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We attach utmost importance to the protection and security of your data, regardless of whether you are a customer or visitor to our website. We therefore undertake to protect your privacy and to treat your data confidentially. At this point we would like to inform you of the specific personal data of yours that are collected in relation to your visit to this website and for what purposes they are used.
I. Data controller
This website is operated by Zumtobel Group AG, Höchsterstrasse 8, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria, FN 62309 g, which is also the data controller within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as "GDPR").
No data protection officer has been appointed by the data controller since the legal requirements for mandatory appointment are not met.
However, inquiries regarding data protection and the use of your personal data can be sent to the following e-mail address and will be handled by us in accordance with the legal requirements: [email protected]
II. Data used / processing purposes / retention period
The categories of data we use and the purposes pursued through the use of this data are described below. As far as possible, you will also find information on the storage period of the respective data.
Each time this website is accessed, access data is stored in a log file, the server log. The data record stored in this log file contains the following information: Date and time of access, IP address, session ID, accessed website, name of the website from which the website was accessed and information about the browser used.
We evaluate these log files only in the event of misuse of our website. We reserve the right to subsequently check the log files of those users about whom there is a concrete suspicion of using our website in violation of the law and/or the contract. In general, we cannot attribute these data to a specific person. Should such an attribution be possible, we will only use these data in cases where there is a corresponding legal basis (weighing of interests in individual cases).
If you register on our website or for our web shop, we will record the master data you provide (in particular, your name, salutation, telephone and fax number, e-mail address, language of correspondence, industry, department, web shop access data) and use it on the basis of the relevant user agreement. In addition, you will be assigned an internal customer number and one or more contact persons in our company. These data are used by us in order to provide the web shop and to support you, as a customer or interested party of our company. As a rule, such data will be stored for six months after use of the web shop (erasure of the customer account) ends.
If you place an order in the web shop, we will collect any additional delivery addresses for this purpose and other data provided by you that are necessary for the processing of the order. We store such data for up to six months after the end of the customer relationship.
If personal master data or order data are also used in our accounting system, such data will be stored until the end of the prescribed periods (generally 7 years in Austria) on the basis of the statutory retention obligations applicable to us.
If you have given us your consent during registration or at a later time, we will use the data resulting from your use of the web shop or the website, such as the web pages you have accessed, the time spent on individual web pages and the products you have viewed as well as your previous demand interests, in order to optimise customer service and to be able to provide you with customised information. These data will be stored until you revoke your consent for the use of your data.
If you have agreed to receive a newsletter, we will use your name and e-mail address, your gender, address, company and industry sector, as well as language, for the delivery and personalisation of such a newsletter. These data are used for the duration of the subscription to the respective newsletter.
If you are one of our customers, we use your master data on the basis of our legitimate interest in direct marketing purposes and may invite you to events in your area.
If you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, this consent can be revoked by you at any time. You can declare a revocation in writing or by e-mail to [email protected].
III. Recipients and recipient categories of data
In connection with the operation of this website or the web shop, the following processors are acting on behalf of the data controller:
Hosting provider website: Zumtobel Group AG
Provider web shop: Zumtobel Group AG
In addition, we refer to the explanations in Section VI, which describes in detail the use of your data by social networks.
In addition to the recipients specifically mentioned, other processors may also be consulted in the future in connection with the provision of this website and the web shop (e.g. hosting providers, shop operators).
A transfer of data to group companies is carried out based on any consent granted to the recipients named in the consent.
IV. General principles for processing personal data
- We comply with the statutory data protection regulations without restriction.
The data protection regulations of the European Union and the national laws derived from them apply to the storage, processing and use of personal data. The legal basis for the processing of the respective personal data can be seen from the above list.
In some cases, personal data may be provided to processors, if they offer sufficient guarantee for a lawful and secure use of data and if they contractually undertake to comply with the principles described in this privacy policy and the statutory regulations.
We reserve the right to transfer personal data to other companies in the context of restructuring or company mergers if they also undertake to adhere to the principles of action described here and are either based in the European Union or in a third country with adequate data protection.
If you actively choose to use the social networking functions offered on our website, personal data may be transferred to the respective external providers of these social networks. You will find detailed information on this in Section VI below.
We also reserve the right to pass on personal data to third parties if we are forced to do so by law, by a judicial decision by the court of competent jurisdiction or by an order of the competent authority, or if we are forced, as a result of actions or omissions on your part, to have our rights, our property or our assets protected or enforced by the competent authorities. - In the procurement of data, we restrict ourselves to what is necessary and reasonable.
