German buildings, architecture designs

German Buildings : Architecture

post updated 24 October 2026

We choose key examples of German Buildings. 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 2 main pages of German Architecture selections.

Buildings in Germany

German Architecture : news + key projects

German Buildings : Projects outwith major cities – A-J (this page)

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Property developments by type

Germany developments – Deutschland buildings by type – A to Z:

German Airport Buildings

German Art Gallery Buildings

German Church Buildings

German Concert Hall Buildings

German Convention Centres

German Embassy Buildings

German Factory Buildings

German Hotel Buildings

German Houses

German Housing

German Library Buildings

German Museum Architecture

German Museum Buildings

German Office Buildings

German Railway Station Buildings

German School Buildings

German Shopping Centres

German Skyscrapers

German Stadium Buildings

German Theatre Buildings

German Town Hall Buildings

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Non-City German Property Developments

German Building Designs, alphabetical:

Abteiburg Museum, Mönchengladbach, North Rhine-Westphalia
Dates built: 1972-82
Design: Hans Hollein Architects

adidas LACES, Herzogenaurach, Erlangen-Höchstadt, Bavaria, southern Germany
Design: kadawittfeldarchitektur
adidas LACES in Herzogenaurach

The Adolf Würth Cultural & Congress Centre, Künzelsau-Gaisbach
Date built: 2007
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
Concert & Event hall; museum, chamber music hall & congress hall; seminar centre, library, sculpture garden

Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Bremerhaven
–
Design: Steidle + Partner

Arche Nebra (The Nebra Ark), Wangen
Design: Holzer Kobler Architekturen
The Nebra Ark

Bad Aibling Thermal Spa, Bad Aibling
Design: Behnisch Architekten
Bad Aibling Spa

Bauhaus School, Dessau
Date built: 1932
Design: Walter Gropius Architect

Bayer AG, Leverkusen
Dates built: 1997-2001
Design: Murphy/Jahn Architects

B Braun Headquarters – Braun European HQ, Melsungen
Date built: 2002
Design: Jim Stirling Michael Wilford and Associates in association with Walter Nageli second phase by Michael Wilford and Partners
€11m

Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel, south east Germany
Design: LAVA (Laboratory for Visionary Architecture)
Berchtesgaden Youth Hostel design

Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp : Documentation & Information Centre
Date built: 2007
KSP Engel & Zimmerman Architekten

Bottrop Higher Technical College
Architect: Mikou Design Studio
Bottrop Higher Technical College

Burda Medien Park, Offenburg
Date built: 2002
Design: Ingenhoven Overdiek Kahlen und Partner
€17m

Celtic Museum, Glauberg, Hesse, central Germany
Design: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Celtic Museum

Central Library TU Darmstadt
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Keith Williams Architects

Chrisy Pavilion, Monastery of Volkenroda, Turingia
Date built: 2001
von Gerkan, Marg & Partner

Darwineum Rostock Zoo
Atelier Brueckner
Darwineum Rostock Zoo

Diocesan Museum of Cologne, Kolumba
Date built: 2006
Peter Zumthor Architect

Dupli.Casa – House near Ludwigsburg
J. MAYER H. Architects
Ludwigsburg House

Eberswalde Technical School Library, Eberswalde
Dates built: 1997-99
Herzog de Meuron Architects

EMR Communication & Technology Center, Bad Oeynhausen
–
Frank Gehry Architects

Entory Home, Ettlingen
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Behnisch, Behnisch + Partner
RIBA Awards 2005

Ernsting Service Centre, Coesfeld-Lette
2002
David Chipperfield Architects
£11.5m

F-Media, Rostock, east Germany
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Murphy/Jahn Architects

Fagus Factory, Alfeld an der Leine
1911
Walter Gropius Architect

Federal Environmental Agency, Dessau
2005
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

Felix Nussbaum Museum, Osnabrück, Lower Saxony
–
Daniel Libeskind Architect

Field Chapel, Mechernich-Wachendorf, Eifel
Peter Zumthor Architect
Bruder Klaus Kapelle

Folly, nr Barnau, southeast Germany
2003
Brückner + Brückner

Frankfurt Football Stadium : Commerzbank-Arena
Gerkan, Marg & Partners
Frankfurt stadium building

Frieder Burda Collection Museum, Baden Baden
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Richard Meier & Partners
Client: Stiftung Frieder Burda, RIBA European Awards 2006

Garmisch-Partenkirchen Ski Jump
2008
Engineers: Mayr-Ludescher, Munich

Haus in Vordentaunus, Wiesbaden
1989-92
Studio Granda Architects

High-bay Warehouse for Sedus, Dogern, Waldshut
2003-
Sauerbruch Hutton Architects

IKMZ University Library, Cottbus
2006
Herzog & de Meuron Architects

Jübergtower Hemer, North Rhine-Westphalia
Birk und Heilmeyer Architekten BDA / Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering
Jübergtower Hemer

Kaffee Partner, Osnabrück, northern Germany
Design: 3deluxe in/exterior
Kaffee Partner

Kaufhof, Chemnitz, southeast Germany
1998-2001
Design: Murphy/Jahn Architects

Klingenthal Ski Jump, Vogtland Arena
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Design: m2r Architecture

