Defying Expectations
A striking 1960s residence reimagined for today—elegant restraint meets contemporary performance
The family developers initially planned to demolish the existing building and develop the promising site...
Illuminating Urban Oases
Exceptional lighting design unlocks the inherent beauty of space and material
The real challenge in a design assignment often isn't about scale – it's something else entirely. Whether it's a sprawling hotel or museum...
Light Takes the Stage
An innovative roof extension featuring a series of concrete ribs that crowns a historic industrial building
In Neukölln, architect Sohrab Zafari added a striking rooftop structure to a former five-story factory...
Invisible Diversity
One Building, Many Purposes: A New Development in Dorsten
Thieken Architects + Engineers have created the "Agatha Quartier," a striking new development in the heart of...
For Body and Soul
A Historic Pharmacy Transforms: Landmark Half-Timbered House Becomes Contemporary Restaurant
Situated in prime location at Waiblingen's town square, this half-timbered structure, comprehensively restored by Coast Architects, contains...
Respecting Tradition
...yet it can also constrain—the key is finding smart ways to work within those limits.
What do you do when building regulations and design guidelines leave virtually no room to create an architecturally...
Where Nature Meets City
Exemplary and Virtuoso Housing Design
In Marzahn, a construction project was realized directly along the Wuhle green corridor within the Seelgrabenpark section. The design...
More substance than appearance
Three Apartments, One Building, Three Separate Entrances
Das frühere Dorf Groß Borstel ist ein bis heute ländlich geprägter Stadtteil von Hamburg mit einem Mix aus histori...
Harmonious Dialogue
A New Campus Building Embodying Anthroposophical Architecture at a Waldorf School
This Waldorf school is truly unique, as it was the world's first. Founded on the basis of pedagogical...
Journeys to Art
A former barn in rural Bavaria becomes a cutting-edge gallery after transformation.
To insiders of the international art scene, it may have seemed like a retreat when the renowned gallery...