The Nykredit Architecture Prize is the largest
Danish architecture prize. Founded by the Nykredit Foundation (an arm of the
Nykredit Group), it is awarded annually to a person, or group of people, 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 Motivational Award/Encouragement Prize to talented young architects who have made an impact on the architecture scene.
Recipients
Motivational Award
* 2015: Cornelius+Vöge
* 2014: Svendborg Architects
* 2013: Effekt
* 2012: Powerhouse Company
* 2011: JAJA Architects
* 2010:
Mette Lange
* 2009: Polyform
* 2008: ONV Arkitekter
* 2007: Dan Stubbergaard
* 2006: TRANSFORM/Lars Bendrup
Encouragement Prize
* 2005: NORD Arkitekter
* 2004:
Henrik Valeur
Henrik Bjørn Valeur (; born 13 October 1966) is a Danish architect-urbanist, founder and creative director of UiD (Denmark) and UiD Shanghai Co., Ltd (China), curator of ''CO-EVOLUTION: Danish/Chinese Collaboration on Sustainable Urban Developmen ...
* 2003: Kollision/Andreas Lykke-Olesen, Rune Nielsen and Tobias Løssing
* 2002: Hanne Birk and Merete Lind Mikkelsen
* 2001: Christina Capetillo
* 2000: Sergio George Fox
* 1999: Hotel Proforma
* 1998: Arkitekturtidsskrift B
* 1997: Jens Lindhe
* 1996: Inge Mette Kirkeby
* 1995: Pluskontoret
* 1994: ''none awarded''
* 1993:
Kristine Jensen
Kristine Jensen (born 1956), is a Danish architect who has specialized in landscape architecture.
Biography
Jensen was born in Herning where her father was an architect.
When she was 19 she went to Aarhus to study landscape architecture at the ...
, Otto Käszner and Jens Rørbech
* 1992:
Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup
Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup (born 1963) is a Danish architect, university professor and writer about architecture. Associate professor of Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole
Royal Danish Academy – Architecture ( Danish: ''Det Kongelige Akademi – Ar ...
and Thomas Wiesner
* 1991: Suzanne Eben Ditlevsen
See also
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Architecture of Denmark
The architecture of Denmark has its origins in the Viking Age, revealed by archaeological finds. It was established in the Middle Ages when first Romanesque architecture, Romanesque, then Gothic architecture, Gothic churches and cathedrals, wer ...
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C. F. Hansen Medal
References
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External links
Nykredit Architecture PrizeNykredit Motivational Award/Encouragement PrizeNykredit Foundation Awards established in 1987
Danish architecture awards