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The nave of the neo-Gothic Christuskirche Köln (1894) was demolished in 2014 to make way for a new worship hall flanked by five-story wings containing apartments and commercial space designed by Hollenbeck Architektur and Maier Architekten. Frank Schoepgens Fotografie

The Urban Nation Museum is the first German museum for urban art, built in the Berlin quarter of Schöneberg. GRAFT developed the architectural concept for the conversion of a former residential building. By a modular changeable façade, the building itself became a piece of art. GRAFT

On 15 September 2017 Brigitte Kowanz's Fountain at the old Glanzstoff factory in St. Pölten, Austria, was illuminated. The site-specific artwork is a permanent presence at the former industrial site. John Hill

BIG TIME, directed by Kaspar Astrup Schröder, is a documentary profile of Danish architect Bjarke Ingels that premieres later this month at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival.  John Hill

Text by Eduard Kögel

Located on one of the most important life and finance centers of Istanbul, Ulugöl Otomotiv Office Building, designed by Tago Architects was approached as integrating a functional, genuine and qualified architectural design with its dynamic form and its frontal identity that will stick in the... Tago Architects

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Text by Eduard Kögel The suburban New Town of Anting is located in the Jiading District to the northeast of downtown Shanghai. Anting is the centre for the automotive industries and is home to many German-Chinese joint ventures such as Shanghai Volkswagen Automotive....

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The Finnish Association of Architects (SAFA) has announced the four finalists of the third annual Finlandia Prize for Architecture: Lappeenranta City Theatre, Löyly, Railo and Suvela Chapel. John Hill

Denise Scott Brown's 2013 comments about a "Pritzker inclusion ceremony," acknowledging her role alongside partner Robert Venturi, brought gender inequality within the architecture profession to the fore. She is hardly alone in demanding more representation by women in...

Visitors to Anish Kapoor's ArcelorMittal Orbit in London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park now have the option of descending the 76-meter-tall tower via Carsten Höller's newly opened Tunnel Slide – the world's longest at 178 meters. John Hill

Text by Eduard Kögel

Text by Eduard Kögel

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has announced that this year’s winner of the 10 Year Award is Malmö’s Turning Torso, designed by Santiago Calatrava. John Hill

Early in March, architect Frei Otto died at the age of 89. He was announced posthumously as the winner of the 2015 Pritzker Architecture Prize – only the second German architect, after Gottfried Böhm, to receive this honor. Ulf Meyer looks back at the life of a visionary. Ulf Meyer

The documentary CONCRETE LOVE: The Böhm Family has its international premiere on the 26th of January at the Slamdance Festival in Park City, Utah, three days after architect Gottfried Böhm turns 95. John Hill

Two walls of Danish brand Vipp's new two-story Vipp Shelter feature large sliding windows, specifically the PanoramAH! sliding windows supplied by Malmö, Sweden's Architectural Solutions. John Hill

Kjellander + Sjöberg, in collaboration with the developer Byggnadsfirman Erik Wallin, has developed two new buildings in the block Jackproppen, in Hjorthagen, Stockholm, consisting of housing, a playground and a preschool. Kjellander + Sjöberg

Stockholm's Kjellander + Sjöberg designs the initial stage of a new sustainable urban neighborhood in Växjö, Sweden. Kjellander + Sjöberg

Yesterday furniture manufacturer Vitra inaugurated the 100-foot-high (30.7-meter) Vitra Slide Tower on its Weil am Rhein campus. An art installation by German artist Carsten Höller, it also serves as a viewing platform and slide. John Hill

Zürich's CKÖ – Georg Krummenacher, Daniel Lütolf and Sara Widmer – wins the sole Architecture award in the 2014 Swiss Art Awards. John Hill

Double-curved glass walls, crafted by Folcrá and Cricursa in Barcelona, define the undulating cuts in the exterior walls at the Emporia shopping center in Malmö, Sweden, designed by Wingårdhs, hinting at the offerings inside. John Hill

Janjaap Ruijssenaars is designing the "Landscape House" as a Möbius strip to be built from blocks made from a 3-D printer. John Hill

An exhibition and conference focusing on artists Gerda Steiner & Jörg Lenzlinger will take place the second week of May in Switzerland. John Hill

As part of Topotek1's competition-winning project of a small corner lot in Berlin-Köpenick, MDT-tex designed a large rectractable umbrella in red, matching the surface below. John Hill

The women’s housing project [ro*sa] is a piece of applied utopia. After a lengthy, discursive incubation period Köb&Pollak Architektur, together with the developer WBV-GPA, have carried out a building that allows enough room for the individual as well as the community, Tailor-made...

Friedhöfe sind keine alltägliche Bauaufgabe. Mit steigender Flächenknappheit wird diesem wichtigen Teil einer urbanen Kultur nun aber immer größere Aufmerksamkeit zuteil. Es gilt, kontemplative Stimmungen auf immer engerem Raum zu evozieren. Reinhard Drexel zeigt, dass...

1900 brannte der Südflügel des Linzer Schlosses ab. Nun wurde die seither bestehende Lücke gefüllt. Anlässlich des europäischen Kulturhauptstadt-Jahres hat sich Linz hier ein schönes Stück zeitgenössischen Museumsbaus...

Die Widmung gab dem Hochhaus seine Form vor: eine Ellipse mit 70 Metern Längsdurchmesser auf einem 65 Meter tiefen, fast quadratischen Sockel. Die Architekten Neumann + Partner und das Büro ARTEC lösten die Rundung in polygonale Segmente auf und entwickelten eine komplexe Fassade...

Sportpark Wörtherseestadion“wurde das neue Stadion in Klagenfurt zunächst getauft, das mit Fußballakademie, Ballsportkompetenzzentrum, Büros und vermietbaren Event-Locations weit mehr ist als nur ein Stadion. Eine lange Rampe zelebriert den Aufstieg in diese Arena des...

Together with Wolfram Mehlem and Jesper Bork Wolfgang Tschapeller has built an exceptional house in St Andrä/Wördern, close to the Danube The sharp-edged spatial tube made of fair-faced concrete hovers lightly on an elevated foundation above the expanse of the plain. Freely shaped...

In Hadersdorf, am äußersten westlichen Rand Wiens, wurde kürzlich nach mehrjährigen Verzögerungen die Mustersiedlung „9=12“ eröffnet. Architekt Adolf Krischanitz...

Mit langem  Atem und viel Innovationssinn bauten die Architekten Franz Sam und Irene Ott-Reinisch den komplexen Schulbestand in Waidhofen an der Ybbs zum multifunktionalen Schulzentrum aus und um. Der Altbau wurde unterfangen, im felsigen Grund daneben fand der große, neue Turnsaal...

Österreichische Bahnhofsgegenden haben sich in den letzten Jahren von Schmuddelwinkeln zu urbanen Hoffnungsgebieten gemausert. In ihrer Entstehungszeit noch an der Peripherie gelegen, stellen sie, vom Wachstum der Siedlungen längst ins Zentrum geholt, wertvolle Baulandreserven dar, die...

Am nördlichen Stadtrand Salzburgs planten sps-architekten eine mehrgeschoßige Passivhauswohnanlage in Holzbauweise, für die sie 2006 den 1. Rosenheimer Holzbaupreis erhielten. Simon Speigner und sein Team lösten das Spannungsfeld Städtebau, Passivhaus-Standard und...