The Working Group of Historic Cities is an association of the cities of Bamberg, Görlitz, Lübeck, Meißen, Regensburg and Stralsund. Its Building Award has been awarded every four years since 1998. It honours examples of high-quality development and the strengthening of historic city centres and is intended to provide inspiration and motivation for building in the old town. 

The Jewish Community Centre was built in the old town of Regensburg, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, on the site of the synagogue destroyed in 1938. The staggered new building, constructed in a contemporary architectural language, ties in with the low eaves and gable houses of the old town and creates a close connection to the street space with courtyards and views.

Every two years, the Langner'sche Stiftung awards its sponsorship prizes for outstanding achievements in architecture, historic preservation and design in Augsburg and the surrounding area.

The house of the church is located on a prominently situated site on Ulrichplatz in front of St. Ulrich and St. Afra’s Abbey in Augsburg. The new construction is an ensemble comprised of three buildings—the regional bishop’s office, the church office and the parsonage—which were coordinated with the surrounding historical architecture in regards to volume and scale.

Bauwelt 3.2022
Topic Activation of Nuremberg
Review by Therese Mausbach
Images by Marcus Ebener

Every three years, the Association of German Architects (BDA) Berlin honors architects and clients for special architectural achievements in Berlin. Laboratory buildings are rarely among those honored. This makes the honorable mention for the research building of the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin Mitte all the more gratifying.

The highly flexible building, designed for communication, provides a stimulating working environment for the center's changing top research teams. Situated in a heterogeneous courtyard, two wings of different heights minimize the shading of the surrounding buildings and form a forecourt set back from the street, which is enlivened by the main entrance and the institute‘s conference hall. 

Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag, 2021
ISBN 9783433033593 (DE)

The University of Salzburg, together with the Austrian Federal Monuments Office and the Salzburg Architecture Initiative, is hosting a three-day conference on the handling of listed sites. Contributions from Austria, Germany, and Switzerland will be presented and report on architectural practice, the experiences of the monument offices, and the scientific perspective.

Volker Staab will talk on the idea of place, in which he questions the commitment to a seemingly correct strategy in dealing with monuments and uses built examples to show how different the approach can be when it is developed from the building task and the site. The question of whether the original substance or rather the idea of the site is the key to an appropriate strategy also plays a decisive role here.

The regional architecture prize is awarded every three years by the Association of German Architects BDA Augsburg-Schwaben. The Siegfried and Elfriede Denzel Foundation commissioned seven architects, in addition to our office Hans Engel, John Pawson, Wilhelm Huber, Frank Lattke, Alen Jasarevic and Christoph Mäckler, to design wooden chapels along newly created bike paths in the district of Dillingen. 

Our chapel fits into a small group of trees with a slender wooden tower, that is visible from afar. The chapel space, open to the landscape and formed of wooden slats, is bounded by a cross, which the wooden supporting structure draws into the opening. 

In 2020, the Association of German Architects (BDA) in Bavaria has announced for the first time the regional prize 'Über Oberbayern', whose focus is on the local building tradition and the interaction between client and architect. Our conversion and extension of the Zeughaus (military building) for the Design Department of the Munich University of Applied Studies received one recognition.

Bauwelt 2.2021
Issue Topic Places of jewish diversity
Review von Wolfgang Jean Stock
Photos von Brigida González

The research building of the Mannheim University of Applied Sciences has been awarded a prize by the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects in the "Exemplary Building Mannheim 2013-2020" award procedure. 
The university's cooperative project with the John Deere company is researching three-dimensional projections of objects and environments. The play with perception, reality and illusion became the central theme of the design and is reflected in both the facades and the interior of the building.

The BDA (Association of German Architects) Stuttgart has awarded the 16 Stations joint project, which was part of the Remstal Horticultural Show 2019. Each of the municipalities had a pavilion designed by a German architect and then erected by local construction companies. 
We designed a small, peaceful place in the community of Böbingen: A bright white roof is suspended in the middle of the forest, a white gravel field tracing its outline on the ground, marking an abstract space - enigmatic, attractive and open to visitors on all sides.
Next year, the award-winning project will take part in the award procedure for the Hugo-Häring State Prize.

Every year, the International Trade Fair for the Skilled Crafts presents an award for the successful cooperation between architects and building craft enterprises.
The design and construction of the multi-curved cross laminated timber dome over the synagogue hall in Regensburg was developed by Dr. Gollwitzer - Dr . Linse und Partner, Consulting Engineers in Civil Engineering, Munich, and Züblin Timber, Aichach, and built by IHR Tischler, Harth-Pöllnitz.

To promote regional building culture, the city of Regensburg regularly rewards outstanding architecture and landscape design. The Jewish community centre with synagogue in the UNESCO world heritage site Old Town of Regensburg received the 2019 Architecture Prize in the newly created category of cultural buildings.

Every two years, the association Forum Stadt – Network of Historic Cities honours outstanding projects that preserve, renovate, convert or further develop the historic city substance. 
The reconstruction of the synagogue in the old town of Regensburg on the site of its destruction in 1938 was honoured with one of the prizes.

At regular intervals, the Baden-Württemberg Chamber of Architects honors exemplary building projects. 
The general renovation and conversion of the House of the State Parliament one of the selected projects for the years 2015-2019 in Stuttgart.

