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We place great value on the protection and security of your data, regardless of whether you are a customer or visitor to our online presence. We therefore undertake to protect your private sphere and to handle your data confidentially. In this document, we are pleased to inform you of the specific personal data collected in relation to your visit to this website and the purposes to which it is used.
I. Responsible person
This website is operated by Zumtobel Group AG, Höchsterstraße 8, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria, FN 62309 g, which acts as the "responsible person" within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter "GDPR").
The responsible person has not appointed a data protection officer, because this is not necessary in order to comply with the statutory requirements.
However, inquiries about data protection and the procesing of your presonal data can be sent to the following email address, and we will handle them in accordance with the statutory provisions: dataprivacy@zumtobelgroup.com.
DATA PROTECTION PRIVACY
We place great value on the protection and security of your data, regardless of whether you are a customer or visitor to our online presence. We therefore undertake to protect your private sphere and to handle your data confidentially. In this document, we are pleased to inform you of the specific personal data collected in relation to your visit to this website and the purposes for which it is used.
I. Responsible person
This website is operated by Zumtobel Group AG, Höchsterstraße 8, 6850 Dornbirn, Austria, FN 62309 g, which acts as the “responsible person” within the meaning of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter “GDPR”).
The responsible person has not appointed a data protection officer, because this is not necessary in order to comply with the statutory requirements.
However, inquiries about data protection and the processing of your personal data can be sent to the following email address, and we will handle them in accordance with the statutory provisions: dataprivacy@zumtobelgroup.com.
II. Data processing, Purpose of processing, Duration of storage
This section describes the data categories we use as well as the purposes we aim to achieve through use of the data. Information on the length of time for which various kinds of data are stored is provided where possible.
Every time this website is accessed, access data is saved in a log file known as the server log. The data record saved in this regard contains the following information: date and time of access, IP address, session ID, the website accessed, name of the website from which the website was accessed, and information about the browser used.
We only analyze these log files in the event of misuse of our website. We reserve the right to subsequently examine the log files of users against whom a concrete suspicion exists of having used our website illegally and/or in breach of contract. In general, it is not possible for us to associate this data with a specific person. If such association is possible, however, we only use such data in cases for which a corresponding legal basis exists (weighing of interests in the individual case).
When you log in to our website or online shop, we collect the contact data you provide (in particular, your name, salutation, telephone and fax number, email address, language of correspondence, department and online shop access data) and use it on the basis of the processing agreement on this subject. Moreover, in our internal processes, you are assigned a customer number and one or more contact persons from our company. We use this data to make our online shop available and serve you insofar as you are a customer of, or interested in, our company. In most cases, such data is stored for six months after use of the online shop has ceased (the customer account is deleted).
If you place an order in the online shop, we collect additional information for this purpose, including a delivery address and other information necessary for order processing, which you provide. We store such data for up to six months after the customer relationship ends.
Insofar as personal contact or order data is also used in our accounting processes, such data is stored until the end of prescribed periods on the basis of the statutory retention periods to which we are subject (usually 7 years in Austria).
If you have provided corresponding consent to us as part of the registration process or at a later time, we will also use the data resulting from your use of the online shop and the website, such as the web pages you accessed, the length of time you stayed on individual web pages and the products you looked at, as well as your previous items of interest in order to optimize our customer service and provide you with customized information. This data is stored until you revoke consent to its use.
If you have agreed to receive a newsletter, we use your name and email address to deliver such a newsletter. This data is used for as long as you are subscribed to the respective newsletter.
You can revoke at any time any consent you have provided for processing of your personal data. You can send notice of revocation in writing or via email to dataprivacy@zumtobelgroup.com.
III. Data recipients and recipient categories
In connection with operating this website and/or online shop, the following service providers have been engaged by the responsible person.
Website hosting provider: Zumtobel Group AG
Online shop provider: Zumtobel Group AG
Aside from the specific recipients listed, other service providers may be engaged in connection with providing this website and the online shop (e.g., hosting provider, shop provider) in the future.
Transmission of data to other Group companies is performed on the basis of consent granted for data transmission to the named recipients.
