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Montréal Insectarium / Kuehn Malvezzi + Pelletier De Fontenay + Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes

Paula Pintos — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:00:00 +0000

Espace pour la vie, Canada’s largest natural science museum complex, appointed Kuehn Malvezzi alongside Montréal offices Pelletier de Fontenay and Jodoin Lamarre Pratte architectes, jointly with Berlin-based land- scape architects atelier le balto, to design the new Montréal Insectarium. The partnership won an international competition for the project with a concept to fuse architecture and nature in 2014.

Administration Building with Rooftop Greenhouse / Kuehn Malvezzi

Daniel Tapia — Fri, 07 Aug 2020 07:00:00 +0000

The office building in the center of Oberhausen combines the diverse functions of a public administrative building and rooftop garden in a new way, integrating features of both typologies. The tension between the physicality of the brick building and the delicate lightness of the greenhouse creates a new identity that affects the urban context of the Altmarkt, an important location in the city.

Commercial Building Hohe Strasse 52 / Kuehn Malvezzi

Andreas Luco — Wed, 15 Jan 2020 03:00:00 +0000

In the heart of the historic center of Cologne, the construction of a new commercial building has been completed. The building references an existing department store typology present in the city center.

Extension Moderne Galerie, Saarlandmuseum / Kuehn Malvezzi

Rayen Sagredo — Thu, 09 Jan 2020 10:00:00 +0000

In 2011, the construction works of the extension to the Modern Gallery, a ensemble of pavilions by the architect Hanns Schönecker from the 1960s, had come to a halt. Tow years later, a call for new concepts was held, and the project was awarded to Kuehn Malvezzi. Working with artist Michael Riedel, the architects presented an approach to reconceiving the Modern Gallery that didn’t try to negate the building’s challenging political prehistory, but instead took it as a point of departure for the design. This reconception focused on the museum’s relationship to public space, in terms of both the museum’s physical surroundings (its relation to open spaces in the city and the Saar River nearby), as well as in terms of the political public—its relation to clients and users of the facility.

Joseph Pschorr House / Kuehn Malvezzi

Daniel Sánchez — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:00:00 +0000

The commercial building, which was completed in October 2013, is a hybrid of two different building typologies. On the one hand, the building follows the historic model of a mixed-use building, with the retail functions on the lower two floors and apartments on the top floor which, in this case, has been extended to include a full residential loft. On the other hand, the building represents a development of the department store typology; three separate units are interwoven over four levels in the middle zone and the upper floors are largely shielded from the street. As a result, the building is more open to the city on the top floor and lower two floors, while the design of the elevations of the middle floors is more withdrawn.