Arno Brandlhuber Manfred Pernice   Poland   Instead of reconstructing the fallen roof, the project of converting an animal shed into a studio inserts a free-standing structure so as not to overburden the fragile existing walls. Unshackled of loads to bear, the brickwork and a gable-end kept up

Arno Brandlhuber Bernd Kniess   Germany   Ehrenfeld offers, amidst workshops and industrial warehouses, the easy-going and carefree environment that creators and freelance professionals look for in order to live and work under one same roof. In this Cologne neighborhood, the New Loft buildin

Turning necessity into a virtue seems to be the motto of Arno Hans Brandlhuber (1964) and Georg Kniess (1961) in confronting the obstinate reticence of German investors toward anything proposed by architects without extensive experience. The inflexib