Product Description: Originally designed as an event space for the Leipzig Zoological Garden in 1900, this Neo-Romanesque structure was put to new use in 1946 as Leipzig’s Congress Hall and was expanded in 2010. This publication examines the building’s history, focusing on the renovations carried out by HPP Architects...read more

Product Description: This book describes the development and recent projects of Berlin-based architecture firm Ortner & Ortner Baukunst, founded in 1987 by Laurids and Manfred Ortner. The firm has its roots in the architecture group Haus-Rucker-Co, which was part of the vibrant Viennese architecture and art scene in the 1960s and ’70s...read more

Product Description: This book contains the most recent projects by the architectural office nps tchoban voss (founded in 1931 in Hamburg, Germany). For the architects in this innovative group, the principle of sustainability applies not only to construction but must also be seen as an aesthetic category...read more

Product Description: Germany's Federal Constitutional Court, built between 1965–69 by architect Paul Baumgarten, embodies a free, democratic spirit with its modern, transparent forms. This book illuminates the building's history, reports about the Court's history and achievements, and presents the building's restoration and composition in detail...read more

Product Description: This publication documents the most important stadia of the soccer world championship 2014--the Brasília national stadium, the Arena Amazônia in Manaus, the Minerão in Belo Horizonte and the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.

Product Description: This book presents the philosophy, values and themes of SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov, an influential architectural office based in Moscow, and shows how the two virtuoso architects Sergei Tchoban (born 1962) and Sergey Kuznetsov (born 1966) put their beliefs to practice with Western and Eastern European inspired architecture...read more

Product Description: A sequel to 3 Stadia 2010, Next 3 Stadia highlights new projects by German architectural firm von Gerkan, Marg und Partner, and engineers Schlaich Bergermann und Partner, famed worldwide for their stadium construction. These new three stadia, located in Warsaw, Kiev and Bucharest, are examples of state-of-the-art sports venues...read more

Product Description: In the last three decades, Auer + Weber + Assoziierte have devised structures ranging from cultural and research institutions to hotels, residences and larger urban designs--each based on differing conceptions such as sculptural volumetric bodies or structurally open environments...read more

Product Description: In June and July of 2010, the eyes of the world turned to South Africa, as it became the first African nation to host the FIFA World Cup. Three of the ten stadiums envisaged for this international spectacle were planned and realized by German architectural firm Von Gerkan, Marg und Partner in conjunction with the engineers Schlaich Bergermann und Partner...read more

Product Description: In Reykjavik, a new office and commercial centre boasts islands of basalt and green, to echo Iceland's unique topography; in Guangzhou, China, a television tower rises above a beautiful park with a Ferris wheel, river promenade, and plenty of room to sit and ponder nature; and a beautifully landscaped retirement center in Berlin for Alzheimer's patients encourages independence while assuring their safety...read more

Product Description: Stefan Behnisch and partners have an international reputation for their classic "Stuttgart School" design--focused on open, transparent and atmospherically convivial buildings--as well as their energy-efficient, ecologically sound orientation...read more

Product Description: Das Architekturbüro nps tchoban voss mit Standorten in Hamburg, Berlin und Dresden gehört zu den wenigen deutschen Büros mit internationaler Präsenz. Das traditionsreiche Büro, das 1931 in Hamburg gegründet wurde, zeichnet sich durch eine an der Moderne orientierte Haltung aus, die den Entwurfsprozess von der städtebaulichen Einordnung bis zum mit großer Sorgfalt entwickelten Detail bestimmt...read more

Product Description: Stuttgart (southern Germany) has a new trade fair centre, which is just the right size and is in the best possible location. Its architecture also reflects this. The lively grouping of tent roofs over the trade fair halls merges into the surrounding landscape while the centre's unusual, plant-covered bridge from the multi-storey car park reaches over the motorway to the natural environment...read more

Product Description: The architect Peter P. Schweger has called his work “a critical continuation of Modernism,” by which he adapts those principles with sensitivity to specific environments and historical context. This approach has earned him and his firm a slew of commissions and international prizes, from a restaurant in Hanover's Baroque Herrenhäuser Gardens, its shape alluding to the garden's hedges but with a contrasting frosted-glass façade, to a redesign of the German Bundesrat plenary chamber in Berlin, the transparent ceiling signifying democratic openness (while solar panels save energy)...read more

Product Description: In 1995, young Berlin architect Gesine Weinmiller won the competition to design the Federal Court of Labor in Erfurt, Germany. Weinmiller's severe, rectangular, four-story building, with its inner courtyards and gridded facade, gives the effect of a monolithic block: an allegory of reason, a nostalgic monument to order...read more

Product Description: Knappe und informative Fuhrer durch die Kunststatten der einzelnen Stadte, verfasst von ausgewiesenen Kunstexperten und Kennern der jeweiligen Orte. Stadtplane, in denen die beschriebenen Gebaude mit Nummern versehen sind, erleichtern die Orientierung und ermoglichen dem Leser, sich seinen ganz personlichen Rundgang zusammenzustellen...read more