A pharmacy has always been a special place to go to. Everybody knows the image of the whitedressed pharmacist in front of dark-wood shelfs and drawer units covering the walls from floor to ceiling. Personal contact and individual advise make part of this image, holding memories of the real world experience a visit to the apothecary once was.
BIKINI Concept Shopping Mall has a new pulsating heart pumping bright colour through its system: KANTINI, Europe’s first Design Food Court. Modern, easy-going and witty. These three adjectives characterise the city of Berlin as well as BIKINI’s architecture and lay the groundwork for the inspiration behind KANTINI’s design.
Delicious dining calls for a special and atmospheric backdrop. An array of especially created seating and lounging furniture provides KANTINI’s diners with the choice of sitting at either the panoramic window in the loggia, overlooking the neighbouring Zoo, or the sofa landscape, inspired by the huge bird aviaries next door, or even one of the many swings, all of which are bespoke editions. The Design Food Court’s concept and its 13 bespoke food stalls, designed as flexible modular counters, cater to the tenants’ needs.
The story telling takes the architecture and the time, in which this spectacular rotunda, the administrative center of the Gerling insurance group was built, as starting point, transforming the monument into a visionary rotational body, resembling a station floating in outer space.
In 1958, during the time of the “Wirtschaftswunder“, positive utopias and the belief in technological progress were ubiquitous. Life on the moon, on mars or space platforms seemed to be close and the goal of human evolution appeared to lie in a fully engineered future.
This private residence was revisioned to embrace the surrounding woods and tranquil hillside location while also offering city views of Stuttgart from a new upper floor. In place of a double-pitched roof, a simple yet structured, open-plan floor is realized atop the house, a building from the 1930s, which had been previously refurbished in 1990. The architectural idea was to place a deliberately unobtrusive structure upon the existing building. The second floor addition stands in contrast to the massive lower level without dominating it, creating a focal point for the house via massive glazing and without disturbing views of the surrounding landscape.
The daycare is located directly on the edge of the forest and is oriented towards the outdoor play area in nature. The entrance area is facing the street and the garden exits via a covered front area. A porch leads to the central play hall, which also connects all the rooms. Rectangular wooden boxes, interlocked at an angle of 45° with each other, form the basic and supporting structure of the building.
Frankfurt am Main is the fifth largest city in Germany, with more than 700,000 inhabitants. It is a high-rise city with about thirty towers reaching above a hundred meters in and around the centre. The population is growing, bringing an increase in housing demand in all market segments. Within walking distance of the Central Station, where the former station post office once stood, a multifunctional residential tower is being developed by Phoenix and Gross & Partner. The competition for this development has been won by Mecanoo.
The new Stuttgart-Möhringen headquarters of AEB, a leading manufacturer of logistics and foreign trade software, fulfil a life dream of the company’s founder: all employees in Stuttgart are now united under one roof. Stuttgart-based architectural firm Riehle+Assoziierte has designed a new building that fulfils the desire for a transparent architecture. The office space with its 400 workstations is arranged around a four-storey-high atrium that allows for circumferential movement. We in turn have created a differentiated offering of work and communication worlds, effectively translating the company philosophy ‘offen.kundig.eigen.bestimmt.weiter.führend.gut’ into a stimulating interior architecture.
Team: Arsen Aliverdiiev, Ephraim Ebertshäuser, Gunter Fleitz, Frederik Gordt, Florian Holzer, Peter Ippolito, Kamil Kaczmarek, You Seok Kirschenmann
Axel Knapp, Claudia Lira Grajales, Mario Rodriguez, Charlotte Scheben, Caroliin Stusak
The Civic Center in Lohr am Main, Germany, occupies an important urban site at the entrance to the town, creating a cultural destination for music, theater and conference events.
The Civic Center is a seven-cornered polygonal form. Due to the polygonal shape, a house without a back is created, which can respond individually to the diversity of the adjacent urban spaces. Still, a public plaza orients the building towards the town center.
The extension of the town hall from the 1960s in the Müllerstraße, in opposite to the Leopoldplatz, was converted by Rüthnick Architekten and technically as well as energetically updated to the latest technological standards.
A special influence on the plans for the transformation of the listed ensemble was the preservation of the draft character of Fritz Bornemann.
Between 1964 and 1966, according to the plans of the architect Fritz Bornemann, a twelve-story high-rise and an upstream single-storey annex were built, which, at the time, served as the district council hall (BVV-Saal).
The Nett Winery, located in the Pfalz wine region of Germany, can be described as a light, modern, generous and representative building. Comprised of two long-stretched halls as well as a covered passage, it looks like a geometric ray ready to unfold across the landscape. Inside the building, the wine ripens on a vast space of nearly 4,500 m². Claiming the highest quality of wine production, the challenge was to design a completely new building that ambitiously combines the entire production as well as a shop, tasting room, storage, office and living spaces – and which meets the family’s expectations, too. In Architects Collective Christian Nett found a partner from Vienna that could implement his vision of an efficient, ecological and ambitious plan to create a winery of the future.
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