckar has done so, as it seems, the urban balancing act. Thanks to the Stuttgart office of harris + kurrle architekten. This design was among the four finalists for the DAM price in 2019.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Shiny Sound

    The Berlin state Opera unter den Linden: it was several times destroyed and rebuilt. Now Berlin has modernized his living room again – with the help of the Berlin-Stuttgart office of HG Merz. The concert hall shines in a new splendor and also sounds better. This design made it to the Shortlist of the DAM price in 2019.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Lid-Ambience

    Of stacked cups the lid of the Corpus of this building think. The Munich-based architecture office Auer Weber has realized in Provence in France the hand ball game site, Arena du Pays d’aix – as a venue for the local Club, as well as for concerts, theatre, exhibitions and fairs. And it was on the Shortlist abroad.

  • DAM-price in 2019: Palace of culture of Dresden shines in a new gloss

    Green Marina One

    And even a candidate on the Shortlist abroad: a model for Marina One were the terraces of the Asian rice field. The complex in Singapore reflects its multi-storey gardens, the diversity of the tropical Flora. The Ensemble of four skyscrapers built on the drawing Board by the German firm ingenhoven architects. An exhibition accompanied the DAM price in 2019 is still up to the 22. April 2019.

    Author: Stefan Dege


Some Dresden affectionately called him “cultured”. The in 1969, the Palace of culture, built after the plans of Leopold Wiel and Wolfgang Hänsch, was a place of entertainment. After 1989, the construction was controversial – but, unlike in East Berlin, where the Palace of the Republic, the architectural heritage of the GDR had to be replaced, chose Dresden for renovation and modernisation. The Ombudsman office “gmp – architects of Gerkan, Marg and partners” is honoured now with the “DAM prize for 2019”.

The Palace Of Culture In Dresden

The planners replaced the Central multi-function hall, a modern concert hall. Including, they built a theatre stage. Many of the interior spaces and the facade have been carefully restored. Meanwhile, the city library moved in, which revived the house during the day. As a “respectful, pleasant uneitlen dealing with a monument”, as “Magic” was praised by members of the Jury now, the performance of the architects. With the “DAM prize for architecture in Germany” award, the German architecture Museum in Frankfurt (DAM) since 2007, particularly successful buildings in and from Germany. The prize winner will only be determined at the end of a multi-stage selection procedure, with Long – and Shortlist, as well as a handful of finalists. In the past year, the DAM-prize went to the Munich-based consortium of “bogevischs buero architect & town planner” for the design of a residential complex.

The German architecture Museum in Frankfurt, accompanied the DAM-price in this year with the exhibition “The 25 best buildings in/from Germany”. The Look lasts up to 22. April 2019.

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