Tag: To build
The finalists of the DAM Prize for Architecture – Culture
What do the new Axel Springer building in Berlin by Rem Koolhaas, architecture like a blasted rock made of glass and steel, and the colorful San Riemo residential building in…
Disaster in building renovation – economy
What is human does not necessarily have to be good in the end. It is humane to secure funding quickly when the end is near. It’s bad when so many…
Housing shortage: praise of the vacancy
The omissions of the past are taking revenge in housing policy. For the future it is important to control immigration and rather to build a little more than too little.…
Grünwald: “An eco house offers 95 percent advantages” – District of Munich
Grünwalder Achim Zeppenfeld has lived for 23 years in a wooden building with a water buffer tank and solar systems that even heat the pool in summer. When it comes…
Grünwald – “An eco-house offers 95 percent advantages” – District of Munich
Achim Zeppenfeld’s house in Grünwald actually looks like any other. White walls, good indoor climate, pleasantly heated. In the basement, pipes extend from the ceiling, that is the first noticeable…
Municipal buildings: The requirements are growing – District of Munich
In 2014 Waltraud Fischer moved into Ismaning’s town hall, almost simultaneously with the then newly elected mayor Alexander Greulich (SPD). Since then, the head of the building administration – since…
Sustainable building: the tallest wooden house in Germany – economy
98 meters, 29 floors, 150 apartments: in Berlin they want to use a wooden high-rise to show that they can think big in the long term. Is this now the…
Sustainability: streets made of plastic waste – economy
Conventional road building is hard work, noisy and dirty. Before the traffic can roll in, the ground has to be prepared with tons of sand, grit, gravel and tar. After…
Hohenbrunn – tenants could stand on the street – district of Munich
Stefan Forster, the head of the structural engineering department in the Hohenbrunn community, did not mince his words: “The nerves are on edge,” he said during the meeting of the…
Munich: Modern building with wood – Munich
Of Sebastian Krass and Jakob Wetzel The Siemens buildings on Richard-Strauss-Straße have already been cleared. In the coming year, a new high-rise is to be built there, one that does…