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Since 4 December 2014, Meinhard von Gerkan has been Consulting Professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the renowned Tongji University in Shanghai. He was handed his certificate of appointment by Prof. Zheng Shiling, member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the presence of representatives of the Faculty and numerous students.
The Gyula Trebitsch school at Hamburg will be extended and the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been commissioned to build the extended replacement building to their designs. This was the result of the design commission negotiated under VOF (German procedure for commissioning freelance services) following the competition win.
With the completion of the transport and landscaped areas, the conversion and extension of the workshops for the scenery and costumes of the Städtische Bühnen were completed on time for the new 2014/2015 season.
Meinhard von Gerkan has been honoured in China with a guest professorship at the well-established Southeast University of Nanjing. The award was presented to him by Wang Jianguo, Dean of the Architecture Faculty at the university, which was founded in 1902, during the opening of the exhibition entitled “Designing in Dialogue. The Architecture of von Gerkan, Marg and Partners”.
Yesterday, at the awards ceremony of the Iconic Awards 2014 in Munich, the Qingdao Grand Theatre and the Berlin State Ballet School were awarded Best of Best and Winner respectively in the Architecture category.
Building on old foundations: Is there a better place than Venice to stage an exhibition on this subject? Is there any other place that depends to the same degree on its foundations, the millions of oak piles on which the city is founded – or a place similarly at risk? Venice is the epitome of a city which engages with its own architectural past.
After a construction period of almost two years, Trianel GmbH this summer moved into its company headquarters in Aachen, which had been designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners. The utility company now has over 300 employees in the new building who previously were spread out over three locations in Aachen. The office block has a floor area of 6,300 square metres and can accommodate up to 430 members of staff.
1914–2014: the period of world history which the 2014 Architecture Biennale revolves around is the century in which the modern world has come about, a technological and globalised world. A central element in this development: the dream of flying has become a reality, for everybody.
The name Brooklyn Rapid Transit Powerhouse refers to a large coal-fired power station built at the end of the 19th century to generate electricity for Brooklyn’s streetcar system. Built as a steel skeleton construction typical of the time with a representative façade composed of red-brown brick, the building is situated on an extensive site along the branching Gowanus Canal, which until decommissioning was the supply route for the power plant’s coal and water.
1914–2014: the period of world history which the 2014 Architecture Biennale revolves around is the century in which the modern world has come about, a technological and globalised world. A central element in this development: the dream of flying has become a reality, for everybody.
Good architecture is created in a dialogue. And it takes social responsibility. An optimal solution for a building project can only be achieved when one asks the right questions. Often these are unusual questions, sometimes simple, and frequently they seem to want to combine what cannot be combined. It is this work process which is used by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners to create architecture.
The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) are designing the new rehearsal building for the ballet company of Deutsche Oper am Rhein. In a consortium with HOCHTIEF Solutions, they were commissioned by Düsseldorf City Council in a PPP scheme. The new ballet building will be created on the historic site of the former Rheinbahn depot “am Steinberg” in Düsseldorf, between the listed tramway depot and the back of the housing development at Kopernikusstrasse.
The architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been successful in winning the competition for three office towers near the southern railway station in Shanghai, and have been commissioned with the design of the project. Vanke Co., Ltd. is one of the largest real estate companies for housing in China and wants to extend its range of activities into the office building sector; for this purpose, the company has selected a site in a desirable up-and-coming business area.
In the southern Chinese city of Dongguan – a city of several million – a basketball stadium has been completed to plans by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp). The building can be seen from afar and is a landmark that provides identity and orientation to the people in the new district of Liaobu. The stadium has space for nearly 15,000 visitors and can be used for sports and other events; it is the new main competition venue for one of the most successful Chinese basketball teams, the Dongguan Leopards.
At Tesdorpfstrasse 8 in Hamburg, near the Dammtor railway station, a new office building has been completed to a design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) which meets top energy conservation standards and is likely to receive the gold certificate under DGNB rules.
Five books on the work, views and approaches of the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) have been published in recent months. The œuvre of the practice is very diverse, and similarly the authors approach their subjects – which couldn’t be more varied - in very different ways: from building in a historic context via the design and construction of Chinese cultural venues through to a view behind the curtain of large German construction sites, the books illustrate examples of gmp’s work in text and images.