IV. General principles for the processing of personal data
- Without limitation, we comply with all statutory data protection regulations.
The data protection directives 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 processing the respective personal data is evident from the foregoing. - Personal data is not sold, given over, rented out or otherwise disclosed to third parties in any manner without your consent.
We will not make third parties aware of your personal data for advertising or marketing purposes or otherwise give it to third parties unless this is necessary in order to execute the performance owed to you or without your express permission.
In some cases personal data may certainly be made available to external service providers if they offer sufficient guarantees that data will be used legally and securely, and they contractually undertake to comply with the principles and statutory provisions described in this Data Protection Policy.
Within the scope of corporate restructuring or mergers, we reserve the right to transfer personal data to other companies, provided they also undertake to comply with the principles of conduct described here and are domiciled either within the European Union or a third state with an appropriate level of data protection.
If you decide to actively use the social networking functions offered in our online presence, personal data will be forwarded to the respective external social network providers. See Section 4, below, for detailed information on this topic.
Furthermore we reserve the right to forward personal data to third parties if we are compelled to do so by operation of law, judgment handed down by a court of competent jurisdiction or administrative order issued by the competent supervisory authority; or if, as a result of actions or omissions on your part, we are forced to have our rights, property and assets protected by the competent supervisory authorities or have said rights, etc. enforced on our behalf. - The data we collect is limited to necessary and expedient information.
When we collect personal data, we always explain to you the purposes for which we process the data. In individual cases, we collect personal data only to the extent necessary to achieve these purposes. If personal data is no longer required for our use, it is deleted.
V. Your rights in relation to the data used
If and insofar as we use personal data relating to you, you have the following rights in relation to such data:
- Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR): You can demand information at any time as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed by us and if so, to demand that we inform you of the specific information, as well as the purposes of its processing, the origin of the data, any recipients to whom the data has been transmitted and the length of time that such data has been stored by us.
- Right to correction (Art. 16 GDPR): If you become aware that personal data relating to you is incorrect, you can demand the correction of such data at any time. Insofar as you consider data to be incomplete, you can also demand that any missing data be added.
- Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): If you believe that the processing of your personal data is no longer necessary or that such use is occurring without a sufficient legal basis or is illegal for other reasons, you can demand the erasure of this data.
- Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): Instead of erasure, you can also demand that data processing be restricted if data is being processed illegally. In particular, you can also demand such restriction of data processing if you dispute the correctness of the data or have filed an objection against an instance of data processing.
- Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): With regard to the personal data that you have created yourself and which is used on the basis of a contract or consent, you can demand that this data be provided to you in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You can also demand that this data be sent directly to another responsible person.
- Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): If in your special situation there are reasons that make it illegal to process personal data relating to you, which we are processing on the basis of a weighing of interests, you have the right to object to such data usage. Insofar as your personal data is processed for direct advertising, you also have a right to object.
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art 77 GDPR): If you believe that your rights in relation to personal data relating to you have been infringed, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In particular, you can do so with the supervisory authority that is responsible for your place of residence, place of work or the place of suspected infringement. In Austria, the competent supervisory authority is the Datenschutzbehörde [Data Protection Agency], Wickenburggasse 8, 1080 Vienna.
If you have questions about your rights in relation to your personal data or want something clarified, you can contact us at any time at the following email address: dataprivacy@zumtobelgroup.com.
VI. Processing of data by social networks
This website uses social media plugins of various social networks. These plugins are functions of the respective social network that enable you to share content from our website with your contacts in the social networks or to recommend this content, for example. The social media plugins can be recognized by the logo of the respective social network.
We use social media plugins from the following social network operators:
- Facebook: Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA
- Twitter: Twitter Inc., Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA
- Pinterest: Pinterest Inc., 808 Brannan Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
- LinkedIn: LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, California 94043, USA
- Instagram: Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA
On our website, all social media plugins with the exception of YouTube are deactivated by default, which means that simply accessing our website does not result in any data being transferred to the social network providers. If you want to use the functionality of the respective social network and therefore activate an initially deactivated social media plugin, you are expressly consenting for data to be transferred to the social network operator from that time forward. We have no influence on the scope of data collected in this way by the providers of social networks.