If we collect personal data, we will explain to you in each case for what purposes we use the data.
In individual cases, we only collect personal data to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes. If further use of personal data is no longer necessary, the data will be deleted.
V. Your rights in relation to the data used
If and insofar as we use personal data concerning you, you are entitled to the following rights in particular with regard to such data:
- Right of access to information (Art 15 GDPR): You may at any time request information as to whether and which personal data concerning you are being used by us, for what purposes the data are being processed, where the data originate, to which recipients the data may be transmitted and how long such data are stored by us.
- Right of rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): If you discover that personal data concerning you are inaccurate, you may request the rectification of such data at any time. If data are incomplete from your point of view, you can also request that data be supplemented.
- Right of erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): If you believe that the use of your personal data is no longer necessary or that it is carried out without a sufficient legal basis or is unlawful for other reasons, you can request the erasure of these data.
- Right to restriction of the use of data (Art. 18 GDPR): Instead of erasure of data, you can also demand restriction of the use of data, if data are used unlawfully. In particular, you can also demand such a restriction of the use of data if you dispute the accuracy of data or have lodged an objection to the use of data
- Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): With regard to personal data that you have provided yourself and that are used on the basis of a contract or consent, you can demand that these data be made available to you in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You may also request that this data be transferred directly to another data controller.
- Right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR): If you believe that your rights have been violated in relation to personal data concerning you, you have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority. In particular, you may contact the supervisory authority responsible for your place of residence, your place of work or the place where the suspected violation occurred. In Austria, the responsible supervisory authority is the Austrian Data Protection Authority, Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna.
Separately, we would like to point out your right of objection (Art. 21 GDPR): If reasons arise from your particular situation which make the use of your personal data, which we use on the basis of a legitimate interest, impermissible, you have the right to object to such use of data. If your personal data is used for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object in any case.
If you have any questions or are unclear about your rights regarding your personal data, you can contact us at any time at the following e-mail address: [email protected]
VI. Use of personal data by social networks
Links to social networks
This website uses links to various social networks. With the help of these links you can, for example, share the content of our website with your contacts in social networks or recommend this content to others.
We link to pages of the following social network operators:
Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
Twitter Inc., Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 United States
Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011
Conversion Tracking through
Facebook Pixels, LinkedIn Insight Tags, Pinterest Tags & Twitter Website Tags
We use Facebook pixels, LinkedIn Insight tags, Pinterest tags, Twitter Website Tags to measure and improve the effectiveness of our advertising on social media.
Accordingly, we use the pixels/tags to ensure that our ads match the potential interest of users and are not perceived as annoying. The pixel and tags also allow us to track the effectiveness of our ads for statistical and market research purposes, by seeing whether users have been directed to our site after clicking on an ad.
According to the most recent judicature of the European Court of Justice, our responsibility with regard to the data processed by the aforementioned tools is limited to the collection and transmission of these data. To this extent, the rights of data subjects may also be asserted against us.
The collection and transmission of this data is based on the consent you have given, of which you were expressly notified when you visited our website.
The data collected by the above-mentioned operators cannot be viewed directly by us, but can only be used within the scope of placing advertisements.
Furthermore, we use the "Custom Audiences from File" procedure of the social network Facebook, Inc. and LinkedIn. In this case, the e-mail addresses of the persons are uploaded to Facebook/LinkedIn after consent has been granted. The upload process is encrypted. The upload is used solely to determine recipients of our ads. We want to ensure that the ads are only shown to users who are interested in our information and services.
We have no influence on the further processing of the personal data collected by the respective operators. Furthermore, it is not possible for us to determine the extent to which, where and for how long the data is stored by the social networks, the extent to which the social networks comply with existing deletion obligations, which evaluations and links to the data are carried out by them and to whom the data is passed on by the social networks.
Insofar as the data you send us via Facebook is also or exclusively processed by Facebook (Insights data), Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland, in addition to us, also serves as the data controller for the data processing within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The data processing in this respect is based on an agreement between joint data controllers in accordance with Art. 26 GDPR, which you can view here.
YouTube Plugin
On our website, we include videos from YouTube, YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066 United States. We have no control over the amount of data collected in this manner (for example, by playing and viewing the pages with embedded video) by the providers of the social networks.
