gmp Architekten   Germany   The German firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partners (gmp) has placed first in the competition to renovate the workshop which is the oldest among the institutions falling under the Berlin State Museums: the Gipsformerei, where for over 200 years now, replic

Meinhard von Gerkan   China   Huangpu river divides Shanghai into two totally different cities. On the western bank lies the old historic city – called Puxi –, whereas in the eastern end rises a new Manhattan of skyscrapers and hotels, known as Pudong. The new museum shall treasu

Meinhard von Gerkan   China   Two large-scale buildings that front one another go up in the sadly famous Tiananmen Square. In the eastern end is the Great Hall of the People, while in the east two old museums are being refurbished (the Chinese History Museum and the Revolutionary

Meinhard von Gerkan   Germany   El pabellón de las religiones cristianas, que reúne a las confesiones católica y protestante, ofrece un remanso contemplativo y de recogimiento en el contexto festivo y mundano de la Expo 2000 de Hannover. Estructuralmente simple y rigurosamente modu

gmp Architekten Werner March   Germany   El histórico escenario que presenció las cuatro medallas de oro que Jesse Owens consiguió en los Juegos Olímpicos de 1936 ante los ojos de Adolf Hitler y que sirvió para que Leni Riefenstahl filmase Olympia, el documental propagandístico más represen

With deep gratitude I bid farewell to a longtime friend and companion. Behind us lie six decades of designing together – in our shared student pad and, since 1965, in our office. What started as a two-man enterprise with a small ad in the Hamburger A

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 contributed si

María Cifuentes   Con éste son ya nueve los tomos que la editorial suiza Birkhäuser lleva dedicados a recoger cronológicamente la obra del gigantesco estudio alemán gmp (Von Gerkan, Marg & Partners), fundado en 1966 y cuya primera obra importante fue el aeropuerto ber

Volkwin Marg Gert Kähler   Building in a historical context - von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects

Meinhard von Gerkan   Basilea  2003  
Birkhäuser   - 366 Pages