Palestinian Museum wins 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture

The 2019 Aga Khan Award for Architecture Master Jury has announced its selection of the Palestinian Museum as winner of the prestigious annual prize. The museum shares this honour and prize of one million dollars with five other projects that were also on the award shortlist, which included 20 entries from 16 different countries.

The prize will be presented in a ceremony in Kazan, Russia in the fall of 2019. The Palestinian Museum was designed by Irish architecture firm HeneghanPeng while its gardens were designed by Jordanian landscape architect Lara Zureikat.

According to the Master Jury decision, the museum was selected for its role as a setting that fosters creative endeavours and educational programmes as well as democratic dialogue and a culture of openness and tolerance.

The jury also cited the Museum’s distinct design which blends harmoniously with its natural, rural surroundings among the hillside terraces that characterise the Palestinian landscape.