Berlin architects Gustav Du?sing and Max Hacke have been awarded this year's Mies van der Rohe Award for Study Pavilion, a steel-framed university building in Germany.
Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever received the biennial accolade, also known as the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture or EUmies Award.
Study Pavilion has won this year's Mies van der Rohe Award
The gridded Study Pavilion was created for the Technical University of Braunschweig as a campus building containing flexible spaces for studying and socialising.
It won the prize for "its ability to challenge the constraints and imagery of sustainability, creating a welcoming and playful environment for study, collaboration and community gathering through an uncompromising and carefully detailed structure," according to the award announcement. The university building has a gridded steel and wood structure
"It has taken a clear architectural idea, scrutinised it and pushed it to the limit," the announcement continued. "More than being a building, it could be understood as a versatile system, merging technological inventions with a flexible and reusable principle."
The Study Pavilion has a hybrid steel-wood structure organised in a three-by-three metre grid of columns and beams, wrapped with fully glazed facades.
It contains study spaces for students at the Technical University of Brau...