(maha-online– flickr/creative commons license) This library by Foster and Partners, built in 2005, is known as the Berlin Brain. Norman Foster sheltered the stacks of the university library with a double-layered canopy that opens for natural ventilation. The structure can …
Category: Germany
The Jüdisches Museum Berlin by Daniel Libeskind winds like a lightening strike next to the Kollegienhaus. This addition, completed in 2001, is one of Libeskind’s most emotional works. The visitor proceeds through this warped Star of David, starting underground at …
(Kent Wang– flickr/creative commons license) The Netherlands Embassy in Berlin Germany began as a concept of civil function and “Dutch openness.” A trajectory for functional space is carved out of cube, which establishes the site as a block in the …
(dalbera– flickr/creative commons license) This modern art museum in Berlin, Germany was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1968. Much like with his Crown Hall in Chicago, the exterior walls are glass with steel columns supporting the …
(rjones0856– flickr/creative commons license) This is the greatest piece of architecture that I have personally experienced. The Mariendom or Kaiserdom zu Speyer is the largest Romanesque structure in the world and has inspired such impressive works as St. Vitus in …
(Fritz Geller-Grimm– wikipedia/creative commons license) The Frieder Burda Museum in Baden-Baden was designed by Richard Meier, who did the Getty Center. Winner of several top awards, the museum opened in 2004. Meier was sensitive to the surrounding museum and Lichtentaler …
(Richard Moross– flickr/creative commons license) Hotel Q was designed by GRAFT architects in Berlin, Germany just in time for the World Cup. Graft, known for their design of Brad Pitt’s studio, wraps the interior in red surfaces in an aesthetic …
((p2cl– flickr/creative commons license) Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa with SANAA Architects designed the Zollverein School, and OMA did the masterplan. The World Heritage Zollverein site provides a basis for views and interaction of the cube building, the dimensions of …
Auer+Weber is listed as having designed the sports venues for the tragic 1972 olympics in Munich, Germany. Their sporting grounds and buildings for this project won the 1981 International Architecture Award from the UIA. Günther Behnisch designed the stadium with …
(dierk schaefer– flickr/creative commons license) Here is the new downtown in n Ulm, Germany, Stadtmitte (new City Center), planned in 2000 and still under construction. The city’s plan for a new city center goes back to the 70’s, after World …