The following data are transmitted, according to our knowledge:
- IP address
- The following data are transmitted, according to our knowledge:
- previously visited page (referrer), if you followed a link
- Browser type and settings
- installed plug-ins, such as Adobe® Flash® or Adobe® Reader®
- URL of the page on which the social plugin is embedded
- the date and time of the visit
- technical specifications of the operating system
- Location-related information
- Cookies
By embedding the YouTube videos, the operator receives the information that you have called up the respective pages of our Internet presence. If you are logged into one of the social networks at the same time, the operator can correlate the corresponding access instances to your account with the respective social network. If you also interact with the plug-ins, the corresponding information is transmitted to the respective social network.
Even if you do not have a YouTube account, there is a possibility that YouTube will learn your IP address and possibly save it. For details on the purpose and scope of YouTube's data processing, collection and use, and your rights and setting options in this regard, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Policy at: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/
In addition, you may be able to technically prevent a data transfer to YouTube. Please adjust the security settings in the web browser you are using for this purpose. Please refer to the "Help" section in your web browser to find out how this works.
VII. Cookies
We use cookies on our website to enable the use of certain functions of the website, to analyse how users use our website and to provide certain third-party services.
These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognise your computer during your next visit (so-called persistent cookies). In addition, cookies from third parties are also used on our website.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. However, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.
If you do not wish our cookies to be stored on your computer, please deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser for our website or set your browser so that cookies are generally not stored on your computer. You can also use your browser to delete cookies that have already been stored.
Deactivating the use of cookies may require a permanent cookie to be stored on your computer. If this cookie is subsequently deleted by you, you must perform the deactivation again.
The following categories of cookies are used on our website:
I. Session cookies
To make it easier for you to browse our website, we use a so-called session ID (session identifier), which is assigned to each visitor at the beginning of each use of our website. This session ID is used by our server to recognise you or your computer/browser as the same visitor, even though your IP address may have changed in the meantime. This session ID enables the assignment of several related requests of a user to one session. The session ID cookie we use is only valid until the end of a session. It is automatically deleted when you close your browser.
II. Persistent cookies
a. Salesforce Pardot
We use the Pardot Marketing Automation System, a special software for collecting and evaluating the use of a website by website visitors and for sending marketing communication (newsletters, event invitations, etc.). When visiting this website, Pardot captures your click path and creates an individual usage profile using a pseudonym. For this purpose, cookies are used, which allow recognition of your browser.
However, you can deactivate the creation of pseudoymised user profiles at any time by configuring your Internet browser so that cookies of the domain “pardot.com” are not accepted. However, this may result in some limitations in the features and usability of our offering. In order to provide you with an offer or product information that is as interesting as possible and to the extent your consent to it, it is possible to merge your personal data with the data of the pseudonymised user profile via the set cookies, if you – for example by ordering a newsletter or completing a form – provide personal information. You may opt-out to this use of your personal information, such as name and address information, in writing an email to [email protected] or by clicking the unsubscribe link in any newsletter or other marketing communication at any time. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Newsletters sent with Pardot contain so-called web beacons. These are small graphics that allow user behaviour, such as opening and reading emails and clicking links to analyse. This allows us to make our content more relevant and interesting to you.
III. Third-party cookies
Third-party services are also integrated within the framework of our website. With regard to these services, personal data may be used by the providers mentioned below, which are not within the responsibility of the provider of this website.
According to our present knowledge, these are at least the following data:
- Date and time of the visit to the relevant website,
- Internet address or URL of the web page accessed,
- IP address,
- (Start) address entered during route planning
We have no influence on the further processing and use of the data by Google and can therefore not take responsibility for this.
If you do not want Google to collect, process or use data about you via our website, you can deactivate JavaScript in your browser settings. In this case, however, you cannot use the map display.
The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Google's privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/ .
VIII. Links to external websites
Our website contains so-called hyperlinks to websites from other providers. In these cases, you will be directly forwarded from our website to the websites of the other providers. You can recognise this by the change of the URL in the address bar of your browser, among other things.
We cannot assume any responsibility for the confidential handling of your data by such providers, as we have no influence on whether the other providers comply with the data protection regulations. Please refer to the websites of these providers directly for information on how they handle your personal data.
IX. Security measures to protect your data
To protect your data, we have taken special technical and operational security measures which are regularly reviewed and adapted to technological progress.
