Construction has begun on the new Bauhaus Museum Dessau by Barcelona architecture firm Gonzalez Hinz Zabala, which saw off competition from New York practice Young & Ayata to win the project.
Gonzalez Hinz Zabala and Young & Ayata drew for first place in the international competition in 2015, which aimed to attract up-and-coming firms.

The winning design features expanses of glazing and an exposed framework. It will host 2,100 square metres of exhibition space for products created by the influential German art and design school.
"The Bauhaus in Dessau will receive a very unique and new quality with this museum designed by Gonzales Hinz Zabala, because theirs is an architecture whose design vocabulary follows modernity and whose materiality and flexibility will be functioning very well as an exhibition venue," said the director of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Claudia Perren.
The more restrained of the two designs ? Young & Ayata's concept comprised a group of colourful pods ? Gonzalez Hinz Zabala's proposal was selected in part for keeping within budget constraints of ?25 million (£21 million).
"I know that many inhabitants wished for the more colourful design by the New York-based architects," said mayor Peter Kuras. "Its cost planning, however, would exceed the defined budget which we are set to keep at any rate."
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