"Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins." - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe -

Like no other building material, facing bricks open up an infinite universe of creativity and design possibilities. At the same time, it offers constructive solutions for almost all architectural tasks, making it the ideal and most natural element of building. Paul Kahlfeldt Nevertheless, due to its dimensional system it requires the greatest discipline and concentration from the designer and user. In the clear dependencies of length to width and height, in its inner logic each individual brick reveals the wonderful three-dimensional spatiality of our world. And in its durable materiality the...

Seerhein Areal / Konstanz / GER Warehouse district Potsdam / Potsdam / GER Lansdowne House / Birmingham / GB Oaza Wilanów / Warsaw / PL The Porter Building / Slough / GB Uferkrone Koepenick / Berlin / GER Pušų Terasos / Vilnius / LT EUREF - Campus / Berlin / GER Stimulus Center / Schwaz / AT School center Am Stern / Potsdam / GER Area depelopment Walddörferstraße / Hamburg / GER Hotel Tortue / Hamburg / GER Port Praski / Warsaw / PL 42 Vanagupės Parkas / Palanga / LT Urban regeneration Altenberge / Altenberge / GER Karel de Grote Hogeschool / Antwerp / BEL 46 Elementary school Bornim / Potsdam...

HAMBURG, GERMANY

TH E DE SIG N H OT EL I N H A M B URG‘S H A NS E D IS T RI CT C OMBINE S F R EN CH D E S IGN W IT H H A NS E ATIC C HIC. David Chipperfield Architects and the Hamburg-based architectural firm Stephen Williams Associates jointly redesigned this building with the goal of restoring what once existed and transforming it into the future. Restored columns, high ceilings and wrought-iron marquees stand side by side with original 1910 frescoes by Adrian Karbowsky, mosaic tiles and high arched windows. The hotel offers its guests 114 rooms, eight suites and four apartments for long-term stays. The original...

Apartment building with commercial space LOCATION Warsaw, Poland ARCHITECTURE Port Praski Inwestycje Sp. z o.o. BUILDING PHAS E Piotr Krajewski

In the very center of Warsaw, the modern architectural concept of Port Praski is being put into practice. A place dreamed of by those who appreciate the lifestyle of downtown and at the same time the tranquility and recreation on the waterfront. The center of the neighborhood development is the old port area „Port Praski“. In the course of revitalization, a kind of „city within the city“ is forming: from residential buildings, retail and service businesses to restaurants, hotels and office buildings - everything can be found here. The property is located in Praga Północ, at the intersection of...

N EW CON S T R U CT I ON A N D R ECON S T R U CT I ON OF T H E K A R EL DE G R OT E H OG ES CH OOL The two architecture firms Stramien from Antwerp and RAU from Amsterdam entered into a collaboration for the design competition and planning of the new university campus of the Karel de Grote Hogeschool (KdG). The team focused heavily on the building‘s interaction with the environment but also on a flexible building layout that allows for different forms of education. As part of the overall master plan, the Karel de Grote Hogeschool has consolidated degree programs in teaching, early childhood andorthopaedagogy...

Educational institution Antwerp, Belgium The existing buildings on the former site of the 'Buiscuiterie Parein' cookie factory were partially renovated and replaced by new buildings. The planning included the central entrance, rooms for multi-purpose teaching and classrooms, a media library and learning landscape, several lecture halls, IT-supported flexible workstations for teachers and staff, an exercise room, a cafeteria, a bookstore, parking and bike sheds. The building design focused on encounter: encounter between old and new architecture, the school and the neighborhood, inside and outside,...

Between Harkortstrasse and the water tower, around 1 600 new apartments have been built on the site of the disused freight depot and former brewery areas. The Building for the entirely new urban quarter began in the fall of 2014. It is the largest urban development project in the Hanseatic city after HafenCity.

The development structure of the neighboring quarters is characterized by a particularly high proportion of perimeter block development, i.e., of residential buildings in a closed formation around a shared courtyard. This closed block structure is also continued in the city center master plan. An important hub of the new quarter is the central park, approximately eight hectares in size. It offers space for sports, games and recreation. In addition to the park, the new district includes residential buildings with social apartments, two neighborhood squares, four daycare centers and a school. Local...

"Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness." - Frank Gehry -

HANOVER IN THE MIDDLE OF CHINA CHANGDE, CHINA 24

Urban Planning LOCATI ON Changde, China WE ARE PARTICULARLY PROUD TO HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE CREATION OF A GENUINE HANOVERIAN CITYSCAPE AS WELL AS TO THE CREATION OF AN AUTHENTIC ATMOSPHERE FOR BUSINESS PEOPLE AND TOURISTS IN THE CENTRAL CHINESE CITY OF CHANGDE. - Nicola Feldhaus, Managing Director - RhineScheme GmbH PA RTNER The Chinese metropolis of Changde is located in the northeast of the Hunan Province. In the shadow of a number of 30 to 40-storey high-rise similiar looking buildings, a tranquil quarter was created with winding alleys, pretty gable roofs and colorful facades in the northern...

FA S A N E N H O F E U R O PA P L AT Z THREE POINT HOUSES WITH DURABLE THIN BRICK FACADE As part of the 'Socially Integrative City' redevelopment program, a new urban center for more than 1 000 residents was built on the site of a long-disused shopping center from the 1960s in the Fasanenhof district of Stuttgart. The urban figure is formed by three elements: the district center, the three point buildings and the two residential courtyards, which are arranged along the new pedestrian axis - the boulevard. The starting and end points of the boulevard are the two squares, where the existing buildings...