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Winning proposal for competition Max Planck Institute

We are looking forward to work on our newest project the ‘Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg’ for which Behnisch Architekten has been awarded one of two 2nd prizes. The new building is to be an open, modern and future-oriented ins…

Homeoffice Behnisch Architekten

Geschätzte Kunden, Partner und Freunde, aufgrund der aktuellen Situation stellen wir unsere Arbeit auf Homeoffice um. In der nächsten Zeit werden wir daher nicht persönlich im Büro anwesend, dennoch wie gewohnt per Mail zu erreichen sein. Im Falle von…

Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc - building site

The building site of our project Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc is growing fast. The concrete structure of the primary school is almost completed.

„Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“: Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt awarded

We are happy to announce that our project „Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt“ has received an award for quality in housing 2019. Congratulation to the project team!

Award ceremony „Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“ – Living on the Altmühl Riverside, Eichstätt

On Tuesday, March 3rd 2020 the BFW Landesverband Bayern e.V and the Bayrische Architektenkammer will reveal the winners of the award „Qualität im Wohnungsbau 2019“. Our submitted project „Living on the Altmühl Riverside in Eichstätt“ has been chosen for the ex…

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Groundbreaking Ceremony – Community, Meeting and Health Care Centre in Erlangen

On Tuesday, 20th of February 2020 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the BBGZ Erlangen, a community, meeting and health care centre in Erlangen. Lord mayor, Dr. Florian Janik, mayor, Susanne Lender-Cassens, head of the department for facility…

February 20th, 2020: Messe Schulbau – panel discussion with Stefan Rappold

The SCHULBAU, an international forum and trade fair for all aspects of educational buildings, takes place in Stuttgart on February 19th and 20th, 2020. On the second day Stefan Rappold will be part of a panel discussion talking about new solutions…

Behnisch Architekten at awards ceremony “Beispielhaftes Bauen”

Jörg Usinger, Theresa Keßler and Nadine Waldmann on behalf of Behnisch Architekten received the award “Beispielhaftes Bauen” from the architectural association for the project Dorotheen Quartier. Overall, 33 examplary projects were awarded in the grand…

Renovation of Hohenstaufen Secondary School in Göppingen – Prototype classes for test operation inaugurated

Yesterday the Mayor of Göppingen, Guido Till, the Mayor of Construction, Helmut Renftle, and the project manager from the building construction department, Dr. Hartmut Meyer, inaugurated the initial test classroom for the general renovation of the …

adidas arena is "Building of the Year 2019” on german-architects.com

The adidas Arena has been selected as “Building of the Year 2019” – Bau des Jahres. The users of german-architects.com were called to vote for their favorite building out of 50 nominated projects – the adidas Arena has made the cut and received most of the …

adidas ARENA is up for nomination in ArchDaily's Building of the Year Awards

ArchDaily has just launched the 11th edition of its Building of the Year Awards and our project adidas ARENA is eligible for nomination. Go ahead and vote for it! The nomination process is open until February 10th. adidas ARENA at ArchDaily's…

Identity in architecture – Cornelia Wust speaks at RWTH Aachen

Cornelia Wust, Studio Director at Behnisch Architekten, will be a speaker at the “4th Aachener Tagung”, held by the Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen. Cornelia will present the construction and design of adidas ARENA. Main theme of the con…

IDA Awards Gold: KIT Energy Lab and Health and Fitness Spa Friedrichshafen

The 13th International Design Awards, with thousands of outstanding designs submitted by companies and designers from over 90 countries, recently announced the final winners. Both projects submitted by Behnisch Architekten were awarded „Gold“: the KIT…

Gala BSA Honor Award for Design Excellence: Karl Miller Center, Portland State University

In the company of over 400 colleagues from the Boston architectural community, Behnisch Architekten received a 2019 Boston Society of Architects Honor Award for Design Excellence for the Karl Miller Center at Portland State University. This year’s a…

Groundbreaking ceremony in Buc

We celebrated the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lycée Franco-Allemand in Buc on January 22, 2020 – on the day the Élysée Treaty was signed in 1963, which sealed the German-French friendship.

