UFA-Palast in Dresden

Gasometer in Vienna

Groninger Museum, in the Netherlands

Arteplage in Biel/Bienne from Expo.02

Coop Himmelb(l)au (1968-) is a cooperative architectural design firm primarily located in Vienna, Austria and which now also maintains offices in Los Angeles, United States and Guadalajara, Mexico. The firm's name Himmelblau translates from German into English as 'sky blue', Himmelbau translates to 'heaven construction'. The term Coop in the title is pronounced as is the business abbreviation for cooperative, co-op. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 267 KB) Dresden, Germany: UFA Cinema Center Architects: Coop Himmelb(l)au Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Coop Himmelblau ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 267 KB) Dresden, Germany: UFA Cinema Center Architects: Coop Himmelb(l)au Photographed by Andreas Praefcke, 2003 File links The following pages link to this file: Coop Himmelblau ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Gasometer Vienna The Gasometers in Vienna are four former gas tanks, each of 90,000 m³ storage capacity, built as part of the Vienna municipal gas works Gaswerk Simmering in 1896–1899. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 256 KB) Own picture from Andre Engels. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1280x960, 256 KB) Own picture from Andre Engels. ... The Groninger Museum The Groninger Museum is a museum in Groningen in the north of The Netherlands. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Biel/Bienne is a city in the canton of Berne in Switzerland. ... Expo. ... Co-op redirects here. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... Flag Seal Nickname: City of Angels Location Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates , Government State County California Los Angeles County Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D) Geographical characteristics Area     City 1,290. ... Coordinates: , Country State Foundation 1542 Government  - Mayor Alfonso Petersen Farah ( PAN) Area  - City 187. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Coop Himmelblau was founded by Wolf Prix, Helmut Swiczinsky and Michael Holzer and gained international acclaim alongside Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry and Daniel Libeskind with the 1988 exhibition, "Deconstructivist Architecture" at the Museum of Modern Art. Their work ranges from commercial buildings to residential projects. Installation art by Peter Eisenman in the courtyard of Castelvecchio Museum in Verona, Italy, Entitled: Il giardino dei passi perduti, (The garden of the lost steps) Peter Eisenman (born August 11, 1932 in Newark, New Jersey) is one of the foremost practitioners of deconstructivism in American architecture. ... Interior of Phaeno Science Center in Wolfsburg, Germany Bergisel Ski Jump, Innsbruck BMW Central Building, Leipzig Vitra fire station, Weil am Rhein, Germany Maggies Centre, Kirkcaldy Zaha Hadid (Arabic: زها حديد) CBE (born October 31, 1950, Baghdad, Iraq) is a notable Iraqi-British deconstructivist architect. ... Frank Owen Gehry, CC (born Ephraim Owen Goldberg, February 28, 1929) is a Pritzker Prize winning architect based in Los Angeles, California. ... Daniel Libeskind in front of his extension to the Denver Art Museum. ... This article is about the museum in New York City. ...

Selected projects

• The European Central Bank in Frankfurt (Under construction)
• Musée des Confluences, Lyon, France (Under construction)
• Hotel - 55th Street & 8th Avenue, New York City (proposed)
• Akron Art Museum addition (2007)
• Los Angeles Area High School #9, California, USA (2002–2008)
• BMW World (BMW Welt) Munich, Germany (2001–2007)
• Great Egyptian Museum, Cairo, Egypt (2002–2003)
• Arteplage in Biel/Bienne from Swiss Expo.02
• The Media Pavilion at the 6th International Architecture Exhibition, Biennale di Venezia (1995)
• UFA-Cinema Center in Dresden (1993–98)
• Groninger Museum, Groningen (city), Netherlands (1993–1994)
• Academy of Fine Arts Munich (1992/2002-2005)
• Gasometer, Vienna, Austria (1999-2001)

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Awards

• American Architecture Awards 2005
  • The Chicago Athenaeum, Illinois
  • Akron Art Museum, Ohio, USA (2001-2006)
• Annie Spink Award for excellence in architectural education, RIBA, London, UK, 2004
• Gold Medal for merits to the federal state of Vienna, Austria 2002

This is a list of architecture prizes // Major international prizes AIA Gold Medal Pritzker Prize RIBA Royal Gold Medal (first awarded 1848) International prizes Aga Khan Award for Architecture (for Islamic architecture) Emporis Skyscraper Award European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture Thomas Jefferson Medal in Architecture National prizes UK RIAS... Akron Art Museum is an art museum in Akron. ...

See also

• Deconstructivism

Libeskinds Imperial War Museum North in Manchester comprises three apparently intersecting curved volumes. ...

External links

• Online profile of Coop Himmelb(l)au
• Universität Für Angewandte Kunst Wien

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