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Wulf Architekten creates “strong, yet elegant” police station in Bavaria

April 7, 2023 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Berlin-based studio Wulf Architekten has unveiled a dark-blue police station wrapped in bands of brass windows in the Bavarian city of Passau, Germany. Arranged around two courtyards, Wulf Architekten designed the building to have a clear identity as a modern police station. “The core concept was to achieve a building with a clear, strong, yet elegant design, whose appearance would not

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MVRDV designs German AI hub to be “visible in satellite photos”

April 4, 2023 Lizzie Crook 0

Dutch studio MVRDV has released visuals of the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, a circular masterplan for a technology and innovation hub in Heilbronn, Germany. The 265,000 square-metre Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence (Ipai) campus is hoped to become a global landmark dedicated to the development of “ethically responsible” artificial intelligence (AI). MVRDV’s proposal is characterised by its

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Appels Architekten prefabricates black house in rural Bavaria

April 2, 2023 Dezeen staff 0

Zurich studio Appels Architekten has created the Wooden House by the Lake, a home in southeast Germany with a cross-laminated timber structure and black-stained cladding. Comprising boxy volumes topped with a staggered single-pitched roof, the mass-timber house was entirely prefabricated before being assembled on the forested site close to a lake in Bavaria. Aiming to

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Henn and TU Dresden complete world’s first carbon concrete building

February 21, 2023 Rima Sabina Aouf 0

German architecture firm Henn and the Technical University of Dresden have completed the world’s first building made of carbon concrete – a form of concrete reinforced with carbon fibre instead of steel. Called the Cube, the 243-square-metre building was constructed as a test of the new material and will provide a laboratory and event space

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Irina Kromayer designs Château Royal hotel to feel “authentic” rather than retro

January 24, 2023 Alyn Griffiths 0

Interior architect Irina Kromayer has overseen the design of Berlin’s Château Royal hotel, creating a series of eclectic spaces that reference the heyday of the German capital at the turn of the 20th century. The 93-room Château Royal is located in the heart of Mitte, on a street parallel to Unter den Linden boulevard and close

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Coordination merges Berlin attic apartments to create artsy penthouse

December 16, 2022 Natasha Levy 0

Design studio Coordination has combined two attic apartments into a single penthouse in Berlin, crafting its interiors around the owner’s art collection. The formerly separate attic apartments were added to the 19th-century residential building in the 1990s. By bringing them together, Coordination created a spacious penthouse of 131 square metres, with a floorplan that is

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AMUNT creates staggered geometry for Black Forest holiday cabin

December 14, 2022 Amy Frearson 0

German architecture office AMUNT has created a new version of the humble timber holiday cabin, featuring raised floors, split-level living spaces and a huge sloping roof. Haus am Hang – which translates as House on a Hill – is a family holiday home in Menzenschwand, in the south of Germany’s Black Forest. The design is by AMUNT’s

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Museum of the 20th Century an “environmental disgrace” say critics

November 30, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Environmentalists and architecture critics have raised concerns about the carbon footprint of a major new museum for modern art designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is under construction in Berlin. Due to its complex air conditioning system, the Museum of the 20th Century will use four times as much energy as a nearby museum

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Herzog & de Meuron’s Museum of the 20th Century an “environmental disgrace” say critics

November 30, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Environmentalists and architecture critics have raised concerns about the carbon footprint of a major new museum for modern art designed by Herzog & de Meuron, which is under construction in Berlin. Due to its complex air conditioning system, the Museum of the 20th Century will use four times as much energy as a nearby museum

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Axel Arigato rejects “McDonald’s approach” to interiors with Berlin flagship store

November 25, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Travertine displays that double as DJ podiums feature alongside glistening butter-yellow columns in Axel Arigato’s Berlin outpost, which the streetwear label has designed together with longtime collaborator Halleroed. The brand’s flagship boutique is set in the central Scheunenviertel neighbourhood, across the ground floor of a prefabricated concrete Plattenbau building typical of post-war East Germany. Stockholm design

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