Every two years, the City of Nuremberg awards prizes to projects that integrate particularly well into the city's urban  context or that are outstanding as solitary buildings or open spaces from a design, technical or ecological perspective.

The Augustinerhof creates a new public space in the historic city center, leading from the Altstadtmarkt to a public square on the banks of the Pegnitz. A branch of the German Museum was established in the head building at the Karlsbrücke.

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.