Gerber Architekten have received an acknowledgement for their competition design of the renovation and expansion of the State and City Library Augsburg. In cooperation with the structural engineers of osd, the planners developed a concept that, in one hand provides a careful building refurbishment that should be performed with minimal structural interventions and on the other hand the addition of a reading room with foyer and magazine area to the south, which derives of the buildings structure, the symmetry, the proportions and the geometry of the construction component.

In particular the approach to extend the monument with a much lower but similarly proportioned building was highlighted positively by the jury. Furthermore, the judges praised the clear and concise outline of the functional areas, the well-designed open spaces and the almost complete preservation of the tree population.