Architecture: Filmic Portraits of Selected Buildings in Germany

2012 marks a year of celebrations for the city of Munich. The most important celebrations is definitely the 40th anniversary of the Munich Olympic Park.More ...

The architecture of the Museum of Military History (Militärhistorisches Museum der Bundeswehr) is abrasive and has divided Dresdeners from the very start.More ...

The former fermentation and storage tower belonging to the Dortmunder Union brewery and its trademark “Dortmund U” has been converted into a centre for arts and media.More ...

Its expressive character sets the new synagogue in Mainz apart from attempts by high-profile contemporary architects to achieve recognition through spectacular architecture.More ...

On the architecture campus at Vitra in Weil am Rhein there’s some more avant garde architecture to marvel at. The furniture manufacturers are showcasing their products in the new show home.More ...

In 2009, the former residence and reception building of Germany’s chancellors started opening its doors to the public.More ...

How does a company that produces photo-voltaic elements present itself? Of course with a building optimised in terms of ecological and energy efficiency and with an impressive solar roof.More ...

Cologne architect Peter Kulka’s building gives visitors to the monastery in Meschede in the Sauerland an opportunity for spiritual time out.More ...

The high-profile architect has created a new type of building with the heart of the Leipzig factory complex for the German car manufacturer.More ...

This leading-edge prototype of the city-centre shopping arcade attracts droves of shoppers into Frankfurt’s pedestrian zone like a magnet.More ...

With their Jewish Centre, architects Wandel, Hoefer and Lorch have achieved the amazing feat of realizing yet another architectural milestone.More ...

The Humboldt brothers envisioned the totality and unity of the arts and sciences as their ideal.More ...

Hardly any company grounds in Germany have been so consistently developed over a period of time at such a high level of architectural quality.More ...

The arts and culture pages have already defined a special category for it even – “Carchitecture” – by which they mean the sensational buildings with which the German car groups in particular promote themselves.More ...

The old Hanseatic city Stralsund on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg has recently acquired something else to offer besides wonderful Gothic brickwork and the contemplative romance of its harbour.More ...

The Brandenburg Land Museum for Modern Art has found its home in a historic building. By using a “building-in-a-building” principle Anderhalten Architekten managed to preserve the emsemble.More ...

One of Cologne's last inner-city ruins has become the site for Peter Zumthor's art museum of the Archdiocese – a distinctive and meaningful addition to the city.More ...

The Hans Otto Theatre is situated at the back of some impressive Prussian hussars’ barracks on a spit of land on the banks of the Havel and the Tiefer See lake, and has often been compared with Jørn Utzon’s opera house in Sydney because of its fantastic waterside location and the shape of the buildings.More ...

Amsterdam-based Ben van Berkel of UN Studio won the international competition to build the Mercedes-Benz Museum with a design that promised to be more innovative, extravagant and attractive than anyone could have thought possible in view of the pluralism prevailing today…More ...

The Central Library is situated in the middle of Ulm's historic city centre. Placed within a pyramid more than 35 meter high with glass external walls, it invites the whole town to engage in communication and dialogue.More ...