The design by architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners, with JB Ferrari, for a new children’s hospital at the Lausanne University Hospital has won first prize in an international competition. The hospital is to provide 85 beds and an accident and emergency unit for children, and is provisionally scheduled to open in 2019. The design concept includes light-flooded open areas with much greenery, which are intended to make a hospital stay as agreeable as possible for patients and their relatives. Today, the entry will be presented to the public in Lausanne.
A new football stadium for Tripoli: the groundbreaking ceremony for the National Stadium in the new sports park, which was designed by the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners (gmp) took place on Wednesday 26 February 2014. The ceremony took place in the presence of the Libyan Prime Minister, Ali Seidan, the German Ambassador, Christian Much, the football legend Franz Beckenbauer and the gmp Project Manager, Hans-Joachim Paap. gmp has been commissioned with the scheme design for the project as well as the detailed design.
A groundbreaking ceremony for the new construction of the German Service Centre in Foshan, a city in the south of China, will take place on 25 February 2014. In 2013, the architects von Gerkan, Marg and Partners were successful in winning this competition which was open to German architectural practices with a Chinese partner.
On Tuesday, December 10, Nikolaus Goetze will speak at the second congress of the Ho Chi Minh City Architect Association. In his lecture "Designing in Dialogue" he will discuss the importance of dialogic design using the example of numerous projects from the gmp portfolio. The lecture will be followed by a discussion between invited guests and the audience.
Public discussion about the "Stadteingang Elbbrücken" – jury chairman Prof. Kees Christiaanse will present the designs of the three participating teams, including gmp with WES LAndschaftsArchitektur.
On Saturday, Evelyn Pasdzierny of gmp and Andreas Kachel of WES will present the draft for a clearly formulated entrance to the city of Hamburg crossing the Elbe bridges. Three renowned architecture and landscape planning teams had worked on the task.
On Thursday, November 14, gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze and Sven Plieninger of schlaich bergermann partner will speak at the Tongji University in Shanghai. In the joint lecture "Friendship – where nothing is impossible!" they will both present the specific aspects of their co-realized projects.
On Tuesday, November 12, Volkwin Marg will talk about "Bridge Construction Projects and Genius Loci". The lecture series “Bridge Building Culture in Germany” will take place within the framework of the Colloquium on Constructive Engineering.
On Tuesday, November 12, Stephan Schütz will speak at the symposium, “Robust Construction – Illusion or Necessity?” in Munich. Together with Elisabeth Endres, he will discuss the question of how robust an interim building can really be.
At BAU China 2019, Stephan Schütz will give a lecture on renovating existing buildings using German and Chinese examples.
On Monday, November 4, 2019 at 7 pm, gmp and FSB host a film screening of “Years of Construction – Baujahre [2013 – 2018]”, documenting the building process of the Kunsthalle Mannheim. Following the screening, the internationally renowned German film pioneer and illustrator Heinz Emigholz will be present for a discussion with gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze and is happy to answer questions from the audience.
In the lecture series "On the Duty and the Power of Architecture", organized by the Section Architecture of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin, international architecture offices present their current work. Volkwin Marg will be a guest on October 22. His lecture and the subsequent discussion with the architectural historian Werner Durth will focus on the changes in building culture and the responsibility of architecture.
As of this year, Tegel Airport is a listed building. On this occasion, the Landesdenkmalamt Berlin and the Architektenkammer Berlin are hosting the event "Jung, aber Denkmal" at the Urania Berlin on Monday, October 21. Stephan Schütz, partner at gmp, will take part in a panel discussion on the monument's future.
On Thursday, October 17, gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze and sbp partner Sven Plieninger will speak at the International Forum Architects Dialogue Structurists, hosted by the Chinese Academy of Engineering in Beijing.
On October 9, the project MIK e.V. and Verseidag invite you to a discussion with Volkwin Marg about Krefeld and architecture in the Krefeld Pavilion. The Pavillon is a walk-in sculpture by Thomas Schütte, winner of the Biennale Prize, and is a contribution to the nationwide anniversary event Bauhaus 100.