However, we would like to point out that due to the structure of the Internet, it is possible that the rules of data protection and data security may not be observed by other persons or institutions that are not within our area of responsibility.
X. Changes to the data protection policy
Since changes in the law or changes in our internal company processes may make it necessary to adapt this data protection policy, which we reserve the right to do accordingly, we ask you to read this data protection policy regularly.
Last updated: March 2022
Zumtobel Group AG
Höchsterstrasse 8, 6850 Dornbirn
+43 5572 509 - 0
www.z.lighting
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires, lighting solutions and lighting components
AG (= public limited company)
Alfred Felder (CEO)
Bernard Motzko (COO)
Thomas Erath (CFO)
Christian Beer, Volkhard Hofmann, Eva Kienle, Georg Pachta-Reyhofen (Vice Chairman), Thorsten Staake, Karin Zumtobel-Chammah (Chairwoman)
Delegates of the employees' council: Richard Apnar, Dietmar Dünser, Isabel Kreilhuber
app. 37% Zumtobel Family, Dornbirn
app. 63% Free Float
FN 62900a
Feldkirch Regional Court (Landesgericht Feldkirch)
ATU 361 728 05
Vorarlberg Chamber of Commerce
BA-CA, account no. 0084-26314/00, bank code 11000
Information on the company’s products and services, and promotion of sales.Information on the Zumtobel Group: The company offers integral professional lighting solutions, luminaires, light management systems and lighting components for indoor and outdoor applications
Zumtobel Lighting GmbH
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires as well as lighting solutions
Alfred Felder (CEO) | Bernard Motzko (COO) | Thomas Erath (CFO)
Karin Zumtobel-Chammah (Chairwoman), Georg Pachta-Reyhofen (Vice Chairman), Volkhard Hofmann (Vice Chairman), Christian Beer
Delegates of the employees' council: Dietmar Dünser, Richard Apnar
Schweizer Strasse 30, 6850 Dornbirn
FN 62900a
Landesgericht Feldkirch
ATU36137006
+43 (5572) 390-0
Information on the company’s products and services, and promotion of sales.
Wholly owned subsidiary of Zumtobel Group AG, Dornbirn, Austria
Zumtobel Lighting GmbH
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires as well as lighting solutions
Alfred Felder (CEO) | Bernard Motzko (COO) | Thomas Erath (CFO)
Karin Zumtobel-Chammah (Chairwoman), Georg Pachta-Reyhofen (Vice Chairman), Volkhard Hofmann (Vice Chairman), Christian Beer
Delegates of the employees' council: Dietmar Dünser, Richard Apnar
Schweizer Strasse 30, 6850 Dornbirn
FN 62900a
Feldkirch Regional Court (Landesgericht Feldkirch)
ATU36137006
+43 (5572) 390-0
Information on the company’s products and services, and promotion of sales.
Wholly owned subsidiary of Zumtobel Group AG, Dornbirn, Austria
100% subsidiary of Zumtobel Group AG, Dornbirn, Austria
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- Here you can download our General Purchasing Conditions Zumtobel Group AG in German, English and Serbian.
Please read these conditions of use carefully. Unfortunately, we are compelled to request you for legal reasons to leave our Internet pages if you cannot observe these rules. The same applies if you are subject to a law (for example on account of nationality, residence or place of stay) which forbids the use of or visit to these Internet pages or parts of them.
Intellectual property
Except for references expressly to the contrary, all data, works, inventions, designs, concepts, ideas and other elements of these Internet pages (hereinafter called “Intellectual Property”) belong exclusively to Zumtobel GmbH, A-6850 Dornbirn (hereinafter called “Zumtobel”) or a company within the Zumtobel Group, or a third party licensing Zumtobel or the Zumtobel Group. Any use of the Intellectual Property including for personal purposes, is prohibited. Excepted from this, is personal, non-commercial viewing of the Internet pages by means of commercially available and non-modified browser software, as well as the preparation of a single print on paper solely for personal use. Zumtobel and/or third parties authorised by it and/or third parties who have suffered damage are in the case of infringement also entitled to judicial enforcement and restitution of the legal status in addition to any claim for compensation.
No offer
These Internet pages do not represent an offer to a contractual relation of any kind whatsoever. We offer legal transactions by the internet solely for registered customers with individual login.
