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Interesting works to visit include the BORA, Herford, East Westphalia, designed by LORENZATELIERS. The company is constructing the facility in the eastern Westphalian heart of the kitchen furniture industry.
Finally, take a look at the Innovation Park Artificial Intelligence, Heilbronn, Baden-Württemberg design by MVRDV. It is a mixture of business campus, laboratories, start-up innovation centre, housing, communication centre, a restaurant and kindergarten.
The attractive campus forms a destination for curious visitors to see the development of world-changing technologies first hand. They can interact with the people behind their creation, and learn about the intentions behind their work.
The C10 highrise at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences, built in the mid-1960s, required architectural and technical refurbishment in order to reinforce its iconic status as sole highrise in the area announcing the campus throughout the city.
In Wenden, the southernmost town of the German region of Sauerland electromechanical actuators for water management, the power plant sector and the oil and gas industry are manufactured.
Conversion of the Hanomag ‘U-Boat Hall’, Hannover, north Germany, into a RS+Yellow Furniture Outlet by BOLLES+WILSON. There is today an enormous potential in the re-scripting of grand industrial spaces, survivors from an epoch that had less trouble expressing itself and its mechanical or technical potency than our current mean and exploitative ‘global shopping-centre-culture’.
Bravely the 2009 competition jury awarded the first prize to the BOLLES+WILSON scheme which envisaged the characteristic form given a new life and function – a kindergarten framed and shielded by site perimeter housing (2nd construction phase).
This elegant new office building is for a publishing company working in traditional and new media. Six protruding “glass-walled cubes” define and compose the project, with their proportions and dimensions based on the surrounding traditional German fachwerk villas in the city of Ravensburg.
The German Steam Locomotive Museum in Neuenmarkt, Upper Franconia, opens its new exhibition, designed by ATELIER BRÜCKNER. A clear, straightforward design accentuates and structures a range of exhibits saturated with the history of railway technology.
Museum of Bavarian History, Regensburg, Germany design by Mauro Turin Architectes – Bavaria competition entry, German architecture images
The 406 m long pedestrian bridge across the Rhine-Herne canal is part of the project EMSCHERKUNST 2010. Artist Tobias Rehberger envisioned a colourful ribbon wrapped in a wild, swinging spiral connecting two parks
This is the third BOLLES+WILSON building for the German-wide furniture chain RS+Yellow, an extension of the homebase storage and distribution centre by 7,000 sqm.
The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) will build the new State Fire Brigade School in Wurzburg. In the summer of 2012, gmp were awarded the contract following a negotiated tendering procedure and the company has now presented its design to Wurzburg’s Commission for Urban Design and Architecture
Thermenhotel Spreewald, Spa Hotel Burg, southeast Germany design by 4a Architekten in Burg: German swimming pool, architecture images
Above the ancient Roman walls of the city of Regensburg, in Bavaria, southern Germany, the project foresees the total demolition and reconstruction of an edifice which is part of a continuous “quint” dating back to the Middle Ages.
The new corporate headquarters of Tönnies, one of Germany’s largest food companies, in Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Nordrhein-Westfalen, was integrally designed by ATP N+M Frankfurt.
The “Media Centre Oberkirch” was decided in 2007 within the scope of a competition by the architecture office Wurm & Wurm for himself. Start of construction was in November, 2008, completion of the building was in February, 2010.
H27D design by Kraus Schoenberg Architects in Baden-Wuerttemberg represents an elegant combination of sensitivity to context and technical prowess. The walls are made entirely of lightweight in-situ concrete, avoiding the use of additional thermal insulation.
On display in Münster is the exhibition “Golden Glory. Medieval Treasury Art in Westphalia”, developed by the Westfalen-Lippe Regional Council, the diocese Münster and the excellence cluster “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster
Trianel Corporate Center Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany property design by gmp Architekten von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, Architects – Aachen office building