German Buildings - alphabetical lists by city or by building

German Architecture : Frankfurt


Recent Projects:
BMW Welt (Munich); Leipzig Glass Hall; Mensa Dining Hall (Karlsruhe)


Museum of Modern Literature : Stirling Prize 2007 winner

photograph © Christian Richters

Key Contemporary German Buildings:
Arranged by city / area alphabetically

Baden Baden
Frieder Burda Collection Museum
Richard Meier & Partners
Client: Stiftung Frieder Burda, RIBA European Awards 2006

Bad Oeynhausen
EMR Communication & Technology Center
Frank Gehry Architects

Berlin
Berlin architecture : Berlin buildings incl. Jewish Museum (below)


Akademie der Künste, Potsdamer Platz
Günther Behnisch, Architect

Altes Museum
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
German museum

Bauhaus Archive Extension, Museum of Design Berlin
UN Studio Architects

Berlin Hauptbahnhof central station redevelopment
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Berlin Museum of Design
Walter Gropius

Berlin Olympic Stadium Building Redevelopment
Gerkan, Marg & Partners
Berlin stadium

Berlin Turbine building
Peter Behrens, Architect
Berlin building

British Embassy
Michael Wilford and Partners

Checkpoint Charlie
Rem Koolhaas Architects / OMA

Concert Hall, Potsdamerplatz
Hans Scharoun, Architect

DG Bank Building
Frank Gehry Architects

Fire & Police Station, Berlin, Germany
Sauerbruch Hutton

Galeries Lafayette, Friedrichstrasse, Berlin
Jean Nouvel Architects

German Parliament building
Foster & Partners

Grand Hyatt Hotel / Office Building
Rafael Moneo Architects

GSW Headquarters, Kreuzberg, Berlin
Sauerbruch Hutton

IBA-Block 2 - Housing project, Berlin, Germany
Zaha Hadid Architects

IBA Social Housing, Berlin, Germany
Peter Eisenman

Japanese-German Center of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Kisho Kurokawa

Jewish Museum Berlin
Daniel Libeskind, Architect
German architecture

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
Peter Eisenman

National Gallery Berlin by Mies van der Rohe


Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects

Netherlands Embassy
Rem Koolhaas Architects

Dutch Embassy Berlin photo: Christian Richters
Berlin building

Norwegian Embassy, Berlin, Germany
Snøhetta Architects

Potsdamerplatz
Renzo Piano Architects

Quartier Schützenstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Aldo Rossi

Schlesisches Tor Apartments, Kreuzberg
Alvaro Siza Architects

Unite d' Habitation
Le Corbusier, Architect
German building

Bonn
German Architecture : Bonn

Key Bonn Buildings:

Bonn Bundeshaus - New Parliament Building
Behnisch & Partner Architects

Deutsche Post
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Haus Hundertacht, Bonn-Kessenich
Uwe Schröder Architekten

Photo Stefan Müller
Bonn house

Bremerhaven
Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven
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Steidle + Partner

Cologne - Köln
German Architecture : Köln

Key Köln Buildings:

'Glass Worm' building - new Peek & Cloppenburg store
Renzo Piano Architects

Hans Arp Museum, Bahnhof Rolandsdeck, nr Cologne
Richard Meier Architects

Offices on the Rhine, south Cologne
Sauerbruch Hutton

Müngersdorfer Stadion, Köln, Germany
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Cottbus
IKMZ University Library, Cottbus, Germany
2006
Herzog & de Meuron

Dessau
Federal Environmental Agency, former gasworks site, Dessau
2005
Sauerbruch Hutton

Dresden
Dresden building : Zwinger Palace


Dresden railway station redevelopment
Foster & Partners

Dresden Railway Station

German station building : Stirling Prize 2007 Shortlist
German building : RIBA European Award 2007

Militärhistorisches Museum
Daniel Libeskind, Architect

UFA Cinema Center
Coop Himmelb(l)au

Duisburg
German Architecture : Duisburg

Key Duisburg Building:

Köppersmöhle Museum: Grothe Collection, Duisburg
Herzog de Meuron Architects
Duisburg museum building

Düsseldorf
German Architecture : Düsseldorf

Key Düsseldorf Buildings:

Der Neue Zollhof office complex
Frank Gehry Architects

Düsseldorf Harbour, Düsseldorf, Germany
Eric Owen Moss

Offices, Düsseldorf-Hamm
Steven Holl Architects

Essen
German Architecture : Essen

Essen Concert Hall (Opera House)
Alvar Aalto

Zollverein School of Management & Design, Essen
SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

