Located in Berlin’s Schöneberg neighborhood, this new construction mends an urban fabric that has needed repairing since the 1990s, rising, as it does, beside a heretofore lone office building – the Platinum, a work of the architect Jürgen Sawade – a
A work of the practice of the American Frank Barkow and the German Regine Leibinger, with offices in Berlin and New York, this daycare for children of employees of the machine-tool and medical-equipment manufacturer Trumpf is located within the firm’
As the library building rises between the old quarter and the part of the city that is architecturally heterogeneous, it serves to connect the layers of the history of Heidenheim.
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
Although a good part of the loss of Germany’s monumental heritage can rightly be attributed to the massive devastation inflicted during World War II, there are certain instances where the destruction took place centuries back. In the case of the medi
The design of this cultural center in a suburb of the city of Amersfoort, in the Netherlands, is the result of modularizing, composing, and interlocking a series of simple wooden volumes of cubic forms and varied dimensions. The geometric and the co
Desmarcándose de la volumetría de su entorno, el edificio expone una piel rigurosa que alberga un espacio interior organizado en torno al vacío central de la gran sala de lectura.
En el año 1906 entró en funcionamiento el funicular Nordpark, conocido como Hungerburgbahn, que unía el centro de Innsbruck con la pequeña población de Hungerburg situada al norte, en medio de las montañas. Un año antes de cumplir su centenario se ce
Traditional houses with pitched roofs and white parging on walls dot the hills of Gleissenberg. In an indistinct neighborhood of this town to the south of Germany, between the boundaries of the forest of Bavaria and that of Böhmer, a family made up
Con la integración de las bibliotecas Regional de Sajonia y de la Universidad Técnica de Dresde se ha establecido una institución de gran importancia a escala europea. Aquí permanecerán archivados más de siete millones de libros y documentos. La imag
El escenario primitivo de la arquitectura es el vacío, un espacio que hay que estructurar. La casa de Kämpchensweg parte de la confrontación entre tipo y geometría; es la trasposición arquitectónica de un lenguaje normativo, de una gramática reducida
One can question the strategies selected for the process of refurbishing Germany’s reinstated Hauptstadt, but certainly not the rigor, coherence or political will with which it is being carried out. Berlin’s huge investments are contributing, at leas
