Bonn - The "Elf" can be seen. It truly is world champion: 11 top architects from around the world make the competition with the construction of the Beethoven Festival Hall.
10 men and one woman: Zaha Hadid (57). The British architect of Iraqi origin, is a spectacular, modern Arbesbacher.
Exciting, for example, the Aquatics Center in London, will take place in 2012, the Olympic swimming competitions.
Or the new Bergisel Ski Jump in Innsbruck. 2004 Zaha Hadid was the first woman ever won the Pritzker Prize, the Nobel Prize for architects or less.
It will, like their colleagues have a problem: For the construction of the Beethoven Festival Hall may and should cost no more than 75 million euros. This amount will be made in 40:40:20 ratio of the three DAX companies post office, Telekom and Postbank are available.
Project by the German Heinrich Küpper Post said yesterday: "Despite this limitation, we got only two refusals." They would not schedule and then calculate the costs, but take the opposite tack.
"Before construction starts, all estimates are accurate durchgerechnete by our experts. We should not happen to like the Elbe Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. "There, the initial cost of 240 million to 380 million euros had skyrocketed, and that's not the end of the flagpole.
Not have much time Zaha Hadid and her colleagues: As early as mid-December to present the designs. In January a Commission of Experts and late February / early March 2009 meets the result will be announced.
Incidentally, there are no guidelines regarding the preservation of the monumental Beethoven Hall. Küpper: "It can also win a design that provides for the demolition."
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