We are pleased to announce that the Casals Forum has received an award from the Association of German Architects. 
The plaques are awarded every five years. Ten projects received the award for 2018-2023.

An ensemble consisting of a chamber music hall, academy and hotel was built between Victoriapark and the S-Bahn station in Kronberg, providing Kronberg Academy with optimal conditions for the musical training of young talents from all over the world. The new buildings, integrated into the rising terrain, are grouped around a public urban space, at the highest point of which the concert hall lays with its far-reaching roof. Its all-round glass façade allows views right into the free-form concert hall.

We are pleased about the recognition for the Jewish Community Centre with Synagogue at the Bauherrnpreis historischer Städte 2022 (Building Owner Award for Historic Cities 2022).

Every four years, the working group of the historic cities of Bamberg, Görlitz, Lübeck, Meißen, Regensburg and Stralsund awards a prize and two recognitions for outstanding renovations or new buildings in the historic centres of their member cities.

The Faculty of Architecture is dedicating its lecture series this year to the relationship between the practical work and the teaching activities of the invited speakers. Volker Staab will talk about the two core elements of his design work - the autonomous architectural idea and its contextualization - and describe how these are further explored in his teaching activities.

Lecture Series Teaching/Doing Architecture
Lecture by Volker Staab
Wednesday, June 29 at 7:30 p.m., Li 145
Lipsiusbau
Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 145
04277 Leipzig

Laboratory buildings are not often considered for architectural awards. We are all the more pleased that our research building for the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin Mitte received an honorable mention. The highly flexible building, designed for communication, provides a stimulating working environment for the center's changing top research teams. Two wings of different heights minimize shading of the surrounding buildings in the heterogeneous courtyard space and form a forecourt set back from the street, which is enlivened by the main entrance and the institute‘s conference hall. 

Exhibition of the awarded projects

until 2 June 2022
Mon, Wed, Thu 10 am – 3 pm

BDA  Galerie Berlin
Mommsenstraße 64
10629 Berlin

The Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation commissioned seven architects to design seven wooden chapels along newly created bike paths in the district of Dillingen. Our chapel, a narrow wooden tower, blends into a small group of trees visible from afar on a slope above Kesselostheim. The chapel space, open to the landscape and formed of wooden slats, is bordered at the top by a cross that the wooden supporting structure draws into the opening.