Presentation and discussion of the first competition results for new buildings on the 1970s university campus in Deutz.

Scientific introduction about the future-proof integration of the universities into the urban space: Dr. Claudia Kruschwitz.
Presentations by Prof. Tobias Wulf, Ferdinand Heide, Prof. Volker Staab 
moderated by Thomas Knüvener and Erich Frank Pössl.

DBZ Deutsche BauZeitschrift 10/2019
Issue Topic Structure
Review by Susanne Kreykenbohm
Images by Marcus Ebener

db deutsche bauzeitung 09/2019
Issue Topic db-Metamorphosis. On the campus
Review by Klaus Meyer
Images by Anton Schedlbauer, Marcus Ebener, Oliver Jaist

Bauwelt 17.2019
Title Rast bei Staab, Rauch, Mäckler und Co.
Issue Topic Landmarks
Review by Benedikt Crone und Beatrix Flagner

db deutsche bauzeitung 7-8/2019
Issue Topic Open. Closed
Review by Ira Mazzoni
Images by Marcus Ebener

Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2019
Published by Bauhaus Kooperation Berlin Dessau Weimar
Texts by Werner Durth, Wolfgang Pehnt
Design by Heimann und Schwantes
ISBN 9783775746137 (DE)
ISBN 9783775746144 (EN)

Outstanding concepts and projects that stand for a forward-looking and innovative approach to the architectural heritage, as well as their civic engagement, are honored in the national competition Bundeswettbewerb “Europäische Stadt – Wandel & Werte” (European city – change & values). Even before completion, the Jewish Community Center with Synagogue submitted by the city of Regensburg  was awarded a prize in the category Stadtgebäude (urban building).

Every three years the Association of German Architects awards “good buildings in Franconia”. 
The special needs school in Marktheidenfeld was able to convince the jury with a concept that embeds the building in the landscape, lending it a child-friendly scale, and translates the stratification of school internal spaces and public areas into an inviting architectural language.

The German Lighting Design Award  is intended to highlight the importance of lighting design in architecture. The jury includes university professors, lighting designers and representatives of the trade press and industry associations. 
The conversion of the plenary hall in the House of the State Parliament in  Stuttgart received the Special Prize"Daylight". Four openings to the surrounding foyer areas and a daylight ceiling with views of the sky lend the previously hermetically sealed hall a light, invigorating atmosphere. The lighting concept was developed and realized with Licht Kunst Licht Berlin.

DBZ Deutsche BauZeitschrift 3/2018
Issue Topic Light
Review by Laura Sudbrock
Images by Marcus Ebener

The Building Culture Award of the Brandenburg Association of Architects and Engineers is awarded every two years to projects from all areas of building planning. 
The restoration center for the Prussian Palaces and Gardens Foundation sits on the site of the former Hans Otto Theater directly adjacent to the UNESCO World Heritage Site Park Sanssouci. The special prize honors the integration of the new buildings into the complex context of existing buildings. The protected visual axes from the park had to be maintained and the old theater integrated into the ensemble.

The Fritz Höger Award is awarded every three years for outstanding brick architecture by German brick manufacturers with the support of the Association of German Architects. 
The massive perforated facade of the lecture hall and administration building at Ansbach University of Applied Sciences received special recognition in the "Public Buildings, Sports and Leisure" category. All four sides of the freestanding cube were given their own distinct, distinctly designed face, depending on the underlying function, with the deep reveal panels.

The Landesverband (regional association) Baden-Württemberg of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) has awarded this years Hugo-Häring-Auszeichnungen (Hugo-Häring-Prizes) for the region of Stuttgart. Beyond this the prize marks the primary stage for the Hugo-Häring-Landespreis (state prize) of the BDA.   
The listed parliament building from the early years of the Federal Republic was not only carefully modernized and renovated. To enable contemporary work, the plenary hall was also provided with openings to the surrounding foyer and a daylight ceiling, thus adding a new layer of time. 

db deutsche bauzeitung 09/2017
Issue Topic db-Metamorphosis. Building for politics
Review by Christian Schönwetter
Images by Marcus Ebener, Artari Aerials, Studio Tümmers, Jens Willebrand

The Landesverband (regional association) Baden-Württemberg of the Bund Deutscher Architekten (BDA) has awarded this years Hugo-Häring-Auszeichnungen (Hugo-Häring-Prizes) for the region of Mannheim. Beyond this the prize marks the primary stage for the Hugo-Häring-Landespreis (state prize) of the BDA.  
The competence center for three-dimensional projections plays with perception by superimposing reflection, projection, and transparency to create a complex overall image.

Every two years, the international prize honors built architectural and interior concepts. 
With its newly developed façade structure made of exposed, washed concrete, the commercial building on Schinkelplatz offers a very independent response to the historically charged site directly opposite the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.

"The extension of the Richard Wagner Museum in Bayreuth was awarded the newly introduced Bavarian state prize ‘Bauen im Bestand’. Furthermore it was given the prize ‘Bauen im Bestand’ in the category of buildings from before 1900. The main challenge of the project was the realization of a large spatial program next to Richard Wagner’s private house without diminishing the distinct aura of the site.  "

Bauwelt 40.2016
Review by Uta Winterhager

Bauwelt 33.2016
Topic Competitions decisions
Review by Ulrich Brinkmann