No advice
News, references, opinions, prices, data or other information on these Internet pages are always to be understood as being general and not binding. They may be altered and/or removed at any time and without prior notice. The information which may be called from these Internet pages must never be taken to be product guaranties and/or interpreted as assurance of qualities or availabilities.
No guarantee for contents
All contents of the Internet pages, as for example, information, technical instructions, prices, colours etc. are supplied without guarantee. They are always to be considered as unsecured and are based in part on information provided by third parties which are similarly supplied without guarantee.
No confidentiality
Communication over the areas of the Internet pages which are accessible by the public at large (for example, with a web form) is made uncoded over the Internet and may be read with simple technical means by third persons, and are clearly related not only to the sender but also to the recipient. The same applies to the delivery of an e-mail to Zumtobel . It is therefore strongly inadvisable to communicate confidential information to Zumtobel or to third parties over the Internet pages or by e-mail.
No guarantee for availability
Availability of the Internet pages or of certain parts thereof is at no time guaranteed. Zumtobel may limit availability of the Internet pages at any time for particular or unlimited periods and/or alter or remove the contents.
No liability
All liability of Zumtobel arising out of or in connection with use of the Internet pages or connected with offers made by third parties via links with the Internet pages, is excluded.
Applicable law
In as far as a contractual relationship should arise at all between you and Zumtobel, it shall be governed solely by the laws of Austria not including cross-referenced rules.
The Zumtobel Group Award 2021 produced three exceptional winning projects, which address collective living, affordable housing and circularity: Lacol, an architecture cooperative from Barcelona, Spain, the Black Women Build Initiative, Baltimore, USA, and the Circular Construction Lab of Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
Amid all the outstanding submissions, the following projects received a final nomination by the jury:
Buildings category
Anandaloy, Studio Anna Heringer, Laufen, Germany | Maya Somaiya Library, Sameep Padora & Associates, Mumbai, India | Pingelly Recreation and Cultural Centre, iredale pedersen hook architects with Advanced Timber Concepts Studio, Perth, Australia | Tambacounda Maternity and Paediatric Hospital, Manuel Herz Architects, Basel, Switzerland | Cyclone Shelter, URBANA, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Urban Developments & Initiatives category
Thammasat Urban Rooftop Farm, Landprocess, Bangkok, Thailand | City of 1000 Tanks, OOZE architects & urbanists, Rotterdam, Netherlands | Sweet City, Municipalidad de Curridabat, Costa Rica | PlanBude Hamburg, PlanBude, Hamburg, Germany
Special Prize for Innovation
People´s Pavilion, Overtreders W and bureau SLA, Amsterdam, Netherlands | Adaptex, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Priedemann Facade-Lab, Germany
Alfred Felder is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Zumtobel Group. He joined the lighting group in November 2012. As CEO of Tridonic he was initially responsible for the Zumtobel Group’s components business. From April 2016 until January 2018, Alfred Felder assumed the role of Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Management Board of the Zumtobel Group. Felder holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering and previously held a wide range of specialist and management roles with the Siemens Group and its former lighting arm, Osram. In the course of his career he has spent several longer periods in Japan, the US and China.
Francine Houben is the Founding CEO and Creative Director of Mecanoo architecten. Francine has held professorships in the Netherlands and abroad. From 2002 to 2006 she was City Architect of Almere. In 2001 she published her seminal manifesto about architecture: ‚Composition, Contrast, Complexity’ and as curator of the First International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam in 2003, she brought the theme of the mobility of aesthetics to the forefront of international design consciousness. Since 2010 Houben has been a lifelong member of the Akademie der Künste, Architecture Department, in Berlin. Her work ranges from theatres, museums and libraries to masterplans, housing and parks. Each design is founded on observation of people, location, culture and climate. The analysis amounts to integrated designs for unforgettable spaces that respond to current needs, yet which are also prepared for (un)predictable change. With Mecanoo, she designed Europe’s largest library in Birmingham, the National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts in Taiwan and the Municipal Offices and Train Station of Delft. Currently, she is working on the renovation of the New York Public Library Midtown Campus.
Dorte Mandrup is a Danish architect with more than 25 years of experience. She graduated from the Aarhus School of Architecture, Denmark in 1991. Eight years later she founded her Copenhagen based studio where she continues to be Creative Director and inspire an international team of 70 dedicated people. Studies in both sculpture and natural sciences have influenced Dorte Mandrup’s approach to architecture, which has always been ‘hands-on’ and defined by a formal restlessness materializing in deep, contextual analysis and explorative prototyping.