Leonardo Glass Cube, Bad Driberg, Westphalia
Design: 3deluxe
Leonardo Glass Cube

LFone Landesgartenschau, Weil am Rhein
–
Design: Zaha Hadid Architects

Liner Museum, Appenzell
–
Design: Gigon/Guyer

Lorch Building, Baden-Württemberg, southern Germany
Design: Architektur 109
Lorch Building

Madonna in the Ruins, Kolumba
1949
Gottfried Böhm

MARTa Herford, Herford
–
Frank Gehry Architects

Masterplan Magdeburg Science Quarter
SMAQ
Masterplan Magdeburg Science Quarter

Media Centre, Oberkirch
wurm + wurm
Media Centre Oberkirch

Municipal Savings Bank, Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia
2005-08
Sauerbruch Hutton

Münster Library
1993
Bolles + Wilson

Müritzeum
Wingårdh Arkitektkontor AB
Müritzeum

Museum Archive, Hinzert
2005
Wandel Hoefer Lorch & Hirsch
Corten steel structure : Architecture Competition win 2003

Museum Insel Hombroich
Erwin Heerich
Museum Insel Hombroich

Museum of Granite, Hauzenberg
2005
Brückner + Brückner

NCT – National Centre For Tumour Diseases, Heidelberg, southwest Germany
Behnisch Architekten, Germany
National Centre For Tumour Diseases Heidelberg

Nietzsche Research Centre & Archive, Naumburg
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Keith Williams Architects

Offices, Bayreutherstrasse / Am Stadtpark, Nuremberg
2007
Szyszkowitz-Kowalksi

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität – Experimental Factory, Magdeburg
2001
Sauerbruch Hutton

OZEANEUM, Stralsund, Baltic Coast, northeast Germany
Behnisch Architekten
Ozeaneum : new Oceanographic Museum

Pharmacological Research Laboratories, Biberach
2000-02
Sauerbruch Hutton

Prototype House, Germany
2006
Horden Cherry Lee Architects with Lydia Haack, John Hoepfner

Scharnhauser Park Town Hall, Pitterpatterns, Ostfildern
Jürgen Mayer H
Stadthaus Scharnhauser Park

Schminke House, Löbau, Saxony
1933
Hans Scharoun
For Fritz & Charlotte Schminke

Stadthalle Balingen, southwest Germany
4a Architekten
Stadthalle Balingen

Station Z memorial, Sachsenhausen
2003-05
HG Merz with Werner Sobek

Sto building, Stühlingen, Baden-Württemberg
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Michael Wilford & Partners: design + construction work carried out after Jim’s death

Sto Headquarters Visitor Centre
2007
Michael Wilford

Treehugger Pavilion, Koblenz
University of Applied Sciences Trier with one fine day: office for architectural design
Treehugger Pavilion

Tübinger Sparkasse (Bank), Tübingen
2007
Auer + Weber + Assoziiierte

Vitra Fire Station, Weil am Rhein
–
Zaha Hadid Architects

Vitra Haus showrooms, Weil am Rhein
Herzog & de Meuron, architects
Vitra Haus showroom

Wuensdorf Church, Wuensdorf
Design: GRAFT
Berlin church : Design Competition winner

More Contemporary German Architecture Developments online soon.

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AACHEN

Aachenmünchener Headquarters, Aachen, northwest Germany
Design: kadawittfeldarchitektur
Aachenmünchener Headquarters

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BERLIN

Berlin Architecture
Key German Architecture in Berlin:

Altes Museum
Design: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Architect
German museum

Am Kupfergraben 10 gallery building
Design: David Chipperfield Architects
Am Kupfergraben 10

Berlin Olympic Stadium Building Refurb
Design: Gerkan, Marg & Partners
German National Stadium

Berlin Turbine building
Design: Peter Behrens Architect
Turbine building

Labels 2 Berlin, Osthafen
Design: HHF architects
Fashioncenter Labels 2

Jewish Museum Berlin
Design: Daniel Libeskind Architect
Jewish Museum Building

National Gallery Berlin
Design: Mies van der Rohe Architect
National Gallery Berlin

Netherlands Embassy
Design: Rem Koolhaas, OMA
Berlin embassy building

Neues Museum Building
David Chipperfield Architects
Neues Museum

Unite d’ Habitation
Le Corbusier Architect
Unite d’ Habitation Berlin housing

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BONN

Bonn Architecture

Key German Architecture in Bonn:

Deutsche PostTower
Murphy/Jahn

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Haus Hundertacht
Uwe Schröder Architekten
Bonn house

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COLOGNE – KÖLN

Cologne Architecture

Main German Architecture in Cologne:

Kolumba Diocesan Museum
Peter Zumthor Architect

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Peter Zumthor

‘Glass Worm’ building
Design: Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW)

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Museum Ludwig
Busmann & Haberer, Architekten

photograph © webbaviation

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum
Atelier Brückner

DRESDEN

Dresden buildings

Principal German Architecture in Dresden:

Die Gläserne Manufaktur
Design: Henn Architekten
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
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
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
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
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
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

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ESSEN

Essen Architecture

Main Architecture in this Ruhrgebiet city:

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

Deutsches Architektur Museum
Design: Oswald Mathias Ungers
German Architecture Museum

Zeilgalerie
Design: 3deluxe in/exterior
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

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