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Sony-Center Berlin, Helmut Jahn Copyright: www.colourbox.com

Architecture in Germany

In the twentieth century, Germany, the land of poets and thinkers, was also the land of architects. And it exported its revolutionary architecture.More ...

Dominikus Centre Munich, meck architekten, court, Photo: Michael Heinrich

A Church in Harmony with Artwork – the Dominikus Centre in Munich

The Dominikus Centre houses a kindergarten, a Catholic youth centre as well as facilities of the Caritas welfare agency. Artwork has been incorporated throughout the building complex.More ...

Headquarter Krogmann Lohne-Kroge, Despang Architekten, Foto: Olaf Baumann

Value-added Architecture – Companies and their Corporate Architecture

Success-oriented companies want their headquarters to stand out with a distinguished architectural design that creates a positive public image.More ...

Café Moskau, event area: Schillingstrasse, Foyer Club, Copyright: Moskau GmbH

Demolish or Preserve: Eastern Modernist Architecture

The argument about what to do with buildings left behind by East Germany has been dominated in recent years by two opposing stances.More ...

Georg-Schumann-Straße 240, Leipzig-Möckern,
Copyright: HausHalten e. V.

The Light’s back on in the Guardhouse: A Leipzig Association saves old Buildings from Dereliction

In Leipzig there are more than 40,000 vacant flats, and many of the city’s unrehabilitated 19th-century buildings are falling into ruins.More ...

The future of the slab - Large GDR estates between demolition, exemplary redevelopment and cult object

The concrete-slab estates remain a challenge, and it is in its success in meeting this challenge that the quality of a differentiated redevelopment policy will be measured. By Paul SigelMore ...