As a humanist with a distinct nonconformist mindset, Dorte Mandrup is well known for her commitment to the development of the architectural practice and her frequent participation in public debates. Receiving national and international acclaim for her work, in 2018 Dorte headlined at the curated international exhibition at La Biennale di Venezia. Dorte is Vice Chairman of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, member of the Historic Buildings Council in Denmark, Chair of the prestigious Mies van der Rohe Award 2019, Adjunct Professor at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and holds frequent visiting professorships abroad, in 2018 at Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Tobias Nolte is a founding partner of Certain Measures, a hypothesis driven office for design science with locations in Berlin, Germany and Boston, USA. Nolte is also Professor for Media Architectural Representation at the Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany. Before starting his own office, he was a Director at Gehry Technologies in New York and worked on the implementation of parametric and computer-aided methods in design and construction. Earlier, Nolte was a research fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He has lectured courses on digital design at the Ecole Speciale d'Architecture in Paris and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was a design critic at the Harvard GSD, MIT, Städelschule and others. Tobias Nolte studied at the TU Berlin and the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SciArc) in Los Angeles. With its "Mine the Scrap" project, Certain Measures was nominated as a finalist for the Zumtobel Group Award 2017 in the Applied Innovations category as well as for the Special Young Professionals Prize.
Kjetil Trædal Thorsen is a well-known Norwegian architect. Before finishing at his secondary school in Norway, he spent two years in Sunningdale, England, where he completed his art O-level, a year earlier. When in Sunningdale, he decided to study architecture. Immediately after finishing secondary school at Karmøy, he moved to Graz, Austria, to study architecture at the Technical University. He completed his study in 1985 and moved to Oslo the same year to open his first private practice as a one man office, but still continuing to collaborate with other architects and landscape architects. In 1987 Kjetil Trædal Thorsen co-founded Snøhetta, an architecture, landscape, interior design, and brand design office in Oslo, which attaches great importance to “negotiated architecture”. Since 2004, Kjetil Trædal Thorsen has been a professor at the Institute for Experimental Studies in Architecture of the University of Innsbruck.
Ian Ritchie CBE RA is director of ritchie*studio, poet, writer, artist, Royal Academician and member of the Akademie der Künste. He is Honorary Visiting Professor at Liverpool University and advises Backstage Trust. He is a former Governor of the RSC and advisor to The Ove Arup Foundation. He has chaired many international juries including the RIBA Stirling Prize, and has received three international innovation Awards - Robert Matthew Commonwealth Award, the Academie d'Architecture Grand Silver Medal and Premio Internazionale Ischia di Architettura (PIDA). His practice has won more than 100 national and international awards, and recently completed the Royal Academy of Music’s Theatre and Recital Hall, and the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour at UCL. He has written many books, and a number of international museums hold his art.
Buildings (Zumtobel)
This category is dedicated to architecturally outstanding buildings or complexes realised within the last four years (15 January 2017 until 15 May 2021). The winning submission constitute an innovative, sustainable and socially beneficial contribution to the built environment. Applying the latest technologies, new materials and creative design concepts, it leads to a distinct improvement in the quality of life. The award goes to an implemented building or complex of exceptional architectural merit, but also includes projects dealing with the re-use, conservation or refurbishment of existing structures or the addition of new components.
Urban Developments & Initiatives (Thorn)
This category is dedicated to projects on an urban scale: city development/planning strategies, master plans, public space projects and landscape architecture. It also includes ongoing research projects and social initiatives in an urban context. The award targets innovative urban developments that are in progress or have been realised in the last four years (15 January 2017 until 15 May 2021) as well as ongoing research into the improved implementation of sustainability and humanity. Aiming to encourage an emerging generation of researchers and practitioners in architecture and urban design, the award in this category seeks to facilitate and promote inventive urban projects. Furthermore, it targets interdisciplinary work to address urban challenges in more efficient and intelligent ways. This can also include new practices or inventive methods to optimise planning and building processes. Individuals or groups from university contexts, architects, urban and landscape planners, NGOs and private or public initiatives are eligible.
