Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The result of an international competition, the project emerged from a take on two fundamental observations of the place: the concept of frontality in relation to Karlstor (one of Munich’s medieval city gates)…

3XN CL MAP   Germany   A sports facility in Munich, close to the Olympic Stadium designed by Frei Otto and Günther Behnisch, was recently inaugurated. Named SAP Garden and located on the site of the old velodrome, it is the new home of the EHC Red Bull ice hockey team and

Max Otto Zitzelsberger    Germany   This is a German research project involving the wooden construction, undertaken by the architect and professor Max Otto Zitzelsberger in collaboration with students at the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau (RPTU). It stands on the grounds of an ope

Holzer Kobler Architekturen   Germany   Based on the traditional constructions on pilotis found in the area, a loadbearing timber structure in which five cubes of solid wood are inserted at different heights and positions offers views of the coastal promenade and the landscape. The numerou

Kauffmann Theilig & Partner   Germany   The new Town Hall building of Unterschneidheim, a municipality in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, is split into two offset blocks, forming spaces in between for lingering and holding outdoor events. The symmetrical gable roofs and attic forms

Aretz Dürr Architektur   Germany   In the industrial and commercial zone of the German city of Altenkirchen, a storage and production space for the furniture manufacturer Schumann Project GmbH was built with a timber structure in six months. It serves as a prelude to the Graf-Zeppelin

FAR frohn&rojas   Germany   Though now a euphemism by which any apartment for sale smaller than 30 square meters styles itself, the ‘loft’ refers to a type of space that appeared in the New York of Warhol and The Factory, which broke away from the hierarchical division of the h

ICD ITKE   Germany   Since the 1980s the German state of Baden-Württemberg has held Landesgartenschau, an annual festival later exported to other Länder, which through gardening endeavors to enhance the quality of life and the natural wealth of the host town. This year’s

Mensing Timofticiuc   Germany   A couple bought an old building that stood on a small plot of land in Berlin’s Heiligensee neighborhood, close to the lake of the same name. Combining artificial stone and concrete colored with anthracite pigments, the cubic volume that resulted from

Kéré Architecture Hermann Kaufmann + Partner   Germany   Construction has begun at the site of a new daycare center for children of employees of Munich’s Technical University (TUM), with completion programmed for the end of 2025. Located at Gabelsbergerstrasse 41, it will be called Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase

Steimle Architekten   Germany   On the north shoe of Lake Constance – in Markelfingen, a district town of Radolfzell am Bodensee – stands this timber construction that is a hub of community life, providing sport facilities and event spaces. The project’s central defining feature bo

Max Hacke Gustav Düsing   Germany   The organizational principle behind this project was based on the idea of a superstructure allowing for constant reconfiguration of the floor plan. The two-level, glass-clad building raised for the Technical University of Braunschweig, in the German

MONO Architekten    Germany   This ensemble of constructions with perforated facades made of sedimentary layers of red-tinted rammed earth is situated in the city of Neuenburg am Rhein, close to the German, French, and Swiss borders. Connecting the urban center to the green zones

MVRDV LOLA Landscape Architects   Germany   The process of building in an existing neighborhood is often fraught with conflict, so open communication, negotiation, and compromise with the local community are important. It is with this attitude of engagement with the neighborhood that the Grün

allmannwappner Menges Scheffler Architekten   Germany   The teaching, research and innovation centre for specialised technologies in the textile industry, known as Texoversum, is part of the campus extension of the Reutlingen University of Applied Sciences. The textile construction is the theme of the des

MVRDV   Germany   The firm MVRDV – in collaboration with Hirschmüller Schindele Architekten – has transformed a 1997 Berlin office block into an entrance marker for the Atelier Gardens mixed campus, the site of a historic film studio built in the 1920s. The now bright

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Repetition through variation: both principles are implicit in programs characterized by the recurrence of the same type of space or architectural element. This impression was perhaps our first thought when reading the competition brief for the design

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Conceived as a sculpted rock, the project responds to both the urban and the historical context. Located in a central plot occupied by different buildings since the 18th century, it replaces the hotel of 1955, demolished in 2019. A vertical cut runs

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   Post-war german architecture now enjoys recognition and protection today, which, with the exception of some unique works, it lacked for years, associated with the utilitarianism and pragmatism that prevailed in the reconstruction of the war-devastate

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   The idea of combining the terms ‘archive’ and ‘avant-garde’ holds within itself a contradiction. The fusion of these two concepts may seem paradoxical at first glance, as an archive is created to safeguard the documentary legacy of the past, while th

Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos   Germany   It is evident that the practice of architecture cannot encompass all the complex mechanisms that generate the city. However, it possesses a decisive power to transform the urban experience, both in its spatial aspect and in its construction, through

Barozzi Veiga   Germany   The imposing and mountainous backdrop of Inn River valley, on the border between Austria and Germany, inspires the geometry of the new Dynafit headquarters, consisting of two pyramidal forms visible from the main road that connects both countries.