To our knowledge, the following data is transferred:
- IP address
- User identification, if you are logged into the respective service
- Previously visited page (referrer), if you followed a link
- Type of browser and browser settings
- installed plugins like Adobe® Flash® or Adobe® Reader®
- URL of the page on which the social media plugin is integrated
- The date and time of the visit
- Technical data relating to the operating system
- Location-specific information
- Cookies.
Through the integration of the plugin, the operators of the social networks receive the information that you accessed the respective pages of our online presence. If you are at the same time logged in to a social network, the operator can associate these page views with your account on the respective social network. If you then go on to interact with the social media plugins, e.g., clicking the Facebook “Like” button, that information is also transmitted to the respective social network.
Even if you are not a member of any said social networks, it is possible that via the social plugin they may become aware of your IP address and store it. For details about the purpose and scope of data processing, collection and use by the social networks used by us and your rights and setting options in this regard, please consult the privacy policies of the social networks:
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
- Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/privacy
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
- Pinterest: http://about.pinterest.com/privacy/
- Instagram: https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388
If desired you can permanently activate the plugins of one or more social media providers. In this case, whenever you access a page, data is always transmitted to the social network provider. You can deactivate certain or all social media plugins at any time.
Moreover, you may be able to render data transmission to social media networks technically impossible. To do so, please adjust the security settings in your web browser, for instructions on how to do so, please consult the “Help” section in your web browser.
Furthermore, in individual cases, it is possible to block social media plugins using add-ons for your browser, e.g., blocking the Facebook plugin using “Facebook Blocker”.
VII. Cookies
We use cookies on our website in order to enable the use of certain website functions, analyze user activity on our website and offer certain third party services.
Cookies are small text files stored on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of your browser session (“session cookies”). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer on your next visit (“persistent cookies”). In addition, cookies placed by third party providers are used on our website.
You can prevent the saving of cookies by selecting the appropriate browser setting. Please note, however, that if you do so, some functions of this website may not be fully available.
If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your computer, please deactivate the storing of cookies in your browser for our website or configure your browser so that cookies in general are not stored on your computer. You can also delete previously saved cookies using your browser.
Deactivating the use of cookies may also require that a persistent cookie be saved on your computer. If you delete this cookie at a later time, you have to deactivate cookies again.
The following categories of cookies are used on our website:
I. Session cookies
To facilitate browsing on our website, we place a session ID (“session identifier”) that is associated with each visitor when they start using our website. This session ID allows our server to identify you and/or your computer/browser as the same visitor, even if your IP address has changed. This session ID makes it possible to associate multiple related requests by a user with a single session. The session ID cookie is only valid until the end of a session. When you close your browser, it is automatically deleted.
II. Persistent cookies
a. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics also uses cookies that make it possible to analyze how you use the website, among other things. The information generated by these cookies is usually transmitted to a Google server in the US and stored there. Google uses this information on behalf of the operator of this website to analyze your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities and to render other services for the website operator related to use of the website and internet. These reports and services are used to continuously improve the offerings of this website.
You can prevent the saving of cookies by selecting the appropriate browser setting. Please note, however, that if you do so, some functions of this website may not be fully available.
Moreover, you can prevent the collection by Google of the data generated by these cookies and the data related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google; to do so, click the following link, and download and install the Google plugin available for your browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Additional plugins of this sort are also available from other providers, depending on the browser used.
In light of the discussion around the use of complete IP addresses in analytic tools, we wish to note that this website uses Google Analytics with the “anonymizeIp()” extension and as such, the IP addresses are only processed in truncated form in order exclude direct association with a person. Your IP address is therefore truncated by Google within European Union member states and other signatories to the Treaty on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the US and truncated there. The IP address supplied by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data.
b. Oracle
We use Oracle Eloqua on this website for login and to send you emails. The Oracle Eloqua servers are located in the European Union (the Netherlands). Oracle Eloqua places a persistent cookie on the respective login page provided an Eloqua cookie is not already stored on your device. If you have used a website that uses Eloqua, you may already have an Eloqua cookie. In some circumstances we use the Eloqua cookie to analyze your use of our site so we can continuously improve it.
