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Düsseldorf Buildings : German Architecture

Modern NRW buildings: North Rhine-Westphalia developments. Contemporary Germany built environment designs.

post updated 16 December 2025

14 November 2025
Curve X Office Building, Düsseldorf, Germany
Design: JSWD

photo © Nils Koenning

Düsseldorf Building News

16 November 2023
Eclipse Campus, Kennedydamm
Design: UNStudio and HPP Architects

photo : H.G. Esch
Designed for die developer, Eclipse is a new vertical work campus located on Kennedydamm and home to the auditing and consulting firm PwC Germany. The highly sustainable campus was designed in a collaboration between UNStudio and German architecture firm HPP Architects and was realised by HPP Architects.

28 Jan 2023
Calatrava Boulevard Königsallee Düsseldorf Building
Design: Santiago Calatrava Architects

image courtesy CENTRUM Gruppe / Santiago Calatrava LLC.
Uwe Reppegather, founder and Managing Director of the CENTRUM Group, Lord Mayor Dr. Stephan Keller and architect and engineer Dr. Santiago Calatrava today presented an architecturally refined and sustainable project for a luxury building complex with international appeal located on a site between Königsallee, Königstrasse and Steinstrasse.

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Düsseldorf Building News 2014 – 2022

4 Oct 2021
New Opera House Düsseldorf
Design: Snøhetta

image © Snøhetta
Situated in the heart of Düsseldorf city center, Snøhetta has been commissioned by CENTRUM GROUP to propose a new opera house and cultural hub for the city. Dubbed Duett Düsseldorf, the new opera house creates clear connections to the nearby Hofgarten park, the Rhein river and the popular Königsallee street, aiming to create a publicly accessible space that brings people together.

July 5, 2021
WAFX 2021 Prize – Commercial mixed-use – Future Project Shortlisted
Pier One design by ingenhoven architects
WAFX 2021 Prize Winners

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13 Mar 2018 + 21 Nov 2017
Cradle-to-Cradle Hybrid Timber Construction Office Building
Design: HPP, architects

image courtesy of architects
Düsseldorf’s first hybrid timber construction office building is being developed according to HPP Architects’ designs. In late October the city council approved the HPP design. The building on Speditionstrasse 2 in the Media Harbour will be built by Ratingen project developer INTERBODEN and will open development on the southern part of Harbour A.

27 Sep 2017
FOM University Düsseldorf Building, north west Germany
Design: J. MAYER H. Architects

photo : David Franck
J.MAYER.H is celebrating the completion of the new building of FOM University in Düsseldorf. The 8,000 m² academic building with auditoriums, lecture halls, and seminar rooms will accommodate up to 1,500 students and staff. The non-profit FOM University is Germany’s largest private university.

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18 + 17 Oct 2014

Düsseldorf Building Photos

Architecture in the Düsseldorf Docks

Photos from e-architect#s trip to the city for the LEAF Awards in October 2014:

Medien-Hafen buildings:

View looking north from the south end of the harbour, with the 2241m high Rheinturm (tower) on the right:

photos © Adrian Welch

The ‘iconic’ building at the south end of the Media Harbour Düsseldorf:

photos © Adrian Welch

photos © Isabelle Lomholt

Climbing People Building, on central part of harbour:

photos © Adrian Welch

Kolorium, Speditionstrasse, Medien-Hafen by Alsop Architects:

photos © Adrian Welch

page updated 26 Oct 2016 with new images

Düsseldorf Building – Recent Designs

Neue Zollhof office complex – new photos
Design: Frank Gehry Architects

photos © Isabelle Lomholt

More images of this Frank Gehry building lower down this page.

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19 May 2014
Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf
Design: von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp)

image from architects
The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are designing the new rehearsal building for the ballet company of Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In a consortium with HOCHTIEF Solutions, they were commissioned by Düsseldorf City Council in a PPP scheme. The new ballet building will be created on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot “am Steinberg”.

20 Nov 2012
Neubau FOM Hochschule Düsseldorf
Design: J. MAYER H.

image from architects
Le Quartier Central is a lively, newly planned and nearly complete district in the middle of Düsseldorf. Its creative surrounds are the future home of the new university study center for FOM Hochschule in Düsseldorf. The innovative building with approximately 1,400 student seats features an extraordinary exterior façade with curved cantilevered balconies.

13 Oct 2012
Düsseldorf Ulmer Höh
Design: BDP Khandekar

image from architects
BDP has won the Düsseldorf Ulmer Höh design competition to redevelop a former prison site in Germany. BDP’s Dutch studio, BDP Khandekar, was up against five German practices for the 15 hectare mixed use urban redevelopment project.

added 1 Feb 2012
Oeconomicum Building
Design: Ingenhoven Architects

photograph : Hans Georg Esch
The site for the new Oeconomicum on the campus of the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf is located between the existing library and medical school and the university’s lake. The new building takes its form from the curve of the lake shore and with the surrounding buildings it defines a new square. The building can easily be extended. The 3-storey structure is raised on stilts, connecting it to the upper level of the university mall.

added 31 Jan 2012
Megaman at Euroshop Düsseldorf
Design: Sybarite

photograph : Stefan Effner
Produced for the LED lighting pioneer Megaman for their exhibit at Euroshop 2011 in Dusseldorf, this installation is pure simplicity.

26 Nov 2011
Quartier M Düsseldorf
Design: J. MAYER H. Architects

image from architects
Urban development block with a high rise for office, hotel, wellness and commercial use. In a three-level peer review process that resulted in two first-prize winners, an urban planning concept was developed for the area of what was once the post office on Erkrather Strasse.

North Rhine-Westphalia capital city.

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Düsseldorf Architecture

Nord Rhine Westphalia Aerial photographs by webbaviation, 30 Nov 2008:

Airport

Airport Tower

Victoria Turm

Railway Station

Schauspielhaus

Tonhalle

Eon Konzernzentrale

Provinzial Rheinland

Rheinturn

Galeria Kaufhof

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Düsseldorf Buildings

Contemporary Nord Rhine Westphalia Architecture, alphabetical:

Andreas Gursky Home / Studio
2004
Herzog & de Meuron

Benrather Karrée – office building

Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates

Capricorn House, Medienhafen
2007
Gatermann + Schossig Architekten

Düsseldorf Airport – Flughafen: Düsseldorf International
1998; 2001; 2003
Design: various architects, incl. JKS Perkins & Will Architects

Third largest airport in Germany

Düsseldorf Exhibition Center
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Design: Gerkan, Marg & Partners Architekten

EDC headquarters, Ratingen, nr Düsseldorf
2007-
Design: make
International Architecture Competition: New headquarters for clothing company EDC, division of Esprit

New Campus FH Düsseldorf, Germany
2010-
Design: FAR frohn&rojas

image : FAR frohn&rojas
New Campus FH Düsseldorf

Kaistrasse Studios
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Design: David Chipperfield Architects

Kö-Bogen Düsseldorf – mixed-use development, Düsseldorf, Germany
2009-
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind

image : Rendering – Archimation

Kolorium, Speditionstrasse, Medien-Hafen
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Design: Alsop Architects
18 storeys
£11m
Medien-Hafen Buildings by Frank Gehry, Steven Holl, Ingenhoven Overdiek, Claude Vasconi, David Chipperfield Architects ; buildings coming soon by JSK, Jo Coenen, Fumihiko Maki