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Living in the Spinnereipark (Y-Houses)

The listed buildings of the Alte Spinnerei (Old Spinnery) in the center of Kolbermoor have been transformed into a popular destination. The Spinnereipark which forms part of the historic ensemble north of the canal has been revitalized and upgraded.…

8.020 qm / 86,330 sq.ft. (1st construction phase) 23.850 qm / 256,720 sq.ft. - Kolbermoor, Germany

8.020 qm / 86,330 sq.ft. (1st construction phase) 23.850 qm / 256,720 sq.ft.

Living - Kolbermoor, Germany

Artists For Humanity EpiCenter Expansion

Artists for Humanity (AFH) is a non-profit organization that bridges economic, racial, and social divisions by providing under-resourced youth with the keys to self-sufficiency through paid employment in art and design. In 2014 AFH commissioned…

4.924 qm / 53,000 sq.ft. - Boston, USA

4.924 qm / 53,000 sq.ft.

Public - Boston, USA

adidas World Of Sports ARENA

The adidas ARENA forms a distinctive landmark on the adidas World of Sports campus in Herzogenaurach. The new office and reception building marks the campus’s main entrance, welcoming visitors to the adidas group’s World of Sports headquarters and len…

52.000 qm / 560,000 sq.ft. - Herzogenaurach, Germany

52.000 qm / 560,000 sq.ft.

Work - Herzogenaurach, Germany

leisure - germany

Health and Fitness Spa Friedrichshafen

Behnisch Architekten has designed the new aquatic sports center Sportbad Friedrichshafen as a building that reveals its qualities from the inside out: this newbuild, with its differentiated roofscape, is arranged around a landscaped internal…

26.810 qm / 288,580 sq.ft. (incl. parking garage) - Friedrichshafen, Germany

26.810 qm / 288,580 sq.ft. (incl. parking garage)

Leisure - Friedrichshafen, Germany

KIT Energy Lab 2.0

The Energy Lab 2.0 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is an intelligent platform, set up to explore the interplay of components in the energy systems of the future and in particular to speed up the energy transition in Germany through the…

1.730 qm / 18,621 sq.ft. - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

1.730 qm / 18,621 sq.ft.

Work - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

education - usa

Robert L. Bogomolny Library

The transformation of the University of Baltimore's Robert L. Bogomolny Library respects the memory and history of the original library design while simultaneously modernizing it to meet contemporary research, scholarship, archival and environmental…

5.388 qm / 58,000 sq.ft. - Baltimore, MD, USA

5.388 qm / 58,000 sq.ft.

Education - Baltimore, MD, USA

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AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer

The AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer, located in Lausanne within sight of Lake Geneva, specifically provides working and research space for 400 scientists and practitioners under one roof. The major focus was on a comprehensive, holistic …

22.500 qm / 241,700 sq.ft. - Lausanne, Switzerland

22.500 qm / 241,700 sq.ft.

Health - Lausanne, Switzerland

education - germany

Anna-Pröll Secondary School and Sports Hall

In Gersthofen, district Augsburg Bavaria, a new secondary school building complete with a three-court gymnasium was planned to replace an original school built in 1971. The design scheme defines its own identity in one sense, and simultaneously…

13.396 qm / 144,195 sq.ft. - Gersthofen, Germany

13.396 qm / 144,195 sq.ft.

Education - Gersthofen, Germany

living - germany

Living on the Altmühl riverside

Located idyllically at the bank of the river Altmühl in Eichstätt, the multistory building complex with its terraced balconies sets new standards of urban building. The complex is structured in two building sections that blend in well in the scale o…

9.680 qm / 104,196 sq.ft. - Eichstätt, Germany

9.680 qm / 104,196 sq.ft.

Living - Eichstätt, Germany

Dorotheen Quartier

The re-planning of the Dorotheen Quartier not only creates new areas for public use, it also offers a unique opportunity to reassess the relationship with the Karlsplatz arcade. This thoroughfare has, until now, always been perceived as the less…

38.250 qm / 411,723 sq.ft. (floor area) - Stuttgart, Germany

38.250 qm / 411,723 sq.ft. (floor area)

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

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Haus B - Garden Design

This extensive garden redesign was conducted during the renovation of a residential house. The steeply sloping property on Bopser hill in the city of Stuttgart rises over 20 meters from bottom to top and enjoys a breathtaking panoramic view of the…

750 qm / 8,073 sq. ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

750 qm / 8,073 sq. ft.

Living - Stuttgart, Germany

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The Metropolitan Sheptytsky Center, Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv

The Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), located in Lviv, is the first Catholic university to be opened in the former Soviet Union, with a mission to provide an open, progressive and democratic learning environment for its students and the…

6.027 qm / 64,874 sq.ft. - Lviv, Ukraine

6.027 qm / 64,874 sq.ft.

Education - Lviv, Ukraine

living - germany

City Mansions Ludwigshafen

Along the banks of the River Rhine, on a former industrial harbor site in close proximity to the inner city of Ludwigshafen, a new city district has emerged, the district Rheinufer Süd. In addition to offering direct access to the Rhine promenade, …

2.595 qm / 27,932 sq.ft. - Ludwigshafen, Germany

2.595 qm / 27,932 sq.ft.