Emails sent using Oracle Eloqua use tracking technologies. We use this data primarily to find out what topics are of interest to you; we do this by monitoring which of our emails are opened and the links you follow. We then use this information to improve the emails we send you and the services we provide.
When subscribing to the newsletter and confirming your subscription, the IP address is saved with a time stamp in order to document your subscription in the event doubts arise. Furthermore within the framework of subscribing, we collect other personal data such as your first name, last name and email address. We use this data to personalize and deliver our newsletter mailings. The data is not provided to any other third parties. You can cancel your subscription at any time – either by using the convenient link at the bottom of every newsletter or via email.
III. Third party cookies
Services by third party providers are also integrated within the framework of our website. With regard to these services, however, processing of personal data performed by the providers listed below falls outside the scope of responsibility of the provider of this website.
a. Google Maps
Some pages of this website use Google Maps to depict interactive maps and generate directions. Google Maps is a map service of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, California 94043, USA. Through the use of Google Maps, information about the use of this website, including your IP address and the (origin) address entered for the route planning function, is transmitted to Google in the US.
If you access a web page on our online presence that contains Google Maps, your browser establishes a direct connection with Google servers. The map content is directly transmitted by Google to your browser, which integrates it into the website. We therefore have no influence on the scope of data collected by Google in this manner.
To our knowledge, this includes the following data, at minimum:
- The date and time of the visit to the respective website,
- Internet address or URL of the accessed website,
- IP address,
- (Origin) address entered for route planning
We have no influence on the further processing and use of the data by Google, and therefore, we cannot assume any responsibility in this regard.
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 function.
For the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your rights in this regard and settings options to protect your private sphere, please consult the Google privacy policy: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
b. YouTube
Some pages of this website integrate YouTube videos or provide links to YouTube videos. YouTube is a video service of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, represented by Google Inc. YouTube uses cookies to collect information about the use of the videos. The Google privacy also applies to YouTube and is available at http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
c. Lumesse Recruiting
For our Group-wide job opportunities portal, we use cookies of our cooperation partner, Lumesse GmbH, Hamborner Str. 51, 40472 Düsseldorf, Germany. The Lumesse privacy policy is available at http://www.lumesse.com/privacy.
VIII. Links to other websites
Our website contains hyperlinks to the websites of other providers. If you click on one of them, you will be directed from our website directly to the website of the other provider. This is evident from the change in URL in the address bar of your browser.
We cannot assume any responsibility for the confidential handling of your data by such providers, since we have no influence on the compliance of the other providers with data protection provisions. For information about how your personal data is handled by these providers, please consult their websites directly.
IX. Security measures to protect your data
To protect your data, we take special technical and organizational security measures, which are reviewed and adapted to technological process on a regular basis.
Please note, however, that due to the structure of the internet, it is possible that data protection and data security rules will not be observed by other persons or institutions outside our scope of responsibility.
X. Amendment of data protection provisions
Since amendments to legislation or changes in our internal company processes may make it necessary to amend our data protection provisions, we reserve the right to do so, and we ask that you read this data protection policy regularly.
Last updated: June 2020
Zumtobel Group AG
Höchsterstrasse 8, 6850 Dornbirn
+43 5572 509 - 0
www.z.lighting
info@zumtobelgroup.com
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires, lighting solutions and lighting components
AG (= public limited company)
Alfred Felder (CEO)
Bernard Motzko (COO)
Thomas Tschol (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, Kai Arbinger
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
info@zumtobel.info
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires as well as lighting solutions
Alfred Felder (CEO) | Bernard Motzko (COO) | Thomas Tschol (CFO)
Christian Beer, Volkhard Hofmann, Georg Pachta-Reyhofen (Vice Chairman), Karin Zumtobel-Chammah (Chairwoman)
Delegates of the employees' council: Richard Apnar, Dietmar Dünser
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
info@thornlighting.com
Dornbirn, Austria
Manufacture and sale of luminaires as well as lighting solutions
Alfred Felder (CEO) | Bernard Motzko (COO) | Thomas Tschol (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, Kai Arbinger
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
Filiale à 100 % de Zumtobel Group AG, Dornbirn, Autriche.
