Behnisch Architekten

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Parcel 1.11, King Abdullah Financial District

Parcel 1.11, part of the prestigious King Abdullah Financial District development, is a high-quality office building with retail spaces on the Wadi, Parcel Ground and Skywalk levels. The Master Plan for the entire King Abdullah Financial District…

54.000 qm / 581,000 sq.ft. - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

54.000 qm / 581,000 sq.ft.

Work - Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

leisure - germany

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Sports Hall

The city of Gersthofen (district Augsburg, Bavaria) is planning a new secondary school building complete with a three-court gymnasium to replace an original school built in 1971. The design scheme defines its own identity in one sense, and…

Gersthofen, Germany

Leisure - Gersthofen, Germany

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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…

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Ludwig-Weber School

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

7.357 qm / 79,191 sq.ft.

Education - Frankfurt, 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 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 …

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Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

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

5.400 qm / 58,104 sq.ft.

Education - Stuttgart, 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

education - usa

The proposed 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 497,000-square-foot structure. The new facility est…

Harvard University Science and Engineering Complex

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

49.702 qm / 535,000 sq.ft.

Education - Boston, MA, USA

leisure - germany

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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

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

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

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

work - germany

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Mahle Future

80.227 qm / 863,556 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

80.227 qm / 863,556 sq.ft.

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

education - france

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Lycée Franco-Allemand

Thanks to the close cooperation between Germany and France, the Franco-German Grammar School in BUC has won international renown. The teaching at Lycée Franco-Allemand focusses on giving students excellent command of languages as well as of …

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

16.044 qm / 172,696 sq.ft.

Education - Buc, France

leisure - germany

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Community, Meeting and Health Centre with Sports Hall

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 …

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

7.015 qm / 75,508 sq.ft.

Leisure - Erlangen, Germany

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

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

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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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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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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

The new University of Baltimore's Robert L. Bogomolny Library has been inaugurated on the 21st of September.

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Inauguration of the Robert L. Bogomolny Library

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

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International Design Award for Dorotheen Quartier

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

Our Behnisch Architekten team in Stuttgart has won the competition for the expansion and restructuring of the Wunnebad Winnenden.

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10.12

1st prize for the Wunnebad Winnenden competition

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We are happy to announce that our project Living on the Altmühl riverside has won the first prize in the Housing category of the World Architecture News (WAN) Awards.

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WAN Award for Living on the Altmühl riverside