Living - Ludwigshafen, Germany

education - usa

Karl Miller Center, Portland State University

Located in downtown Portland, the new Karl Miller Center is uniquely integrated with the city’s rich network of public open spaces and diverse urban uses. Questioning the full-block archetype that dominates the typical 200' x 200' city block of P…

13.330 qm / 145,000 sq.ft. - Portland, OR, USA

13.330 qm / 145,000 sq.ft.

Education - Portland, OR, USA

education - germany

Institute for Technical Physics, Building 416, KIT Karlsruhe

The Institute for Technical Physics (ITEP) understands itself as a national and international Center of Competence for fusion, superconductivity and cryotechnology. Its work in these areas has been firmly anchored for many years at the KIT and the…

2.887 qm / 31,075 sq.ft. - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

2.887 qm / 31,075 sq.ft.

Education - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

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Extensions Sporerstraße

In terms of urban planning the Dorotheen Quartier presented the unique opportunity to upgrade what many hitherto had considered to be the back of the Breuninger department store: the exit of the Karlspassage shopping arcade at the “far end” and the bui…

890 qm / 9,580 sq.ft. (new extensions), 1.960 qm / 21,100 sq.ft. (with existing constructions) - Stuttgart, Germany

890 qm / 9,580 sq.ft. (new extensions), 1.960 qm / 21,100 sq.ft. (with existing constructions)

Public - Stuttgart, Germany

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Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

Behnisch Architekten’s new building for the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg is to be sited in a prominent location. The building has an explicitly welcoming appearance, and its visual form reinforces the idea of an open, c…

16.318 qm / 175,647 sq.ft. - Heidelberg, Germany

16.318 qm / 175,647 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

education - germany

Hohenstaufen Secondary School - General Renovation

Hohenstaufen Secondary School was built between 1957 and 1959 by architects Günter Behnisch and Bruno Lambart. It was placed under a protection order in 2015. The building consists of an elongated four-story main classroom block with an east-west …

1.100 qm / 11,700 sq.ft. - Göppingen, Germany

1.100 qm / 11,700 sq.ft.

Education - Göppingen, Germany

work - switzerland

Smart Living Lab

In Fribourg, Switzerland, the Smart Living Lab – a research center studying the future of the built environment – will occupy a central location where the old Cardinal brewery stood. Part of the new blueFACTORY quarter, which seeks to connect sta…

4.705 qm / 50,645 sq.ft. - Fribourg, Switzerland

4.705 qm / 50,645 sq.ft.

Work - Fribourg, Switzerland

leisure - germany

Action Sports Center

After lengthy deliberations, the Bavarian capital of Munich is building a new action sports center on the site of the Eggenfabrik in Pasing, an erstwhile factory for agricultural equipment situated to the west of Erna-Eckstein-Strasse right beside…

8.670 qm / 93,324 sq.ft. - Munich, Germany

8.670 qm / 93,324 sq.ft.

Leisure - Munich, Germany

health - germany

Dieter Morszeck Biorepository

The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) in Heidelberg is planning a Biorepository Building with a fully automated, robotic liquid biopsy facility—a new blood-based method of analysis that can detect even minute amounts of tumor cells in a blood s…

1.600 qm / 17,222 sq.ft. - Heidelberg, Germany

1.600 qm / 17,222 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

EDGE ElbSide Hamburg

The new district of Elbbrücken is currently being constructed and will mark the HafenCity's eastern entrance. Here, a modern, innovative office building is to be built – one whose design concept will support a collaborative and cooperative work en…

32.000 qm / 344.448 sq.ft. - Hamburg, Germany

32.000 qm / 344.448 sq.ft.

Work - Hamburg, Germany

Gore Plaza

The new Plaza building will be the keystone to the Putzbrunn Campus, Gore’s mayor European location.. It is located in the heart of the site and will act as the primary destination for all visitors. It is also envisioned to be the place where all a…

4.375 qm / 47,093 sq.ft. - Putzbrunn, Germany

4.375 qm / 47,093 sq.ft.

Work - Putzbrunn, Germany

education - germany

BBGZ Family Center

A new civic meeting place and health center is being built on a former military site at the southwestern edge of Erlangen’s Röthelheim Park. In addition to a climbing tower and bouldering hall for the German Alpine Club, the complex includes a mu…

5.119 qm / 55,102 sq.ft. - Erlangen, Germany

5.119 qm / 55,102 sq.ft.

Education - Erlangen, Germany

education - germany

KiTa Pioneer-Kaserne

Pioneer Park in Hanau’s Wolfgang district has been designed to be part of an environmentally friendly and sustainable urban quarter of the future. This idea is reflected in the childcare concept “Garden Gnomes: The Green Day-Care Center in the Pio…

Education - Hanau, Germany

education - germany

Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe - New Building for the Upper Secondary

The Freie Walddorfschule Uhlandshöhe was founded by Emil Molt and Rudolf Steiner in September 1919 as the first Waldorf School in the world. It sits on an exposed site half-way up the hills on which Stuttgart is built, in a neighborhood with genteel …

5.490 qm / 59,094 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

5.490 qm / 59,094 sq.ft.

Education - Stuttgart, Germany

Office Building for the Comune Di Ravenna and Administration Building for the ARPA

Both the new laboratory and administration building for ARPA (Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente Dell‘ Emilia-Romagna) and the new building for the city administration are to be located at the western edge of the city of Ravenna. The b…

12.000 qm / 129,120 sq.ft. - Ravenna, Italy

12.000 qm / 129,120 sq.ft.

