"The 10th edition of the DAM Preis 2026 has been awarded to Peter Grundmann Architekten for the ZK/U Center for Art and Urbanistics, an adaptive reuse project in Berlin, Germany. The project transforms a former single-story warehouse at a freight station in Berlin-Moabit into a cultural meeting place. The jury recognized the practice's transformative approach, highlighting the use of an above-average amount of manual labor and a modest budget to encase the existing hall in a lightweight steel-and-glass structure and add an additional floor."
"Developed in close collaboration with the non-profit association KUNSTrePUBLIK e. V., the project supports a wide-ranging public program established at the former freight station since 2012, including exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, repair workshops, neighborhood markets, and public viewings. Peter Grundmann Architekten was selected through a Europe-wide tender process and commissioned to build the acclaimed extension in 2019. Awarded by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) in cooperation with JUNG, the DAM Preis 2026 followed a multi-phase jury process."
ZK/U converts a former single-story warehouse at a Berlin freight station into a cultural meeting place with exhibitions, performances, residencies, repair workshops, markets, and public viewings. The project relied on above-average manual labor and a modest budget to encase the existing hall in a lightweight steel-and-glass structure and to add an additional floor. The original structure remains largely unchanged, with non-load-bearing walls retained and the ground-floor storage hall preserved as a shell that defines the main event space. A vaulted cellar houses exhibition spaces and a bar. The glass envelope provides thermal protection, forming a foyer and windbreak at the entrance and extending into a bar area on the garden side.
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