The first piece of the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be set into place this weekend as part of the ?Bauhaus Building 90th Anniversary? event, one year after Barcelona architects Gonza?lez Hinz Zabala were selected as the winners of a fierce international competition for the commission.

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The first piece of the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau will be set into place this weekend as part of the ?Bauhaus Building 90th Anniversary? event, one year after Barcelona architects Gonza?lez Hinz Zabala were selected as the winners of a fierce international competition for the commission.Gonza?lez Hinz Zabala?s open concept, ?Black Box? design was originally selected as a joint 1st place winner with a proposal from New York architects Young & Ayata in September of last year, and then awarded the commission for the final design in December following further fine tuning of the design.
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?We succeeded, in collaboration with the architects, to further densify the museum concept in the process. The approach by Gonza?lez Hinz Zabala ? to envision the Bauhaus Museum Dessau as an interplay between a hermetic spatial structure and an open-plan ground floor ? now appears even more convincing. Also because the complex was given more of an aesthetic workshop character in this planning effort,? said Claudia Perren, Bauhaus Dessau Foundation director.?This does not only correspond to the Bauhaus idea but als...