Year: 1965

Amal Lady Davis High School

The school complex is grouped around a central courtyard, from which the wings, each designed differently, radiate. The plan enables the simple extension of the segments and is meant to function as a small city, concentrated in a single building complex…

Church of Reconciliation (Versöhnungskirche)

The church on the grounds of the former concentration camp is half underground. A gesture of humility, the result of discussions on the role of the Protestant Church during the Third Reich. An example of concrete as a metaphor for nature: building and s…

Teacher Training College

For this university complex consisting of a library, seminar rooms and a main building, the idea of footpaths on stilts is taken to the extreme. Here, the footpaths cross roads, ponds and canals.Molyvann advanced Le Corbusier’s sculptural design langu…

Alley Theatre

Franzen used to study under Breuer and Gropius at Harvard. The author Klaus Herdeg took the Theatre as example for the “American deterioration” of the Bauhaus legacy and called the building emblematic for the aestheticization of the Bauhaus formula….

WIFI (Institute for Economic Development) with Dormitory Tower

The key requirement for this institute was a high degree of functionality while keeping the structure as flexible as possible to respond to an ever-changing program. This is achieved with a multi-wing floor plan. The most characteristic design feature a…

Barbican Estate

The Barbican is a veritable icon of Brutalism. Apparently the Queen didn’t have any problems with the Brutalist aesthetics of this giant complex, when she called it “one of the modern wonders of the world” during its inauguration. The Barbican is…

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To represent a masterpiece of human creative genius. 260 ii
To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
To bear a unique or at least exceptional testimony to a cultural tradition or to a civilization which is living or which has disappeared. 499 iv
To be an outstanding example of a type of building, architectural or technological ensemble or landscape which illustrates (a) significant stage(s) in human history. 633 ix
To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
To be an outstanding example of a traditional human settlement, land-use, or sea-use which is representative of a culture (or cultures), or human interaction with the environment especially when it has become vulnerable under the impact of irreversible change. 167 vi
To be directly or tangibly associated with events or living traditions, with ideas, or with beliefs, with artistic and literary works of outstanding universal significance. (The Committee considers that this criterion should preferably be used in conjunction with other criteria). 252 vii
To contain superlative natural phenomena or areas of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance. 148 viii
To be outstanding examples representing major stages of earth's history, including the record of life, significant on-going geological processes in the development of landforms, or significant geomorphic or physiographic features. 96 x
To contain the most important and significant natural habitats for in-situ conservation of biological diversity, including those containing threatened species of outstanding universal value from the point of view of science or conservation. 166

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