With the “GDM.KLIMASTEIN” Bavarian concrete stone manufacturer Godelmann has developed a triple-layered stone that fortifies surfaces without sealing them.

"Hospital" architecture stands for economic, functional buildings that nobody would like to stay in longer than is absolutely necessary. Yet it has been scientifically proven that architecture can have a positive impact on the healing process. In a show running until January 21, 2024, the TUM Architecture Museum in Munich is presenting pioneering examples.

We can learn from nature about how enormous stability and rigidity can work more effectively despite low structural weights. Prof. Moritz Dörstelmann and his company FibR GmbH have been looking into these construction principles. The result: A very special type of meshwork specially designed for architecture.

The Study Pavilion in Brauschweig by Gustav Düsing and Max Hacke is a prototype for both a new approach to learning and new architecture. Our author Falk Jaeger took a closer look at the concept.

Something is happening in Barcelona. Two books, published independently of each other and almost simultaneously in Spain and Germany devote themselves to the latest architecture in the Catalan capital, which more than ever focuses on projects for the community and subsidized housing.

The architects Yena Young and Marco Canevacci create exclusively temporary, walk-in spatial structures made of air and plastic film with their office Plastique Fantastique. We wanted to know why the "bubbles" never let go of them.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Marina Tabassum from Bangladesh. In her work she reconciles the traditional building culture of her country with international influences.

For a good 15 years Adam Caruso and Peter St John have numbered among the most highly acclaimed and exciting architects in Great Britain. Now an enjoyable book provides a personal insight into the first few years of the architecture practice and recalls that the course it took was neither easy nor direct, let alone predictable.

One of the latest projects by the Think Architecture practice is a house in the middle of Zurich. The firm’s founders Marco Zbinden und Ralph Brogle describe how they work.

The Van B apartment building designed by Ben van Berkel offers "Very Urban Living" and, according to the client, has what it takes to become Munich's new architectural icon. Our author Alexander Russ took a look at the concept in 2021 and wrote the headline "Less for more". A visit to the construction site shall clarify what the project is all about.

On the outskirts of Tripoli there is an architectural ensemble designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer: the Rachid Karami International Fair from the 1960s. Now the unfinished project's guest house has been transformed by East Architecture Studio. Our author Claudia Simone Hoff followed Niemeyer's footsteps in Tripoli.

For the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice, gmp Architekten are setting standards with their new approach to conversion work, which they see as the new norm and the enduring construction task of the future.

English architect Stephen Bates and his Swiss colleague Bruno Krucker have been sharing a professorship in Munich for just over ten years now. In that time, they have walked the length and the breadth of the city, accompanied by their students, in a thorough and remarkable exploration of the metropolis. And they have now compiled their findings in book form.

In our Spotlight on Women Architects series, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as the multifaceted portfolio of Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, who turned her back on large-scale commercial commissions in favour of more socially oriented architecture and the preservation of traditional building methods.

Our author Florian Heilmeyer has taken a good look at “Small Houses. Homes for our Times” by Philip Jodidio and reports on superfluous sustainability dressing, hollow buzzwords, and an inspiring collection themed around living in the smallest of spaces.

An extraordinary home is currently being built for one of the most comprehensive private collections of abstract art in Germany. Initiated by entrepreneur Reinhard Ernst and designed by architect Fumihiko Maki, Museum Reinhard Ernst is to be a space for everyone.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as the brilliantly quiet work of the Belgian architect Marie-José Van Hee, to whom the Flanders Architecture Institute in Antwerp is currently dedicating an exhibition.

With its "Simonsson House" on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune is making a sculptural statement, one influenced by the rigid local building regulations and the Arctic conditions.

The first residential tower in Germany designed using the “cradle-to-cradle” principal is currently going up in Hamburg’s HafenCity. Construction on “Moringa” began back in the fall of last year. The objective: A closed cycle of materials – across nothing less than the high-rise’s entire lifecycle.

The English architect David Chipperfield, with offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai, is honored with the Pritzker Prize 2023. He now stands in a row with greats such as Luis Barragán, Robert Venturi, Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa, Wang Shu or Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara.

With the extension of the De Lakenhal Museum in the Dutch city of Leiden, Happel Cornelisse Verhoeven has succeeded in creating a multi-layered architectural link. The individual elements of the overall ensemble are connected with bricks delivered by Petersen Tegl.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Denise Scott Brown, whose work has only recently received adequate recognition, as due to systemic injustice she was long overshadowed by her husband Robert Venturi.

Cosmopolitan living can hardly get any better: in the middle of Manhattan, a throw away from the Empire State Building and Madison Square Park, rises the skyscraper "277 Fifth Avenue" by Rafael Viñoly Architects. The Austrian manufacturer Rieder realised the impressive façade design with glass fibre concrete panels.

The homosexual inclinations of some of the heroes in the history of architecture still remain a taboo subject. Which is why we owe a great debt of thanks to two architecture historians, Wolfgang Voigt and Uwe Bresan, for shedding light on the queer elements in the biographies of great architects.

Architect Arno Lederer has died at the age of 75 after a serious disease. With him, architecture in Germany loses one of its most brilliant minds and a moral authority, the personification of building culture.

Our author Falk Jaeger presents two current publications that offer a fresh and exciting take on the architecture in Germany’s capital.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Regine Leibinger, who uses her special interest in sophisticated load-bearing structures, novel construction methods and materials when designing her extraordinary buildings.

Irmel Kamp is perhaps not one of the most prominent names in architectural photography. Now, the first book on the work of the 85-year-old German photographer shows that it is indeed worth knowing her work.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Johanne Nalbach, who has demonstrated a particular expertise in the design and construction of hotels, and who recently carried out the extensive refurbishment of the Kant-Garagen in Berlin.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Anna Heringer, who is a true believer in clay building. She was recently awarded the Federal Cross of Merit for her commitment.

Hectic hustle and bustle, noisy announcements, a babble of voices – airports are places of transit. A place of silence in the midst of all the commotion has been provided by gmp Architekten and Petersen Tegl at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport.

In the south of Munich jacob & spreng architekten have realized a spacious residential building that is ingeniously enhanced through the interior design of Stephanie Thatenhorst; she relies on natural materials like the floorboards by pur natur to create an almost meditative interior atmosphere.

Sometimes it seems to be in the air: in 2022, a book was published for the first time that is dedicated to the amazing oeuvre of the two Berlin architects Inken and Hinrich Baller, and at the same time their architecture also plays an important role in a Netflix series. So if you don't know the Ballers yet, you can catch up with them now in multimedia form.

The city of Düsseldorf is building a new city hall. Even if it still has to be commissioned through a subsequent negotiation procedure, it is worth taking a look at the project with which the consortium of the offices AllesWirdGut and Hertl.Architekten emerged victorious from the competition.

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of the architect Myra Warhaftig, who has developed new forms of living together and created emancipatory floor plans in response to new models of family living.