Sadar Vuga Arhitekti

slovenia

Architects (from left)

Jurij Sadar
Bostjan Vuga


www.sadarvuga.com

Work:

Aomori Prefecture Art Museum
Aomori, Japan, 1999
The Liaunig Collection Museum
Neuhaus, Carinthia, Austria, 2004

Principal Architects:

Jurij SADAR, u.d.i.a. and Bostjan VUGA, u.d.i.a. Grad Dip (AA), founders and proprietors

Biography:

Jurij Sadar, u.d.i.a.
was born in 1963 in Celje, Slovenia. He graduated from the Architecture Faculty in Ljubljana in 1987 and was assistant professor there from 1993 until 1997. He was awarded the Piranesi Prize for the Kotnikova apartment building in 1992.
Bostjan Vuga, u.d.i.a. Grad Dip (AA)
was born in 1966 in Nova Gorica, Slovenia. He graduated from the Architecture Faculty in Ljubljana in 1982 and did post-graduate studies at the Architecture Association School of Architecture in London. He received the Ple_nik Student Prize in Ljubljana in 1992. He is one of the founders of O.C.E.A.N., a trans-national network of architects, urban planners and designers.
Both
Bostjan Vuga have worked together with Jurij Sadar since 1992. They founded the studio "Sadar Vuga Arhitekti" in 1966. Their best known buildings include the Chamber of Commerce in Ljubljana, which was awarded the Piranesi Prize in 1999.

Principal Works:

2001 Condominium Trnovski pristan (commission, completed in December 2003), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
2000 Shopping Centre Mercator, Nova Gorica (commission, completed in May 2000), Nova Gorica, Slovenia.
Fountain Solkan, Solkan (1st prize competition, completed September 2001), Solkan, Slovenia.
1999 Ljubljana Arcadia Office and Exhibition Building, Ljubljana (commission, completed in September 2001), Slovenia.
1997 University Sports Hall, Ljubljana (1st prize competition), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
1996 Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Slovenia, Ljubljana (1st prize competition, completed 1999), Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Central Part of the National Gallery Ljubljana (selected project, completed in October 2001), Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Awards:

2003 ECCS steel design award, Luzern (Mercator shopping centre).
2001 Plecnik's medal, Ljubljana (Arcadia Lightwear building).
ECCS steel design award 2001, Venice (CCIS).
1999 Bauwelt Prize, Berlin (CCIS).
Piranesi award, Piran (CCIS).

Publication/Writings:

2003 26/81 office brochure (Sadar Vuga Arhitekti).
Minimal Architecture (Prestel Verlag).
Zoomorphic Architecture (Laurence King Publishing).
2002 SO - U - ND (Exhibition catalogue, Steirische Herbst -.Graz, Austria) with Designers Republic (UK).
2001 3D-2D : The Designers Republic's adventures in and out of architecture with Sadar Vuga Arhitekti and Spela Mlakar (Laurence King Publishing).