Behnisch Architekten

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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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 - 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

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

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 - 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

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

health - switzerland

The AGORA Pôle de recherche sur le cancer, located in Lausanne within sight of Lake Geneva, is to specifically bring together scientists and practitioners under one roof as part of a community of expertise. The opportunity for enhancing …

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

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

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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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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

2.634 qm / 28,350 sq.ft. - Kolbermoor, Germany

2.634 qm / 28,350 sq.ft.

Living - Kolbermoor, 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

46.158 qm / 496,850 sq.ft. - Boston, MA, USA

46.158 qm / 496,850 sq.ft.

Education - Boston, MA, USA

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

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

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

Student Residence Complex 'Nibelungenkaserne'

8.500 qm / 91,495 sq.ft.

Living - Regensburg, Germany

leisure - 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

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

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

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 …

7.119 qm / 76,628 sq.ft. (1st construction phase) - Erlangen, Germany

7.119 qm / 76,628 sq.ft. (1st construction phase)

Leisure - Erlangen, Germany

St. Gundekar-Werk GmbH—a housing and urban development organization affiliated with the Catholic church—has committed itself to offering housing for a diverse clientele of tenants at affordable prices. In addition to goals such as energy efficiency, max…

Apartment Building Langwasser

15.919 qm / 171.288 sq.ft. - Nuremberg, Germany

15.919 qm / 171.288 sq.ft.

Living - Nuremberg, Germany

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10.12

1st prize for the Wunnebad Winnenden competition

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

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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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22.11

WAN Award for Living on the Altmühl riverside

In 2018 the Institute for Principles of Modern Architecture (IGmA), the first and largest Institute for architectural theory and design in Germany, celebrates its 50th birthday.

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21.11

IGmAde: 50+ Jahre Architektur, Theorie & Poiesis / Panel discussion with Stefan Behnisch

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16.11

Topping out ceremony at the Lurup Neighborhood School

On November the 15th our office celebrated the topping out of the new school in the Lurup neighborhood in Hamburg.

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08.11

Topping out ceremony for our school in Bernhausen

On the 7th of November we celebrated the topping out of our School Area Bernhausen, a quartier in the city Filderstadt, Germany.

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On the 24th of September we celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony of the City Hall in Großkarolinenfeld.

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29.10

Groundbreaking ceremony of the Großkarolinenfeld City Hall

On the 10th of October an inauguration party for the Parking Garage that will serve the Sportpark in Friedrichshafen took place.

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19.10

Opening of the Parking Garage for the Sportpark Friedrichshafen

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Two great events marked the inauguration of the expansion we designed for the Boston non-profit.

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18.10

Artists for Humanity opens in Boston

We are proud to announce that the Karl Miller Center, Portland State University, has been the recipient of a LEED Platinum Certification, an Honor Award from the AIA New England and an Honorable mention from the IIDA Oregon chapter.

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15.10

Three great achievements for the Karl Miller Center, Portland State University

On Friday the 5th of October 2018 we celebrated the ground breaking for the Paul Winter Schule.

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05.10

Groundbreaking Ceremony of the Paul Winter Schule