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Edge ElbSide, a state-of-the-art office building located in the emerging Elbbrücken district of Hamburg's Hafencity, redefines the concept of modern workspaces. While the initial masterplan proposed an office building featuring an interior courtyard …

EDGE ElbSide Hamburg

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

32.000 qm / 344.448 sq.ft.

Work - Hamburg, Germany

With renewable building materials and resource-saving use of existing infrastructure, Münster University of Applied Sciences has expanded the Fachhochschulzentrum (FHZ) on Corrensstraße. Behnisch Architekten, in collaboration with Berghaus A…

Extension Fachhochschulzentrum Münster University of Applied Sciences

529 qm / 5.690 sq.ft - Münster, Germany

529 qm / 5.690 sq.ft

Education - Münster, Germany

health - germany

The National Center for Tumor Diseases NCT in Heidelberg is a joint project by German Cancer Aid, the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg, and Heidelberg University Hospital. The NCT’s newly constructed building was inaugurated in 2010 and h…

NCT New Building and Expansion

5.140 qm / 55,327 sq.ft. - Heidelberg, Germany

5.140 qm / 55,327 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

health - germany

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…

Dieter Morszeck Biorepository

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

1.600 qm / 17,222 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

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…

KiTa Pioneer-Kaserne

Hanau, Germany

Education - Hanau, Germany

The Freie Walddorfschule Uhlandshoehe 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…

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Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshoehe - New School Building

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

5.490 qm / 59,094 sq.ft.

Education - Stuttgart, Germany

living - germany

The new mixed residential/commercial building is a confident and harmonious addition to the square in front of Kolbermoor’s town hall, rounding off an existing ensemble consisting of the town hall, library, adult education center, and parking s…

Mixed-use Building at Rathausplatz

2.630 qm / 28,310 sq.ft. - Kolbermoor, Germany

2.630 qm / 28,310 sq.ft.

Living - Kolbermoor, Germany

work - usa

For SC Workplace, we transformed the ubiquitous “developer box” – a 110,000 square-foot, four-story, 120’x240’ core and shell building with a central elevator lobby - into a dynamic work environment, which promotes connection and collaboration. To achieve i…

SC Workplace

10.220 qm / 110,000 sq.ft. - Southern California

10.220 qm / 110,000 sq.ft.

Work - Southern California

leisure - germany

Schwaketenbad in Constance is the largest indoor leisure pool on Lake Constance. Attractively situated on the edge of the city, this new structure was constructed close to nature on the same site as the original indoor aquatic center that was…

Schwaketenbad

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

10.172 qm / 109,491 sq.ft.

Leisure - Constance, Germany

education - france

Built in collaboration with Atelier 2A+, the goal was to modernise the site of an existing school dating from the 1980s, including a Franco-German bilingual secondary school, a primary school, a lower secondary school and gymnasium, and to link them…

Lycée Franco-Allemand

16.044 qm / 172,696 sq.ft. - Buc, France

16.044 qm / 172,696 sq.ft.

Education - Buc, France

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…

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Primary School Infanteriestrasse

13.794 m2 / 148,479 sq.ft. - München, Germany

13.794 m2 / 148,479 sq.ft.

Education - München, Germany

The new building of the Paul-Winter School will be erected right in front of the city gates of Neuburg. In addition to the program required for schooling purposes it will also comprise a gymnasium, outdoor sports areas, a school cafeteria and rooms…

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Paul-Winter School

13.293 qm / 143,085 sq.ft. - Neuburg, Germany

13.293 qm / 143,085 sq.ft.

Education - Neuburg, Germany

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Situated in Hamburg’s emerging Elbbrücken district within HafenCity, Edge ElbSide offers contemporary work environments with open, flexible spaces that foster communication and collaboration among occupants. Instead of an initially required interior co…

Edge ElbSide Hamburg – Wintergarden

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32.000 QM / 344.448 SQ.FT.

