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EDGE ElbSide Hamburg

Edge ElbSide, a state-of-the-art office building located in the emerging Elbbrücken district of Hamburg's Hafencity, redefines the concept of modern workspaces. While the initial masterplan proposed an office building featuring an interior courtyard …

32.000 qm / 344.448 sq.ft. - Hamburg, Germany

32.000 qm / 344.448 sq.ft.

Work - Hamburg, Germany

work - usa

'22

SC Workplace

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…

10.220 qm / 110,000 sq.ft. - Southern California

10.220 qm / 110,000 sq.ft.

Work - Southern California

work - germany

'20

Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshoehe - New Administration Building

The Freie Waldorfschule Uhlandshoehe, the world’s first Waldorf school, was established in September 1919 by Emil Molt and Rudolf Steiner. It is situated in an exposed location among a group of villas halfway up the Uhlandshehe hill in S…

620 qm / 6,670 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

620 qm / 6,670 sq.ft.

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

work - germany

'19

adidas World Of Sports ARENA

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…

52.000 qm / 560,000 sq.ft. - Herzogenaurach, Germany

52.000 qm / 560,000 sq.ft.

Work - Herzogenaurach, Germany

work - germany

'19

KIT Energy Lab 2.0

The Energy Lab 2.0 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is an intelligent platform, set up to explore the interplay of components in the energy systems of the future and in particular to speed up the energy transition in Germany through the…

1.730 qm / 18,621 sq.ft. - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

1.730 qm / 18,621 sq.ft.

Work - Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, Germany

work - germany

'17

Dorotheen Quartier

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…

38.250 qm / 411,723 sq.ft. (floor area) - Stuttgart, Germany

38.250 qm / 411,723 sq.ft. (floor area)

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

work - switzerland

'14

WIPO Conference Hall

The Conference Hall lies between the organization’s main building Bâtiment AB and the administration building by Behnisch Architekten. The WIPO Campus is located in the United Nations district at Place des Nations in Geneva and is characterized by di…

5.800 qm / 62,400 sq.ft. - Geneva, Switzerland

5.800 qm / 62,400 sq.ft.

Work - Geneva, Switzerland

work - germany

'14

Office Building H6/H7 Audi Ingolstadt

It was the architects’ task to develop a new 3-5 story administration building south of the exiting Audi AG headquarters in the town of Ingolstadt. Due to its staggering appearance and latch structure, the building is capable of adapting to the n…

94.750 qm / 1,020,000 sq.ft. - Ingolstadt, Germany

94.750 qm / 1,020,000 sq.ft.

Work - Ingolstadt, Germany

work - france

'12

Digiteo Labs

The „Digiteo Labs“ consist of three buildings devoted to the research of information and digitalisation technologies; simulation and automation processes; and finally materials sciences. The buildings - located at three different sites south-west fro…

27.000 qm / 290,628 sq.ft. - Saclay, Moulon, Palaiseau, France

27.000 qm / 290,628 sq.ft.

Work - Saclay, Moulon, Palaiseau, France

work - switzerland

'11

WIPO Administration Building

The new administration building for the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO, is located in Geneva’s international district, immediately adjacent to the European Headquarters Building of the United Nations, the Nation’s Plaza and the exi…

47.140 qm / 507,411 sq.ft. - Geneva, Switzerland

47.140 qm / 507,411 sq.ft.

Work - Geneva, Switzerland

work - germany

'10

The intelligent facade

Prototype of a facade that uses daylight and artificial light in an optimized way to offer ergonomically improved workspaces. Photovoltaic elements situated in between the glass panels supply the facade with energy. This prototype is the result of a…

Work -

work - germany

'09

Unilever Headquarters Germany, Austria and Switzerland

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 centre to Hamburg's new attractions: the…

38.000 qm / 409,000 sq.ft. - Hamburg, Germany

38.000 qm / 409,000 sq.ft.

Work - Hamburg, Germany

work - canada

'06

Millenium Biologix

The new building for the biotechnology company Millenium Biologix in Kingston, Canada, should house the firm’s new headquarters, as well as its production facilities. Parallel to designing the building, a master plan for a research park, of which t…

5.000 qm / 53,819 sq.ft. first phase, extendable to 10.000 qm / 107,639 sq.ft. - Kingston, ON, Canada

5.000 qm / 53,819 sq.ft. first phase, extendable to 10.000 qm / 107,639 sq.ft.

