One of the biggest aficionados of colour can be found in Zuffenhausen: Wörwag, a Swabian paint manufacturer that supplies global players worldwide. Companies such as Porsche are amongst its customer base; Wörwag branches can be found throughout the world from China to Mexico. This kind of success story has a lot to do with gumption on managerial level, but also with an excellent instinct for when the famous Swabian accuracy and cosmopolitan outlook are bound to succeed. This instinct really comes into its own in the company’s newly built headquarters: An office that meets all the demands of modern work environments, while paying a colourful tribute to the company’s unique identity wherever the eye falls. The design response provided by the IFG team was therefore not only smart but also: colourful!
Article source: studio hertweck l architecture + urban design
The Röhrig House is part of a series of hillside houses designed by Studio Hertweck in the German Rhine Valley. It is located on a steep slope on the edge of the buildable land of Sinzig-Westum, a German municipality between Bonn and Koblenz. The client, a young family with one child, wanted to have generous interior and exterior shared areas, in combination with a rather classical program: two children’s bedrooms, a home office, a parents’ bedroom and two bathrooms. In order to translate this program in an economic way, we have inscribed a very simple cube into the slope. Garage and storage rooms were accommodated in the ground floor, the children’s bedrooms with a bathroom in the first floor.
Article source: Ippolito Fleitz Group – Identity Architects
For many years now, the Hunke family has been operating a successful jewellery and optician business within the inner city of Ludwigsburg, near Stuttgart. In order to retain their leading position in the region’s market and to lay a foundation for future generations, a consolidation of the jewellery, watch and optician departments was required. Three aging family-owned buildings were transformed into a sustainable and future-compliant retail store. At the request of the owners, we incorporated both their family tradition and the building’s history into the interior design, resulting in very personal and calm rooms of high quality.
Article source: gmp · von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects
The Audi Design Center (DCI) at the company’s original site at Ingolstadt has now been operational for three years and has been extensively tested in practice by employees. What they found was also of great interest to the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp), who spoke with Mario Linke, Head of Audi Design Management. For the first time ever, the entire design development process has been accommodated under one roof. An open and bright building has been created to a design by gmp. The closely guarded secrets are nevertheless kept hidden on the inside; this is achieved with a horizontally structured facade consisting of a folded, highly reflective glass curtain wall. During the hours of darkness, venetian blinds ensure the required confidentiality.
The new town hall in Remchingen, on a prominent site between federal highway B10 and the green space along the river Pfinz, is conceived as a new center for encounters and communication. Its immediate vicinity is dominated by the Remchingen Cultural Center and a nursing home, which are discrete, self-referential freestanding buildings that do not form an urban spatial relationship to each other.
With ‘Object Campus – City of Visions’, carpet supplier Object Carpet has built a temple to the concept of networking: Companies from all sectors and the whole region come together here, creating vital cross-industry synergies. The centerpiece here is La Visione, an Italian restaurant for which Ippolito Fleitz Group has developed both the interior and the brand design.
The benediction of the church on 9 May 2015 ended the odyssey of the Leipzig parish community that has lasted over seventy years. Its permanent return to the centre of the city is manifested in the construction of the new St. Trinitatis church. ‘This will not remain solitary in foreign surroundings. It stretches its arms out to the city and gives itself to the city as a gift,’ summarizes Pope Francis in his greeting. For us as architects it was important to develop the new parish church out of the organism of the surrounding city. It obtains its presence through its high church building structure and church tower, but most of all through the inviting openness of the parish courtyard. With its building envelope made of masoned Rochlitz porphyry, the structure acknowledges its region and tradition. The sustainable building concept reflects the client’s wish for the careful interaction with creation. In his encyclical Laudato Si’ (Praise Be to You), which was published just a few days after the benediction of the parish church in Leipzig, Pope Francis defines the environment as ‘a collective good, the patrimony of all humanity and the responsibility of everyone. If we make something our own, it is only to administer it for the good of all.’2 (Pope Francis 2015, Chapter Two, paragraph 95).
Article source: Peter Stasek Architects – Corporate Architecture
The new construction of a terrace-like villa with 220 square meters of living space (without part of the terrace) and an additional office of 50 square meters in minimalist style. In addition to an elevator and an additional outdoor kitchen, the equipment features requested by the client include an invisibly integrated ventilation and air conditioning system as well as sound systems.
LXSY ARCHITEKTEN have just created a new space for innovation with the Digital Hub SPIELFELD. In the corporate studios and during events in the open café, lounge and event areas, established companies and start-ups experiment side by side, exploring the theme of digital transformation.
The task is to investigate options for the subsequent use of the former kindergarten building from 1965 in the city center of the little town of Urbar, Germany. A mix of uses is desired, in particular a meeting place for the citizens. But first there is the question of whether demolition/new construction or renovation/remodeling is the better solution for the building. This fundamental decision – demolition or reuse – questions the handling of the building stock resource.
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