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 Copper, more than any other building material, is brought to life by specific applications. It reflects the entire range of architectural issues: historical and futuristic, manual trade skills and technological progress – convention and innovation, technology and art, tradition and avant-garde.
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KME Germany AG, the world’s largest manufacturer of products made of copper and copper alloys, meets in close dialogue with architects the constant challenges of facilitating and moving forward with new approaches in architecture. With the TECU® ARCHITECTURE AWARD it has enhanced this dialogue by actively promoting the innovative use of copper in modern building design.
In addition to the well-known bright-rolled appearance of copper, today’s TECU® products offer pre-patinated, oxidised and tin-coated surfaces as well as new copper alloy materials.
TECU® copper sheets and strips are lasting, corrosion-resistant and therefore highly economical materials. They are an enduring part of architecture, depicting with their changing aesthetic surface appearances a distinctive time-line of building history. There is hardly any other material that offers the same particular local quality and natural depth of surface combined with historical durability.
The TECU® ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2005 will again distinguish outstanding projects that make exemplary and innovative use of the extensive range of application options available with TECU® as a building material. For the purposes of adjudication, the overall architectural concept will be just as decisive as the specific use to which the material is put. The contest comprises the categories Constructed Buildings (with special prizes for single familiy or semi-detached house and for restauration projects) and a Project Award for Students.
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