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

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

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   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

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   K House forms part of the western edge to the English Garden in the center of Munich, which, historically, was defined by a border of 18th-century villas. Hence the new building combines a varied programme into a volume that is an interpretation of t

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   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

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   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

Sauerbruch Hutton   Germany   In the Maxvorstadt district on the northeast corner of Munich’s museum quarter, the Brandhorst Museum houses a substantial private collection of late 20th-century and contemporary art. The building, designed specifically for this collection, consists

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has in collaboration with Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten won the competition to carry out a development on Schützenstrasse, in the heart of Munich, having submitted a scheme characterized by functional diver

Herzog & de Meuron   Germany   The project aims to place the remote location behind the Ostbahnhof on the map, within a larger master plan to renew the old industrial area with a Boulevard of Music, a broad promenade linking the new music quarter with the station and the city cent

Christ & Gantenbein   Germany   A skin of semi-cylinders of glass surrounds the main room unveiling the activities taking place inside the building and composing a solid prism with industrial echoes. The building opens up to the square through a large foyer... [+]

Zaha Hadid Architects   Germany   Taking inspiration from the design of industrial silos, the monolithic volume is composed of smooth metallic skin cylinders. The facade is dematerialized at one of the corners, transformed into glass to accommodate a hall illuminated overhead... [+]

Henning Larsen   Germany   The concert hall is a musical ‘production plant’ and seeks permeability by placing entrances on four of its sides; the facade plays with transparencies and different materials – copper, cor-ten steel, and glass – subtly showing the interior activitie

Staab Architekten   Germany   A structure with an industrial-like image emphasizes the longitudinal axis of the project. The accesses are large column-free spaces placed at the ends, occupying the entire width of the building and extending the outdoor public space... [+]

3XN   Germany   With a striking image, the facade resembles a fabric thrown on top of the building. The fold in the frontal plane frames the main entrance, which articulates two of the three volumes that make up the building, each one with a different function... [+

David Chipperfield Architects   Germany   A ramp of access surrounds the building, a ziggurat-shaped structure with slender concrete pillars placed rhythmically on the facade. The ascending spiral reappears inside, in the main concert hall, with the seating arranged along it... [+]

PFP Planungs   Germany   A series of staggered volumes of different sizes, which house differentiated functions of the program individually, create a complex of great sculptural expressiveness, stressed by the perforated facades that mark out the cubic forms... [+]

Cukrowicz Nachbaur Architekten   Germany   A skin of glass with deeply sloping surfaces, which rises up to 45 meters in height evoking the roof of a cathedral, delimits a translucent body that allows intuiting its inner life. The main concert hall ‘floats’ above the smaller one... [+]

Mecanoo   Germany   The proposal explores the classical principles of typology and draws inspiration from musical rhythms both in its bronze facade and in the hall’s interior. The glass-enclosed foyer becomes a large space for gathering and visits. 

Max Dudler   Germany   The newly created Schwabinger Tor neighborhood in the city of Munich boasts a new icon, a freestanding block with a striking stone relief facade. The relief effect is achieved thanks to the recessed arrangement of the window frames – so that only the

Almost thirty years ago MVRDV leaped to fame thanks, among other things, to its uninhibited way of crystallizing the diagrams of uses in constructions of a public nature. After all this time it seems that the formula still works, as we can see in the

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The exhibition at the Architekturmuseum in Munich on the work of Francis Kéré, ‘Radically Simple’ serves to remember his long relationship with Spain.

En la zona conocida como Kunst­areal de la capital bávara —un conjunto de museos de arte entre los que se encuentran la Pinacoteca Antigua, la Nueva y la de Arte Moderno— se ha inaugurado el Museo Brandhorst, obra del estudio berlinés Sauerburch Hut

El estudio Nieto y Sobejano ha diseñado para el Ayuntamiento de Múnich una nueva imagen para el Stadportal München Ost: cinco torres que a partir de variaciones de una misma planta poligonal de 1.100 metros cuadrados de superficie crecen entre 87 met

Christiane Gabler   Al bajarse en la estación de metro Fröttmaning, a media hora de trayecto desde el centro de Múnich, el viajero no encuentra en principio nada que le llame la atención. El entorno donde se halla el nuevo estadio del bastión del fútbol muniqués reúne l

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