Public - Ravenna, Italy

public - germany

City Hall Gröbenzell

The site for the planned new city hall building is situated in the town centre of Gröbenzell, surrounded by two churches and a public square that is used for markets and events. The community of Gröbenzell is a residential municipality. With its s…

6.677 qm / 71,871 sq.ft. - Gröbenzell, Germany

6.677 qm / 71,871 sq.ft.

Public - Gröbenzell, Germany

education - germany

Primary School Infanteriestrasse

As part of the new project to promote the construction of school buildings in the Bavarian capital Munich, a five-track primary school is being developed according to the learning house concept. The building incorporates a double sports hall, a…

14.865 m2 / 160,007 sq.ft. - München, Germany

14.865 m2 / 160,007 sq.ft.

Education - München, Germany

leisure - germany

Schwaketenbad

In the year 2015, the Schwaketenbad which was first been built in 1979/80 as a public sports and leisure swimming center in the district of Wollmatingen, was almost completely destroyed by a large fire. It was then decided to create modern,…

10.172 qm / 109,491 sq.ft. - Constance, Germany

10.172 qm / 109,491 sq.ft.

Leisure - Constance, Germany

public - germany

City Hall Grosskarolinenfeld

Because of its immediate surroundings where streets and carparks prevail, the middle of the small town Grosskarolinenfeld never really developed an identifiable center. Using already existing areas, a sequence of situation, public spaces and paths…

2.520 qm / 27,124 sq.ft. - Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany

2.520 qm / 27,124 sq.ft.

Public - Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany

Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe - New Administration Building

The Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe, the world’s first Waldorf school, was established in September 1919 by Emil Molt and Rudolf Steiner. It is situated in an exposed location among a group of villas halfway up the Uhlandshöhe hill in Stuttgart-Ost. Owi…

620 qm / 6,670 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

620 qm / 6,670 sq.ft.

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

education - usa

Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex

The new Science and Engineering Complex (SEC), located on Harvard University’s emerging Allston campus, integrates one of the country’s most diverse and exciting engineering programs into a single 535,000-square-foot structure. As the primary home of …

49.702 qm / 535,000 sq.ft. - Boston, MA, USA

49.702 qm / 535,000 sq.ft.

Education - Boston, MA, USA

living - germany

Student Residence Complex 'Nibelungenkaserne'

The site of the former Nibelungenkaserne barracks in Regensburg was cleared in 2007. It is close to the center of town and adjacent to the campus of the OTH University of Applied Sciences, which provides a spatial link between the OTH, the…

8.500 qm / 91,495 sq.ft. - Regensburg, Germany

8.500 qm / 91,495 sq.ft.

Living - Regensburg, Germany

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School Campus Bernhausen – hand-over of the keys

With the beginning of the new school year and the start of lessons in the new building, the keys of the school campus in Bernhausen were officially handed over. A small group of involved parties came together to mark this important milestone, among…

Detail Reader’s Prize 2020: Public voting open now!

The adidas World of Sports ARENA is one of thirteen nominated projects for the Detail Reader’s Prize 2020. The votings are open to the public beginning today until October 30th and the winners will be determined by means of a simple majority. Please g…

Roadshow #PhaseNachhaltigkeit with Stefan Rappold

On September 9th, 2020 the roadshow #PhaseNachhaltigkeit was guest of the AKH (Architekten- und Stadtplanerkammer Hessen). Stefan Rappold held a lecture, talking about the experiences with the Declaration of Sustainability in everyday office life.…

Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc – Parasols

News from the building site of our project Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc : The first Parasol is becoming a reality! Connecting the schoolyard to the atrium of the two buildings - the primary and the secondary school - and providing protection from …

Honorable mention for our proposal for the children’s and young people’s theater in Ulm

Behnisch Architekten received an honorable mention for the design for the children’s and young people’s theater in Ulm. Congratulations to the competition team!

Edge ElbSide – press conference at Hamburg’s HafenCity

Stefan Rappold, Behnisch Architekten, Jens Fieber, EDGE, Susanne Bühler, HafenCity and Klaus Ransmayr, Henn Architects, stand in front of Baufeld 117, where the construction of the Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart designed EDGE ElbSide Hamburg will …

Dezeen Award 2020: We are on the longlist!

Congratulation to the project teams: Both of our submitted projects have been selected to the longlist of this year’s Dezeen Award: adidas World of Sports ARENA in the category “Business building” and KIT Energy Lab in the category “Civic building”.

adidas Arena selected for publication "Slender. High. Long"

“No other construction material can match steel’s suitability for bridging long spans and realising unusual building geometries. ‘Slender. High. Long – Steel and Steel-Composite Structures’ documents 20 outstanding high-rise buildings and engineeri…

WAN Award 2020: We are shortlisted!

Great news, two submitted projects are on the shortlist of this year’s WAN Award: adidas World of Sports ARENA in the category “Commercial” and Living in the Spinnereipark, Y-Houses in the category “Residential”. The ceremony will be hosted digitally…

Groundbreaking ceremony in Erlangen

We celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the BBGZ family center in Erlangen on 27 July. Lord Mayor, Florian Janik, Deputy Mayor for Sports, Jörg Volleth, and Planning Consultant, Josef Weber laid a symbolic cornerstone to celebrate the start of …

The Plan Award 2020: Public voting open now!

