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.

KME Germany AG meets in close dialogue with architects the constant challenges of facilitating and moving forward with new approaches in architecture. With the TECU® ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2007 we have once more enhanced this dialogue by actively promoting the innovative use of copper in modern building design.

Architects and architecture students throughout Europe were once again asked to submit building and study projects that made use of TECU® products to compete in the TECU® ARCHITECTURE AWARD 2007. The response to the award was even more overwhelming than to the latest one in 2005. The works submitted impressed the jury by high quality and enormous variety. A total of 157 contributions from 16 countries were submitted to KME Germany AG in Osnabrück.

The jury adjudicated projects from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the UK. Besides three equal-ranking architecture prizes, the company also awarded two project prizes for students. One special commendation was also given.