Stephan Schütz speaks at the International Library Summit in Venice on October 4th. The one-day conference is dedicated to the theme "Libraries and Their Architecture in the 21st Century".
At the opening of the exhibition " Stadt, Land, Fluss " on 12 September in Berlin, gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze will speak about the many years of cooperation with the architectural photographer HGEsch. Among the exhibited works are photographic documentations of numerous gmp projects.
On September 6, Christian Hellmund of gmp architects will speak at the lecture evening "Magdeburg - City of Modernism" (in german) about two striking buildings: the Stadthalle, built in 1927, and the Hyparschale by Ulrich Müther. He presents the planning for the renovation and extension of the Stadthalle as well as the planned construction measures on the Hyparschale in the immediate vicinity. Another speaker is the art historian Sabine Ullrich.
On 28 August, Stephan Schütz, Partner at gmp, will give a lecture on the theme of tradition and progress at the "JUNG Architecture Talks" event in Singapur.
On 21 August, Volkwin Marg will be a guest in the Theater Hall of the Alte Molkerei in Worpswede. He is one of five panelists in the discussion, "Concepts of contemporary building and urban planning" - with a focus on specific challenges in the near and long-term future.
On Tuesday, August 20, the DGNB e.V. and the Hamburg Chamber of Architects invite you to the event "Sustainable Building - Towards a New Normal" (in german). As one of the speakers, Urs Wedekind, Associate Director - DGBN Auditor at gmp, will present the German House in Ho Chi Minh City. The practical example shows how certification can help with the planning and construction of a sustainable house for the future.
The aac spring workshop was focused on the Japanische Palais—the last element in Dresden’s museum landscape that still requires refurbishment. Under the guidance of Meinhard von Gerkan and Stephan Schütz, the students developed designs that open the building towards Neustadt and the River Elbe, and convert the Japanische Palais into a “working collection” in which the general public is involved in the process of artistic creation. From August 15 the results will be shown in an exhibition in Dresden.
The 14th edition of the JUNG Architecture Talks in Freiburg on 11 July, 2019 is devoted to the topic "Modular + Serious". Bernd Gossmann, associate partner at gmp, is part of the panel and will talk about his experiences with the planning of a temporary school building in modular timber construction in Frankfurt's Westend.
Volkwin Marg speaks at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg on Tuesday evening. In his lecture he discussed the opportunities and challenges of his work.
On Friday, 28 June 2019, the exhibition “Architecture x Fashion - A Dialogue” will open as part of Hamburg's Architecture Summer 2019. This exhibition runs until 12 July, 2019.
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On Thursday, 2 May 2019, the "DAM Preis 2019" exhibition by the Deutsches Architekturmuseum will open at the Zentrum für Baukultur Sachsen (ZfBK) in Dresden.
Stephan Schütz will be guest at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin tomorrow evening. In a talk with Claudia Wessling, Head of Publications at MERICS, he shares experiences from 20 years of building in China.
As part of the upcoming aac spring workshop, Prof. José Gutierrez Marquez, co-founder of the architecture studio Bruno Fioretti Marquez (Berlin), will give a talk on "Palimpsest" on 27 March at 7 pm. The event is free of charge. Pre-registration is kindly requested.
Architect Antonio Cruz, co-founder of Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos, is giving a talk on 21 March as part of the upcoming aac spring workshop "Japanisches Palais. The Art Cabinet as a Working Collection" in Hamburg. One of the topics addressed during his lecture will be the project New Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
On 21 March at 7 pm, Prof. Dr.-Ing. h.c. HG Merz, founder and Managing Director of hg merz architects (Stuttgart), will open the lecture series of this year's aac spring workshop "Japanisches Palais. The Art Cabinet as a Working Collection" under the guidance of Meinhard von Gerkan and
Stephan Schütz. The event is free of charge. Pre-registration is kindly requested.
On 4 February, Volkwin Marg will speak at the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce about gmp construction projects in Kazakhstan and China at the event The New Silk Road. Among the further guests of the meeting rank Professor Dr. Karl Pilny, Folker Hellmeyer, Professor Dr. Joachim Nagel, Hendrik Wehlen and Alen Jangozin.
In his 30-minute lecture, Volkmar Sievers introduces the Kunsthalle Mannheim and the headquarters of the Hengdian Group in Hangzhou, as well as the door handle that was used in both projects.