All of our projects submitted are in the shortlist of The Plan Award 2020: adidas World of Sports ARENA in the category “Offices&Business”, the Health and Fitness Spa Friedrichshafen in the category “Sports&Leisure”, the KIT EnergyLab 2.0 in the cat…

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Honorable mention for our proposal for the competition Eggarten-Siedlung in Munich

Behnisch Architekten received an honorable mention for the design of the Eggarten-Siedlung in Munich. The competition task was to develop a new urban district, linking the green spaces of the Olympic Park, the Olympic Village including the sports…

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Stefan Rappold – keynote speaker at the first annual event of Phase Sustainability

DGNB network meeting with live broadcast – The first annual event of the initiative Phase Sustainability took place at the Chamber of Architects Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart on 28 July. Stefan Rappold held a keynote speech on the first experiences wi…

Lecture by Dominique Gauzin-Müller on earthen architecture

Dominique, architect, author and lecturer focusing on wood and sustainability in architecture and urbanism, has gained a profound knowledge about the implementation of clay in architecture over the years. We had the honor to listen to one of her…

Architizer A+ Public Voting open now

Our project adidas World of Sports ARENA has been selected as a Special Mention in the 2020 Architizer A+Awards for the Office Interiors (>25000 sq ft.) category and as a Finalist for Architecture + Façade category. It is one of five in the world …

New Booklet out!

Our three buildings erected on the KIT Campus North are now published together in an brand new booklet: The Institute for Technical Physics with buildings 410 and 416 and the Energy Lab.

adidas Arena and KIT Energy Lab shortlisted for DAM Preis

Two of our buildings, the adidas Arena and the KIT Energy Lab, have been shortlisted for the DAM Preis. The award annually honors outstanding buildings in Germany and is conferred by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum and JUNG. From the initial 100…

Heinze Award 2020 – public voting

In its 10th year, the Heinze Award 2020 has opened the online voting to the public beginning today until August 31st. The final results of the online and jury voting will be announced in November. Don’t hesitate to support our project "Living i…

2nd prize for Campus of Medical Faculty in Mannheim

The state of Baden-Württemberg held the competition for a new medical campus in Mannheim with a total floor space of 23,000 square metres. Our proposal was awarded 2nd prize in a field of participants with 18 submissions. An ensemble of four freely …

Thomas Auer, Stefan Behnisch and Oliver Schulze at “Heinze ArchitekTOUR virtuell”

The future of the city – Thomas Auer, Transsolar, Stefan Behnisch and Oliver Schulze, Schulze+Grassov, are talking about "The new normal and its consequences for urban development”. Watch the livestream on Tuesday 7 July, 6.00 p.m. (CEST). Get reg…

Honorable mention for our proposal for the competition „Junge Bühne“ in Dortmund

A new theater is to be created for the “Junge Bühne” in Dortmund. The venue is being built for one of the oldest children's and youth theatres in Germany and will unite all the performing arts under a single roof. 23 proposals had been submitted into…

New bike parking station at Harvard University

The new Science and Engineering Complex for Harvard University in Boston will soon be completed. Situated at the southwest entrance to the 500,000-square-foot structure, Behnisch Architekten has developed a new bike parking station which will…

Stefan Behnisch – speaker at the alpitecture e-Convention 2020

Stefan Behnisch will give a live-streamed lecture at the alpitecture eConvention on Tuesday, 30th June, 2020, 6.30 p.m. Along with Shirin Frangoul-Brückner, Atelier Brückner and Ruth Berktold, YES ARCHITECTURE he will talk about „The future of Arc…

adidas Arena and KIT Energy Lab nominated for DAM Preis

Two of our projects, the adidas Arena and the KIT Energy Lab, have been nominated for the DAM Preis. The award annually honors outstanding buildings in Germany and is conferred by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum. As part of the selection procedure…

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4th prize for our design of the University of Stuttgart Student Residence Complex

Our Stuttgart Office has been awarded 4th Prize in the competition for the new Student Residence Complex on the Campus Stuttgart-Vaihingen.

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DGNB Phase Sustainability - Live webinar with Angie Müller

The DGNB Roadshow goes digital – Angie Müller, Office Director at Behnisch Architekten, Stuttgart, gave a lecture via a live webinar broadcasted from the “Haus der Architekten”.

Behnisch Architekten at Dezeen's Virtual Design Festival

Stefan Behnisch will be part of Dezeen’s Virtual Design Festival and give a live-streamed interview. You can watch it on Monday, 11 May, 2020, 3 p.m. (Central European Summer Time) at Dezeen.

Architektouren 2020 – we are part of it!

Our project "Living in the Spinnereipark" in Kolbermoor has been chosen to be in the "Architektouren 2020" – organised by the Bavarian Architectural Association (Bayrische Architektenkammer).

Staying connected

Dear customers, partners and friends, the transition to home working has been successful and all of our staff in Stuttgart, Munich, Boston and Los Angeles are currently working from home. Office meetings have been replaced by virtual meetings and we…

Winning proposal for competition Max Planck Institute

We are looking forward to work on our newest project the ‘Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg’ for which Behnisch Architekten has been awarded one of two 2nd prizes. The new building is to be an open, modern and future-oriented ins…

Homeoffice Behnisch Architekten

Geschätzte Kunden, Partner und Freunde, aufgrund der aktuellen Situation stellen wir unsere Arbeit auf Homeoffice um. In der nächsten Zeit werden wir daher nicht persönlich im Büro anwesend, dennoch wie gewohnt per Mail zu erreichen sein. Im Falle von…

Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc - building site

The building site of our project Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc is growing fast. The concrete structure of the primary school is almost completed.

„Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“: Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt awarded

We are happy to announce that our project „Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt“ has received an award for quality in housing 2019. Congratulation to the project team!

Award ceremony „Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“ – Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt

On Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 the BFW Landesverband Bayern e.V and the Bayrische Architektenkammer will reveal the winners of the award „Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“. Our submitted project „Living on the Altmühl Riverside in Eichstätt“ has been chosen for the ex…

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Groundbreaking Ceremony – Community, Meeting and Health Care Centre in Erlangen

On Tuesday, 20th of February 2020 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the BBGZ Erlangen, a community, meeting and health care centre in Erlangen. Lord mayor, Dr. Florian Janik, mayor, Susanne Lender-Cassens, head of the department for facility…

February 20th, 2020: Messe Schulbau – panel discussion with Stefan Rappold

The SCHULBAU, an international forum and trade fair for all aspects of educational buildings, takes place in Stuttgart on February 19th and 20th, 2020. On the second day Stefan Rappold will be part of a panel discussion talking about new solutions…

Behnisch Architekten at awards ceremony “Beispielhaftes Bauen”

Jörg Usinger, Theresa Keßler and Nadine Waldmann on behalf of Behnisch Architekten received the award “Beispielhaftes Bauen” from the architectural association for the project Dorotheen Quartier. Overall, 33 examplary projects were awarded in the grand…

Renovation of Hohenstaufen Secondary School in Göppingen – Prototype classes for test operation inaugurated

Yesterday the Mayor of Göppingen, Guido Till, the Mayor of Construction, Helmut Renftle, and the project manager from the building construction department, Dr. Hartmut Meyer, inaugurated the initial test classroom for the general renovation of the …

adidas arena is "Building of the Year 2019” on german-architects.com

The adidas Arena has been selected as “Building of the Year 2019” – Bau des Jahres. The users of german-architects.com were called to vote for their favorite building out of 50 nominated projects – the adidas Arena has made the cut and received most of the …

adidas ARENA is up for nomination in ArchDaily's Building of the Year Awards

ArchDaily has just launched the 11th edition of its Building of the Year Awards and our project adidas ARENA is eligible for nomination. Go ahead and vote for it! The nomination process is open until February 10th. adidas ARENA at ArchDaily's…

Identity in architecture – Cornelia Wust speaks at RWTH Aachen

Cornelia Wust, Studio Director at Behnisch Architekten, will be a speaker at the “4th Aachener Tagung”, held by the Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen. Cornelia will present the construction and design of adidas ARENA. Main theme of the con…

IDA Awards Gold: KIT Energy Lab and Health and Fitness Spa Friedrichshafen

The 13th International Design Awards, with thousands of outstanding designs submitted by companies and designers from over 90 countries, recently announced the final winners. Both projects submitted by Behnisch Architekten were awarded „Gold“: the KIT…

Gala BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence: Karl Miller Center, Portland State University

In the company of over 400 colleagues from the Boston architectural community, Behnisch Architekten received a 2019 Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence for the Karl Miller Center at Portland State University. This year’s a…

Groundbreaking ceremony in Buc

We celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc on January 22, 2020 – on the day the Élysée Treaty was signed in 1963, which sealed the German-French friendship.

Behnisch Architekten at Vernissage “SportPark Ost”

Mayor of Regensburg Ms. Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer and Mr. Bernhard Lutter, project manager at the “Stadtwerk.Regensburg”, opened the exhibition of the competition “Sportpark Regensburg” on January, 16th 2020. In the competition, the jury unanimo…

Lecture by Angie Müller in Karlsruhe

„Roadshow Phase Nachhaltigkeit“ is the title of a lecture evening organized by the Bundesarchitektenkammer in cooperation with the DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen). Angie Müller, office director at Behnisch Architekten in Stutt…

Elephant in the Room – panel discussion with Stefan Behnisch

Stefan Behnisch takes part in a panel discussion at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart on Wednesday January 15th, 2020, 7pm. The discussion is part of the series „Elephant in the Room“, the topic of the panel is sustainable arch…

Behnisch Architekten appointed to design new energy science & technology building at the University of Pennsylvania

The Energy Science and Technology project is a facility dedicated to groundbreaking energy research, prominently situated at the Walnut Street gateway to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The project was awarded to Behnisch Architekten…

Behnisch Architekten to design new parking structure at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Behnisch Architekten, together with Toronto-based collaborator gh3, has been sucessfully appointed to design the new parking and mobility structure on the emerging Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto. This ca. 1200 space facility will…

Behnisch Architekten - Happy Christmas Holidays

Looking back on a very eventful year with amazing projects, great competitions and a fantastic Christmas Party with all four offices, we would like to say thank you to everyone we collaborated and exchanged with in many ways this past year. Behnisch…

Behnisch Architekten – Office in Los Angeles re-opened

Behnisch Architekten re-opened its Los Angeles office officially in spring of 2019. The office, led by Kristi Paulson, was originally opened in 1999 and executed a number of major North American projects including the City of Santa Monica Parking…

Behnisch Architekten wins competition for Sportpark Regensburg

Together with L&P Beratende Ingenieure, Behnisch Architekten was awarded the first prize in the competition for the Sportpark Regensburg. Our winning design was chosen from 19 participating offices. The project, which is located in the former…

Best of Year Awards 2019: winner Adidas - Hall of Fame gala

Here some impressions of the Hall of Fame gala on December 5, 2019 in New York. Magdalena Czolnowska and Chup Chiu from our Boston office had the honor of attending the event and receiving the award for Behnisch Architekten.