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Sustainable, green, and in harmony with the cityscape: That’s the new campus for the public insurance company Versicherungskammer (VK) in Giesing, just south of Munich’s city center. Three new stand-alone structures will be added south of the elo…

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Campus Giesing

Munich, Germany

Work - Munich, Germany

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CIRCuIT - Circular Economy in Wilhelmsburger Rathausviertel

“Circular Economy in Wilhelmsburger Rathausviertel” is conceived as a pilot project for a new mixed-use residential quarter, centrally located on the IBA site in Hamburg. It is part of the EU-funded research project CIRCuIT, which is developing ful…

23.681 qm / 254,902 sq.ft. - Hamburg, Germany

23.681 qm / 254,902 sq.ft.

Living - Hamburg, Germany

leisure - germany

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Indoor Swimming Hall Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen

The design for the new indoor swimming hall in Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen is characterized by large, overlapping roofs slabs, seemingly floating above the swimming hall which connects fluidly with the surrounding park. The building utilizes a timber…

5.773 qm / 62,140 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

5.773 qm / 62,140 sq.ft.

Leisure - Stuttgart, Germany

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Einfach Bauen – The Juchhof 3 Changing-Room Facility

Can we apply the “Einfach Bauen” (Build Simply) approach to create structures that are more sustainable and use resources more sparingly? To what extent does a holistic approach foster attractive buildings that are more efficient and, at the same tim…

1.387 qm / 14,930 sq.ft. - Zurich, Switzerland

1.387 qm / 14,930 sq.ft.

- Zurich, Switzerland

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The new staff building for a paper manufacturer in Diemelstadt, North Hesse, asks how we can design buildings that are properly geared towards the present with equal flexibility for the future. The three-story building provides space for six new…

New staff building, Diemelstadt

756 QM / 8137,52 sq.ft -

756 QM / 8137,52 sq.ft

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public - germany

The Museum of Phantasy was founded over twenty years ago in Bernried on the shores of Lake Starnberg. This modern art museum houses the assorted collections of the painter, photographer, publisher, and author of art books and novels, Lothar-Günther …

Buchheim Museum der Phantasie: Refurbishment and Extension

1.730 qm / 18622 sq.ft. - Bernried, Germany

1.730 qm / 18622 sq.ft.

Public - Bernried, Germany

Life Hamburg is a future-oriented campus for lifelong and self-directed learning, fulfilling work and holistic well-being. In the northeast of the Hanseatic city in Hamburg-Bramfeld, on the edge of the Otto Group Campus, a place for…

Life Hamburg

11.250 qm / 121,000 sq.ft. - Hamburg, Germany

11.250 qm / 121,000 sq.ft.

Education - Hamburg, Germany

Two new laboratory buildings for the departments of Chemical Engineering, Energy – Building Services – Environmental Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, and Engineering Physics are to be constructed app…

Steinfurt Campus, Reconstructions of Buildings C + Q and New Parking Structure, FH Münster (University of Applied Sciences)

Building C: 11.817 qm / 127,197 sq.ft., Building Q: 2.233 qm / 24,035 sq.ft. - Steinfurt, Germany

Building C: 11.817 qm / 127,197 sq.ft., Building Q: 2.233 qm / 24,035 sq.ft.

Work - Steinfurt, Germany

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 …

Hohenstaufen Secondary School - General Renovation

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

1.100 qm / 11,700 sq.ft.

Education - Göppingen, Germany

health - germany

The new building for the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg is to be sited in a prominent location. It has an explicitly welcoming appearance, and its visual form reinforces the idea of an open, communicative research facility.…

Max Planck Institute for Medical Research

20.313 qm / 218,738 sq.ft. - Heidelberg, Germany

20.313 qm / 218,738 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

In order to meet the growing needs of its training center for future cadets, a new service building is currently being built for the police in Eichstätt. Its design takes advantage of the beautiful location in the Altmühl Valley and introduces a new f…

Service Building for the Bavarian Police

3.811 qm / 41,022 sq.ft. - Eichstätt, Germany

3.811 qm / 41,022 sq.ft.

