2010 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize Awarded to Bierman Henket Architecten and Wessel de Jonge Architecten

Bonnie Burnham, president, World Monuments Fund (WMF), announced today that WMF has awarded its 2010 World Monuments Fund/Knoll Modernism Prize to Bierman Henket architecten and Wessel de Jonge architecten, leading practitioners in the restoration of modern buildings, for their technically and programmatically exemplary restoration of the Zonnestraal Sanatorium (designed 1926–28; completed 1931), in Hilversum, The Netherlands. The sanatorium is a little-known but iconic modernist building designed by Johannes Duiker (1890–1935) and Bernard Bijvoet (1889–1979).