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SARAJEVO, May 13 (FENA) - The British Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Matt Field congratulated British-Bosnian architectural firm Projekt V Arhitektura and its architects Lucy Dinnen and Vernes Čaušević on winning third prize in the international architecture competition "Tiny Library 2019“.
Their ‘(Tiny) Ministry Of Knowledge’ idea which won the award is a response to the lack of shared libraries and education programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a joint library situated on what was a former front line but is today a hiking trail on the edges of the rainforest Lom and Klekovaća mountain, which borders three divided communities Drvar, Bosanski Petrovac and Petrovac.
Ambassador Field congratulated Projekt V Arhitektura on this award and praised their continuous commitment to promoting social cohesion, shared education, environmental sustainability and tourism in BiH.
“I am delighted that Project V Arhitektura has received this prestigious recognition for the ‘(Tiny) Ministry of Knowledge’ project. In reaching across community lines, this directly tackles many of the longstanding fault lines in Bosnia and Herzegovina, sharing knowledge and forging peaceful identities. This is only one of a number of exciting and constructive interventions being led by Project V Arhitektura in this country, and I thank them for their leadership. I hope this library will be constructed very soon and I will have the chance to visit it myself,” said Ambassador Field.
The “Tiny Library 2019” competition was organized by Volume Zero, an international platform for architecture and design. It shortlisted 50 entries from all over the world, including projects in China, India and the USA, which were judged by an internationally acclaimed panel.
Projekt V Arhitektura are a young international award-winning architecture practice represented in both Sarajevo and London. The practice was co-founded by architects Vernes Causevic and Lucy Dinnen, who each have over 10 years of architectural experience in BiH and the UK.
“Following the extreme isolation experienced as a result of Covid-19, this is a project that proposes an alternative post-Covid-19 future for BiH, in which we can finally re-build peace and have shared public space in divided communities for future generations,” said the authors of the project.
Vernes Čaušević was born in Sarajevo and studied architecture in the UK. Since completing his masters in 2011, and after working in London for over seven years and attaining his professional qualification in the UK, he returned to BiH to initiate sustainable and socially committed architectural projects and research.
Lucy Dinnen is also a qualified UK architect and educator, currently a visiting lecturer at Westminster University in London, who previously worked for Hawkins Brown and as a project manager for the V&A museum prior to co-founding Projekt V Arhitektura in Sarajevo.
Since registering the company in 2017, Projekt V Arhitektura have won three Collegium Artisticum BiH National Awards; including the award for Best Interior in 2020 for the project ‘Half House’ in Sarajevo, and two awards for Best Idea in 2017 and 2018 for their ongoing projects Living Memorials in Sarajevo, and their rammed earth Peace Centre project in Prijedor. They have also received regional awards at the Salon of Architecture Novi Sad and Velux Awards for Balkan Architecture.
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