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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.
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Welcome to the 2021 Zumtobel Group Award.
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 is 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 a total of thirteen projects awarded first place since its fruition in 2007. The legacy of this award continues to thrive in 2021 and we whole heartedly look forward in receiving your submissions of pioneering concepts and developments leading to greater humanity and sustainability in the built environment.
Participation is free. The deadline for submissions is 15 May 2021.

Elizabeth Diller is a renowned US-American architect. Diller was born in Poland, but as a small child she immigrated to the United States with her parents. Diller is currently a Professor of Achitecture at Princeton University. She received her bachelor´s degree from the Cooper Union School of Architecture in New York City. Together with her husband, Ricardo Scofidio, she founded the studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, an interdisciplinary design office in New York. The studio combines architecture, fine arts, and performing arts. Diller received the “Genius Award” of the MacArthur Foundation and the Barnard “Medal of Distinction”. Furthermore, she is a “Harman-Eisner Artist in Residence” of the Aspen Institute, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.

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.

Zhang Ke of ZAO/standardarchitecture from Beijing, is one of the most promising protagonists of a young group of Chinese architects and urban planners. He earned his Bachelor of Architecture in 1993 and his Master of Architecture and Urban Design in 1996 from the Tsinghua University. In 1998 he also earned another Master of Architecture degree from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. His work seeks to combine specific context and local culture with contemporary means. The bandwidth of his projects contain small-scale interventions and large-scale museum buildings as well as buildings for tourism in Tibet, which are sensitively embedded in the landscape scenery. In 2001 he founded the Beijing based office standardarchitecture, which he shares with his associates Zhang Hong and Claudia Taborda. The work of standardarchitecture was recognized in 2006 with the first prize of the China Architecture Award and in 2009 with the Best Young Architect Award of the first China Architecture Media Award (CAMA).

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.

Werner Sobek is an architect and consulting engineer. He is professor at the Institute for Lightweight Structures and Conceptual Design (ILEK) of the University of Stuttgart. Since 2017 he has been chairman of the DFG Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1244 on “Adaptive Building Skins and Structures”. Werner Sobek initiated and headed several non-profit initiatives such as the aed e.V.
Werner Sobek is the founder of a globally active planning office with more than 350 employees. The company processes all types of buildings and materials. Special emphasis is placed on the design and planning of structures, facades, and technical building equipment as well as on consulting in building physics. The aim here is a built environment that is breathtakingly beautiful and at the same time meets the interests of future generations - Werner Sobek wants to build emission-free for more people and with less material.

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.

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 will constitute an innovative, sustainable and socially beneficial contribution to the built environment. Applying the latest technologies, new materials and creative design concepts, it will lead to a distinct improvement in the quality of life. The award will go 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 will be chosen from the projects submitted in the two categories.
- Feb, 2021 18 Zumtobel Group Award 2021: Online submission deadline extended until 15 May
- Dec, 2020 15 Then and now – Checking in with Ben van Berkel and his 2017 award-winning Arnhem Central Station project
- Nov, 2020 25 Zumtobel Group Award 2021: Zumtobel Group launches public call for submissions for its international architecture award
- Oct, 2017 19 Zumtobel Group presents its international architecture award | Zumtobel Group Award 2017: The winners have been decided
- Oct, 2017 18 Zumtobel Group Award Winner 2017 – Applied Innovations
- Oct, 2017 18 Zumtobel Group Award Winner 2017 – Urban Developments
Projects can be submitted between 25 November 2020 and 15 May 2021.
A first-line jury will then select ten projects in each category from among the submissions. The final jury – consisting of internationally renowned experts from various disciplines – will nominate five projects from the shortlist for each category and select a winner from each of these. In addition, the Special Prize for Innovation will be awarded.
Submission
25 November 2020 – 15 May 2021
Final Jury
November 2021
Announcement
March 2022
Award Ceremony
March 2022







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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