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Todd Saunders Lecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich

Jan 2012

By Alison Furuto — Filed under: Events ,Videos , Germany, Munich, Todd Saunders

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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Siemens Headquarters / Henning Larsen Architects

Jul 2011

By Christopher Henry — Filed under: Awarded Competitions ,Office Buildings , Germany, Henning Larsen Architects, LEED Platinum, Munich

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Henning Larsen Architects was recently awarded the international competition for Siemens’ new headquarters. The design by Henning Larsen Architects is an urban, recognizable composition of plazas, courtyards and alleys that will unfold a new, vibrant urban space in central Munich. Siemens and Munich are integrated into a harmonious whole by merging two archetypal entities – mass (Siemens) and void (Munich) – into a complementing formation. The city opens up the mass, which in response opens up to the city.

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AD Classics: Munich Olympic Stadium / Frei Otto & Gunther Behnisch

Feb 2011

By Andrew Kroll — Filed under: AD Architecture Classics ,Cultural ,Sports Architecture , Frei Otto, Germany, Gunther Behnisch, Munich, Olympics

Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Often mentioned as a pioneer in lightweight tensile and membrane construction, yet overshadowed in the discipline of architecture, Frei Otto along with Gunther Behnisch collaborated to design the 1972 Munich Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany. With the Olympics having already been held in Berlin in 1936, Otto and Behnisch took the second Olympics games in Germany as an opportunity and a second chance to show Germany in a new light. Their goal was to design a structure that would emulate the games motto: “The Happy Games” as more of a whimsical architectural response that would overshadow the heavy, authoritarian stadium in Berlin.

More of the 1972 Olympic Stadium in Munich after the break. read more »

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Kubitscheck / Designliga

Aug 2010

Uploaded by Amber P — Filed under: Hotels and Restaurants ,Interiors ,Selected , designliga, Germany, Munich

German architects Designliga shared with us their interior design for this new Pastry Shop in Munich, Germany for a Greenpeace punk activist.

Read the story and check some more images after the break.

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Pavillion 21 / Coop Himmelb(l)au

Nov 2009

By Karen Cilento — Filed under: Architecture News ,Mixed Use , Coop Himmelb(l)au, Munich, Pavilion

Coop Himmelb(l)au has designed a temporary mobile performance space for the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, Germany. The pavilion will house performances during the annual Opera Festival in 2010, and once that festival is over, the pavilion will be reassembled in various locations. Designed to “give the impression of a quieter environment,” the pavilion reduces the apparent noise to create a ‘zone of silence’ where visitors can sense a change in the soundscape.

More images and more about the pavilion after the break.

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