Charlotte Frank

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Charlotte Frank (born 25 July 1959, Kiel) is a German architect and partner at Schultes Frank Architekten in Berlin. In 2003, together with others, she was awarded the German Architecture Prize for the new German Chancellery in Berlin. [1] She has worked with Axel Schultes on other projects, including the Kunstmuseum Bonn (1992). [2]

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References

  1. "Auszeichnungen 1971 bis 2007" Archived 5 May 2012 at the Wayback Machine , BMVBS. (in German) Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  2. Michael Z. Wise, "The New Berlin: Expressing Government Power Without Pomposity", New York Times, 11 April 1999. Retrieved 10 February 2012.
  3. "Crematorium Baumschulenweg / Shultes Frank Architeckten". ArchDaily. 23 January 2013. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  4. Harding, Luke (12 November 2003). "Berlin 'Waschmaschine' wins architecture prize". The Guardian. ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved 24 October 2017.

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