Behnisch Architekten

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

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 - New Building for the Upper Secondary

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

5.490 qm / 59,094 sq.ft.

Education - Stuttgart, Germany

living - 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

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

work - germany

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…

Gore Plaza

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

4.375 qm / 47,093 sq.ft.

Work - Putzbrunn, 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

urban - germany

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Berliner Tor Hamburg - Green Landscape Bridge

For the area around the Berliner Tor, between the Hamburg districts of St. Georg, Borgfelder and Hammerbrook, the Department of Urban Development and Housing conducted a test planning procedure with four invited planning teams. New ideas were to be…

Hamburg, Germany

Urban - Hamburg, Germany

education - usa

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Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex (SEC)

Setting a new paradigm for scholarship in the 21st century and beyond,Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex [SEC] is designed to inspire learning and scientific discovery while showcasing sustainability. The building weaves together a number of t…

50.539 qm / 544,000 sq.ft. - Allston, MA, USA

50.539 qm / 544,000 sq.ft.

Education - Allston, MA, USA

transport - usa

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Harvard University Bike Shelter

The new building for Harvard’s Science and Engineering Complex (SEC) combines a cutting-edge location for scientific research and teaching with innovative design and a sustainable building concept. As one of the first construction projects u…

Allston, MA, USA

Transport - Allston, MA, USA

public - italy

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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

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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

work - germany

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

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…

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 …

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Hohenstaufen Secondary School - General Renovation

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

1.100 qm / 11,700 sq.ft.

Education - Göppingen, Germany

urban - germany

Berlin’s Potsdamer Platz area is to be turned into an appealing, forward-thinking urban quarter with upscale streets and squares, combined with public spaces that are designed to engender an enticing environment for living and working. Acting t…

The Potsdamer Platz Quarter – Transforming Public Realm

42.158 qm / 453.789 sq.ft. - Berlin, Germany

42.158 qm / 453.789 sq.ft.

Urban - Berlin, 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

health - germany

A new laboratory and research building for pathology, human genetics, and microbiology is being constructed at Oberer Schnarrenberg in an attractive hillside setting. The new building represents an important component in the master plan of the…

PHM - New Pathology, Human Genetics, and Microbiology Building, Tübingen University Hospital

10.684 qm / 115,000 sq.ft. - Tübingen, Germany

10.684 qm / 115,000 sq.ft.

Health - Tübingen, 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

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

16.318 qm / 175,647 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

work - usa

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Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology

The new Vagelos Laboratory for Energy Science and Technology (VLEST) will occupy a prominent and critical site on the University of Pennsylvania campus, simultaneously announcing one’s arrival to the campus core and furthering the University of P…

10.219 qm / 110,000 sq.ft. - Philadelphia, PA, USA

10.219 qm / 110,000 sq.ft.

Work - Philadelphia, PA, USA

The project to build the new Josef-Schwarz School is one of the largest construction projects of its kind in Germany. The school will be built in the Neckarbogen quarter, a model development on the western edge of Heilbronn’s downtown. The all-day s…

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Josef-Schwarz School

48.063 qm / 517,350 sq.ft. - Heilbronn, Germany

48.063 qm / 517,350 sq.ft.

Education - Heilbronn, Germany

leisure - germany

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Wunnebad Winnenden

Winnenden is located right at the edge of the Swabian Forest, framed by and carefully embedded in a charming setting with vineyards and meadow orchards. The existing Wunnebad site was designed as an indoor and outdoor bathing complex with the…

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

10.615 qm / 114,260 sq.ft.

Leisure - Winnenden, Germany

work - switzerland

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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

health - germany

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NCT New Building and Expansion

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…

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

5.140 qm / 55,327 sq.ft.

Health - Heidelberg, Germany

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Harleston Parker People’s Choice Award voting 2022: open now!

Our project the Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex is finalist of the Harleston Parker Medal 2022, recognizing the “the most beautiful piece of architecture, building, monument, or structure built in the metropolitan Boston area in t…

News - Award

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Happy New Year 2023!

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23.12

Action Sports Center Munich: Final Update

Our new project video for the indoor skatehall in Munich, in the listed former Eggenfabrik. The 1st project phase will include the energy renovation of the existing building with a PV integrated skylight, the skate parkour and chill out & active…

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Action Sports Center: Video

Congratulations to our Los Angeles partner Kristi Paulson for being honored by BISNOW as one of 2022's Southern California Power Women. She received an award for "Outstanding Excellence & Influence in Los Angeles Commercial Real…

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Kristi Paulson named as one of Bisnow's 2022 Southern California Women Leading Real Estate Honorees!

For its outstanding aesthetics, creativity and functionality, the Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc, France has been selected as one of the Best projects 2022 on Archilovers.

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Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc selected as one of the Best projects 2022 on archilovers

The project team, consisting of Angie Müller-Puch, Stefan Behnisch Hon FAIA (Behnisch Architekten Atelier Weimar) and Johannes Müntinga (Zurich), together with Transsolar KlimaEngineering GmbH (Stuttgart), ZPF Ingenieure (Basel) und TREIBHAUS L…

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09.12

1st prize for the pilot project „Einfach Bauen“ of the city of Zurich for our project proposal «Equipe»

Angie Müller-Puch, Randa Omar and Erik Hegre will be giving a virtual lecture about the topic „Scrolling Screen: A responsive building envelope for energetic adaptations“ December 8 ROOM FORD SAAL (Room 1) 11:35 – 11:50 Uhr A paper written by Behnis…

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08.12

Today: PowerSKIN 2022 Conference & Livestream

The project, which we realize together with L&P Beratende Ingenieure GmbH is located in the former barracks area „Prinz-Leopold-Kaserne“, will encompass a new public swimming pool and an athletics training arena. The synergy effects created by thi…

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07.12

Groundbreaking: Sportpark Ost Regensburg

In September, the Brillux Design Awards 2021 were presented at the LWL Museum für Kunst und Kultur in Münster. We are very pleased to have been awarded the prize for our project Gotthard-Müller School Bernhausen, Filderstadt in the category: In…

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29.11

Gotthard-Müller School – Winner of the Brillux Design Award

„Sustainability is one of the defining issues of our time. Not only is the awareness of sustainable decisions growing, but also the obligations that arise with the trend. Recently, the idea of sustainability has also become part of architecture. B…

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21.11

Architecture Talk with Stefan Rappold

The Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest is promoted by THE PLAN as part of THE PLAN AWARD. The subject of the contest is theses for three and five-year bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in in architecture, building…

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21.11

Maria Hirnsperger jury member of the Architects of Tomorrow Special Contest 2022!