A scheme drawn up by the practice of Baumschlager Eberle Architekten has been placed first in the competition to build a film industry hub in the Polish city of Toruń. Among the 41 other contestants was Kengo Kuma, who capped the second prize. The pr
The project MUF (Modulare Unterkunft für Flüchtlinge) is an initiative of Berlin’s City Hall that has been implemented by different housing associations, in this case Gesobau AG in collaboration with Baumschlager Eberle Architekten and the constructi
In the year 2012, the firm Baumschlager Eberle Architekten was commissioned to build a residential development on a prestigious property of the Schlachter family close to Bregenz, on the banks of Lake Constance. There had been a large exuberant garde
Surrounded by trees and plenty of greenery, the three residential blocks that form the Chilestieg complex rise on a large plot of land in the municipality of Rümlang. The Swiss commune of 8,000 inhabitants – located close to Zurich’s airport – is mai
Until the year 2003, Luxembourg did not have a university of its own. To compensate for this, the government decided to build a campus in Esch-sur-Alzette, the small country’s second largest city. Known as the ‘Cité des sciences,’ the new premises ar
Ijburg is one of Amsterdam’s new urban developments, extending over seven artificial islands in the southeastern part of the Dutch capital. The largest, Haveneiland, is the location of Solids, a seven-building complex that marks the entrance to the d
The new e-Science laboratory at ETH Zurich had to tackle two fundamental challenges: characterizing the place and giving architectural form to the future of scientific work. The innovative program – research using computational tools and big data – r
The site of the Hilti Training Centre is at the borderline between the municipality of Schaan and the Rätikon mountain range, in Liechtenstein. The challenge of the project lay in creating a coherent identity in both formal and functional terms, depa
Consisting of hundreds of glass panels, the bright and homogeneous exterior shell is the main feature of the Eichgut building. The skin that covers the whole L-shaped volume protects the 90 units from the nearby presence of railway tracks, and at the
Ocupying the old site of Wiener Molkerei (Vienna Dairy), close to the Vienna University of Economics and Business and the Wiener Prater park, this student residence recreates the essence of the late 19th-century architecture that characterizes the up
Like many other cities in China, the capital has in the past few decades grown at a dizzying pace with little regard for the environment. The MOMA towers, developed by the company Modern Group in 2002, were a pioneering example of sustainable residen
The arcade was the starting point of this office building in Oosterdokseiland, an island close to Amsterdam Central Station. The masterplan specified that all constructions within this new urban development area include a public zone. This naturally
Los muros masivos y los huecos controlados mantienen estable la temperatura interior de este edificio sin necesidad de calefacción, refrigeración o ventilación mecánicas.
Built over a railroad crossing in northeast Paris, the Green Office® enjoy building addresses the particularities of the site. The inner structure, which had to be as light as possible, is formed by pillars and wooden beams, while towards the exterio
This housing complex considers the urban and the natural as elements that must be complementary in order to lower the pressure on natural resources. In the context of the Lebern-Dietlimoos estate this entails the division of the plot into three sites
On the shore of Lake Constance, close to the natural reserve of the Rhine Delta, Nordwesthaus serves as a meeting point for users of the Rohner Yacht Harbour. Located in the village of Fußach, in the Austrian state of Vorarlberg, the premises belong
Established since 1913 in the Schwabing area, the insurance company Münchener Rückversicherung has expanded steadily in Munich’s center with buildings whose architectures bear witness to the consecutive phases in which this institution has grown. One
Within a dense urban context composed mainly of housing blocks of four heights and sloped roofs, a new building and renovated shed transform the image of the place in order to house nine apartments. The old building is aligned with the street whereas
The housing complex Achslengut II is located in the Swiss city of St. Gallen, between Lake Constance and the Alps. When Baumschlager Eberle Architekten obtained this commission in 1998, the principal parameters of the project had already been establi
From the closed perimetral block to the highrise, an entire catalog of urban forms graces the site outside Innsbruck that was staked out to accommodate a large number of subsidized apartments. Bordered to the south by the 1960s buildings of the univ
Austria’s architectural scene today is multiform. Vienna and Graz, the capitals wielding power since the fifties, have progressively passed on competencies to other regions, giving rise to the current tapestry. The case of Vorarlberg, the nation’s we
The architects were commissioned to build a house for an unmarried mother in a scenic green zone outside the Austrian town of Lochau, on grounds belonging to the client’s parents. The project was subject to a single condition: that the new building b
La fusión de la sede central de la compañía electrónica Graf con dos de sus sucursales, que hasta entonces habían sido independientes, para formar un conjunto empresarial único, planteó la necesidad de ampliar el edificio original, localizado en Dorn
This book starts and ends with full-page photos deliberately out of focus. The buildings seem to be moving and leaving a trail of matter in their wake, like Boccioni sculptures. But it’s hard to find architectures with such a degree of precision as D
Florian Aicher (FA): Several years have passed and the interest in 2226 has not subsided. The focus is very much on the subject of energy. Does that do the building justice? Dietmar Eberle (DE): The energy focus is important, but it is a partial asp
In his essay Ex Nihilo, on the creation of the two newly planned and constructed cities of Chandigarh in India and Brasília in Brazil, Dutch author Cees Nooteboom employs the word ‘mood’ in its most literal sense. Both cities were created on the draw
Baumschlager Eberle has given architectural form to a verse of Jorge Guillén which Eduardo Chillida made popular: “How profound is the air.” The sculptor met the poet in Harvard in 1971, and that encounter sparked a friendship, an artist’s book, and
Born in 1952, Dietmar Eberle is the principal of Baumschlager Eberle, founded in 1985. For legal and commercial convenience the practice retains this name, even though Carlo Baumschlager moved on in 2010. As well as running what is now a group of ten
Este manual recoge los resultados de unos talleres organizados por José María Lapuerta en los que se han reunido un elenco de arquitectos europeos de reconocido prestigio para explorar los orígenes, los conceptos y el diseño de la vivienda colectiva
La modesta región austríaca de Vorarlberg debe su destacada posición en el panorama arquitectónico mundial a las obras realizadas por Carlo Baumschlager y Dietmar Eberle, asociados desde mediados de los años ochenta. La editorial Springer vuelve a de
En la que es ya su tercera monografía, Carlo Baumschlager y Dietmar Eberle muestran que no han bajado la guardia; la precisión técnica y la elegancia sin adornos continúan sido su imagen de marca. Hace ya casi dos décadas que se produjo el ‘descubrim