Meyrin GE celebrates its Wakker Prize
With Simonetta Sommaruga
Wakker Prize handed over to Meyrin GE
The municipality of Meyrin in the canton of Geneva received this year’s Wakker Prize on Saturday. The award recognizes the preservation of building culture. It has been awarded by Swiss Homeland Security for 50 years.
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Environment Minister Simonetta Sommaruga presented the prize to Meyrin’s Mayor Laurent Tremblay in the green surroundings of Champagne Charnaux. Afterwards, the population was invited to take a walk through the community.
Sommaruga said in her speech that Meyrin is not just a city, but a whole world with a view of Mont Blanc, the CERN research center, Geneva Airport and the presence of the UN. Thanks to an early vision, a lively city with a high quality of life, in which one feels, has become a single village.
The agglomeration community has succeeded in bringing together the interests of people and nature and in producing a high level of building culture with more biodiversity for everyone, the Swiss heritage protection justified its choice.
Every year, the Heimatschutz awards a political municipality or, in exceptional cases, organizations or associations with the Wakker Prize, which is endowed with CHF 20,000. The award was first made possible in 1972 by a legacy from the Geneva businessman Henri-Louis Wakker to the Swiss Homeland Security Service.
(SDA)