British architect David Chipperfield has been selected to receive the 2015 the Netherlands-based Sikkens Prize for the "revolutionary use of color" in his work and specifically his project of restoring the Neues Museum in Berlin. The prize’s 36th recipient, it was awarded before to such icons as Thomas Gerrit Rietveld, Donald Judd, HEMA and Bridget Riley, and Le Corbusier. The jury stated that “Chipperfield’s work on the Neues Museum in Berlin is a magnificent example of his way of working. Like no other he knows how to combine the old with the new. In his spatial compositions he achieves a delicate balance between color, material end texture. Chipperfield uses the colors provided by the architectural context and the building materials in an unemphatic yet expressive way.” The Neues Museum was built between 1843 and 1855 according to plans by Friedrich August Stüler. It was closed at the beginning of World War II in 1939 and was heavily damaged during the bombing of Berlin. The rebuilding was overseen by Chipperfield and it was reopened in October 2009.