Work - Kingston, ON, Canada

work - usa

'04

Genzyme Center

The Genzyme Center is located in the midst of other dynamic research institutions on a former brownfield site close to the Charles River. The design brief required a progressive building which would represent a point of identification for the…

32.500 qm / 350,000 sq.ft. - Cambridge, MA, USA

32.500 qm / 350,000 sq.ft.

Work - Cambridge, MA, USA

work - germany

'03

Entory Home

“entory home”, entory AG’s new headquarters, is located at the northern periphery of the small southern German town of Ettlingen. The site was formerly occupied by a military barracks. The firm entory AG, a subsidiary of the Gruppe Deutsche Börse, wanted…

11.160 qm / 120,080 sq.ft. - Ettlingen, Germany

11.160 qm / 120,080 sq.ft.

Work - Ettlingen, Germany

work - germany

'02

Norddeutsche Landesbank am Friedrichswall

The Norddeutsche Landesbank occupies an entire city block and serves as an important linking element between the various activities which define the neighbouring quarters of the city: retail, commercial, residential, cultural, sport and leisure.…

75.000 qm / 807,300 sq.ft. - Hannover, Germany

75.000 qm / 807,300 sq.ft.

Work - Hannover, Germany

work - the netherlands

'98

IBN – Institute for Forestry and Nature Research

The laboratory and administration building, now called Lumen, is located in the north of the university city of Wageningen, close to other existing agricultural institutes. The design brief was for a functional, user-friendly research facility…

11.800 qm / 126,970 sq.ft. - Wageningen, The Netherlands

11.800 qm / 126,970 sq.ft.

Work - Wageningen, The Netherlands

work - germany

'98

VS – Vereinigte Spezialmöbelfabriken

One hundred years ago, the “Vereinigte Spezialmöbelfabriken“ (VS) was founded in Tauberbischofsheim as a producer of school furniture. In the course of time the range was extended to include office furniture and office furnishing systems. The client deci…

8.250 qm / 88,770 sq.ft. - Tauberbischofsheim, Germany

8.250 qm / 88,770 sq.ft.

Work - Tauberbischofsheim, Germany

work - germany

'97

Landesgirokasse am Bollwerk

The new administrative centre for the Landesgirokasse Bank (now BW Bank) is located in the centre of Stuttgart. The building occupies an entire city block and houses facilities for more than 1,000 financial service staff. The appearance of a city…

48.000 qm / 516,480 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

48.000 qm / 516,480 sq.ft.

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

work - germany

'97

LVA – Landesversicherungsanstalt Schleswig-Holstein

The state insurance company LVA required a new regional headquarters for their previously dispersed offices, which had been located in and around the medieval city center of Lübeck. LVA’s new suburban site needed to offer compensatory attractions - na…

37.110 qm / 399,290 sq.ft. - Lübeck, Germany

37.110 qm / 399,290 sq.ft.

Work - Lübeck, Germany

work - germany

'96

Bayerische Vereinsbank

This small building in the centre of Stuttgart is a fine example of refurbishment and modernisation. Originally built by Behnisch & Partner in 1969 for the now defunct ‘cattle dealers savings bank’ the building was subsequently purchased by its cur…

1.358 qm / 14,610 sq.ft. - Stuttgart, Germany

1.358 qm / 14,610 sq.ft.

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

work - germany

'89

Landesgirokasse at Hoppenlau Cemetery

Two distinctly different sections of the city of Stuttgart overlap within the planning area: Stuttgart Mitte and Stuttgart West. Plans for a new complex for the Landesgirokasse bank building responded to this particular situation. Such a convergence…

Stuttgart, Germany

Work - Stuttgart, Germany

education

education - germany

'24

Extension Fachhochschulzentrum Münster University of Applied Sciences

With renewable building materials and resource-saving use of existing infrastructure, Münster University of Applied Sciences has expanded the Fachhochschulzentrum (FHZ) on Corrensstraße. Behnisch Architekten, in collaboration with Berghaus A…

529 qm / 5.690 sq.ft - Münster, Germany

529 qm / 5.690 sq.ft

Education - Münster, Germany

education - germany

'24

KiTa Pioneer-Kaserne

Pioneer Park in Hanau’s Wolfgang district has been designed to be part of an environmentally friendly and sustainable urban quarter of the future. This idea is reflected in the childcare concept “Garden Gnomes: The Green Day-Care Center in the Pio…

Hanau, Germany

Education - Hanau, Germany