Courtesy of AI.STUDIO
Architect: AI.STUDIO – A r c h i t e k t e n + I n g e n i e u r e
Location: Wahlitzer Weg 4a / 39114 Magdeburg, Germany
Start of construction: June 2010
Completion: March 2011
Property size: 1065.0 sqm
Client: Private
Living space: 204.0 sqm
Enclosed space: 605.0 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of AI.STUDIO
Courtesy of Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
From February 3 – March 15, renowned Architecture Forum Aedes Gallery in Berlin will be hosting an exhibition with the title Give more featuring projects by Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects. Give more features nine selected architecture projects paraphrasing nine visions on how architecture can give more by adding value and positive change for people, places, and communities. More architects’ description on the exhibition after the break. read more »
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Architect: Erick van Egeraat, Michiel Raaphorst
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Project Area: 9,681 sqm
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Courtesy of Erick van Egeraat
Courtesy of Saunders Architecture
Todd Saunders of Saunders Architecture will be giving a lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich on January 25th at 7:30pm. Led by a strong contemporary design sensibility, Saunders has worked on cultural and residential projects right across Norway, as well as England, Denmark, Italy, Sweden and Canada. The studio believes that architecture must play an important role in creating place, using form, materials and texture to help evoke and shape memory and human interaction.
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Architects: Oliver David Krieg, Boyan Mihaylov
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Project Team: Institute for Computational Design – Prof. AA Dipl.(Hons) Achim Menges Achim Menges, Institute of Building Structures and Structural Design – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Jan Knippers, Competence Network Biomimetics Baden-Württemberg
Planning and Realisation: Peter Brachat, Benjamin Busch, Solmaz Fahimian, Christin Gegenheimer, Nicola Haberbosch, Elias Kästle, Oliver David Krieg, Yong Sung Kwon, Boyan Mihaylov, Hongmei Zhai
Scientific Development: Markus Gabler (project management), Riccardo La Magna (structural design), Steffen Reichert (detailing), Tobias Schwinn (project management), Frédéric Waimer (structural design)
Surface: 72 sqm
Volume: 200m³
Material: 275 sqm Birch plywood 6,5mm Sheet thickness
Project Year: August 2011
Photographs: ICD / ITKE University of Stuttgart
Courtesy of NAP
Through a range of strategies and carefully selected interventions the porcelain-city of Selb in the Fichtelgebirge region in Germany will be elevated to a regional center for art, trade, tourism, and culture. The winning Europan 11 proposal, titled Dornröschen – Reinitializing Selb or ‘Kissing awake the sleeping beauty’, by NAP (Network of Architects & Planners) will act as the nucleus for future development. In juxtaposition to the well-established and intact city center around the church and market square, the porcelain factory will be a second center of gravity creating a new and desired field of tension in between both. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Heinrich Böll BDA DWB
Location: Rüsselsheim, Germany
Client: City of Rüsselsheim
Project year: 2011
Structural Engineer: Imagine structure, Frankfurt
Mechanical Engineer: ZWP, Wiesbaden
Fire engineering: BSCON Brandschutzconsult GmbH, Essen
Photographs: Thomas Mayer
© Jan Bitter
Architects: Holzer Kobler Architekturen
Location: Wangen, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Project title: Arche Nebra (Nebra Ark)
Type: Visitor center and observation tower
Client: Burgenlandkreis, Kreisverwaltung
Year: 2007
Photographs: Jan Bitter
Courtesy of Prechteck
Held every five years, the competition for this year’s pavilion called for a temporary building which may be easily disassembled and relocated to another site. The modular pavilion by Prechteck exists of different parts, housing different functions, all singular cells, but the strongest in coexistence with its neighboring parts. The main concept is that during the 5 years, each cell can be assembled in a different German city and serve as an info booth to the next. At the beginning of the next five years, the parts get transported back and get reconnected on site. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Architects: Henning Larsen Architects
Location: Brooktorkai, HafenCity, Hamburg, Germany
Client: Robert Vogel GmbH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft og ABG Baubetreuungsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
Gross floor area: 50,000 sqm
Completion: 2011
Photographs: Cordelia Ewerth and Andreas Gehrke
Courtesy of (se)arch Architekten
Stuttgart, Germany based architecture firm, (se)arch Architekten, shared with us their first prize winning proposal for the ongoing project selected within the framework of a competitive multiple commission. Forming part of Allmendäcker housing district, which consists of horizontal, linear-formed housing blocks, the building tries to respond to its urban context. Two linear-like volumes are implemented; the northern one, together with the ground floor level plan, accommodating kindergarten and the southern – accommodating housing. More images and architects‘ description after the break. read more »
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The opening ceremony for the new Stuttgart City Library by Yi Architects was on October 21, 2011. After winning a competition for the project in 1999, the new library for Stuttgart in southern Germany has finally been unveiled. Yi Architects have shared with us the drawings and images of the project. Follow us after the break.