Zollverein School Essen

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
David Chipperfield Architects

German building

Zeche Zollverein museum + masterplan, Essen, Germany
Rem Koolhaas

Frankfurt
German Architecture : Frankfurt

Key Frankfurt Buildings:

Commerzbank Tower
Foster & Partners, Architects
German building

European Central Bank
Coop Himmelb(l)au

Frankfurt-am-Main Tram Station
Enric Miralles Benedetta Tagliabue - Embt Arquitectes Associats SL

Offices for the KFW Banking Group, Frankfurt
Sauerbruch Hutton

Messe Frankfurt: Halle 3a - Frankfurt Trade Fair Hall
Nicholas Grimshaw & Partners

Messeturm
Murphy / Jahn Architects

Museum für Kunsthandwerk
Architect: Richard Meier

Frankfurt museum

Frankfurt building photos

Gelsenkirchen
German Architecture : Gelsenkirchen

Key Gelsenkirchen Buildings:

Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen
Kiessler + Partners Architects

Hamburg
German Architecture : Hamburg


Key Hamburg Buildings:

Hanse-Forum Offices
Massimiliano Fuksas Architects

German Japanese Center
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Domplatz
Peter Eisenman

Unilever Headquarters
Behnisch Architekten

Hanover
German Architecture : Hanover

Key Hanover Buildings:

Expo 2000 - various buildings, Hanover, Germany
MVRDV Architects; Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Herford
MARTa Herford
Frank Gehry Architects

Karlsruhe
Mensa Dining Hall, Karlsruhe
Jürgen Mayer H

Karlsruhe building

Köln - see Cologne

Leipzig
German Architecture : Leipzig

Key Leipzig Buildings:

BMW Central Building
Zaha Hadid Architects
German building : RIBA Awards 2005

Leipzig Railway Station - Redevelopment
Ian Ritchie Architects

Leipzig Glass Hall

Porsche Works
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Leverkusen
Bayer AG
1997-2001
Murphy/Jahn Architects

Marbach
Literaturmuseum der Moderne
David Chipperfield
Museum of Modern Literature : Stirling Prize 2007 winner

photograph © Christian Richters

Mönchengladbach
Abteiburg Museum, Mönchengladbach, Germany
1972-82
Hans Hollein Architects

Munich
German Architecture : München

Key Munich Buildings:

ADAC Headquarters, Munich
Sauerbruch Hutton

Allianz Stadium
Herzog & de Meuron Architects
Munich stadium

BMW Welt - Event and Delivery Center, Munich
Coop Himmelb(l)au

BMW building

Museum for the Brandhorst Collection, Munich, Bavaria
Sauerbruch Hutton

Olympic Stadium
Frei Otto - Architect / Engineer

Münster
Skulptur Projekte Münster 07 exhibition
modulorbeat

German exhibition

Oberhausen
Municipal Savings Bank, Oberhausen
2005-08
Sauerbruch Hutton

Osnabrück
Felix Nussbaum Museum
Daniel Libeskind, Architect

Potsdam
Potsdam buildings


Rolandseck
Hans Arp Museum, south of Cologne, Rheinland-Pfalz
Richard Meier Architects
German museum

Stuttgart
German Architecture : Stuttgart

Key Stuttgart Buildings:

History Museum, Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg
Wilford Schupp

Mercedes-Benz Museum
UN Studio Architects

Music School, Germany
Jim Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates; Michael Wilford & Partner

Neue Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart
Jim Stirling & Partner; Jim Stirling Michael Wilford & Associates
Stuttgart gallery

Stuttgart Airport - Terminal 3
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Stuttgart Arena, Germany
Gerkan, Marg & Partners

Weil am Rhein
LFone Landesgartenschau
Zaha Hadid Architects

Vitra Fire Station
Zaha Hadid Architects

Wolfsburg
Phaeno Science Centre
Zaha Hadid Architects
Wolfsburg architecture



Other Contemporary German Buildings

Alexanderplatz Tower, Berlin
Berlin tower

Frankfurt Football Stadium: Commerzbank-Arena
Frankfurt stadium

Scharnhauser Park Town Hall - Pitterpatterns, Ostfildern
Jürgen Mayer H

German public building

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Stuttgart Stadium

German architect - Marcel Breuer

German Architecture Awards : RIBA European Awards 2006
Federal Environment Agency, Dessau, Germany - sauerbruch hutton architects
Frieder Burda Collection Museum, Baden Baden, Germany - Richard Meier



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