Tag Frankfurt

27-03-2012

Opening of the Städel Museum expansion: a museum as “green building”

Schneider+Schumacher Planungsgesellschaft mbH came up with this plan for an expansion on the Städel Museum in Frankfurt, Germany, which won a competition on invitation in 2007 and was described by the judges as “a brilliant jewel by day, a luminous carpet by night”.

22-02-2012

New York Public Library, Battery Park City Branch, designed by 1100:architect is about to be LEED Gold certified and has been presented with a 2012 Interiors Award for public spaces

If you still think of public libraries as dark, closed places, temples of knowledge reserved for an elect few, you really ought to take a look at the Battery Park City Branch of the New York Public Library.

31-01-2012

WOHA Breathing Architecture, exhibition

The current exhibition at DAM in Frankfurt focuses on Woha, an architectural practice founded by Mun Summ Wong and Richard Hassell in Singapore.

22-12-2011

Eminent Architects. Seen by Ingrid von Kruse

At DAM, the German Museum of Architecture in Frankfurt, portraits of prominent international architects photographed by Ingrid von Kruse are on exhibit until January 15.

28-11-2011

Sauerbruch Hutton, Best Tall Building Worldwide

Sauerbruch Hutton architects has been presented with the prize for the Best Tall Building Worldwide for its skyscraper in Frankfurt, KfW Westarkade.

11-10-2011

CTBUH award for skyscrapers

Skyscrapers by Gehry, Foster, Hutton and Wilkinson Eyre have won the regional sections of the CTBUH, and the overall winner will be announced in October 2011.