Bayer & Strobel    Germany   A small ceremonial space nestles under a pronounced pitched roof that rises high over the walls of the graveyard but engages in dialogue with their materiality. The spaces create a contemplative mood through the carefully choreographed entrance of li

The winners of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award for 2024 have been announced in Brussels. The Study Pavilion on the campus of the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany), by Gustav Düsing and Max

The Spreeinsel, or 'Spree Island', became the representative seat of power of the German Empire on its southern side, and throughout the 19th century its northern end was transformed into a privileged cultural site: the Altes Museum by Karl Friedrich

One of the first decisions taken by the new Federal Republic of Germany on June 20, 1991, after reunification, was the re-establishment of Berlin as the capital of the entire nation, which implied the relocation of all central government offices from

A Jean Nouvel work which opened in 1996 on Friedrichstrasse in Berlin, what was the first branch abroad of the iconic Galeries Lafayette of Paris could now become a large library. In spite of huge investments, Friedrichstrasse has not managed to cons

In the large-scale handbook of restoration that Berlin is, amid everything that in the period following World War II was reconstructed exactly like before and everything that on the other hand was demolished to make room for modern structures, a buil

The German National Theater, the residences of the likes of Goethe, Schiller, Nietzsche, or Liszt, the Bauhaus Museum... Classical Weimar boasts a wealth of places to visit that tell of the city’s rich history, for not in vain is it on the UNESCO Wor

The Guardian   Kate Connolly   A solar observatory built to substantiate Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity has been reopened in Potsdam. Constructed between 1920 and 1922 by the architect Erich Mendelsohn in collaboration with the astronomer Erwin Finlay-Freundlich, the 20-me

1935-2022 On November 30, 2022, the architect Meinhard von Gerkan passed away in Hamburg at the age of 87. He was one of the most influential German architects, a committed university professor, and an astute critic. For more than fifty years he cont

1934-2021 If we had to choose one word to sum up the work of the German architect Jörg Schlaich, who died on 4 September at 86, that would be ‘lightness.’ Lightness as the result of optimizing resources and structural design; and lightness as an aest

1920-2021 Pritzker laureate and one of the most unique architects of the 20th century, Gottfried Böhm passed away at the patriarchal age of 101 years in Cologne, where he developed most of his career. Following in the steps of his father Dominikus –

¿What will our lives, homes and jobs be like in the future? This is the question that will be addressed by the International Building Exhibition 2027 StadtRegion Stuttgart (IBA’27), that aims to provide examples to make a journey into the future visi

Jorge Bernabeu   Lightness characterizes the work of the German engineer Jörg Schlaich, who passed away on Saturday, 4 September, at 86 years of age. Aiming for weightlessness makes it possible to reduce materials and dimensions, but it also to make the most of resou

The New York Times   Christopher F. Schuetz   After a $165 million renovation, the Neue Nationalgalerie looks like it did when it first opened in 1968. That’s exactly the point. “Carrying out such a task, in a building that leaves no place to hide, is daunting,” said David Chipperfield, the Brit

Alejandro Bernabeu   Hamburg is harbor and city. A harbor 130 kilometers from the sea along the Elbe, which through a network of canals reaches all of inland Europe, linking it to overseas trade. And a city Free and Hanseatic, as its official name states, asserting the t

Unlike so many architects preoccupied with dissolving the boundary between interior and exterior, the architectural trio formed by Arno Lederer, Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, and Marc Oei turns back to the tradition of solid walls and clearly marked enclosur

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Monuments molt: they change skin, change image, and change meaning. As living heritage, they renew their renders and their walls, transform their outer appearance, and modify their symbolic content; and as vulnerable heritage, they experience decaden

A barn in the German municipality of Kressbronn, near Lake Constance, has been turned by Thomas and Christine Steimle into a library and community center. In deference to the building’s history, the project balances past and present. The renovation i

unvollendete-metropole.de   La exposición que se muestra en el Kronprinzenpalais de la capital alemana incluye las propuestas ganadoras del concurso Berlín-Brandenburgo 2070, entre las que se incluye el proyecto ‘Archipelago Lab’ de Pedro Pitarch.

The Architect's Newspaper   Jonathan Hilburg   Contemporary Swedish photography museum Fotografiska announced plans to launch its newest outpost in Berlin...

The dynamism that is associated with the use of horizontal bands in buildings, as well as with skating as a sport, is the gist of the scheme that has made Fuensanta Nieto and Enrique Sobejano the winners of the competition to enlarge a high-performan

Berlin-Based since 1989, Sauerbruch Hutton is an architectural practice run by its founders, Matthias Sauerbruch and Louisa Hutton, with Juan Lucas Young, a partner since 1999. Their work combines a chromatic and material sensuality with an interest

Joaquín Medina Warmburg   In observance of Gottfried Böhm’s centenary, much is made of his being a grandson, son, husband, and father of architects, with the possible implication that his choice of profession, and practice thereof, was a consequence of the generic dictates of

The series ‘Superlative-Made in Germany’ gives a photographic and artistic perspective of the country’s economic and social situation through the images of Christoph Morlinghaus. The photographer has already captured, since starting on the project in

Philip Jodidio   Works and Networks

John Hill   100 Influential and Inspiring Illustrated Architecture Books

Juan Herreros Jens Richter   The Project for the Munch Museum in Oslo

Various authors   New Architecture for Hospitals

Philip Jodidio   Homes for our Time

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