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Primary School Krampnitz / AFF architekten

Valeria Silva — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 06:00:00 +0000

New construction and renovation of a Compartment primary school on the former military barracks site of Krampnitz in the north of Potsdam.

Planetary Transitions Residency Exhibition

Rene Submissions — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 08:30:00 +0000

The project brings together architects, artists, researchers, scientists, and social workers, the project explores how embodied, material, and technological practices can help us rethink our relationship with the planet’s energy infrastructures.

Through a series of discussions, collaborative labs, and an evolving visual narrative, the exhibition seeks to unlearn habitual forms of research and cultivate new modes of planetary attunement. It questions the notion of infrastructure—where matter, data, and bodies are treated as counter-agents of design and care.

House by the Lake / Carlos Zwick Architekten BDA

Pilar Caballero — Wed, 19 May 2021 10:00:00 +0000

Thousands of excursionists used to enjoy homemade ice cream and lemonade on this historic lakeside property in Potsdam until the old park cafe there closed its doors. 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Berlin-based architect Carlos Zwick fell in love with the overgrown property. He bought it, including dilapidated monuments, without a building permit, but with a vision: a family place was to be built here, a house that would uncompromisingly engage with the essential elements of the surrounding nature.

Jungfernsee Elementary School / Sehw Architektur

Valeria Silva — Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:00:00 +0000

Schools have developed into all-day and inclusive learning and living spaces. The new schools need spatial concepts that can be used flexibly. For this purpose, the big school is divided into several small organisational units, the small schools or clusters. This organisation in clusters makes it possible to create semi-autonomous social-spatial units in large schools, which are manageable for pupils and teachers and allow a sense of home to develop. These pedagogical objectives lead to new architectural requirements. Architecture becomes a pedagogue.

Antivilla / Brandlhuber+Emde, Burlon

Cristian Aguilar — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 16:00:00 +0000

Antivilla, the refurbished former German Democratic Republic lingerie factory „Ernst Lück“ at the Krampnitzsee, southwest of Berlin, questions the relationship between building regulations and standards, energy efficiency together with the idea re-use and adaptive living.

blu / gmp Architekten

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 20 Jun 2017 15:00:00 +0000

Countryside or city? This question was asked on several occasions during the protracted and changeable planning history of the new sports and leisure pool in Potsdam. And even when a citizen’s opinion poll finally swung the pendulum towards the central location at the foot of the Brauhausberg hill even though, previously, a location “on virgin land” had been preferred, the dominant urban design motif for this location remained ambivalent.

Innovation Center 2.0 / SCOPE Architekten

Valentina Villa — Fri, 31 Mar 2017 03:00:00 +0000

In an exposed location on Jungfernsee SCOPE built the Innovation Center 2.0 next to existing SAP building. The architects are also responsible for its interior design.

Sandwich / atelier st

Daniel Sánchez — Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:00:45 +0000

The location and the characteristics of the site could not be more beautiful. The steep hillside plot with its old, protected pine trees arises from the waterside of the Groß Glienicke Lake and offers a divine view. Due to the topographical hillside of the property with the lake situated in the northwest, the architecture deduces its primary functional and design attributes from this special situation. The concept „less is more“ was taken literally in respect of the starting position.

House in the Woods / Claim

Karen Valenzuela — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Small spaciousness

AD Classics: The Einstein Tower / Erich Mendelsohn

Gili Merin — Sun, 14 Jul 2013 01:00:00 +0000

The Einstein Tower, designed by the German architect Erich Mendelsohn, is one of the best-known examples of German expressionist architecture. Designed as an amorphic structure of reinforced concrete, Mendelsohn wanted the tower to represent as well as facilitate the study of Einstein’s radical theory of relativity – a groundbreaking theorem of motion, light and space.

Simple-Tech-Kiosk / partnerundpartner-architekten

Andrew Rosenberg — Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:00 +0000

The Kiosk is located in the Park of the Bundesgartenschau in Potsdam, Germany. As an extension to an existing café it is selling ice cream, lemonade and coffee.