30 years of Behnisch Architekten – that gave us reason to review our work and our legacy and to consider what we have thought about, developed and created over the past 30 years. Our wish was to put our concepts, projects and buildings together in a…

The booklet combines three institute and research buildings on the North Campus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, which we built between 2009 and 2019. The two institute buildings 410 and 416 mainly…

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…

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…

Situated in the Spitalstadt redevelopement area of Eichstätt, the multistory building complex with its terraced balconies sets new standards of urban planning with its mix of upscale residential and office spaces. Their central location close to the …

The third magazine issued by Behnisch Architekten is dedicated to the theme “Education and Research”. If we follow our calling, our profession as architects, it seems only natural to structure this magazine around our work. After all, we think first and…

In the year 2000 plans were already well underway to set up the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an international organization responsible for protecting intellectual property, based in Geneva. The competition for one building in the…

The University of Toronto and its affiliated institutions are world leaders in the quest to link genes to disease. This booklet describes the new CCBR building, which provides the sophisticated laboratories and tools to enable the university to…

We have researched and summarized our professional development, the progress of our office, for ourselves and for everyone with whom we have had the pleasure to work with over the past 25 years. And we have supplemented our perspective with external…

A central focus of this first issue is the investigation of very different forms of living. This includes a look at luxury living in Hamburg’s harbor, middle-class housing in Karlsruhe, and public, social housing in Ingolstadt, as well as private r…

70 km north-east from Munich, the Ergolding Secondary School provides the much needed capacities to the region around the Bavarian town of Ergolding, close to Landshut. This booklet presents the school’s simple, technically optimized structure that e…

The new home of the John and Frances Angelos Law Center unites classrooms, faculty offices, administrative space, and the law library under a single roof. The building, to be located at the prominent intersection of Mount Royal Avenue and Charles…

The book by Gianluigi Mondaini and Matteo Zambelli analyzes the architecture of Behnisch Architekten through five paradigms to explain the approach to the project and the spatial research. “The book contextualizes Behnisch Architekten’s position in the…

In summer 2009 the municipality of Inzell decided to construct a roof over the existing ice rink. In record time of just one and a half years for the planning and construction, a hall has been created that responds to the historical development and…

This booklet is concerned with the increasing number of building commissions we have been awarded in recent years. These projects also represent a large part of the construction tasks and challenges that will confront us as architects in the future.…

Directly on the Elbe, commanding a prominent position in the HafenCity in Hamburg, stands the Marco Polo Tower right beside the new Unilever headquarters. The 55-m-high tower highlights the end of the route from the inner city out to the new…

The manifold requirements for interdisciplinary medical care and clinic-related cancer research are provided by the new building for the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) in Heidelberg. These close links allow scientific findings to be…

Nationally recognized for its commitment to research and teaching, the Park Street Building is a major clinical laboratory extension to the Yale-New Haven Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. The site is located in the center of the city, at the…

The new Unilever headquarter building for Germany, Austria and Switzerland is located right by the river Elbe, prominently positioned in Hamburg's HafenCity. It marks the end of the route out of the town center to Hamburg's new attractions: the…

The renowned author Falk Jaeger presents a selection of the firm’s projects from 1996 to 2009 and portrays its partners in the Stuttgart, Munich, Boston and Los Angeles offices. An interview with the architects provides additional insight into the f…

The booklet is designed to illustrate the development from the schools of Günter Behnisch / Behnisch & Partner in the fifties and sixties to the Behnisch Architekten buildings for education and research today. This long history generated many …

The buildings designed by our practice are described as beeing responsive to a distinct social agenda. The emphasis on the social dimension is fundamental to our design philosophy, which takes as its starting point the acknowledgement that…

The German Oceanographic Museum, already the largest natural history museum on Germany’s Baltic Coast, extended its program with the opening of the Ozeaneum. The booklet presents the architectural concept as an open house that is “flooded” from all sides…

The original school complex for domestic economics and agriculture designed by Behnisch & Partner (Günter Behnisch, Manfred Sabatke) was completed in 1983. In 2004 Behnisch Architekten were commissioned to design a new, independently accessible …