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Maison du Béton by Atelier ST

Architect: Atelier ST
Project Type: Single Family Residence
Location: Zwickau, Germany
Photography: Bertram Bölkow

High over a river meadow a sharp edged dwelling house rises on the gentle ridge of the Cainsdorfer local situation. It uses the available hillside situation of a generous property, contrasts by his clear geometry, nevertheless, consciously and strikingly with the grown landscape. Read the rest of this entry »

The Otto Bock Building by Gnädinger Architects

Architect: Gnädinger Architects
Project Type: Healthcare and Office Space
Location: Berlin, Germany.
Year: 2009

The building was designed for the Otto Bock HealthCare company, a world leader in prosthetics and orthotics. The organic-dynamic design of the six-storey building is based on the principles of nature – as a model of harmony between technology and people. Read the rest of this entry »

Field Chapel in Boedigheim by Architecture Students of the IIT

Architects: Students of the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, led by  Professor Frank Flury
Local architect: Ecker Architekten
Location: Boedigheim, Germany
Client: Protestant Church of Bödigheim
Project year: 2009
Photographs: Robert Piotrowski, Dea Ecker, Klaus Hilger & John Ruffalo, Brigida Gonzalez
Website: Flurkapelle Buchen/Bödigheim

The Field Chapel is a project designed and executed by the students of an Advanced De-sign/Build Studio at the Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture in Chicago for a ecumenical church co-operative in Boedigheim, Germany. Led by Professor Frank Flury, the project was assisted on a pro bono basis by the firm of Ecker Architekten (Buchen, Germany) with the craftsmen, volunteer workers and townspeople of the Odenwald/Bauland, a rural region in northern Baden-Württemberg. Read the rest of this entry »

Nat. Fine Bio Food Restaurant Interior by eins:eins Architects

Architect: eins:eins architekten
Project type: Restaurant, Interiors
Collaborators: Christoph Roselius & Julian Hillenkamp
Year: 2009
Photography: Studio Uwe Gärtner

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Open-Air-Library by KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk

Location: Magdeburg (Germany)
Developer: Department of Building and Construction, Bürgerverein Salbke-Fermersleben-Westerhüsen e.V.
Architect: KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk
Collaborators: Christian Burckhardt Gregor Schneider Mandy Neuenfeld
Area: 488 m2
Cost: 325,000 €

Year: 2009

The residents of a socially depressed neighborhood have organized to collect and share books in an open-air library that they have constructed, after a participative process, with prefabricated pieces from a demolished building. Read the rest of this entry »

Zollverein School of Management and Design by SANAA

Architects: Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue NishizawaSANAA
Client: Zollverein School
Location: Essen, Germany
Construction: March 2005July 2006
Project architect: Nicole BerganskiBöll & Krabel
Built area: 5.000sqm
Masterplan: Rem Koolhaas, OMA
Landscape: Agence Ter
Photos: Iwan Baan

The Zollverein Design School is located between a historical coalmining factory and a sprawling suburb. The building is a 35 meter cube, which, at the scale of the large neighboring factory buildings, stands in strong contrast to the finer suburban texture. Its intense presence announces the former factory grounds. Read the rest of this entry »

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