Work - Eichstätt, Germany

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Unser Büro sucht für den Standort Stuttgart oder München: Public Relations Spezialist*in [m/w/d] mit Fokus auf externe Kommunikation Public Relations Spezialist*in [m/w/d] mit Fokus auf büroübergreifende Themen

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Public Relations Spezialist*in (m/w/d)

Die Freude am Schaffen einer lebenswerten Architektur ist grundlegender Bestandteil der Philosophie bei Behnisch Architekten. Unsere Gebäude stellen stets einen ganzheitlichen Ansatz mit nachhaltigen Aspekten, die soziale Dimension und den Respekt …

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Motivierte Projektleiterin / Projektmanagerin (m/w/d) für Projekte als Generalplaner gesucht!

Last week we celebrated the next major landmark for our project Life Hamburg. Thanks to the great team and everyone who was there. Life Hamburg is a future-oriented campus for lifelong and self-directed learning, fulfilling work and holistic…

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Groundbreaking Ceremony for Life Hamburg

“The greatest task of architecture is to protect people and make their lives more comfortable and secure. In the last few decades we have had to realize that resources are finite. Architecture is increasingly focusing on this insight. This t…

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INTERNATIONAL ARCHITECTURE FORUM 2024 with Maria Hirnsperger and Angie Müller-Puch

Stefan Behnisch is looking forward to speaking at the Tri-State Fusion Conference on November 20! As the closing keynote, he’ll be exploring the architect's role in sustainability, and delving into pressing questions of responsibility, generational i…

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Stefan Behnisch as a speaker at the Tri-State Fusion Conference

THE PLAN Award 2024 winners have been announced at Auditorium MonteRosa 91 in Milan on Thursday, November 14. We are pleased to have been awarded an honorable mention for Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe Stuttgart - New School and Administration …

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THE PLAN AWARD - Honorable Mention for Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

Erik Hegre AIA, NCARB, partner at Behnisch Architekten and Heinrich Lipp, architect at Behnisch Architekten give a tour of The University of Pennsylvania’s Vagelos Laboratory for Energy and Science (VLEST) and will discuss achievements in energy e…

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Greenbuild Tours of the University of Pennsylvania’s Vagelos Laboratory for Energy and Science

Erik Hegre, Partner at Behnisch Architekten, speaks at the CitiesAlive 2024 conference in Toronto, Canada, about the Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) at Harvard and its sustainable and integrated approach to water management. "CitiesAlive…

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CitiesAlive 2024 Conference with a lecture by Erik Hegre

Our projects The National Center for Tumor Diseases NCT – New Building and Extension in Heidelberg and Freie Walddorfschule Uhlandshoehe – New School Building in Stuttgart are finalists at the The Plan Award 2024 in the category “health/completed” and ”ed…

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Finalist at The Plan Award 2024

Join us for the New York City edition of Zak World of Façades, as Andrew Pries, Technical Sales Director at Boston Valley Terra Cotta, presents on terra cotta’s significance to the future of sustainable, high performance façades. Pries will feature the…

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Zak World of Façades – with a lecture about our created terra cotta façade

Michael Innerarity, Partner at Behnisch Architekten talks about “Perspektiven aus der Praxis: Wie gehen Architekten mit den neuen Herausforderungen um? (“Perspectives from the field: How do Architects deal with New Challenges?”) as part of the semin…

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Michael Innerarity as a speaker at the seminar “Nachhaltig planen und bauen“.

This session will present a case study of the Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology at the University of Pennsylvania, a new facility dedicated to clean energy research by Behnisch Architekten. Transforming a former parking lot into a…

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19.09

Michelle Lee and Erik Hegre as speakers at the East Coast Green Conference with the topic "The Future of Energy"