WestendGate / Just Burgeff architekten + a3lab
Architects: Just Burgeff architekten + a3lab (Asterios Agkathidis Architecture)
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Client: Aberdeen GmbH
Project Year: 2010
Photographs: Courtesy of a3lab
Zero Emission Pavilion / partnerundpartner-architekten
Architects: partnerundpartner-architekten
Location: Hamburg, Germany
Design Team: Jörg Finkbeiner, Klaus Günter
Structural Engineer: ZRS-Berlin
Construction Supervision: Jan Becker – Freiräume gestalten
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 75 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of partnerundpartner-architekten
Mercedes-Benz at the Frankfurt Festival Hall / Kauffmann Theilig & Partner
Architects: Kauffmann Theilig & Partner Freie Architekten BDA
Location: Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 10,800 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Kauffmann Theilig & Partner
Frankfurt’s Festival Hall once again played host to Mercedes-Benz at the IAA International Motor Show (September 13 – 25, 2011) where the “pulse” of a new generation of automobiles was on display. The exhibition design by architectural firm Kauffmann Theilig & Partner and Frankfurt-based Atelier Markgraph was a continuation of this years running-theme: 125 years since the invention of the automobile. This is the 9th consecutive collaboration between the two.
Adidas Laces / kadawittfeldarchitektur
Architects: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Location: Herzogenaurach, Germany
Project Partner: Dirk Zweering
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 62,000 sqm
Photographs: Werner Huthmacher
Wooden House K / partnerundpartner-architekten
Architects: partnerundpartner-architekten
Location: Black Forest, Germany
Design Team: Jörg Finkbeiner, Klaus Günter, Christian Necker
Structural Engeneer: Müller & Günter Ingenieurbüro
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 176 sqm
Photographs: partnerundpartner-architekten
Celtic Museum / kadawittfeldarchitektur
Architects: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Location: Glauburg, Germany
Project Managers: Oliver Venghaus (architecture), Ben Beckers (exhibition design)
Client: Federal State of Hessen represented by HMWK and HBM
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 2,190 sqm (GFA)
Photographs: Werner Huthmacher
Flashback: Sony Center Berlin / Murphy/Jahn
Flashback: One of Archdaily’s goals is to bring you up to date information about projects that are being designed and constructed around the world. We’ve created a new category to cover inspiring projects that were constructed between the 1990′s and the early 2000′s.
Architect: Murphy Jahn
Location: Berlin, Germany
Project Team: Helmut Jahn, Sam Scaccia, Philip Castillo, Dieter Zabel, Susan Pratt, Scott Pratt, Peter Hayes, Yorgo Lykourgiotis, Tony Pelipada, Andre Piraro, Carl D’Silva, Steffen Duemler, Andreas Hell, Oliver Henninger, Matthias Lassen, Sabine Robel, Bärbel Rudloff, Steven Nilles, Vincent Marani
Landscape Architect: Peter Walker & Partners
Text: Murphy Jahn
Project Area: 1,670,000 sqf
Project Year: 2000
Photographs: Rainer Viertlbock
Depot and Administration RUHR MUSEUM / Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Architects: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Location: Essen, Germany
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 1,850 sqm
Photographs: Deimel & Wittmar
St Antony Industrial Archaeological Park / Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Architects: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Location: Oberhausen, Germany
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1007 sqm
Photographs: Deimel & Wittmar
Minimum House / Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten
Architects: Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten
Location: Klausdorf, Germany
Project Year: 2008
Project Area: 151 sqm
Photograph: Christian Gahl
Essener Geschichte Archive Building / Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Architects: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch
Location: Essen, Germany
Project Year: 2010
Project Area: 6700 sqm
Photographs: Deimel & Wittmar
Kindergarten and Primary School / (se)arch Architekten
With a primary focus on schools, kindergartens and housing design, (se)arch Architekten, a German architectural firm, based in Stuttgart, shared with us their proposal for an elementary school and kindergarten which won the first prize in an international competition. Situated in Uhland Park, in the outskirts of Tübingen, south of the Neckar River Channel and neighbouring the Lindenbrunnen Elementary School building, the two squared-plan volumes are designed as a replacement to the existing school. More images and architects‘ description after the break.