Special Prize for Innovation (Tridonic)
This special prize is dedicated to outstanding innovations and smart resourceful solutions in the built environment or urban infrastructure. It addresses creative concepts that serve human needs and reduce environmental impacts. Technological innovations could include, for example, new materials, sensors, intelligent controls, renewable means of energy generation or smart networking of the different trades such as HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) and lighting. The award also honours initiatives to empower a group of actors or citizens to work together to address urban challenges in more efficient and intelligent ways. This can also include original practices or inventive methods to optimise (building) processes and mechanisms. The Special Prize for Innovation is chosen from the projects submitted in the two categories.
- May, 2022 25 Live.Light. See it. Feel it. Live it. Zumtobel Group Light Forum becomes a meeting point for light enthusiasts – Zumtobel Group Award officially presented at the customer event
- Mar, 2022 22 Pritzker Prize: Designer of this year’s annual report of the Zumtobel Group recognised with prestigious architecture award
- Dec, 2021 14 Zumtobel Group Award 2021: The projects of the international award recipients address collective housing, affordable homes and circularity
- Oct, 2021 20 Zumtobel Group Award 2021: Shortlist selected from 220 entries
- Apr, 2021 23 Zumtobel Group Award: Then and now – Checking in with Michael Maltzan and his 2017 award winning Star Apartments project
- Feb, 2021 18 Zumtobel Group Award 2021: Online submission deadline extended until 15 May
The Zumtobel Group Award honours innovations for Sustainability and Humanity in the Built Environment while promoting pioneering concepts and developments for more quality of life and sustainability in the built environment and its design.
In addition to the two categories considered within the award, one Buildings and the other Urban Developments & Initiatives, there was also the chance to win a Special Prize for Innovation. Acting as a stimulus, the Zumtobel Group Award addresses core issues of our age. Praising sustainable solutions, pioneering social initiatives, research projects and applied innovations in the built environment. As in its preceding years, the Award is curated by Aedes Architecture Forum Berlin.
The driving force behind this award was and is the significance innovative solutions in architecture and urban planning can have to reduce global energy consumption and boost the general quality of life. For many years the Zumtobel Group has made sustainability and energy efficiency key objectives in the production, function and application of its products across all boards of its three internationally established brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel.
The Zumtobel Group Award belongs to the most respected awards in the world of architecture and has had up to date a total of sixteen projects awarded first place since its fruition in 2007. The legacy of this award continues to thrive in the future.
The Award Ceremony took place on 24 May 2022 at the Zumtobel Group Light Forum in Dornbirn.
The Award is scheduled every three years. Next call for submission to follow.
Winner 2017 in the category Buildings: Star Apartments. Read more
Winner 2017 in the category Urban Developments: Arnhem Central Station. Read more
Winner 2017 in the category Applied Innovations: Warka Water. Read more
Winner 2017 of the Young Professional: Jianamani Visitor Center. Read more
Winner 2014 in the category Buildings: Port Sudan Paediatric Centre. Read more
Winner 2014 in the category Applied Innovations: SolarLeaf. Read more
Winner 2014 in the category Urban Developments: Pres Constitución. Read more
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Zumtobel Group
The Zumtobel Group aims to create wellbeing and improve people’s quality of life through light – as a group, and through all its individual brands, Thorn, Tridonic and Zumtobel. As a leading supplier of innovative lighting solutions, the Group offers its customers around the world a comprehensive portfolio, where the focus is invariably on people and their needs. The company’s know-how about the effects of light on people, acquired over decades, forms the basis for sustainable and future-oriented lighting solutions that are increasingly energy- and resource-efficient while providing the best possible quality of light. The company is based in Dornbirn in the Vorarlberg region of Austria.
Aedes Architecture Forum
Aedes was founded in 1980 in Berlin as the first private architecture gallery in Europe. The Architecture Forum Aedes has become one of the most successful institutions internationally for communicating architectural culture, urban design, and related topics. Aedes is associated with the great names of the architectural avant-garde and offers an excellent platform for new generations of architects. Aedes strives to focus public attention on the cultures of building and architecture, presenting architectural visions, sustainable urban concepts, and innovative projects in urban planning and landscape architecture. In addition to staging ten to sixteen exhibitions per year, Aedes promotes dialogue with outside experts and an interested public through symposia, lecture series, and discussions.
Aedes Architecture Forum
Dr. h.c. Kristin Feireiss and
Hans-Jürgen Commerell
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Zumtobel Group
Isabel Zumtobel
Head of Arts & Culture
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Zumtobel Group
Media Contact
Natalie Kreutzer
Editor in Chief
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