Annual Awards of the Slovak Architects Association for the year 2011 awarded

As is tradition at the end of the year, the SAS awards its annual prizes: The Dušan Jurkovič Award for the best architectural realization, The Emil Belluš Award for lifetime achievement, and The Prof. Kusý Award for writing about architecture and its popularization.

THE DUŠAN JURKOVIČ AWARD will this year go to Banská Bystrica. Architects Branislav Hovorka, Štefan Moravčík, and Martin Pauliny will receive it for the work The Headquarters of Phoenix Zeppelin in Banská Bystrica-Kráľová.

The following works have been nominated:

• Reconstruction of the Old Town Hall in Bratislava. Authors: Juraj Almássy, Peter Bouda, Richard Čečetka, Ivan Masár, Ondrej Strýček
• OTIO - house by the rectory, Drážovce near Nitra. Author: Sebastian Nagy
• Avelane Clinic, Nitra. Authors: Bajtek, Matúš Konček, Martin Matunák, Ľuboš Poláček
• Residential Villa Pomaranč, Bratislava. Authors: Michal Vršanský, Vladimír Vršanský

The international jury for this year's award worked in the following composition:

• JAROSLAV WERTIG, chairman of the jury, Czech Republic (architect, Prague, Atelier 69 www.a69.cz)
• LADISLAV BRADIAK, Slovakia (architect from Banská Bystrica, SAS; nominated for the Jurkovič Award in 2009 for the residential building "Kačica" in Banská Bystrica)
• KALIN CAKOV, Slovakia (architect, founder of the cakov-makara studio, nominated last year for the Jurkovič Award for the winery complex in Modra)
• ANDREAS LICHTBLAU, Austria (architect, founder of the renowned Vienna studio lichtblau.wagner architekten; their Nursing School in Vienna completed in September 2010 was published in the magazine Projekt 1/2011)
• PETER LIZON, USA (architect and educator of Slovak origin, has lived in the USA for over 40 years, served as a professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, currently resides in Florida)
• ŠTEFAN ŠLACHTA, Slovakia (architect, vice president of SAS, publicist, educator; he was the first president of SAS, rector of VŠVU, chief architect of Bratislava, has published several books)
• ĽUBICA VITKOVÁ, Slovakia (architect, associate professor at the Department of Urban Design, has been the dean of the Faculty of Architecture at STU in Bratislava since 2010, the first woman in both the history of the faculty and all of STU)

The Association of Architects has published a catalog for the Award, which presents all submitted works. From November 15, the exhibition Dušan Jurkovič Award 2011 is also open at the SAS Gallery in Bratislava (Panská 15, 1st floor).

THE EMIL BELLUŠ AWARD for lifetime achievement will this year be awarded in memoriam to Professor Rastislav Janák (1942-2002), who worked at the Academy of Fine Arts. He was one of the most significant figures in Slovak interior design, and with his creative team, he received numerous awards (including the Dušan Jurkovič Award twice). The most significant realizations include: the II. terminal of Bratislava airport; interiors of the Tatra cinema, interiors of the Zichy Palace in Bratislava; interiors of the VÚB bank on Gorkého Street in Bratislava; music shop - Hummel's house on Klobučnícka Street in Bratislava, reconstructions and interiors in the premises of Bratislava Castle.
On December 15, 2011, an exhibition of Rastislav Janák will be opened at the SAS Gallery (at Panská 15 in Bratislava), accompanied by a catalog.

THE PROF. MARTIN KUSÝ AWARD for scientific research and popularization of architecture has two laureates this year. Dana Bořutová will receive it for her excellent monograph "Architect Dušan Samuel Jurkovič," published by Slovart in 2009. Igor Thurzo is recognized for his lifelong documentation-publication, educational, and activist work in the field of protecting folk architecture, industrial monuments, and regional history, as well as for his consistent civic attitudes.