Partners: Wolf D. Prix + Helmut Swiczinsky

The practice is famous for unusual, angular buildings. A key early project was a prosthetic guest attached to, and invading, a Vienna building, a major influence on many architecture students in the early 90's. Their architecture could be equated to Expressionist art in that the projects 'explode' and are almost defined by non-cartesian form.

New Projects in 2007:

Coop Himmelb(l)au : Center of Performing Arts Zarautz, Spain

House, Venice, California, USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art Shenzhen, China
Chinese building

New Book:
Dynamic Forces
Coop Himmelb(l)au - BMW Welt Munich


More details further down page


Coop Himmelb(l)au buildings (alphabetical):
Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio, USA
2007

Biel Towers, Forum Arteplage Biel, Switzerland

BMW Welt - Event and Delivery Center, Munich, Germany
2007; Architecture competition winner: 2001

Busan Cinema Center, Busan, South Korea
2009; Architecture competition winner 2005

Central Los Angeles Area High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, USA
2008
Coop Himmelb(l)au with HMC Architects

European Central Bank (ECB) - new headquarters, Frankfurt, Germany
2007-11
approx. 185m high

Gasometer B - redevelopment, Vienna, Austria
1998-2001
360 apartments
Coop Himmelb(l)au, Prix & Swiczinsky & Dreibholz

High School for the Visual and Performing Arts, Los Angeles, California, USA
2006-08
Coop Himmelb(l)au with HMC Architects

Musee des Confluences, Lyon, France
2008
Coop Himmelb(l)au: Museum building

North Jutland House of Music, Aalborg, Denmark
2009

UFA Cinema Center, Dresden, Germany
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Villa Soravia, Millstatt, Austria
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More projects online soon



Coop Himmelb(l)au Project:
Swiss Expo 02 – ‘Fractured towers’, Bienne
2002

Coop Himmelb(l)au Book & Exhibition:
Blue Universe

COOP HIMMELB(L)AU is pleased to announce the release of the book "Dynamic Forces" on the project BMW Welt in Munich. This first publication on BMW Welt must work on several different levels if it is to do justice to the building and its author. One level is the key role played by this building within the overall oeuvre of Coop Himmelb(l)au; another is the design and construction process, which is presented by way of a dialogue between technical explanations that are always interesting and highly informative and detailed photos that provide fascinating last-chance views of the hidden world behind the now-finished facades of this complex construction. In view of the extraordinary cultural and spatial dimensions of what is a unique building in recent architectural history, the entire theoretical and architectural scope of the oeuvre of Wolf D. Prix unfolds here.

The German Version has just been released, the English edition will be available from December, 12 (German speaking countries).

Editor: Kristin Feireiss
Publisher: Prestel
Languages: German/English
46 colour illustrations, 96 b/w illustrations
272 pages, Hardcover, Size: 240 x 295 mm.
ISBN 978-3-7913-3875-0 (German Version)
ISBN 978-3-7913-3876-7 (English Version)
EURO 39.95, US $ 49.95, GB £ 25.00

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