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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.
Third Skin designed a tourist development with about 20 villas and apartments in a modern contemporary style in the center of the village and with direct access to the ski slopes of the authentic village of Neuastenberg in Winterberg.
Zaha Hadid Architects and their team of contributors have created the ‘Behaviour Morphe’: An art installation where light is projected onto the façade of the city’s Baroque castle mapping the building for the 2017 Schlosslichtspiele Festival in Karlsruhe, Germany.
Bauhaus Building, Dessau, Germany – revered Dessau structure designed by architect Walter Gropius one of twelve recipients of Getty Foundation’s Keeping It Modern Grants, architectural conservation grants dedicated to significant 20th century buildings.
Design: TCHOBAN VOSS Architekten. In June 2017 the worldwide highest-performance test centre for large scale bearings opened in Schweinfurt. The new Sven Wingquist Test Centre is situated in the south of the city and completes the SKF competence centre as the final element.
Architects: HENN
The new company headquarters of Continental consolidates all the facilities formerly spread across the city in one location, simultaneously marking the eastern approach to Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony.
Design: Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects
The new educational facility points to a more holistic understanding of learning and science and signals a humanistic approach focusing on the human scale. The C.A.R.L. is centrally located at the meeting point of Campus Mitte and Campus West.
Architecture collective Ciudad Abierta de Ritoque + Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña participate in documenta 14. Documenta, now in its 14th edition, consists of two venues: Athens, Greece and Kassel, Germany where it originated sixty years ago.
“Solar Architecture is not about fashion – it is about survival”, Lord Norman Foster. “The sun doesn‘t send us a bill – the energy revolution is possible.” German journalist and activist Franz Alt
KCAP present development vision for the Patrick-Henry-Village (PHV) in Heidelberg, Germany. PHV is the largest conversion area in Heidelberg, set to become a model for the ‘knowledge city of tomorrow‘.
As part of the new transnational tram line crossing the Rhine river from Strasbourg, France into Kehl, Germany, J.MAYER.H designed bus and tram stops in Kehl as sculptural compositions based on organic shaped discs.
Design: Herrmanns Architekten. The curved building for a new kindergarten is to be erected as a wooden structure with a form-work of vertical wood panels.
Architects: Urban Agency
The Shoe Shelf Store is a new flagship store for stüben fuß & schuh in Neumünster, Germany. The transparent two-story building seamlessly integrates display, façade and urban performance.
Design: Peter Ruge Architekten
Cost-efficient building in the countryside, a detached dacha for a German-Russian family of musicians. Surrounded by lakes and forests on a 6,500 sqm site this is a one-storey wooden cabin with a spacious living, dining and kitchen area.
Design: gmp, architects. Building combines restrained gesture with succinct appearance: the building for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein ballet company was constructed on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot ‘am Steinberg’.
Design: Ian Shaw Architekten
Cast in-situ concrete house, dramatically sited on a hillside above Schriesheim, in Baden-Württemberg, southwest Germany. From its elevated position the elemental two-tier building offers panoramic views of the surrounding countryside.
The building interior fit-out was designed by Swiss architecture and design studio Evolution Design, while the building was created by Austrian architecture firm Baumschlager Eberle and executed by Nuremberg architects GP Wirth Architekten
Architects: Lucem Lichtbeton. The public swimming pool in the Bavarian city Bad Staffelstein is Bavaria’s hottest and strongest saltwater emerging from 1600 m deep drilled spring