Germany

Studio Aisslinger completes “nature-loving” renovation of Hotel Seegarten

May 20, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

Designer Werner Aisslinger has renovated a lakeside hotel in Germany’s Sauerland region, adding hydroponics and locally sourced materials including wood and terrazzo to craft interiors informed by the surrounding nature. Hotel Seegarten is owned and operated by TV chef Olaf Baumeister, who took over the traditional inn from his parents in 1992 and has overseen

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Jane Withers picks five projects that don’t “take water for granted” from MK&G exhibition

April 29, 2024 Alyn Griffiths 0

An exhibition at Hamburg’s MK&G museum examines the global water crisis and what architects and designers can do to help. Here, curator Jane Withers selects five highlights from the show and explains the stories behind them. Water Pressure: Designing for the Future is the result of several years of research by Jane Withers Studio, which involved

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Work begins on timber daycare centre by Kéré Architecture in Munich

April 26, 2024 Lizzie Crook 0

A wooden structure will be left exposed throughout this children’s daycare centre at the Technical University of Munich, on which Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has started construction in Germany. Named Ingeborg Pohl Kinderoase an der TUM, the centre will sit beside the university’s cafeteria and be open to children with parents or carers who work

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Study Pavilion by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke wins Mies van der Rohe Award 2024

April 25, 2024 Amy Peacock 0

Berlin architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have been awarded this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award for Study Pavilion, a steel-framed university building in Germany. Düsing and Hacke, who founded their eponymous studios in 2015 and 2016 respectively, are the youngest people to have ever received the biennial accolade, also known as the European Union

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Holzer Kobler Architekturen wraps seaside visitor centre in timber grid to “play in, on, under or beside”

April 17, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

A gridded timber frame creates a flexible armature for play equipment and social spaces at the Erlebnis-Hus visitor centre in Sankt Peter-Ording, Germany, which was designed by Holzer Kobler Architekturen. Located alongside a dyke on a coastal promenade in Sankt Peter-Ording, the centre contains event spaces, a shop and restaurant and lookout points, housed in

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Sigurd Larsen refurbishes 19th-century farm for Michelberger hotel

April 3, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

Danish architect Sigurd Larsen has refurbished the Michelberger Farm in Spreewald, Germany, creating a new wing of guest rooms that reinterprets the redbrick style of the 19th-century complex. Having already worked on the refurbishment of the Michelberger hotel in Berlin in collaboration with Jonathan Tuckey, Larsen was tasked with replacing a ruin on the site

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Overhanging roof shelters wooden hall in Germany by Steimle Architekten

April 1, 2024 Katie Last 0

Local spruce wood is used throughout Markolfhalle Markelfingen, a multipurpose hall that architecture studio Steimle Architekten has added to the edge of a lake in Germany. Located on the northern shore of Lake Constance in the Radolfzell district, the timber building contains sports courts and a stage for events, unified by a cantilevered roof overhead.

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Studio Aisslinger transforms historic Berlin art squat into Fotografiska Berlin

March 20, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

A former department store that became a famous artists’ squat is now home to Fotografiska Berlin, a photography museum featuring interior design by German designer Werner Aisslinger. Once the second-largest shopping arcade in Berlin, the building is best known as the Kunsthaus Tacheles, home of the Tacheles artist collective, who occupied it from 1990 to

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Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke design modular study pavilion for German university

March 14, 2024 Kate Donaldson 0

Berlin-based architects Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke have created a modular and demountable steel-framed pavilion for the Technical University of Braunschweig in Germany. Located centrally within the campus at a junction of existing pathways, the 1,000-square-metre gridded structure was designed to create flexible and non-hierarchical spaces for students to learn, study and socialise in a

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Atelier ST completes Leipzig house disguised to look like two

January 23, 2024 Amy Frearson 0

German studio Atelier ST has completed Duplex, a generous family house near Leipzig that was designed to look like two semi-detached properties. Home to a family of four, the residence spreads across two matching gabled blocks. They sit side by side, although one is positioned further forward than the other. Atelier ST founders Silvia Schellenberg-Thaut

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