Best of Year Awards 2019: winner adidas

Great news: adidas ARENA is the winner of the Best of Year Interior Design Award 2019 in the category “Creative Office”. In total the award included almost 2700 entries. The 35th annual Hall of Fame gala on December 5, 2019 in New York revealed the fin…

Campus Founders

Heilbronn, Germany

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Project start: action sports center Munich

The City of Munich has just approved the planning and budget of the action sports center in Pasing District! The new building with over 3000 square metres floor space, designed by Behnisch Architekten, will be located in the area of the former…

turnaround urbanism with Stefan Behnisch in Stuttgart

On November 25th 2019, 7pm FSB and the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten), Landesverband Baden-Württemberg invite to a panel discussion with Christiane Feuerstein and Stefan Behnisch, who will talk about changes of perspective and transformation …

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Phase Nachhaltigkeit with Behnisch Architekten

„Phase Nachhaltigkeit“ is a project originated by the DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen) and the Bundesarchitektenkammer. The aim of the intiative is to transform the current building culture to make sustainable building the new norm…

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Best of Year Awards 2019: finalist adidas

We are pleased to announce that the adidas ARENA is one of the finalists of the Best of Year Awards 2019 in the category “Creative Office” The final ceremony with announcement of the winners will take place on December 6th in New York. We keep our fin…

Groundbreaking Ceremony – Extension Anna-Pröll-Mittelschule Gersthofen

On Tuesday, 12th of November 2019 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the extension of the Anna-Pröll-Mittelschule, a secondary school in Gersthofen, Germany. Tibor Sroka, from the building authority Gersthofen, Sigrid Puschner, principal of …

Dorotheen Quartier wins Property Award 2019

The IWS Verband der Immobilienwirtschaft (Real Estate Association) Stuttgart has awarded the Property Award 2019 to the Dorotheen Quartier in the category Commercial and Residential. Congratulations to all participants!

KIT EnergyLab 2.0 – official award ceremony Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe

The ceremony honoring all winners of the “Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe 2019” award took place on November 4th 2019, at 6pm, Landratsamt Karlsruhe. The certificates were handed out by Landrat Dr. Christoph Schnaudigel, Carmen Mundorff (managing dir…

Maria Hirnsperger speaks at ARCHITECT@WORK in Munich

From 6-7 November, 2019 our colleague Maria Hirnsperger from Behnisch Architekten München will take part at the series of lectures “architect meets innovations” at the ARCHITECT@WORK fair in Munich.

THE PLAN’s The Architects Series on Behnisch Architekten is now online!

After the event at the SpazioFMG per l’Architettura showroom in Milan in October 2019, the episode 10 „The Architects Series - A documentary on: Behnisch Architekten“ is now available.

Stefan Rappold member of the jury at the blickfang DESIGN AWARD 2019

On Friday November 1st, 2019 Stefan Rappold is part of the jury at the blickfang awarding the best designs in the categories furniture and products, as well as fashion and jewelry. The judging process takes place during the day “Im Wizemann”, Que…

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2nd prize for competition Radstation Tübingen

Our Stuttgart office has been awarded the 2nd prize in the competition ”Radstation mit Gastronomie Europaplatz Tübingen” Congratulations to our design team!

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Stefan Rappold at Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern

Stefan Rappold will be a speaker at the 14th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, taking place in Bern at October, 28-29 2019. The topic of his lecture will be „Intelligent Facades“.

adidas ARENA – finalist European Steel Design Award

We are proud to announce that the adidas ARENA in Herzogenaurach was finalist at the European Steel Design Award. Every two years the awards are given by the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) to encourage the creative and…

Dorotheen Quartier – certified LEED Platinum

We are happy to announce that the Dorotheen Quartier in Stuttgart was certified LEED Platinum 2009 for core and shell development. The building has fulfilled all the requirements of the rating system established by the U.S Green Building Council.

Dorotheen Quartier – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Stuttgart

We are very pleased and honored to announce that the Dorotheen Quartier was awarded the prize “Beispielhaftes Bauen Stuttgart”. The re-planning of the Dorotheen Quartier in central urban location of Stuttgart not only creates new areas for public use…

Karl Miller Center winner of the BSA Design Award

We are pleased to announce that the Karl Miller Center, Portland State University has been recognized by the jury for the2019 Honor Awards for Design Excellence hosted by the Boston Society of Architects. Congratulations go out to our Boston office…

round table talks at the Expo Real with Stefan Rappold

The Expo Real 2019 will take place in Munich from October 7th till 9th The DGNB together with the ‘Bundesarchitektenkammer’, the ‘Bundesstiftung Baukultur’ and the ‘Bundesministerium des Innern, für Bau und Heimat’ will be present, focusing on the topic “Quali…

lecture by Stefan Behnisch in Lausanne

The ‘architectural liberty’ (La Liberté Architecturale/Architektonische Freiheit) is the topic of the congress organized by the Central Suisse des Fenêtres et Facades CSFF/SZFF. In this context Stefan Behnisch will present our project Agora – Pôle de reche…

Radstation Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

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Stefan Behnisch as jury lead for the Heinze Award

On September 24th 2019 Stefan Behnisch will lead the jury for the Heinze Award, judging a large variety of projects in six categories plus special prizes. The focus will be on non-residential projects. Architects and students submitted 350 projects…

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Winner of the competion for the Edge ElbSide Office Building in Hamburg!

