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Key Architectural Developments in Bavaria, southern Germany: Built Environment Updates

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12 June 2024
Van B residential project
Architects: UNStudio

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Van B Residences
With its one to three bedroom, highly flexible apartments, flats, gallery lofts and rooftop flats, UNStudio and developer Bauwerk‘s recently completed Van B residential project in Munich not only caters to changing demographics and multiple family constellations, it offers indoor-outdoor living, communal spaces, shared facilities and a new highly flexible plug-in system that can make a 40sqm apartment feel like a 60m2 loft.

27 March 2024
House LW27
Architects: Stephan Maria Lang Architects

photo © Sebastian Kolm
House LW27
In a high class residential area, a large volume residence had to be constructed on a relatively small site. Located next to a sizeable outdoor pool, there was very little space for a garden.

8 February 2024
iCampus Rhenania
Architects: HENN

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iCampus Rhenania
In the new Werksviertel located in the east of Munich, where mashed potatoes, motorcycles and men’s suits were once manufactured and party people were out and about in Kunstpark Ost and Kultfabrik, a new urban neighborhood providing a high level of social diversity is currently under construction. Prominently situated with a view opening towards the Ostbahnhof station, the striking iCampus Rhenania complex of office buildings invites passersby into the neighborhood.

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2 Nov 2023
Perlach Plaza, new KulturQuadrat center, Hanns-Seidel-Platz
Architects: AllesWirdGut

photo : tschinkersten fotografie
Perlach Plaza Munich
Perlach Plaza is a hub, a signboard, and a calling card. With its urban mixed use of retail, service businesses, restaurants, residential units (110 rental apartments, 104 student apartments), and a hotel, it has a central urban-design function in the development of the new KulturQuadrat center.

3 Oct 2022
Baramundi Headquarters, Augsburg Innovation Park, Augsburg, Swabia, Bavaria, southern Germany
Architects: HENN

photo : Laurian Ghinitoiu
Baramundi Headquarters
HENN’s design combines social and technical performance for the young software company Baramundi. As one of the first pilot projects of Augsburg Innovation Park, the HQ helps strengthen Germany’s position as a driver of technical innovation.

7 Apr 2022
Climate-neutral Event Arena
Design: Populous

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Climate-neutral Event Arena Munich
Global architectural design firm Populous has been chosen as the architect for a new multi-use, climate-neutral, 20,000 capacity event arena in Munich, following Council approval for the project. Freising City Council agreed in principle to give the plans the green light, which will see Bavaria-based SWMUNICH Real Estate GmbH (SWMUNICH) plan, build and operate a world-class multi-use concert and convention centre, backed by more than 300 million euros of private sector investment.

8 Feb 2022
Schützenstrasse Development
Design: David Chipperfield Architects Berlin (DCA)

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Schützenstraße Development
David Chipperfield Architects Berlin has won the competition for the development of a mixed-use complex in the heart of Munich. The jury chaired by Professor Ludwig Wappner, selected the office’s design, developed in collaboration with the landscape architects Atelier Loidl Landschaftsarchitekten, as the winner from a total of eleven entries from international architectural practices.

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Munich Architecture News 2021

24 Oct 2021
Meiller Gärten, Untermenzinger Strasse
Design: Baumschlager Eberle Architekten

photo : Meike Hansen
Meiller Gärten, Munich Building
Residential quarter in Munich shows attitude: stringency meets dynamism – Place and Architecture – Baumschlager Eberle Architekten build for the place. This attitude was implemented in a particularly stringent manner with the two building sites (178 apartments in total) in the Meiller Gärten quarter near the Olypiapark.

23 Jun 2021
Gasteig Cultural Center Building Design
Design: HENN

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Gasteig Cultural Centre Munich
HENN’s for the Gasteig Cultural Center proposal transforms it into an open and democractic space whose cultural and educational programs are part of a dynamic exchange—with each other and with the city.

17 Feb 2021
Grosshadern LMU Clinic Campus
Design: C.F. Møller Architects and HENN

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Grosshadern LMU Clinic Campus
The architects secured the unanimous vote of the jury for their design, thereby prevailing against 17 other planning teams. For the new campus they plan to transform the existing structures completely and create a green, connected and friendly environment for future-proof medical care, research and teaching.

10 Feb 2021
Van B Residential Development
Design: UNStudio and Bauwerk

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Van B Residential Development
UNStudio and Bauwerk introduce the Van B residences in Munich – a completely new ‘analogue smart’ urban living concept. The new Van B residential project, located on Infanteriestrasse next to the future ‘Kreativquartier’ (creative quarter) in Munich, offers a completely new form of housing that reimagines the future of urban living.

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Munich Architecture News 2019 – 2020

1 Jun 2020
Gamsei Cocktail Bar
Design: Fabian A. Wagner of Buero Wagner with Andreas Kreft

photograph © Jann Averwerser
Gamsei Cocktail Bar
Juniper schnapps, verjuice, lavender honey. When owner and head bartender Matthew Bax opened Gamsei 2013 in Munich’s trendy neighbourhood Glockenbach, he introduced hyper-localism to a field of practice which had till then been mainly confined to the food scene.

1 Jun 2019
KARL, Karlstraße
Design: David Chipperfield Architects Berlin (DCA) / Enzo Enea

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KARL Building Munich by David Chipperfield & Enzo Enea

4 Apr 2019
Richard-Strauss-Strasse Office Building in Munich, Bogenhausen
Design: David Chipperfield Architects

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Richard-Strauss-Strasse Office Building

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24 Oct 2018
Gasteig Cultural Centre
Design: HENN

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Gasteig Cultural Centre in Munich
Following the international competition and tender process, HENN‘s proposal has been selected for the renovation of the Gasteig in Munich.

7 Feb 2018
4F Stand at ISPO Messegelände, Eingänge West, Ost, Nord, 81823 München
Design: mode:lina

photograph : Patryk Lewiński
4F Stand at ISPO, Munich
In the South Korean Pyeongchang, Polish athletes competing for Olympic medals will wear outfts designed by4F, for the ffth time in a row. But before the Games begin, those Olympic collections have been presented at world’s biggest sport fair –ISPO Munich 2018, where they were on display at a stand designed by architects from mode:lina™ studio.

30 Aug 2017
Paulaner Headquarter
Design: Hierl Architekten, München

photo : Edzard Probst
Paulaner Headquarter Munich Building
The still existent substance of the listed Zacherl brewery consists of the exterior façades up to the central buttress, the gate hall – thought to have been influenced by Leo von Klenze – and the cellar vaults.

15 Nov 2016
Headquarters Microsoft Germany
Design: HPP Architects

photo : Bodo Mertoglu
Microsoft Germany Headquarters Building
The various furnishing concepts mean that there are no designated workspaces in the building, rather, there are so-called anchor areas for the respective departments.