This modular office structure for the German Bundestag reacts to the monumentality of its surroundings in Berlin’s parliamentary district with great simplicity: a straight-forward H-shaped plan based on prefabrication and modularity. While the southe
Berlin metropolitan School is housed in a pair of existing Plattenbau, or prefabricated, structures from the GDR era that were erected in 1987. Three building wings form part of a block and create a generous, protected school yard. The project extend
This loft building marks a further step in the revitalization of Werkhof L57, a small compound of former military facilities that has evolved into a lively creative quarter. Haus 6 occupies a plot that is surrounded by historic buildings made of bric
The task to refurbish and retrofit a 1980s office block provided a unique opportunity to thoroughly reuse an existing building of this type, adapting it to the needs of the Munich Re insurance company, which included housing its contemporary art coll
This building, housing three faculties of the University of Sheffield, responds to its heterogeneous situation between a highly frequented road and a quieter campus area. The project adapts to the masterplan, also by the studio, for the Modern Langua
The design of the ADAC Headquarters in Munich was made in response to the client’s aspiration of a strong presence in the city while carefully repairing the local urban fabric. Thus the five-storey base of this building responds to the scale and grai
Located between two main arteries of the city, Zeppelinallee and Bockenheimer Landstrasse, and next to its 19th-century botanical garden, the extension to the KfW Group’s headquarters complements an existing ensemble of administrative buildings. Conc
The new station housing the police and fire departments for the government district of Berlin is an extension to a now free-standing 19th-century structure, located on the edge of a former goods yard close to the River Spree. To preserve the represen
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is closely linked to the political party Bündnis 90/Die Grünen and is committed to promoting democratic decision-making, socio-political engagement, and international understanding around the globe. The Foundation headqua
The new offices for Médecins Sans Frontières are in the Grand-Morillon district in the north of Geneva. The building responds to the needs of an organization that must be able to offer medical aid immediately, specifically and worldwide on a 365/24/7
Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg neighborhood, this is a mixed-use building, containing offices and apartments. Frizz23 is the fruit of participatory processes aimed at forming a cooperative of 32 small businesses and non-profit organizations which, thr
This project signals the transformation of a former harbor district in the south of the city into the new ecological district of Hammerby Sjöstad. Situated along the western edge of the redevelopment area, south of the bridges over the canal and besi
Located between two branches of the River Elbe as it flows through Hamburg, the Wilhemsburg quarter was built on the principles set forth by the 2013 International Building Exhibition, which promoted sustainable, ecological, and socially inclusive ur
This emblematic building is located on an island in the River Neckar at the center of Heilbronn. The structure is part of a project to revive an old industrial complex with a science center promoted by a foundation that supports science and technolog
M9 is a small museum district in Mestre, the mainland gateway to Venice. An agent of urban renewal, this museum of the cultural inheritance of the 20th century is also an educational institution and events venue that is aimed to provide a point of lo
With its curvilinear shape and dynamic facade of multicolored louvers, the volume confidently engages with the urban fabric and the corporate headquarters of London’s City.
With a strong sculptural presence, the new building of the German School makes up for the lack of distinctive features in the Montecarmelo neighborhood north of Madrid, generating a new geometric landscape that engages in dialogue with the natural en
This office tower presenting a vertical prism of twenty floors and a plinth of five, connected to each other by an ensemble of four overbridges, is one of the architectural landmarks of the new business district of Zurich, an up to now predominantly
In 2009, the Berlin studio Grüntuch Ernst won the competition to design the new German School in Madrid. Located in the recently developed neighborhood of Montecarmelo, to the north of the city, and taking up a plot of 34,000 square meters, the compl
Suzanne Stephens The shardlike titanium-clad forms of the Denver Art Museum’s Frederic C. Hamilton Building burst on the city’s downtown with the energy of a lightning bolt. The museum addition, designed by Studio Daniel Libeskind in joint venture wi
A couple bought one of the very few plots with views of the sea that remained unbuilt in the Bay of Biscay. After scouting every sea village from Plentzia to San Vicente de la Barquera for almost a year, they found the place they where looking for in
The offices for the Federal Environment Agency were relocated to Dessau to promote economic development in the east of the country. The location in a former industrial area was selected to demonstrate the possibilities (and challenges) presented by a
Situada en el centro del masterplan que OMA diseñó en 1989 para la Universidad de Uithoff en Utrecht, la nueva biblioteca se suma a la cabalgata de edificios de firma—Rem Koolhaas, Mecanoo, Neutelings Riedijk, NL Architects, UN Studio— que desde hace
El proyecto para la nueva sede del banco central de Alemania surge de la siguiente reflexión: ¿cómo construir el edificio emblemático del capitalismo en la ciudad madre del movimiento obrero, en la antigua Karl Marx de la República Democrática Aleman
