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German Building Designs : Architecture in Germany

post updated 29 April 2026

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We choose key examples of German Building Designs. We cover completed buildings, new building designs, architectural exhibitions and architecture competitions across Germany. The focus is on contemporary German buildings but information on traditional buildings is also welcome.

We have 6 pages of German Architecture selections:

Building Designs in Germany

German Architecture : news + key projects

German Architecture Designs : A-C

German Building Designs : D-J (this page)

German Building Developments : K-Z

German Buildings : Projects outwith major cities – A-J

German Architecture Developments : Projects outwith major cities – K-Z

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Key contemporary architectural developments in Germany. Neue Deutsche Architektur

Recent DE properties on e-architect:

21 May 2012
Green Climate Fund Headquarters, Bonn, west Germany
Design: LAVA

image : MIR
Green Climate Fund Headquarters Building
The Federal Republic of Germany chose the multinational firm Laboratory for Visionary Architecture [LAVA] as the designers for their bid to host the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund [GCF] in Bonn. LAVA’s design for the headquarters of the GCF is ‘an ecological model project’ and demonstrates their motto: ‘green is the new black’.

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New German Building Designs

German Building Designs, alphabetical:

DRESDEN

Dresden buildings

Principal German Architecture in Dresden:

Die Gläserne Manufaktur
Design: Henn Architekten

image : H.G.Esch
Dresden Volkswagen building
Gläserne Manufaktur is a place of transparency and dialogue and makes the experience of automotive production visible to the outside. In Gläserne Manufaktur, themes of and related to the automobile are presented – events range from art exhibitions and music concerts to television talk shows.

Dresden railway station project
Design: Foster + Partners

photo © Nigel Young
German station building
Although not totally destroyed by allied bombing during the infamous Dresden Raids, the station was badly damaged and suffered further from unsympathetic repair and alterations. It is symbolically appropriate that the new work should have been designed by a British practice.

GFC Coswig
Design: wurm + wurm

photo : Ester Havlova
GFC Coswig
The support structure of the office block slanting in two directions and the facade along the railway line Dresden-Berlin creates a motion impelling model.

Militärhistorisches Museum
Design: Studio Daniel Libeskind Architects

photo © Hufton+Crow Photography
Dresden Military History Museum
In 1989, unsure how the museum would fit into a newly unified German state, the government decided to shut it down. By 2001 feelings had shifted and an architectural competition was held for an extension that would facilitate a reconsideration of the way we think about war.

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DUISBURG

Duisburg Architecture

Key Architecture in this North-Rhine Westphalia city:

Duisburg City Masterplan
Design: Foster + Partners

picture : Foster + Partners
Duisburg Masterplan
The largest inland harbour in the world, Duisburg Inner Harbour’s renewal provided the opportunity to test, at a large scale, ideas about mixed use and sustainability. The masterplan aims to draw the life of the city to the waterfront, establishing the harbour as an attractive place in which to live and work.

Future Hotel Building Design
Design: Laboratory for Visionary Architecture

image from architect
Future Hotel architecture
As part of a research collaboration with the Fraunhofer IAO (Institute for Work Organisation) LAVA has designed the Future Hotel Showcase Room, a demonstration project that investigates the interfaces between architecture, technology and the human body.

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DÜSSELDORF

Düsseldorf Architecture

Principal Buildings in this NRW city:

Der Neue Zollhof office complex
Design: Frank Gehry Architects

photo © webbaviation

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ESSEN

Essen Architecture

Main Architecture in this Ruhrgebiet city:

Zollverein School of Management & Design
Design: SANAA : Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa

photo from architect
Zollverein School Essen
The School of Management and Design is the first new building constructed by SANAA in Europe. The building was completed in summer 2006. In October 2007, when we came to Essen to film the video, the school has a year of “lived experience” behind it.

Folkwang Museum
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

image from architect office
German museum building
As a continuation of the existing 1950s building, the new museum is structured into six volumes and four courtyards. The public spaces are located on the ground floor, on the existing building’s exhibition level.

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FRANKFURT

Frankfurt Building

Principal German Buildings in Frankfurt, Hesse:

Commerzbank Tower
Design: Foster & Partners, Architects

photo © Adrian Welch
German tower
This 56-story, 259 m (850 ft) futurist skyscraper owned by Samsung of Korea since September 2016 in the banking district of Frankfurt, Germany. An antenna spire with a signal light on top gives the tower a total height of 300.1 m (985 ft).

Museum für Kunsthandwerk
Architect: Richard Meier

image © Adrian Welch
Frankfurt museum

Deutsches Architektur Museum
Design: Oswald Mathias Ungers

picture © Adrian Welch
German Architecture Museum

Zeilgalerie
Design: 3deluxe in/exterior

photo from architects practice
Zeilgalerie shopping centre

Frankfurt building photos

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GELSENKIRCHEN

Gelsenkirchen Architecture

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GÖTTINGEN

Neubau Asklepios Mental Health Campus Niedersachsen, Göttingen, southern Lower Saxony – Südniedersachsen
Architecture: White Arkitekter and Telluride Architektur

image courtesy of architects practice

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HAMBURG

Hamburg Architecture

Main German Buildings in Hamburg:

Elbphilharmonie, HafenCity
Herzog and de Meuron

image © Herzog & de Meuron
Elbphilharmonie

Hamburg Science Centre Building
OMA

picture from architect
Hamburg Science Centre

S11 – Office Complex Steckelhörn 11
J. MAYER H. Architects

picture from architect
Hamburg Offices

Spiegel Group Headquarters Building
Henning Larsen Architects

picture from architect

Sumatrakontor Hamburg, Hafencity
Erick van Egeraat

photo : J Collingridge

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HANOVER

Hanover Architecture

Hanomag U-Boat Hall Conversion – RS+Yellow Furniture Outlet
Design: BOLLES+WILSON

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JENA

Key property designs in this Thuringia city:

Göpel Electronic Building, se Germany
wurm + wurm Architects

picture from architect
Göpel Electronic Building

Sonnehof Jena
J. MAYER H. Architects, Berlin

image : J. MAYER H. Architects
Sonnehof Jena

More Contemporary German Buildings online soon.

Location: Germany, Western Europe.

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Architectural Designs

German School Buildings

German Concert Hall Buildings

German Hotel Buildings

German Houses

German Football Stadiums – Sports Arena architecture

Buildings / photos for the Contemporary German Architecture Designs page welcome.

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