On 23 August 1946, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia was founded with the state capital Düsseldorf. The state of NRW will celebrate its 75th anniversary from 27 August 2021 to 23 May 2022 with an anniversary exhibition “Our State. 75 Years of North Rhine-Westphalia” in the “Behrensbau” on the banks of the Rhine in Düsseldorf. Eller + Eller Architekten were commissioned with the conversion planning of the Behrens Building in order to prepare the listed building to host the anniversary exhibition

The exhibition “Harald Deilmann – Living Architecture” will take place at the Baukunstarchiv NRW in Dortmund from 27 August to 7 November 2021. The occasion is the 100th birthday of the architect Prof. Harald Deilmann in 2020. Due to the pandemic, the exhibition originally planned for 2020 was postponed to 2021. We refurbished the WestLB Dortmund building designed by Harald Deilmann and converted it into the DoC Dortmund Centre for Medicine and Health. We have written a report on our approach to this extraordinary challenge for the exhibition catalogue.