Behnisch Architekten at Vernissage “SportPark Ost”

Mayor of Regensburg Ms. Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer and Mr. Bernhard Lutter, project manager at the “Stadtwerk.Regensburg”, opened the exhibition of the competition “Sportpark Regensburg” on January, 16th 2020. In the competition, the jury unanimo…

Lecture by Angie Müller in Karlsruhe

„Roadshow Phase Nachhaltigkeit“ is the title of a lecture evening organized by the Bundesarchitektenkammer in cooperation with the DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen). Angie Müller, office director at Behnisch Architekten in Stutt…

Elephant in the Room – panel discussion with Stefan Behnisch

Stefan Behnisch takes part in a panel discussion at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart on Wednesday January 15th, 2020, 7pm. The discussion is part of the series „Elephant in the Room“, the topic of the panel is sustainable arch…

Behnisch Architekten appointed to design new energy science & technology building at the University of Pennsylvania

The Energy Science and Technology project is a facility dedicated to groundbreaking energy research, prominently situated at the Walnut Street gateway to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. The project was awarded to Behnisch Architekten…

Behnisch Architekten to design new parking structure at the University of Toronto Scarborough Campus

Behnisch Architekten, together with Toronto-based collaborator gh3, has been sucessfully appointed to design the new parking and mobility structure on the emerging Scarborough campus of the University of Toronto. This ca. 1200 space facility will…

Behnisch Architekten - Happy Christmas Holidays

Looking back on a very eventful year with amazing projects, great competitions and a fantastic Christmas Party with all four offices, we would like to say thank you to everyone we collaborated and exchanged with in many ways this past year. Behnisch…

Behnisch Architekten – Office in Los Angeles re-opened

Behnisch Architekten re-opened its Los Angeles office officially in spring of 2019. The office, led by Kristi Paulson, was originally opened in 1999 and executed a number of major North American projects including the City of Santa Monica Parking…

Behnisch Architekten wins competition for Sportpark Regensburg

Together with L&P Beratende Ingenieure, Behnisch Architekten was awarded the first prize in the competition for the Sportpark Regensburg. Our winning design was chosen from 19 participating offices. The project, which is located in the former…

Best of Year Awards 2019: winner Adidas - Hall of Fame gala

Here some impressions of the Hall of Fame gala on December 5, 2019 in New York. Magdalena Czolnowska and Chup Chiu from our Boston office had the honor of attending the event and receiving the award for Behnisch Architekten.

Best of Year Awards 2019: winner adidas

Great news: adidas ARENA is the winner of the Best of Year Interior Design Award 2019 in the category “Creative Office”. In total the award included almost 2700 entries. The 35th annual Hall of Fame gala on December 5, 2019 in New York revealed the fin…

Campus Founders

Heilbronn, Germany

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Project start: action sports center Munich

The City of Munich has just approved the planning and budget of the action sports center in Pasing District! The new building with over 3000 square metres floor space, designed by Behnisch Architekten, will be located in the area of the former…

turnaround urbanism with Stefan Behnisch in Stuttgart

On November 25th 2019, 7pm FSB and the BDA (Bund Deutscher Architekten), Landesverband Baden-Württemberg invite to a panel discussion with Christiane Feuerstein and Stefan Behnisch, who will talk about changes of perspective and transformation …

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Phase Nachhaltigkeit with Behnisch Architekten

„Phase Nachhaltigkeit“ is a project originated by the DGNB (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Nachhaltiges Bauen) and the Bundesarchitektenkammer. The aim of the intiative is to transform the current building culture to make sustainable building the new norm…

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Best of Year Awards 2019: finalist adidas

We are pleased to announce that the adidas ARENA is one of the finalists of the Best of Year Awards 2019 in the category “Creative Office” The final ceremony with announcement of the winners will take place on December 6th in New York. We keep our fin…

Groundbreaking Ceremony – Extension Anna-Pröll-Mittelschule Gersthofen

On Tuesday, 12th of November 2019 we celebrated the groundbreaking for the extension of the Anna-Pröll-Mittelschule, a secondary school in Gersthofen, Germany. Tibor Sroka, from the building authority Gersthofen, Sigrid Puschner, principal of …

Dorotheen Quartier wins Property Award 2019

The IWS Verband der Immobilienwirtschaft (Real Estate Association) Stuttgart has awarded the Property Award 2019 to the Dorotheen Quartier in the category Commercial and Residential. Congratulations to all participants!

