The building, located in the small town of Coesfeld-Lette, just west of Munster in Germany’s North-Rhine Westphalia region, is the new headquarters for the German clothing retailer Ernsting. Designed on a greenfield site, the structure stands alongside two existing distribution centres, one of which was designed by Santiago Calatrava in the 1980s and the other by Schilling Architects in the late 1990s. This third building completes the Ernsting compound and provides office space for business and retail managers together with a research and evelopment department.

The concept for its design was …

The project reforms the access from the railway station to the Paseo del Ovalo, an historic promenade built on the site of the city walls. This promenade is one of many sensitive monuments in this world heritage city.

The immediate environment leading to the promenade has been improved with the addition of planting, street furniture and upgrading the quality of finishes and providing additional lighting.

Passenger choosing not to climb the ornate neo-Mudejar style stairway leading to the Paseo proceed along a defined pathway through a hard landscape, to a tall new …

This studio for the English artist Antony Gormley is located amid the industrial buildings, warehouses and rail yards just north of London’s Kings Cross station. Attempting to create light and open spaces for the diverse and specific ways in which the artist works, the building provides studio space for drawing, painting, sculpting, welding, casting, and photography.

A former Turner prize winner, and an artist whose work has been exhibited in museums and as installations all over the world, Antony Gormley has created some of the most ambitious and recognisable sculptural works …

Parkside Apartments are so named due to their exclusive location directly on the Tiergarten park in the centre of Berlin. The ten-storey apartment building forms the northern border of a new hotel, office and residential development – Beisheim Center on Potsdamer Platz.

The building accommodates 36 apartments, ranging from 150 sqm to 300 sqm. The high degree of flexibility in the design of the floor plans – spanning traditional to flowing room concepts – forms the basis for all apartments, as does the constant presence of the surrounding green space.

All apartments …

Friedrich Grammar School is the oldest conserved building in the northern part of Fredrichstrasse as well as the first school building in Fredrich-Wilhelm-City. As the oldest secondary school building in Berlin, it exemplifies the type of schools that were being erected in the second third of the 19th Century, just before the Hermann Blankenstein period.

After 15 years of neglect, the registered architectural monument has been restored to house the head office for the German publishing company UIIstain Verlag, and comprises a street building and a courtyard building. Both buildings have …

Commissioned by the Empresa Municipal de la Vivienda(EMV), the social housing scheme is located on plot 203 of a new development in Verona, in the Villaverde district of southern Madrid. Comprised of 176 one-, two-, and three-bedroom apartments, the scheme responds to an overall masterplan for the site which requested a single U-shaped block, 15m deep, and with a footprint of just over 2,000m2. Like other buildings within the same development, it also required that the block be eight stories high and have the appearance of a pitched roof. Within …

Pantaenius House, Hamburg, Germany
This office building forms part of a new masterplan for the HafenCity in Hamberg as part of a revitalisation program for a harbour which has lost its significance as one of Europe’s leading trade and shipping centres. The building will accommodate the head office of Pantaenius-Versicherungsgesellschaft (a yacht insurance broker) and is situated in the “Speicherstadt”, a historic area of shipping warehouses and the key architectural element of the historic harbour development of Hamburg. The design of the building attempts to find both a material and formal …

Hotel Beaumont, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Hotel Beaumont Residence is a third generation family business located near to Maastricht train station. The hotel was founded in 1912 in a 4-storey corner building constructed in 1885. From this point the hotel gradually expanded along the adjoining buildings of the same block and adapted itself to acquire the status of a modern 4-star hotel with 121 rooms.

The recent replanning was prompted by the acquisition of further adjoining buildings that were to be integrated into the existing hotel configuration. The objective was to restructure the …

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, USA/ David Chipperfield
The centre of Davenport, located on the banks of the Mississippi on Iowa’s eastern border, suffers from many of the problems endemic to a number of American cities. Over the years the area has witnessed the departure of much of its residential and business community, leaving downtown Davenport with little of the vibrancy normally associated with urban life. In an attempt to reinvigorate this area, and recreate a connection to the river, the city identified the relocation and re-building of the Davenport Museum of …

Museum of Modern Literature Marbach am Neckar, Germany
The museum is located in Marbach’s scenic park, on top of a rock plateau overlooking the valley of the Neckar River. As the birthplace of the dramatist Friedrich Schiller, the town’s park already held the National Schiller Museum, built in 1903, and the Archive for German Literature, built in the 1970s. Displaying artefacts from the extensive 20th century collection from the Archive for German Literature, notably the original manuscripts of Franz Kafka’s “The Trial” and Alfred Doeblin’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”, the museum also provides …