Der bayrische Architekturpreis Artouro
25. November 2011 | 
Autor: In Bayern wird dieses Jahr das erste Mal der “Artouro” verliehen. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Auszeichnung die vom Wirtschaftsminister Münchens ins Leben gerufen werden wurde. Die Verleihung soll nun beim ersten Mal in der Allianz-Arena stattfinden. Insgesamt gab es über 100 Bewerbungen. Von diesen wählte eine Fachjury 20 Stück aus und nominierte sie somit zur Endausscheidung. Bei dieser Auszeichnung handelt es sich um keinen gewöhnlichen Architektenpreis. Viel mehr geht es darum Bauwerke auszuzeichnen, welche architektonisch eine besondere Herausforderung zeigen und zudem auch ein zusätzlicher Tourismusmagnet sind. Solche Bauwerke passen natürlich perfekt für eine moderne Wohnkultur, ob im Grünen oder direkt im urbanen Raum.
Bei den 20 Nominierten sind auch 2 aus Niederbayern dabei. So wurde zum einen der 1,3 Kilometer lange Baumwipfelpfad mit dem 44 Meter hohen imposanten Baumturm im Nationalpark “Bayerischer Wald” und zum anderen die Baum-, Wasser- und Erdhäuser des Hotels Hofgut Hafnerleiten in Bad Birnbach nominiert. Die jeweils ausgezeichneten Architekten zeigten sich natürlich sehr begeistert. Vor allem fühlten sie sich jedoch geehrt, da sie schon mit der Nominierung nicht gerechnet hatten und dies als große Ehre empfanden.
Alle Beteiligten unterstützen diese Nominierung vollkommen, da sie es definitiv verdient hätten. So hätte gerade der riesige Baumturm die Besucherzahlen des Nationalparks im letzten Jahr um nachweislich 30% erhöht. Auf der anderen Seite ist es natürlich ein riesiger Gewinn für Niederbayern, da dies im touristischen Ansehen enorm steigt und so unabhängig vom Ausgang der Wahl höhere Besuchszahlen haben wird. Dies dürfte desweiteren auch ein Anreiz für die Architekten sein sich weiterhin in mutige und atemberaubende Projekte zu stürzen.
Gastautor Timon Schleif
Schlagworte: 
![pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: "Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada."In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times."Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote "Stop the madness" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6907299869_90b5012410.jpg "pmorgan hat ein Foto gepostet: \"Armand Vaillancourt is a Québécois sculptor, painter and performance artist born on September 3, 1929, in the city of Black Lake, Quebec, Canada.\"In 1971, a publicly commissioned fountain entitled Québec libre! was installed (San Francisco, United States). One of his best known sculptures, Québec libre! is representative of the relationship between Vaillancourt's art and his political convictions. It is a huge concrete fountain, 200 feet long, 140 feet wide and 36 feet high sitting in the city's financial district at the Embarcadero Center. The night before its inauguration, Vaillancourt inscribed Québec libre! in red letters, to note his undying support for the Quebec sovereignty movement and more largely, his support for the freedom of all people. The following day, seeing that the city's employees erased the inscription, he jumped on the sculpture to reinscribe the sentence many times.\"Some years later, the fountain became the object of a polemic involving U2's singer Bono. During a free concert, Bono climbed the sculpture to write Rock & Roll stops the traffic, referring to the power of rock.[2] 20,000 people were in fact in attendance and blocked some of the neighbouring streets. Reacting to the act, the city's mayor declared that she deplored the sculpture's vandalism and that this kind of act could be punishable by a fine and/or imprisonment. Vaillancourt was then contacted to learn if he supported the gesture, which he answered by going to U2's concert in Oakland the following day, where he wrote \"Stop the madness\" on the stage, in front of 70,000 people. He defended Bono's gesture, after a speech on injustice, declaring that graffiti is a necessary evil as young people do not generally have the same access to newspapers, and media in general, as politicians do to express themselves.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Vaillancourt(the sculpture seems to have been renamed the Vaillancourt Fountain)")