Architect: Yi Architects
Location: Stuttgart,Germany
Opening Ceremony: October 21, 2011
Plot Area: 3 201 m²
Total Cost: € 79.0 million
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Architect: flow.studio GmbH
Location: Berlin, Germany
Project Area: 461 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of flow.studio GmbH
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Architect: Kauffmann Theilig & Partner
Location: Obere Weinsteige 9, 70597 Stuttgart-Degerloch, Germany
Foundation: Helene-Pfleiderer-Stiftung
Owner: Stuttgarter Jugendhaus gGmbH
Design and Planning: Kauffmann Theilig & Partner, Freie Architekten BDA, Ost-fildern
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Roland Halbe
Fernando García-Huidobro, ELEMENTAL, Santiago de Chile
The min2max international architecture symposium, curated by Ilka & Andreas Ruby of textbild, is a two-day event where architects, artists, and activists will discuss design solutions to the pressing issue of keeping housing affordable and livable.
The event, which will take place on the weekend of the 10th -11th of December, will bring together some of the leading practitioners and theoreticians devoted to housing and architecture, including Anne Lacaton (Lacaton & Vassal Architects), Alfredo Brillembourg (Urban Think Tank), ELEMENTAL from Chile, Pier Vittorio Aureli (AA, London), Jacob van Rijs (MVRDV) and Diébédo Francis Kéré (Kéré Architecture), among many others. Panel discussions will be moderated by Carson Chan (PROGRAM), Michael Kimmelman (New York Times), and Joseph Grima (DOMUS). More information on the event after the break. read more »
Courtesy of Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
Two overarching factors feed into the overarching principle of urban design: the vicinity of the terrain to a traffic-intensive street axis and the western railway line and the requirement for a high density of the resulting building. In response, Delugan Meissl Associated Architects, which won the competition for this urban master plan, characterized the new interpretation of the historic district as a compact block structure, which will enter into a dialogue with their environment and be well-connected with the surrounding urban fabric and its functional characteristics. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
Zooey Braun
Architects: Alexander Brenner Architects
Location: Stuttgart, Germany
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 377 sqm
Photographs: Zooey Braun
Courtesy of J. MAYER H. Architects
In a three-level peer review process that resulted in two first-prize winners, an urban planning concept was developed by J. MAYER H. Architects for the area of what was once the post office on Erkrather Strasse. The so-called “Quartier M” is to serve as the future link between the Hauptbahnhof central station and Tanzhaus NRW/Capitol, becoming a lively city quarter for living and working. In addition to offices and a hotel, the trend-setting urban design also provides for both privately financed and government subsidized public housing. Other plans include space for a day care center for children and service providers for the quarter. More images and architects’ description after the break. read more »
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Authors: Heike Mutter + Ulrich Genth
Location: Duisburg, Germany
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: Thomas Mayer
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Architects: Pablo Esteban Zamorano, Nacho Martí and Jacob Bek
Location: Cologne, Germany
Project Team: Nacho Martí, Jacob Bek, Pablo Zamorano
Client: RESOL
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 16 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Pablo Esteban Zamorano
Bing Thom Works / Bing Thom Architects
We recently received a book by Bing Thom Architects, a firm we have previously featured. Beyond the traditional display of selected projects this book provides a range of essays by Bing Thom that deal with the questions he…
As you well know already we love MARK Magazine, and this issue fails to disappoint. It has projects from many of the architects we have featured here on ArchDaily such as, StudioGreenBlue, Heri&Salli, Clavel Arquitectos, Kengo Kuma, Colboc Franzen, Studio Velocity, Takeshi Hosaka, Fuhrimann Hachler, Toyo Ito, Nieto Sobejano, L3P…
Louis Kahn on the Thoughtful Making of Spaces / Michael Merrill
From previously unpublished material and new analytic drawings this book explores Louis Kahn’s Dominican Motherhouse, his unbuilt masterpiece. Kahn pushed and prodded modern architecture into a crisis that questioned aspects of space that modernism had proudly banished from its…
