Used only as a car park for over 20 years, the derelict area of the Old Bus Yard was given an appropriate urbanity again. The new construction of a hotel, an office building and a mixed-use commercial and office building was able to close the urban gap on an important access road to Aachen city centre as a new quarter.
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After the fall of the Wall, a new location became necessary for the first all-German cultural project: The historic Zeughaus in Berlin’s Mitte district was decided upon as the home of the permanent exhibition, and a new building for temporary exhibitions on an adjacent plot of land was soon decided upon. In 1996, I. M. Pei was commissioned with the planning of this extension.
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The Federal Ministry of Justice has its headquarters in an ensemble of several historical buildings and courtyards. It was possible to preserve the existing substance through careful renovation and additions and to relate it to each other.
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We were commissioned by the collector couple Peter and Irene Ludwig as general planners to renovate and refurbish the Ludwig Galerie in the classicist Schloss Oberhausen. Since its redesign in 1998, the gallery has been one of the internationally renowned exhibition venues in the Ruhr region.
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The corporate headquarters with showrooms and casino are located within the garden ring south of the Kremlin and the Moskva River. The entire building site was developed as an office park and divided into seven construction phases. The building consists of two similar five-storey structures (side wings) with an interior atrium.
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The largest and most modern training facility of the German Navy is located in Parwow on the strait between Rügen and the mainland. Three training and education buildings with a gross floor area of 28,888 m² were built at the Strelasund Barracks.
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The Haniel Group operates an academy for executive training at its headquarters in Duisburg. The 12,650 m² GFA complex, consisting of several buildings, is embedded in a landscape-like sculpture park.
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The Chocolate Museum vividly shows the entire process from the growth of the cocoa bean to the finished chocolate product. By converting and extending the former customs yard, an exceptionally successful museum with 600,000 visitors a year was created at the prominently located entrée of Cologne’s Rheinauhafen harbour.
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The Ludwig Forum for International Art with exhibition and event space was created in 1991 from the former umbrella factory built in 1928. Further exhibition spaces, studios and a restaurant are grouped around the approx. 3,000 m² central shed roof hall.
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