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Power Station Leipzig / atelier st

Hadir Al Koshta — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 06:00:00 +0000

The historic industrial site of the former Leipzig power station, which used to produce electricity and district heating, is characterized by large brick buildings from the last century. The 'Südwerk' was built on the site of the former estate brickworks between 1908 and 1910. However, the plants were shut down in 1996, but due to the growth of the city of Leipzig, it was decided to continue using the site as an energy supplier. What used to be brown coal was to be replaced by natural gas and soon by hydrogen.

Machinery Hall Renovation into Workshop and Office Space / KO/OK Architektur

Hadir Al Koshta — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:00:00 +0000

Renovation of a listed machinery hall and convention into workshop and office spaces in Leipzig's neighborhood Connewitz.

Sportbad am Rabet Modular Swimming Facility / gmp Architects

Andreas Luco — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 11:00:00 +0000

Modular New Swimming Facility for Leipzig — With the Sportbad am Rabet in Leipzig's Neustadt district, architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have created a much-needed indoor swimming facility for schools, clubs, and recreational swimmers. The modular new building, designed to the Passive House standard, combines functional sports infrastructure with an economical system-based construction approach.

Karl Schubert School Multi-purpose Hall and Classroom Building / Kersten Kopp Architekten

Paula Pintos — Tue, 07 May 2024 10:00:00 +0000

The spacious façade of the new multi-purpose hall rises along a historic, graffiti-covered wall on Bornaische Strasse. The Karl Schubert School is expanding its facilities with two new supplementary buildings (a multi-purpose hall and a classroom building). It is gaining a new, identity-forming face in Leipzig‘s district Lößnig.

Kurti 50A Apartment Building / Aline Hielscher Architektur

Andreas Luco — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

The property is located in the south of Leipzig, a district characterized by housing out of the late 19th and early 20th century. The district is structured by a main street axis, which stretches from the center to the south of the city with numerous bars, cafés, and stores. The Kurt-Eisner Street crosses the main street and functions as an important link between the western and eastern districts.

Neighborhood Childcare / Aline Hielscher Architektur

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Urban concept. The urban layout of Leipzig includes a striking road axis from the tower of the Town Hall in the city center to the Monument of the Battle of Nations in the south. Along that axis, an industrially constructed, large housing estate was built as a part of the urban development of the 1960s and 1970s. Since then, this area has been characterized by several residential blocks with 11 floors. Some two-story daycare centers are integrated into the courtyards of these row buildings. Now, the new kindergarten at Tarostrasse 9a is located next to one of these existing, system-built daycare centers.

Duplex / atelier st

Andreas Luco — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:00:00 +0000

The property is located on the edge of a mature residential area in Portitz, in the north-west of Leipzig. In addition to the immediate proximity to nature, it is characterized by the neighborhood of a heterogeneous single-family house development and an already grown garden vegetation. Nature, the nearby forest, and the orchard played just as important a role as the translation of the surrounding buildings into a contemporary architectural language. The defining characteristics of the estate were translated into a gabled residential building. It is the archetypal image of a house that every child draws. However, this basic figure did not remain alone. In keeping with the motto "two are better than one", the overall appearance of the new building is made up of two offset, narrow house volumes.

Sonnenwinkel House / Carolus Zschieschang

Valeria Silva — Sat, 11 Mar 2023 06:00:00 +0000

The existing residential building has been extended by a two-story annex. The extension hides behind the old building and surprises visitors when they walk around it to reach the original entrance when the upper floor cantilevers and seems to levitate from behind the existing building.

Noland Hair Salon / loeserbettels Design Studio

Pilar Caballero — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 02:00:00 +0000

Salon Noland is located in the lively neighborhood of Leipzig-Reudnitz. For this reason, the room was deliberately designed to be exciting: strong colors alternate dynamically with different materials and textures.

