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As Global Landscape Director of Henning Larsen’s international projects, Franziska combines more than 20 years of experience within landscape and urbansim with deep strategic insight and in depth knowledge of landscape design. Her approach is always collaborative and interdisciplinary, and she insists on learning from both clients, local citizens, and collaborators in the process. Franziskas’ competencies cover a broad spectrum from masterplanning to advanced detailed landscape design, as well as public space transformations. With a BREEAM AP-certification, Franziska is also a sustainability expert and works with the integration of landscape, innovative urban developments and naturebased solutions. Her extensive international experience, combined with technical expertise and ability to inspire and connect teams and clients across diverse markets, makes her an ambitious leader to drive Henning Larsens landscape team.

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Søren Pihlmann (b. 1987) founded the Copenhagen-based office pihlmann architects in 2021. By exploring novel materials and re-evaluating existing ones, he strives to rethink conventional architectural perspectives. Examining the potential of both overproduced and underestimated materials, he combines them based on their inherent properties, creating compositions that evoke both familiarity and discovery.

In recent years, he has made a significant mark on the Danish architectural scene through a series of transformative projects that have strongly influenced contemporary discourse. In 2023, his project House14a received Denmark’s most prestigious architectural award, the Årets Arne, named after the celebrated modernist Arne Jacobsen. That same year, he was shortlisted for three Architectural Review awards, having previously received the Henning Larsen Foundation Honorary Award in 2022.

His innovative practice has led to his appointment as the curator of the Danish Pavilion at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia in 2025. The exhibition will incorporate the renovation of the pavilion itself as part of its concept. The architectural philosophy underpinning his work emphasizes the potential of existing materials and resources, challenging how we continue to build by focusing on what we already have. This approach is exemplified by his recent transformation project Thoravej 29, which was awarded Building of the Year 2024 in Denmark and reused 95% of the existing materials.

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Robert joined Mei architects and planners in 2000 and became a full partner in 2022. As a building technologist, he specializes in architectural detailing and sustainable construction. As the concept supervisor of the agency, he oversees the whole design and building process of SAWA, the first circular timber building in Rotterdam. As a BREEAM-NL expert with the Dutch Green Building Council and active in industry committees, Robert shares his expertise as a guest lecturer and critic. His work focuses on creating circular, biobased, people-centered architecture.

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Jeanette Kunsmann, author and architecture journalist, is editor-in-chief of Detail. Her topics are architecture and building culture, design and art, city and society. From 2013 to 2016, she was editor-in-chief of the daily BauNetz news and the weekly magazine Baunetzwoche. She then developed the cross-media magazine DEAR with Stephan Burkoff on behalf of Heinze GmbH, which she managed as deputy editor-in-chief from 2017 to 2019. Publications include ARCH+, AW Architektur & Wohnen, Baumeister, Domus, FAZ, FAS Reise, Häuser, IDEAT, Jovis, Mitte/Rand, Ruby Press, Stylepark, uncube magazine; co-founder of the publishing house Mitte/Rand; architecture diploma under Dieter Eckert at the Technical University of Berlin. She lives and works in Berlin and Munich.