KIT EnergyLab 2.0 – official award ceremony Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe

The ceremony honoring all winners of the “Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe 2019” award took place on November 4th 2019, at 6pm, Landratsamt Karlsruhe. The certificates were handed out by Landrat Dr. Christoph Schnaudigel, Carmen Mundorff (managing dir…

Maria Hirnsperger speaks at ARCHITECT@WORK in Munich

From 6-7 November, 2019 our colleague Maria Hirnsperger from Behnisch Architekten München will take part at the series of lectures “architect meets innovations” at the ARCHITECT@WORK fair in Munich.

THE PLAN’s The Architects Series on Behnisch Architekten is now online!

After the event at the SpazioFMG per l’Architettura showroom in Milan in October 2019, the episode 10 „The Architects Series - A documentary on: Behnisch Architekten“ is now available.

Stefan Rappold member of the jury at the blickfang DESIGN AWARD 2019

On Friday November 1st, 2019 Stefan Rappold is part of the jury at the blickfang awarding the best designs in the categories furniture and products, as well as fashion and jewelry. The judging process takes place during the day “Im Wizemann”, Que…

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2nd prize for competition Radstation Tübingen

Our Stuttgart office has been awarded the 2nd prize in the competition ”Radstation mit Gastronomie Europaplatz Tübingen” Congratulations to our design team!

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Stefan Rappold at Conference on Advanced Building Skins in Bern

Stefan Rappold will be a speaker at the 14th Conference on Advanced Building Skins, taking place in Bern at October, 28-29 2019. The topic of his lecture will be „Intelligent Facades“.

adidas ARENA – finalist European Steel Design Award

We are proud to announce that the adidas ARENA in Herzogenaurach was finalist at the European Steel Design Award. Every two years the awards are given by the European Convention for Constructional Steelwork (ECCS) to encourage the creative and…

Dorotheen Quartier – certified LEED Platinum

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.

Dorotheen Quartier – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Stuttgart

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…

Karl Miller Center winner of the BSA Design Award

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…

round table talks at the Expo Real with Stefan Rappold

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…

lecture by Stefan Behnisch in Lausanne

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…

Radstation Tübingen

Tübingen, Germany

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Stefan Behnisch as jury lead for the Heinze Award

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

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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Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the Stahlbau-Symposium

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 …

Lecture by Stefan Behnisch at The Architects Series

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”.

100 years of Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshöhe

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…

Winner of the 2019 American Architecture Awards!

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…

Stefan Behnisch at schauraum-b

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 ‚…

Celebration: Grand Opening adidas ARENA

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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Pathology Tübingen

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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360° Friedrichshafen

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

adidas grand opening

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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The second prize goes to Behnisch Architekten!

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

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

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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Topping out Ceremony of the City Hall in Grosskarolinenfeld, 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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2nd Prize for the Thermal Spa Oberstdorf!

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

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Smart Living Lab - And the winner is….

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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KIT EnergyLab 2.0 – awarded the prize Beispielhaftes Bauen Karlsruhe

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…

Agora – shortlist WAF 2019

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 …

Karl Miller Center – Winner of the Energy Efficiency Award

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…

Agora - Finalist at Architizer A+Award 2019

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 …

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

Karl Miller Center – finalist Energy Efficiency Award

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…

Opening of the Energy Lab 2.0

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…

June 7, 2019: Grand Opening of Sportbad Friedrichshafen

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

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

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.

Lenbachstraße Residential Development

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

3.176 qm / 34,090 sq.ft.

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‘architects not architecture’ in Stuttgart with Stefan Behnisch

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…

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

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

IDA Award Winner Bronze – Dorotheen Quartier

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…

Finalist and honorable mention at The Plan Award 2019

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…

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

ARPA Headquarter takes shape

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

Topping out Ceremony of the Student Residence Complex Nibelungenkaserne in Regensburg

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

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

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Lecture by Stefan Rappold at the AlumForum 2019

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

Lecture by Matt Noblett at the Facades+ Symposium 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…

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

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

International Design Award for Dorotheen Quartier

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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…