Germany

University of Stuttgart makes Urbach Tower from self-shaping wood

June 3, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

University of Stuttgart engineers have harnessed the natural shrinking process of wood as it loses moisture to create this world-first self-twisted tower in Germany. The university’s Institute for Computational Design and Construction (ICD) and Institute for Building Structures and Structural Design (ITKE) built the Urbach Tower in the Rems Valley for the Remstal Garden Show.

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Ingenhoven Architects is wrapping five miles of hedges around an office in Düsseldorf

May 21, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf by Ingenhoven Architects

Ingenhoven Architects is building the Kö-Bogen II office block in Düsseldorf, which will have facades covered with five miles-worth of hornbeam hedges. Located on the Gustaf-Gründgens-Platz, alongside the heritage-listed Düsseldorfer Schauspielhaus theatre, the five-storey office block topped out earlier this month. When it is completed next year, the two main facades of the trapeze-shaped building

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University of Stuttgart creates biomimetic pavilions based on sea urchins and beetle wings

May 8, 2019 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

University of Stuttgart creates biomimetic pavilions for the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany

The University of Stuttgart has continued its experiments into biomimicry and robotic construction with two pavilions at the Bundesgartenschau horticultural show in Germany. Both of the pavilions are built by robots and are designed to imitate nature – known as biomimicry. A sweeping wooden pavilion has a shape based on sea urchins, while a fibre-composite

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Heike Hanada completes Bauhaus Museum Weimar at birthplace of the design school

April 11, 2019 Tom Ravenscroft 0

German architect Heike Hanada has completed a minimalist concrete museum to celebrate the Bauhaus in Weimar, where the design school was founded 100 years ago. Named the Bauhaus Museum Weimar, the building dedicated to the design school creates a physical cultural presence for the Bauhaus in the German city where it was based between 1919

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Buero Wagner uses charred timber to clad lake house extension in Germany

April 1, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

The Black House by German architect studio Buero Wagner is a stack of differently sized rooms clad in blackened wood extending a house close to Lake Ammersee in Munich. The lake house extension comprises a bedroom, kitchen and living space that was designed as a repost to the typical architecture found in rural Germany. “Rural areas in Germany are often

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Berghain designers Studio Karhard creates club-feel inside The Urban Dentist

March 26, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Interiors of The Urban Dentist by Studio Karhard

Light-up walls, mirrored partitions, and colourful stone surfaces help channel a “cool bar” aesthetic inside this dental office in Berlin, which has been completed by Studio Karhard – the designers of renowned nightclub Berghain. Owned by three young dentists, The Urban Dentist has been designed by Studio Karhard to seem more like a “concept store

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Sigurd Larsen and Jonathan Tuckey Design revamp Berlin’s Michelberger hotel

March 18, 2019 Natasha Levy 0

Interiors of the Michelberger hotel in Berlin

London-based Jonathan Tuckey Design and Danish architect Sigurd Larsen have updated the Michelberger hotel in Berlin, refreshing its lobby and guest rooms. The Michelberger now boasts 23 additional rooms and a rejuvenated lobby area with new fixtures and furnishings. Opened back in 2009, the hotel occupies a former lighting factory beside Berlin’s Oberbaum Bridge. Its

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Kult cultural hub occupies a terrace of brick buildings in Vreden

March 17, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Pool Leber Architekten and Bleckmann Krys Architekten have combined 14th and 16th century structures, with modern concrete and brick volumes to create the Kult museum. Designed as both a cultural hub and museum for the town of Vreden, Germany, Kult has 1,400 square metres of space for a permanent collection. The 5,950-square-metre complex also houses a temporary exhibition

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Mecanoo designs copper-coloured tower alongside Frankfurt station

March 13, 2019 Lizzie Crook 0

Mecanoo has released visuals of Frankfurt Grand Central, a residential complex in Frankfurt, Germany, that will feature a copper-coloured tower. Delft studio Mecanoo won a competition to design Frankfurt Grand Central for Phoenix and Gross & Partner, which is developing the scheme close to the city’s Central Station. It will be distinguished by its 40-storey tower,

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Berlin workshop transformed into theatre school by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

March 5, 2019 Jon Astbury 0

Ernst Busch University of Performing Arts by Ortner & Ortner Baukunst

Architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst has created a new facility for the Ernst Busch Academy of Dramatic Arts in Berlin, by renovating a 1950s workshop building and adding a fly tower made from fibreglass and wood. Located on Zinnowitzer Strasse, on the former border of East Berlin, the four-storey building had been used as workshop space

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