In his lecture, gmp founding partner Meinhard von Gerkan is providing a look behind the scenes of his architectural project as well as the philosophy that has shaped his work since the beginning.
Markus Pfisterer and Bernd Gossmann will present the school campus Miquelallee Frankfurt am Main, designed in modular timber construction, on the second day of SCHULBAU.
On the occasion of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus, Christian Hellmund presents the Magdeburger Stadthalle at the theme evening of Saxony-Anhalt's Chamber of Architects.
In the context of his "Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Guest Professorship" Nikolaus Goetze deals in this lecture with gmp projects in Germany - from door handles to airports.
On 7 November, Nicolas Pomränke, associate partner at gmp, will give a lecture as part of the lecture series "Bauen im Kontext" at hochschule 21 in Buxtehude.
On November 2, Johann von Mansberg, Director at gmp, will give a lecture at the FENESTRATION BAU China 2018 trade fair workshop in Beijing on the sustainability aspect of prefabricated buildings.
On Friday, 2 November, Stephan Rewolle, associat partner at gmp, will give a lecture at the FENESTRATION BAU China 2018 trade fair, adressing the question of how high-quality working environments can be created in industrial areas.
On Wednesday, 24 October, gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze will give a lecture on mobility as part of the Master in Design Engineering program, a collaborative degree program between the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.
In the winter semester 2018/2019 Nikolaus Goetze will take over the "Li Dehua & Luo Xiaowei Guest Professorship" as the Chair of Architectural Design at Tongji University in Shanghai. In his inaugural lecture on 10 October, he dealt with how museums can be designed in the future.
Every year, the international real estate industry meets in Munich: gmp will also be present at Expo Real, which takes place from 8 to 10 October 2018. For a personal appointment, contacts from the Hamburg and Berlin offices will be available in Hall B2, Stand 430 on both days of the fair.
When the 13th International Conference on Advanced Building Skins takes place in Bern (Switzerland) on 1 and 2 October, gmp will also be represented: Urs Wedekind, Associate Director at gmp, will talk about "Facade design in foreign markets - First double skin facade in Vietnam" at 10:45 am on 2 October.
“Contraction and Relaxation – New Spatial Concepts for Headquarters Architecture” – that is the title of the lecture on 27th September by gmp partner Stephan Schütz on the occasion of the 2nd Super Tall Building Industry International Summit, which is scheduled to be held on 27-28 September in Shenzhen, China.
The sixth edition of DETAIL's lecture series, "The Future of Building", on 20 September in Munich will focus on modular building. In his lecture at the symposium, Dipl.-Ing architect Christian Hellmund, Director at gmp, will talk about the Gasteig Interim, for which gmp has recently been awarded the contract.
On 13. September, Sara Taberner Bonastre (gmp) will be part of at the VII. Latin American Symposium on Tensile Architecture in the capital of Peru. Her presentation will showcase relevant projects from the gmp portfolio.
On 6 September, the 10th "Stiebel-Eltron Dialogue on the Evolution of Architecture" will take place in the space of BER Airport, at which Hans-Joachim Paap will give a lecture on the topic “Energy Efficiency in Transportation Structures - Demands and Reality”.
The project Deutsches Haus by gmp in the heart of Ho Chi Minh City is the first DGNB-certified building in Vietnam. In a lecture by gmp partner Nikolaus Geotze next Saturday and a photo exhibition during the Vietnam Energy Efficiency Building Week 2018 taking place from 25 August to 1 September at the Goethe-Institut Hanoi, visitors can learn more about the building.
Under the headline "Building Bridges - Brücken bauen ", experts from all over the world will meet from 26 to 28 June for the International Baukultur Days 2018 in Venice. Markus Pfisterer, Associate Partner at gmp, will be presenting bridge constructions from the gmp portfolio in a Pecha Kucha format as part of closing panel on 27 June.
The recently reopened Kunsthalle Mannheim considers itself as a "museum in motion". The new building is conceived as a 'city in the city'. On the occasion of the synposium "The Museum of the Future", gmp partner Nikolaus Goetze will be giving a tour of the house on 21 June, explaining the architecture, together with the team of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.