Our Stuttgart office has been awarded 1st prize in the competition for Vattenfall’s new Hamburg headquarters in HafenCity, Hamburg. It will be part of the Elbbrückenquartier, a new quarter consisting of residential, business and hotels representing th…

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Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the Stahlbau-Symposium

Stefan Rappold will be part of the Stahlbau-Symposium taking place on September 12th at 3pm, at the Klosterhotel Wöltingerrode. Under the topic “Neue Arbeitswelt in luftiger Höhe” (“New world of work in lofty hights”) he is going to present the recently …

Lecture by Stefan Behnisch at The Architects Series

As part of The Architects Series, organized by THE PLAN for SpazioFMG per l’Architettura in Milan, Stefan Behnisch will give a lecture on the topic “Architecture for a more Sustainable Future in Built Environment”.

100 years of Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

Congratulations to the Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe in Stuttgart for celebrating their 100th anniversary! Here’s a sneak peek of our recently installed wooden staircase that we planned for the new administration building on campus which as well is…

Winner of the 2019 American Architecture Awards!

We are proud to announce that the Karl Miller Center in Portland, Oregon is one of the winners of the 2019 American Architecture Awards. It awards projects in Design Excellence and for the best and next contributors to innovative contemporary…

Stefan Behnisch at schauraum-b

WorkSpace today and tomorrow – What coming generations might expect built projects and in consepts (adidas ARENA and others) This will be the theme Stefan Behnisch presents at the schauraum-b, August 15 in Basel. The lecture is part of the series ‚…

Celebration: Grand Opening adidas ARENA

We celebrated the opening of the new Arena building at the “World of Sports” complex in Herzogenaurach and adidas‘ 70th anniversary.

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Pathology Tübingen

A new project has started: The State of Baden Württemberg has comissioned our Stuttgart Office to design the pathology and human genetics building for the University of Tübingen. We are happy to face this challenging healthcare project!

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360° Friedrichshafen

Come on a virtual tour through the Health and Fitness Spa in Friedrichshafen: https://www.friedrichshafen.de/fileadmin/BENUTZERDATEN/Baeder/Sportbad/Virtualtour/virtualtour.html

adidas grand opening

In connection with their 70th anniversary, on Friday, August 9, adidas invites about 3,000 people to celebrate the grand opening of the ARENA building. Beside the official ceremony adidas has organized a diverse program filled with sportive…

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The second prize goes to Behnisch Architekten!

Congratulations and thanks to the team who worked on the competition - a redesign of the station area including the central bus station in Füssen.

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July 18: The Plan Talks with Michelle Lee, Behnisch Architekten Boston

The Plan magazine organized the 6th architectural and interior design Forum Perspective USA. Michelle Lee, architect at the Boston office of Behnisch Architekten gave a talk about digital design, prototyping and fabrication; in particular the…

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3rd prize for our Elementary School in Regensburg-Sallern, Germany

Our proposal for the new elementary school Sallerner Berg including a sports hall, cafeteria and day care center, as well as the extension of the Jakob-Muth-Schule in Regensburg won the third prize in the competition. Thanks to the team for doing…

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Topping out Ceremony of the City Hall in Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany

On July 15th 2019 the topping out ceremony of our new City Hall in Grosskarolinenfeld in Bavaria, Germany, took place. Among others, Mayor Bernd Fessler and members of the Behnisch Team attended the event to celebrate the occasion.

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2nd Prize for the Thermal Spa Oberstdorf!

Our competition entry for the Thermal Spa Oberstdorf was awarded with a second prize. Thanks to the whole team!

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Smart Living Lab - And the winner is….

Great news: the panel of experts unanimously chose “HOP”, the project designed by Behnisch Architekten, in cooperation with Drees+Sommer Schweiz AG and ZPF Ingenieure AG, as the winner of the design competition “Smart Living Lab”. The design for the new ico…

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KIT EnergyLab 2.0 – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe

We are very pleased and honored to announce that the Energy Lab 2.0 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was awarded the prize “Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe”. The recently completed building is an intelligent platform, set up to explore the int…

Agora – shortlist WAF 2019

Seeing a huge number of entries this year, we are proud to announce that the AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer in Lausanne, Switzerland was shortlisted at the World Architecture Festival in the category Completed Buildings: Health. All …

Karl Miller Center – Winner of the Energy Efficiency Award

An exciting and amazing evening in San Fransisco ended up with winning the Energy Efficiency Awards – German Innovation in U.S. Buildings. Congratulations to the Behnisch Architekten team of the Karl Miller Center, Portland State University, thank y…

Agora - Finalist at Architizer A+Award 2019

The AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer in Lausanne, Switzerland was nominated as a finalist at the Architizer A+Award 2019 in the category Detail-Plus-Architecture+Facades. The voting is open to the online public now until July 5th on the …