AD Classics: The Kreuzberg Tower / John Hejduk
In April of 2010 the architecture community gathered to protect one of the many at risk postmodern buildings of the 1980s. The new owners of the Kreuzberg Tower by John Hejduk drew negative attention from notable architects when they began altering the building’s façade. The Kreuzberg Tower’s façade has now been restored, and the attention it received reflects on its postmodern history, and the prominence of its important designer.
Research & Sports Hall of Humboldt University / Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten
Architects: Scheidt Kasprusch Architekten
Location: Berlin, Germany
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 3,580 sqm
Photographs: Rainer Gollmer
Rethinking Mies: Positions on Modernity in the 21st Century Symposium
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was born in Aachen in 1886. On the occasion of the 125th anniversary of his birthday, Aachen Fenster e.V. and the Department of Theory of Architecture at RWTH Aachen University, will jointly host an international conference.
By determining new, yet sustainable ties between technology and aesthetics, as well as between ideas and artifacts, Mies van der Rohe defined a path leading to architectural modernity. The works of Mies have been documented, published, and displayed in countless exhibitions. As major references they stand apart from the rapid change of attitudes and stylistic preferences.
The Aachen symposium on Mies is not meant to be a hagiographical laudation on the person, the work or its reception. ‘Rethinking Mies’ will rather provide opportunities to understand the essence of Miesian thought and its relation to the modern movement as well as to contemporary practices of architecture. More information on the event after the break.
Forscherkindergarten / WINKENS Architekten
Architects: WINKENS Architekten
Location: Berlin, Germany
Project Team: Karl-Heinz Winkens, Marcel Klebs
Structural Engineering: Ingenieurbüro Rüdiger Jockwer GmbH
Civil Engineer: Dipl.-Ing. Wolfgang Laubinger
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 550 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of WINKENS Architekten
Kap 686 Skate Park / Metrobox Architekten
Architects: Metrobox Architekten
Location: Cologne, Germany
Client: City of Cologne
Project Year: 2011
Photographs: metrobox architekten
Elsbethen Site / trint + kreuder d.n.a
Architects: trint + kreuder d.n.a
Location: Memmingen, Germany
Client: City of Memmingen
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 15,726 sqm
Photographs: Wettbewerbe Aktuell, trint + kreuder d.n.a
Richard Meier & Partners Architects Wins American Architecture Award for Coffee Plaza
Richard Meier & Partners Architects has been awarded the American Architecture Award 2011 for Coffee Plaza in Hamburg, Germany. The American Architectural Awards is one of the most prestigious building awards program in the United States that honors “new and cutting-edge design”. This annual program is organized by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Center for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies to promote the best of new architecture and urban design.
The Coffee Plaza in Hamburg’s HafenCity is planned as a unique center for international coffee commerce and related lines of business. The project encompasses the design of the headquarters for one of the largest coffee trading companies worldwide and two office buildings with rentable areas as well as a public plaza and underground parking. The site is part of the ambitious new Master plan to redevelop Hamburg’s post-industrial port into a viable business, commercial and cultural center and is currently the largest urban development project in Europe. More after the break.
Subterranean Rural City Art Installation
German artist EVOL recently completed an interesting interactive installation just outside of Hamburg, Germany for the MS Dockville music and art festival. The ‘Rural City’ is comprised of thin trenches about 1.5 meters deep in an ‘X’ shape that were dug out over the course of 8 days. Earth is held back with retaining boards made of Eternit and spray painted to resemble the facades of skyscrapers. More photos after the break.
Absalon / denzer & poensgen
Absalon designed by denzer & poensgen is located in a new developing area, exclusively situated on a hillside, just above the city centre of Trier. The aim of this new developing area is to create examples of good buildings in an attractive landscape which is integrated in its surrounding.
Architect: denzer & poensgen
Location: Trier, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Project team: Georg Poensgen, Andrea Denzer, Oliver Greven, Verena Bick, Heike Immink
Structural Planning: Marcus Thissen
Project Area: 430 sqm
Project Year: 2006
Photographs: Rainer Mader
