Behnisch Architekten

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…

adidas World Of Sports ARENA

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

52.000 qm / 560,000 sq.ft.

Work - Herzogenaurach, Germany

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…

Health and Fitness Spa Friedrichshafen

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

work - germany

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…

KIT Energy Lab 2.0

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

1.730 qm / 18,621 sq.ft.

Work - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

education - usa

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…

Robert L. Bogomolny Library

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

5.388 qm / 58,000 sq.ft.

Education - Baltimore, MD, USA

health - switzerland

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 …

AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer

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

22.500 qm / 241,700 sq.ft.

Health - Lausanne, Switzerland

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…

Secondary School and Sports Hall

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

13.396 qm / 144,195 sq.ft.

Education - Gersthofen, Germany

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…

Living on the Altmühl riverside

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

9.680 qm / 104,196 sq.ft.

Living - Eichstätt, Germany

work - germany

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…

Dorotheen Quartier

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

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

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

education - ukraine

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…

The Metropolitan Sheptytsky Center, Ukrainian Catholic University Lviv

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

6.027 qm / 64,874 sq.ft.

Education - Lviv, Ukraine

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, …

City Mansions Ludwigshafen

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

2.595 qm / 27,932 sq.ft.

Living - Ludwigshafen, Germany

education - usa

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…

Karl Miller Center, Portland State University

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

13.330 qm / 145,000 sq.ft.

Education - Portland, OR, USA

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…

Institute for Technical Physics, Bau 416, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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

2.887 qm / 31,075 sq.ft.

Education - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

public - germany

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…

Extensions Sporerstraße

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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10.615 qm / 114,260 sq.ft. - Winnenden, Germany

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Wunnebad Winnenden

10.615 qm / 114,260 sq.ft.

Leisure - Winnenden, Germany

education - usa

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 500,000-square-foot structure. As the primary home of …

Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex

46.450 qm / 500,000 sq.ft. - Boston, MA, USA

46.450 qm / 500,000 sq.ft.

Education - Boston, MA, USA

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…

Paul-Winter School

13.035 qm / 140,307 sq.ft. - Neuburg, Germany

13.035 qm / 140,307 sq.ft.

Education - Neuburg, Germany

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…

Primary School Infanteriestrasse

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

14.865 m2 / 160,007 sq.ft.

Education - München, Germany

The town of Kolbermoor is adding a mixed residential and commercial building to the site where the new town hall is located in order to provide affordable housing in the town’s center. Seventeen subsidized residential units of various sizes spread o…

Mixed-Use Building at Rathausplatz

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

2.630 qm / 28,310 sq.ft.

Living - Kolbermoor, Germany

public - germany

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…

City Hall Grosskarolinenfeld

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

2.520 qm / 27,124 sq.ft.

Public - Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany

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…

Student Residence Complex 'Nibelungenkaserne'

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

8.500 qm / 91,495 sq.ft.

Living - Regensburg, Germany

public - italy

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…

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

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

12.000 qm / 129,120 sq.ft.

Public - Ravenna, Italy

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 …

Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

5.400 qm / 58,104 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

5.400 qm / 58,104 sq.ft.

Education - Stuttgart, Germany

The new building for the Ludwig-Weber school in the Frankfurt district Sindlingen with its forward-looking design provides a frame that will strengthen and shape the cooperation and partnership between teachers, pupils and parents in a positive and…

Ludwig-Weber School

7.357 qm / 79,191 sq.ft. - Frankfurt, Germany

7.357 qm / 79,191 sq.ft.

Education - Frankfurt, Germany

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,…

Schwaketenbad

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

10.172 qm / 109,491 sq.ft.

Leisure - Constance, Germany

A new multifunctional sports center is to be built on a lot at the southwestern perimeter of Röthelheim Park. Comprising a four-field hall / handball arena and supplementary facilities, it will be used by different operators for school and club …

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Community, Meeting and Health Centre with Sports Hall

7.015 qm / 75,508 sq.ft. - Erlangen, Germany

7.015 qm / 75,508 sq.ft.

Leisure - Erlangen, Germany

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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.

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Dorotheen Quartier – certified LEED Platinum

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…

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Dorotheen Quartier – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Stuttgart

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…

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08.10

Karl Miller Center winner of the BSA Design Award

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…

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07.10

round table talks at the Expo Real with Stefan Rappold

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…

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lecture by Stefan Behnisch in Lausanne

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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Stefan Behnisch as jury lead for the Heinze Award

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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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18.09

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

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 …

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10.09

Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the Stahlbau-Symposium

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”.

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09.09

Lecture by Stefan Behnisch at The Architects Series

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…

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05.09

100 years of Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

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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…

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21.08

Winner of the 2019 American Architecture Awards!

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 ‚…

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12.08

Stefan Behnisch at schauraum-b

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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09.08

Celebration: Grand Opening adidas ARENA

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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09.08

Pathology Tübingen

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

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08.08

360° Friedrichshafen

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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07.08

adidas grand opening

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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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06.08

The second prize goes to Behnisch Architekten!

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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01.08

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

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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30.07

3rd prize for our Elementary School in Regensburg-Sallern, 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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25.07

Topping out Ceremony of the City Hall in Grosskarolinenfeld, Germany

News - Topping out

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

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16.07

2nd Prize for the Thermal Spa Oberstdorf!

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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15.07

Smart Living Lab - And the winner is….

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…

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11.07

KIT EnergyLab 2.0 – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe

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 …

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08.07

Agora – shortlist WAF 2019

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…

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01.07

Karl Miller Center – Winner of the Energy Efficiency Award

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 …

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27.06

Agora - Finalist at Architizer A+Award 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…

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27.06

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

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…

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26.06

Karl Miller Center – finalist Energy Efficiency Award

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…

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24.06

Opening of the Energy Lab 2.0

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

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June 7, 2019: Grand Opening of Sportbad Friedrichshafen

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.

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

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

Living Lenbachstraße

3.176 qm / 34,090 sq.ft.

Competition - Living - Stuttgart

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…

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27.05

‘architects not architecture’ in Stuttgart with Stefan Behnisch

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

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07.05

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

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…

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06.05

IDA Award Winner Bronze – Dorotheen Quartier

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…

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30.04

Finalist and honorable mention at The Plan Award 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.

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

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

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ARPA Headquarter takes shape

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

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Topping out Ceremony of the Student Residence Complex Nibelungenkaserne in Regensburg

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28.03

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

Why not architecture?

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

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Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the AlumForum 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…

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20.03

Lecture by Matt Noblett at the Facades+ Symposium 2019

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

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13.03

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

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

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01.03

International Design Award for Dorotheen Quartier

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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12.02

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

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05.02

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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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.

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01.02

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

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

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

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…

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

Completed in 1959 and designed by Günter Behnisch in collaboration with Bruno Lambart, the Hohenstaufen Secondary School in Göppingen, Germany, established a new architectural language.

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Renovation of the Hohenstaufen Secondary School in Göppingen