German architects build an Indian research station in the Antarctic. The inauguration of the New Indian Research Station Bharati, designed by bof Architekten based in Hamburg, is planned for 2012. The façade construction that has to withstand abnormally extreme conditions was also made in Germany.

The Siemens Group is making headlines with a major building project again. New corporate headquarters designed by Henning Larsen are to be built in Munich, while new headquarters designed by the British architects Sheppard Robson are currently also being built in Masdar City. Both new constructions are striving for top ...

The IBA (International Building Exhibition) Hamburg 2013 is approaching fast: Completion of the Open House in Hamburg-Wilhelmsburg – a passive house for communal living with a particularly low primary energy demand – is scheduled for this winter.

The research and development centre of a breakfast cereal manufacturer is the first building in Switzerland to have been awarded Platinum Certification in the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) rating system developed in America. The materials used to heat the new building, which is being built by a member of ...

The Gerling Insurance Group gave up its former headquarters in the middle of Cologne five years ago. The complex will now be converted for residential use according to plans by the architects kister scheithauer gross. A point of special interest is the energy renovation concept devised for the partly listed buildings.

The foundation stone for a new demonstration and research building for the ZAE Bavaria was laid in Würzburg at the beginning of October 2011. Numerous future technologies developed by the ZAE in the past years are to be tested in the new building designed by the architects Lang Hugger Rampp from Munich.

The recyclability of temporary structures is becoming increasingly important. A particularly radical option is the Zero Emission Pavilion designed by the architects PARTNERUNDPARTNER for the 3rd Climate Week in Hamburg at the end of September.

Eisenstadt is the capital of Austria's Burgenland and home to the largest passive housing complex in the state so far. Located in an area called Kirchäcker, the residential complex contains a total of 155 apartments, 71 of which are to be realised in the first construction phase. The complex was designed in line with the ...

It is particularly important with energy-efficient educational buildings that they transmit their functionality to both users and observers. A joint German-Polish research project is now aiming to establish exactly how a building can most effectively be turned into an ‘exhibition piece’ for sustainable construction.

Rammed earth, goat’s-hair rugs and recycled oak wood are just some of the natural construction materials used by the Agency for Renewable Resources (FNR - ‘Fachagentur Nachwachsende Rohstoffe’) in their new offices in the northern German town of Gülzow. The building – designed by matrix architektur (Rostock, Germany) – is now ...