The winners of the architectural competition were the Berlin architects Heike Hanada and Benedict Thonon. The jury managed to choose the best option only on the second attempt: in March, the competition ended without awarding the first prize, two teams took second place, and two - third (including Hanada and Tonon). The winners were given time to finalize the project, and based on the results of the "extra time" they chose the laureate.
The construction of a new, prominent museum building in Weimar is especially important because the city still did not have a worthy mark of its role as the "cradle of the Bauhaus": it was there that Walter Gropius founded this pioneering school in 1919. Now this omission will be corrected.
The new building will be located in the very center of Weimar, near the city museum, congress center, Gauforum (an administrative building of the Nazi period), next to a park and a residential area of the late 1920s. It will be lifted off the ground on a concrete plinth. The powerful base will be contrasted with a "vague", matte volume: the facades will be faced with narrow stripes of glass, lined horizontally with etched black lines. In the dark, the facade will be illuminated with LEDs.
There are almost no windows in the interior, so the exhibition space will rely on artificial lighting. A café will be arranged in the basement, which will expand the public space around the museum and connect different levels of the building.
