Mirage by Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture Awarded Best Building in Scania

Swedish practice Kjellgren Kaminsky Architecture (KKA) has been awarded the Scania Region Architecture Prize for their project Mirage. The prize celebrates the best building this year in Sweden’s southern region Scania.

Mirage is a dance hall and restaurant in Falsterbo on the southernmost tip of Sweden for which KKA won an open international competition back in 2007. The building was inaugurated this summer and has also been nominated for the Great Indoors Award and the Swedish Debut Prize.

“Mirage was rewarded with the Region SkÃ¥ne architecture prize in 2009 because it starts exciting ideas about architecture in motion,” says the jury report. “It participates in the debate about the relationship between nature and culture, it raises questions about if the short-lived contemporary expression can be reconciled with the longstanding local traditions and it is the result of an exemplary process.”

Earlier this summer, Bustler featured Mirage right before its inauguration. Click here to see all the details and some very beautiful photography.