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Vincent von Thien designs Trader HiFi cafe as a “space that celebrates sound”

January 3, 2026 Alyn Griffiths 0

A cork-clad DJ booth forms the centrepiece of this coffee shop in Hamburg, which its owner Vincent von Thien has designed to evoke the relaxing atmosphere of Japan’s jazz cafes. Von Thien established Trader HiFi in Hamburg’s Ottensen district as a cafe for audiophiles that serves coffee during the day and hosts curated listening sessions

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“Glass lantern” roof tops barracks house conversion in Germany by Andreas Schüring Architekten

December 24, 2025 Jon Astbury 0

Local studio Andreas Schüring Architekten has completed Brick to Light, the renovation of a former barracks house in Germany that has transformed its mansard roof into a “glass lantern”. Located in Münster, the home was once part of a wider barracks complex designed in 1913, the majority of which was demolished in 2009 to make

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Snøhetta unveils plans for cavernous opera house in Düsseldorf

November 24, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

A cave-like ground floor accessible on all sides will be the focal point of this opera house, which architecture studio Snøhetta is designing for Düsseldorf, Germany. Designed for the opera company Oper am Rheins, Düsseldorf Opera House will have a fully glazed ground floor and an “organically shaped interior” designed to entice passersby. According to

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BIG designs Hamburg State Opera as “landscape of concentric terraces”

November 14, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Architecture studio BIG has unveiled designs for a waterfront home for Hamburg State Opera, which will be enclosed by a series of interconnected terraces. Set to be built on a peninsula within the German city’s HafenCity quarter, the 45,000-square-metre venue will contain production and performance facilities for the State Opera and Hamburg Ballet. BIG described

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Malte Schütt creates prefabricated Kassette House sauna

October 30, 2025 Cajsa Carlson 0

Designer Malte Schütt has created a modular wooden sauna with a gridded facade and a planted roof that connects it to its green, garden setting. The recent graduate built the sauna, named Kassette House, using “an ecological modular, prefab system made from softwood,” he said. “The design consists of four-by-four pillars and frames, which form

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Timber museum to be Kéré Architecture’s first cultural project in Germany

October 28, 2025 Starr Charles 0

Berlin-based studio Kéré Architecture has unveiled plans for an art and photography museum in Germany, which will feature an 80-metre-long rammed-earth wall and a timber pergola. Set to be located in Plüschow, a village in northern Germany, Museum Ehrhardt will encompass 1,400 square metres of exhibition and public space alongside a 3,900-square-metre garden. The new

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Doshi Retreat snakes through Vitra Campus in Germany

October 24, 2025 Lizzie Crook 0

The last building designed by the late Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi has reached completion at the Vitra Campus in Germany, with a snake-like form crafted from weathered steel. Named Doshi Retreat, the structure offers a space for solitude and contemplation at furniture brand Vitra’s iconic base in Weil am Rhein, on a plot adjacent to

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Ingenhoven Associates drapes trailing plants over old Stuttgart shopping centre

November 7, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

German studio Ingenhoven Associates has redesigned Calwer Passage, a former shopping centre and office block in Stuttgart, adding a “natural curtain” of trailing plants to its facade. The scheme, which has been shortlisted in the mixed-use project category of Dezeen Awards 2024, involved the reconstruction and extension of the 1970s shopping arcade and office block

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Knight Architects reinstates historic Germany-Poland border crossing with simple and elegant” bridge

September 28, 2024 Jon Astbury 0

London studio Knight Architects has completed the Küstrin-Kietz Rail Crossing bridge, which is framed by white steel arches and a tensile lattice of carbon-fibre reinforced plastic. Crossing the River Oder over the demarcation line between Germany and Poland, the 130-metre bridge restores a historic rail link between the two countries that dates back to the

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Bliesgau House in German orchard takes cues from agricultural architecture

September 17, 2024 Katie Last 0

Agricultural architecture informed this timber house, which architect Roman Morschett has nestled into a grass-filled orchard site in rural southwest Germany. Named Bliesgau House, the home was designed to celebrate its orchard setting and draw from the rural Gersheim surroundings, with a simple timber structure that sits low in the landscape. Located next to the

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