FEATURED Building up5/5/2025Thanks to bricks from Petersen Tegl, the façade of the new assembly hall at the historic Elise Smiths Skole in Aarhus blends seamlessly into the existing structure.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Anne Hangebruch4/29/2025In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – like those of Anne Hangebruch, who believes in continuous exchange and mutual inspiration between practice, teaching, and research.
FEATURED A classy stage4/24/2025The unique dynamics of Bauwerk Parkett's “Spinpark” collection give the rooms of the recently completed Vera apartment building in Andermatt a modern twist.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Carme Pinós3/24/2025In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Carme Pinós, who seeks a very individual expression with her buildings and furniture designs.
ARCHITECTURE Poetry in architecture3/10/2025Liu Jiakun receives the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize. Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and Cindy Pritzker, the award honours architects whose buildings represent a unique combination of talent, vision, commitment and have made a significant contribution to humanity as well as the built environment through architecture.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Jeanne Gang1/30/2025In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.
ARCHITECTURE Solid goals1/1/2025SO-IL, one of the most interesting architecture studios in the USA at the moment, has set out to revolutionise multi-storey residential construction in New York City. The office is characterised by high standards in terms of both programme as well as materials and formulates a complex approach to what architecture should achieve.
ARCHITECTURE Honeycomb vs. box construction12/22/2024In the trade fair city of Munich-Riem, the Wogeno cooperative and architect Peter Haimerl have countered the boringly smooth cuboids of the surrounding buildings with a honeycomb cluster. Not only the house, but also the living concept is unusual.
ARCHITECTURE Image and Reproduction12/2/2024Among the many interesting projects that have recently been realised in Heilbronn in southern Germany, one stands out with its timber framework behind glass: the Innovation Factory 2.0, designed by Darmstadt-based Waechter+Waechter Architekten BDA. Time for a site visit.
ARCHITECTURE Centre by addition11/25/2024The community and town hall in Holzwickede by bez+kock architekten is impressive in terms of aesthetics and space. A truly integrative urban building block, it shows what open architecture can look like that takes the citizens as seriously as the users.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir11/19/2024In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – like that of Jórunn Ragnarsdóttir, whose buildings are both precisely thought out as well as offering space for aesthetics and inspiration.
ARCHITECTURE Friendly kraken11/15/2024Not only beautiful, but also socially and ecologically sustainable: this is how the real estate company CapitaLand wants its own projects to be. To achieve this, the company has been working for years with architects such as Moshe Safdi, Toyo Ito, Ole Scheeren and Bjarke Ingels. Time for a portrait of a client.
ARCHITECTURE Five good neighbours11/4/2024When does a building have social value, is it holistically sustainable and designed for the future? The jury of the International High-Rise Award 2024/25 has asked itself these questions. The renowned architecture prize is awarded every two years by the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and DekaBank. We introduce you to the finalists.
ARCHITECTURE Good spaces10/30/2024Cologne's Severinstraße is one of those streets that makes it easy to understand why people fall in love with this city on the Rhine, which is so special in so many ways. Everything that makes up urban life can be found here. Right in the middle of this colourful microcosm is the office of Aretz Dürr Architekten BDA.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Petra Wörner10/15/2024In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as Petra Wörner, who is a pioneer in the field of healthcare and research buildings.
SUSTAINABILITY A utopia realised10/3/2024The student building project The Frankfurt Prototype shows how affordable housing can be realised in a resource-saving and aesthetic way, integrates an ecosystem as well as creating a new place for social interaction in times of digitalisation.
ARCHITECTURE Trees and Rivers as Clients9/20/2024Daniel Baroš and Marcel Šípka are the founders of Henkai Architekti. Impressed by their unconventional architectural approach to public buildings, we wanted to find out more about the Czech studio.
ARCHITECTURE Building identity9/13/2024The future grows from strong roots – therefore, the present needs to offer space for new ideas. Jung, a premium supplier of modern building technology, shows how posture, responsibility and efficiency can be translated architecturally with NGA Nehse & Gerstein Architects BDA in Schalksmühle.