Leipzig Justice Center / kister scheithauer gross architekten und stadtplaner

Pilar Caballero — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:00:00 +0000

The Staatsbetrieb Sächsisches Immobilien- und Baumanagement (SIB) planned a new justice center in Leipzig. As a first building section, the administration of justice was to be accommodated next to the already existing district court. kister scheithauer gross architekten und stadtplaner were awarded the contract. The project included not only the conversion and restoration of the listed buildings but also a linking new building on the site of the former prison. This created a total of 8,800 m² of usable space for the public prosecutor’s office. In one part of the building, a memorial was to be set up with reference to the former execution site of the GDR.

Shrinking Cities: The Rise and Fall of Urban Environments

Andreea Cutieru — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 04:00:00 +0000

Urban planning is often based on the assumption of ongoing demographic and economic growth, but as some environments face urban shrinkage, a new array of strategies comes into play. The shrinking city phenomenon is a process of urban decline with complex causes ranging from deindustrialization, internal migration, population decline, or depletion of natural resources. Referencing the existing research on the topic, the following showcases approaches to this phenomenon in different urban environments, highlighting the need to develop new urban design frameworks to address the growing challenge.

An Oscar Niemeyer-Designed White Concrete and Glazed Sphere, Generates Extension for a Factory Canteen in Germany

Christele Harrouk — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 05:30:00 +0000

Oscar Niemeyer’s latest work generated a spherical extension for the Kirow plant’s canteen in Leipzig, Germany. The architect was first approached by the factory’s owner in 2011, and following Niemeyer’s death in 2012, his sketches were further developed by assistant Jair Valera, and executed by Harald Kern Architects.

Kita L Child Care / Irlenbusch von Hantelmann Architekten

Andreas Luco — Mon, 17 Feb 2020 10:00:00 +0000

The great demand of child-care places and the simultaneous high cost pressure increase the danger to rely on fast but uninspired and trivial solutions. In case of this project we found high potential for a striking and individual building in the at first glance improper development plan, that was laid out for single-family homes.

Paulinum University Leipzig / Erick van Egeraat

Daniel Tapia — Sat, 09 Dec 2017 05:01:00 +0000

With the new main building, auditorium and Paulinum, designed by the Dutch architect Erick van Egeraat, the new University of Leipzig, founded in 1409 and the second oldest University of Germany, is now finally completed. The official opening will take place on 1st of December 2017. Prime Minister of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich, will officially open the Paulinum, the last important part of the new campus. Erick van Egeraat says: “By far the most challenging project in my career so far. I am delighted with the final result. It reflects every detail of our design intentions. Leipzig can be proud.” Erick van Egeraat won the international competition in 2004. The new Paulinum of the University of Leipzig is situated on the site of the former Pauliner Church, the only church to remain undamaged during the second world war. In 1968 the complex was willfully demolished by the former GDR regime.

TROPOS Laboratory Modules / Schulz und Schulz

Daniel Tapia — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 02:00:00 +0000

The Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research in Leipzig (TROPOS) was founded in 1992 in order to research processes in the troposphere and has established itself with a research profile that is unique worldwide. At the core of the research lies the formation of aerosols and clouds and their influence on climate and human health. As an internationally leading institution for the basic research of aerosols and clouds, TROPOS gathers, analyses and models physical and chemical processes from the molecular and microscale up to long-distance transport in areas of varying contamination. The results of the research work build the foundations for policy recommendations regarding issues of climate and health in politics.

One of Oscar Niemeyer's Final Designs Will Be Completed Posthumously in Germany

Patrick Lynch — Tue, 21 Mar 2017 15:05:00 +0000

One of Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer’s final designs, a 12-meter-diameter glass and concrete sphere perched on the corner of a factory building, is set to be completed in Leipzig, Germany, reports Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting, MDR).

St. Trinitatis Church / Schulz und Schulz

Julio Effa — Sun, 04 Dec 2016 13:00:00 +0000

The consecration of the church ended the odyssey of the Leipzig parish community that has lasted over seventy years. Its permanent return to the centre of the city is manifested in the construction of the new Trinitatis church.

Residential House / Woltereck Fitzner Architekten Bda

Daniela Cardenas — Sat, 30 Jul 2016 13:00:00 +0000

A local dairy farmer, located close to Leipzig, wanted to enlarge his living space as the family ex-pected further offspring.