Year: 1972

Hügelhaus

Designed as “single family houses on storeys” this cooperative project includes apartments of many sizes to allow for a diverse variety of resident types. Every apartment has its own garden-like terrace. (Special thanks to Alexander Kleinsch…

Technisches Rathaus

The architects won the competition in 1963 ahead of renowned architects such as Walter Gropius and Hans Scharoun. Due to various reasons however the winning design had been subsequently modified several times. Not long after the inauguration this led to…

St. Peter and Paul Church (Cathedral of Clifton)

The central sculptural structure that towers up creates a shaft of space inside, which is both the sanctuary area and the primary source of light, setting an example to be followed, for example in St. Matthew’s in Birmingham or St. Paul’s in Tower H…

Post Office

This building is one of a range of similar post offices in the bavarian countryside (for example in Regen). However this example is still virtually unchanged with the exposed concrete being in remarkable good condition to this day. Notable design featur…

Town Hall

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Princess Towers

Planned as an experimental, non-profit cooperative student accommodation project the enterprise initially failed. However, renting the units traditionally to students/young professionals was successful.

Katedrala Sv. Bonaventuri (St. Bonaventure Cathedral)

The initial construction, built 1972-1973, was designed to symbolize a “tent” inhabited by God. Further, the tent-shaped structure takes reference to the region’s earthquake in 1969: it had destroyed the original church and its victims found refug…

Ebertplatz

Levelled park and shopping arcade connecting to the underground station and surrounding pedestrian (South), commercial (North), residential (West) and recreative (East) areas. Special thanks to Tobias Flessenkemper.

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To exhibit an important interchange of human values, over a span of time or within a cultural area of the world, on developments in architecture or technology, monumental arts, town-planning or landscape design. 474 iii
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To be outstanding examples representing significant on-going ecological and biological processes in the evolution and development of terrestrial, fresh water, coastal and marine ecosystems and communities of plants and animals. 135 v
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