Bauhaus design competition unearths ambitious plans
One of the most influential design and art schools of the 20th century, the Bauhaus, has revealed two strikingly different designs as joint winners of a competition to create a new Bauhaus museum in the small German city of Dessau.
While the Barcelona pairing of architects Gonzalez Hinz Zabala and landscape studio Rosa Vives de Delas have proposed a long, understated, rectangular building marked by a fully glazed lower level and an external structural frame, the New York team of architectural office Young & Ayata and landscape architects Misako Murata have offered the kind of wildly progressive and ambitious forms for which the Bauhaus has long advocated, comprising a volley of large multi-coloured pods linked by walkways.
Young & Ayata and landscape architects Misako Murata have been shortlisted with this design for a new Bauhaus museum in Dessau, Germany.
While the process to develop a final proposal is as yet unclear, the building is scheduled for completion in 2019, a century after the Bauhaus was originally founded.