News
09/12/2010Topping-out ceremony
Topping-out ceremony for the new A-Plus terminal extension in Frankfurt
This Thursday sees the topping-out ceremony for the new A-Plus terminal area at Frankfurt Airport. The new facility expands the terminal areas used by Lufthansa, and was required regardless of the airport expansion program so as to accommodate large-capacity Airbus A380 and Boeing B747-8 aircraft.
08/12/2010Inauguration
Borgo Trento Hospital, Verona, Italy
Borgo Trento Hospital is of general importance for northern Italy. The new block now completed in the first phase has nine storeys overall, and is in the centre of the century-old hospital site.
03/11/2010Inauguration
First phase of State Ballet School of Berlin handed over
The first phase of the refurbishment and enlargement of the state School of Ballet and Artistry is being inaugurated tomorrow. The present phase of construction took 30 months to complete, and comprises a new hall with ten dance rooms plus the refurbishment of the existing school building dating from the 1960s. Still to be completed (by the end of 2011) is a four-storey boarding school for 70 pupils on the same site.
28/10/2010Inauguration
Qingdao Grand Theater opens after five years’ construction work
The new opera house for the metropolis of Qingdao in Eastern China was opened yesterday. The design by architects Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz with Nicolas Pomränke beat off rival bids from eleven international firms in 2004. Construction has taken just under five years.
08/10/2010Inauguration
Hanoi Museum opens its doors to the public this Friday
Hanoi Museum, the new museum of Hanoi’s history, was inaugurated on Wednesday this week as part of the millennial celebrations at the Vietnamese capital. The ceremony took place in the presence of national and regional government representatives.
09/12/2010Foundation Stone laid
Hans Sachs Building in Gelsenkirchen, Germany
This Friday sees the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the new City Hall, in the presence of Mayor Frank Baranowski, Gelsenkirchen chief executive Michael von der Mühlen and the responsible architect, Prof. Volkwin Marg.
13/09/20101st Prize
gmp Wins Ideas Competition for the Proposed Kiel Central Bus Station Development
A conference center with service facilities as an extension of the new Hotel Atlantic and a public multi-storey car park with 600 spaces above and 200 spaces below the central bus station could be constructed on a 6,000m² site directly along the shore of Kiel Firth to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners.
10/09/2010Grundsteinlegung
Hans-Sachs-Haus in Gelsenkirchen
This Friday sees the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone for the new City Hall, in the presence of Mayor Frank Baranowski, Gelsenkirchen chief executive Michael von der Mühlen and the responsible architect, Prof. Volkwin Marg.
09/09/2010Commissioning and Handover
Exhibition and Events Hall, Bielefeld, Germany
On 9th September, 16 months of construction work on the new extension to the town hall in Bielefeld was completed with a ceremony at which Mayor Pit Clausen gave a speech. With an area of 3,400m², the Events and Exhibition Hall can accommodate up to 5,000 visitors.
19/07/2010News
BDA Hamburg Architecture Award 2010: 3rd Prize and Commendation for gmp
The jury of the BDA Hamburg Architecture Award has awarded the Office and Commercial Building at Hohe Bleichen 11 in the center of Hamburg a third Prize.
18/06/2010Award
"German steel architecture is champion!" Cape Town Stadium in South Africa wins steel industry prize
At the 2010 football World Cup championships in South Africa, the competition is not only a matter of sport. The stadia themselves have their own contest, for the Deutscher Stahlbau prize. This year, the prize was awarded jointly to architects gmp von Gerkan, Marg and Partners and structural engineers sbp schlaich bergermann und partner for Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town.
07/05/2010Topping out ceremony
Topping out ceremony for the terminal building of BBI Berlin Brandenburg International Airport.
The ceremonial topping out ceremony of the terminal building as the heart of the new BBI airport for the German capital took place on 7th May. Berlin Brandenburg is (after Munich) the second completely new airport system in Germany to have take-off and landing runways operated completely separately from each other and passenger-handling midfield.
Events
Discussion panel
02/12/2010Prof. Meinhard von Gerkan
"Berlin’s main railway station area"
On Thursday, 2nd December 2010, there will be a panel discussion on the quality of the main railway station area in Berlin.
Lecture
29/11/2010Stephan Schütz
"projects involving existing buildings"
On 29th November, Stephan Schütz will be giving a talk on construction work on existing buildings, as part of the "Weiter BAUEN - Positionen zum Bauen im Bestand" Monday lecture series at the Faculty of Architecture, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Panel discussion
18/01/2011Nikolaus Goetze
“Building in China. What China still wants (or will tolerate)”
A panel discussion on the subject of “Building in China. What China still wants (or will tolerate)” will be held on 24th November 2010 in connection with the Cities Unknown photo exhibition by HGEsch at the Carlswerk in Cologne.
Lecture
23/11/2010Prof. Meinhard von Gerkan
"Building for Art"
On 23rd November 2010, Professor Meinhard von Gerkan will be speaking on the subject of “Building for Art”, as part of the TUHH post-graduate lecture series.
Exhibition
01/11/2010Built visions
The China Maritime Museum of architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners
From 5th November 2010 to 30th January 2011, architects von Gerkan, Marg und Partner are putting on an exhibition about the design and construction of China’s largest maritime museum. The globally active Hamburg architectural firm has come up with an imaginative approach that incorporates the seafaring concept in the new museum structure itself.
aac architecture workshop
15/06/2010"Deutsches Haus" (German House) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
This year, for the first time, aac is offering a workshop in Vietnam. The workshop is conducted by the aac, in corporation with the Vietnam Architects Association (VAA).
Exhibition
06/04/2010From Cape Town to Brasília
New Sports Stadiums by the Architects von Gerkan, Marg und Partner
Taking examples from Cape Town to Brasilia, the exhibition on gmp's most recent sports stadiums at the Architekturmuseum der TU München shows how state-of-the-art technology and the genius loci can best be integrated. Exhibition Duration: 22.4.-20.6.2010
