Call for Submissions We have pleasure in inviting you to enter your project for the Zumtobel Group Award 2017 – Innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment. Again, we have issued a public call for submissions. We are looking forward to hearing about your projects and encourage you to disseminate this call for submissions among your networks and communities. Please read the submission information and criteria carefully before you submit your project. Participation is free.
The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2017
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About the Award The Zumtobel Group Award was established in 2007 by the Zumtobel Group and carries a total purse of EUR 150,000. Today it ranks among the most respected awards in the world of architecture. Submissions are invited in three categories, each category being presented by one of the lighting group’s brands: – Applied Innovations (Tridonic) – Buildings (Zumtobel) – Urban Developments & Initiatives (Thorn) New Special Award For the first time, the 2017 Award will also include a special award for “Young Professionals”.
Zumtobel Group
The Zumtobel Group is an international lighting group and a leading player in the field of innovative lighting solutions and components. With its three internationally established brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel, and its two smaller brands, acdc and Reiss, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive range of products and services. In the lighting business the Group with its Thorn, Zumtobel and acdc brands is the European market leader. The Reiss brand supplies OEMs with luminaires with a higher degree of protection. Through its lighting components brand, Tridonic, the Group plays a leading role worldwide in the manufacture of hardware and software for lighting systems (LED light sources and LED drivers, sensors and lighting management).
Aedes Architecture Forum
Aedes was founded in 1980 in Berlin as the first private architecture gallery in Europe. The Architecture Forum Aedes has become one of the most successful institutions internationally for communicating architectural culture, urban design, and related topics. Aedes is associated with the great names of the architectural avant-garde and offers an excellent platform for new generations of architects. Aedes strives to focus public attention on the cultures of building and architecture, presenting architectural visions, sustainable urban concepts, and innovative projects in urban planning and landscape architecture. In addition to staging ten to sixteen exhibitions per year, Aedes promotes dialogue with outside experts and an interested public through symposia, lecture series, and discussions.