FEATURED The Anatomy of a Hotel9/6/2024A university building from 1908 was carefully refurbished and transformed into a boutique hotel with a special charm: Thanks to custom-made bricks by Petersen Tegl, a relief-like façade was created for an extension that forges a link between the historic building and its new function.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – TOMAS Transformation of Material and Space8/19/2024In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we are introducing the work of female architects to you at regular intervals. And now it’s the turn of Sofia Ceylan, Dr. Katharina Neubauer and Annabelle von Reutern, who have teamed up under the name TOMAS.
ARCHITECTURE Last Stop: Mountain View7/26/2024The example of the Pustevny Gateway shows how a transport hub at a tourist hotspot can be perfectly designed. Despite a high degree of functionality, Henkai Architekti have realised their imaginative gateway to the Czech Pustevny Mountains in the spirit of the poetic impression of the landscape.
ARCHITECTURE Cooperation not Competition7/25/2024Studio Loes became known beyond Berlin for "Element", a modular timber building. Their love of wood is apparent in many of their designs. In the following interview Gonzalo Lizama tells us how the three founding members got together and what characterizes their work.
ARCHITECTURE Building out of this world7/5/2024Conventional building materials are hard to come by in space – so why not use space rock for architecture on the moon? Scientists from the European Space Agency (ESA) have found an unusual way to approach this experiment.
SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN ARCHITECTS Queen of Contrasts6/14/2024In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects" we regularly present the work of female architects – a prime example being the interior design projects of Ester Bruzkus. She finds the inspiration for her opulent minimalism on architecture trips. That said, she also feels a deep bond with her home town.
ARCHITECTURE Architectural Archipelago6/7/2024Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery art museum has been working with renowned architects to design the Serpentine Pavilion in Kensington Gardens, which provides a social platform in the centre of London. Minsuk Cho's ‘Archipelagic Void’ refers to the ‘madang’, an open courtyard that characterises the traditional houses of his native Korea.
ARCHITECTURE Great variety for the little ones6/5/2024Clou Architects have realised a building for a kindergarten in Hangzhou, China, which makes ideal use of the space by layering and stacking modules.
SUSTAINABILITY Radical Recycling5/23/2024Marcel Raymaekers is an uncompromising pioneer of circular architecture in Europe. His opulent work was for a long time overlooked – until the Rotor collective began to document the unconventional approach.
SPOTLIGHT ON WOMEN ARCHITECTS Spotlight on Women Architects – Odile Decq4/30/2024In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Odile Decq, who seeks with her work to find an individual and holistic form of architecture.
FEATURED PROJECT A Lively Look4/18/2024Rieder’s "concrete skin" panels form a distinctive shell for the new Heimeran office complex on Munich’s Mittlerer Ring ("Middle Ring Road"). The dynamism of this busy location is reflected in the high-rise designed by OSA Ochs Schmidhuber Architekten and the geometrical structure of the three-dimensional façade.
FEATURED Tiles for Cambridge4/2/2024Three in One: Tiles by Petersen Tegl have been used for a new building on the banks of the River Cam. By using different colors from the company’s "Cover" collection, the architects have succeeded in making the "Mill House" appear like three smaller structures that blend in with their surroundings.
ARCHITECTURE Architect of the Threshold3/7/2024Japanese architect Riken Yamamoto has been honoured with the Pritzker Prize for Architecture. According to the jury, his architecture brings dignity to everyday life, transforming normality into the extraordinary and leading calmness to splendour.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Mariam Issoufou1/25/2024In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – like that of Mariam Issoufou, whose work is drawing attention to African architecture.
ARCHITECTURE Sharing replaces sirens1/9/2024In Kortrijk, Belgium, an old fire station has been converted into the “Deelfabriek”, an experimental venue for non-profit associations, self-help workshops, neighborhood initiatives, and all manner of community. Architectural practice Atama provided the setting for the activities.
ARCHITECTURE Pillars and Arches Devoted to Rugby1/3/2024In the heart of the Irish city of Limerick Níall McLaughlin Architects have realized a building that is not only a monument to the country’s national sport of rugby. At the same time, it is aimed at reviving the city’s languishing downtown.
ARCHITECTURE Spotlight on Women Architects – Margot Schürmann12/28/2023In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Margot Schürmann who over a period of decades together with her husband Joachim Schürmann played a major role in shaping the direction that architecture took in West Germany.