Lecture by Stefan Rappold at The Plan Forum Perspective Northern EU 2019

This year Stefan Rappold, partner of the Stuttgart office is opening the Forum Perspective Northern EU 2019 in Copenhagen on June 27th, organized by The Plan. The topic of his lecture is “Research: Challenging Design Boundaries towards Innovative A…

Karl Miller Center – finalist Energy Efficiency Award

The Karl Miller Center of the Portland State University is a finalist for the Energy Efficiency Award – German Innovation in U.S. Buildings. The award recognizes outstanding achievements by German companies in the field of building performance w…

Opening of the Energy Lab 2.0

The Energy Lab 2.0 celebrates its opening on Monday June 24 at 3 pm. Beside the Building 410 (completion 2011) and Building 416 (completion 2017), it is the third building designed and planned by Behnisch Architekten for the KIT (Karlsruher…

June 7, 2019: Grand Opening of Sportbad Friedrichshafen

On Friday, June 7, the Grand Opening of Sportbad Friedrichshafen – a new public swimming pool complex at Lake Constance – was celebrated.

June 7, 2019: Topping Out Ceremony for the Schwaketenbad in Constance, Germany

On Friday, June 7, we celebrated the Topping Out Ceremony of our Schwaketenbad, a public swimming pool complex in Constance, Germany. The event was open to the public with the Bädergesellschaft Constance providing food and drinks.

Lenbachstraße Residential Development

3.176 qm / 34,090 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

3.176 qm / 34,090 sq.ft.

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‘architects not architecture’ in Stuttgart with Stefan Behnisch

In its third edition of Stuttgart’s ‘architects not architecture’ once more people behind famous architectural works are discovered. Fermin Tribaldos, organizer and moderator, invites Stefan Behnisch, Peter Ippolito and Liza Heilmeyer to talk about their…

Lecture by Stephan Leissle: Who is building Erlangen?—How townscapes are created.

Erlangen is currently developing and realizing large projects on various locations that will change and reshape its townscape and urban structure.

IDA Award Winner Bronze – Dorotheen Quartier

Already in its 12th edition the IDA Award aims to recognize individuals and teams who have made a substantial contribution in the field of architecture. We are delighted to announce that our project Dorotheen Quartier in Stuttgart received a bronze…

Finalist and honorable mention at The Plan Award 2019

We are proud of the results at The Plan Award 2019: One of our projects, the AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer in Lausanne, Switzerlandwas nominated as finalist in the category “Education”. A second project, Living on the Altmühl riverside in Eichs…

Jörg Usinger at the “Achieve Better Buildings!” Passive House Conference Heidelberg 2019

Our Stuttgart office partner Jörg Usinger will be guest on the panel discussion “How can high energyefficiency and building culture be combined?” at this year’s Passive House Conference in Heidelberg.

ARPA Headquarter takes shape

Both the administration and laboratory buildings of the ARPA (Agenzia Regionale Prevenzione e Ambiente Dell’Emilia-Romagna) in Ravenna, Italy approach completion.

Topping out Ceremony of the Student Residence Complex Nibelungenkaserne in Regensburg

On Tuesday, April 2, our Munich office celebrated the topping out ceremony of the Nibelungenkaserne, a student residence complex in Regensburg, Germany.

Matt Noblett joins the spring edition of the Kamingespräch / Fireside Chat

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Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the AlumForum 2019

Our Stuttgart Office partner, Stefan Rappold, is giving a lecture at the AlumForum on “Architecture and Engineering: Unique Symbiosis for a Distinct Working Environment”.

Lecture by Matt Noblett at the Facades+ Symposium 2019

Façade+ is holding a full day symposium on April 4th, 2019 accompanied by a day of workshops on the 5th to discuss the fast-paced evolution of façade technology with over 60 speakers from various working fields. Our partner Matt Noblett is joining a d…

Lecture by Stefan Rappold: Bürostube oder Arbeitswelt - grenzenlose Flexibilität oder territorialer Verlust am Arbeitsplatz

Our Stuttgart Office partner, Stefan Rappold, will give a speech at the Stuttgart’s chapter of this year’s Blickfang design fair.

International Design Award for Dorotheen Quartier

We are happy to announce another achievement for our Dorotheen Quartier project in Stuttgart.

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How many harbors do we want to achieve? Developing possibilities for Stuttgart’s waterfront.

On Friday, February 15, Stefan Behnisch will be participating in a discussion on the future of Stuttgart’s waterfront and its possible shift from an industrial space towards a public area.

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Knauf Werktage ARCHITEC: Stefan Behnisch Keynote speaker

“Striving for innovation in architecture, the forces that conflict with this and why this fight is necessary.”

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Stefan Behnisch member of the jury at the iF DESIGN AWARD 2019

For this year’s edition of the iF Design Award, the International Forum Design has invited Stefan Behnisch to be a member of the jury.

„Loyalty, participation and appreciation“ lecture in Zürich with Stefan Rappold

The disappearance of the classic office cubicle makes space for a new language in the field of workspace design.

„Ingenieurpreis des Deutschen Stahlbaus 2019“ for the adidas ARENA headquarters in Herzogenaurach

We are happy to announce that our project adidas ARENA has won the „Ingenieurpreis des Deutschen Stahlbaus 2019“ for the collaborative work with Werner Sobek Stuttgart AG, stahl + verbundbau GmbH and Züblin Stahlbau GmbH. The award highlights exce…