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Essen Buildings : Nordrhein-Westfalen Architektur

post updated 9 March 2026

Ruhrgebiet Architecture News – latest North Rhine-Westphalia property additions to this page, arranged chronologically:

20 Mar 2019
Funke Media Group HQ in Essen
Architects: AllesWirdGut

image courtesy of architects office
The newly opened headquarter of the international Funke Media Group defines a coherent urban-design ensemble, which, like a well-proportioned body, is articulated as a consistent whole. Its head: the Funke Media Tower which also accommodates the News Wall, Germany’s largest LED video wall.

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Essen Buildings Design News

Ruhrgebiet architecture designs. Modern property developments in North Rhine-Westphalia, northern Germany.

2 May 2013
Miniapolis Day Care Centre Essen
Design: JSWD Architekten

photo : Thomas Lewandowski
The Miniapolis day care centre at the ThyssenKrupp Quarter has capacity for approx. 100 children in mixed age groups. The technical appeal of the building follows the requirements of education-focused “Reggio Pedagogy”.

18 Jan 2013
WAZ Media Office Essen
Design: AllesWirdGut Architektur

image © AllesWirdGut Architektur
The Austrian architectural office AllesWirdGut starts the new year in a big way: AllesWirdGut were commissioned to build the corporate headquarters of the international WAZ Media Group—best known in Austria a the co-owner of the leading local tabloid “Kronenzeitung”—at their corporate home base in Essen, Germany.

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Essen Buildings Designs News Archive

1 Mar 2012
Ruhr Museum Essen: Neubau Depot und Verwaltung, Zollverein, Essen
Design: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch | Essen · Berlin

photos : Deimel & Wittmar
An extreme restraint for all structural addition within the context of the world heritage – the colliery of Zollverein with all architectural qualities and inestimable historic values – is indicated.

14 Sep 2011
Haus der Essener Geschichte, Bismarkstraße
Design: Ahlbrecht Felix Scheidt Kasprusch

photo : Deimel & Wittmar
The project comprises the reconstruction of the listed Luisenschool to be used as a library, an administration and an exhibition area and also the new construction of an archive building.

14 Jan 2011
ThyssenKrupp Quarter
Design: JSWD Architects / Chaix & Morel et Associés

photo from architects firm

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Essen Architecture

We choose key examples of Essen Building Developments, Nordrhein-Westfalen.

We cover completed Essen buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Nordrhein-Westfalen. The focus is on contemporary buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

Contemporary Essen Buildings, alphabetical:

Essen Concert Hall (Opera House)
Dates built: 1987-88
Design: Alvar Aalto Architect

Limbecker Platz – retail centre
Date built: 2008
Design: Architekturbüro Henn (München)

photo © webbaviation

Museum Folkwang
Dates built: 2007-10
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

picture : Christian Richters
Essen building
The publicly accessible areas connect seamlessly with the existing exhibition areas. A generous open stairway leads from the Bismarckstraße into the new foyer, which takes the form of an open interior courtyard with a restaurant and a bookstore, and is protected from the street by a glass facade.

RWE HQ
Date built: 1996
Design: Ingenhoven Overdiek Kahlen & Partner

photo © webbaviation
RWE headquarters building
Tower height: 127m high approximately