
You can find interesting architecture everywhere. And it has a specific style in every corner of the world.

In this article, we’ll focus on new German buildings with their interesting architecture.

German architects are very conservative when they are designing new buildings.

However in some places where the surrounding area allows them (and of course, the authorities) they build modern buildings, which is something that is welcome by some and rejected by others.

In this article you will see 26 interesting new buildings from Germany that you will surely like.

Otto Bock

The owner of this beautiful example of German architecture is Otto Bock.

It is a German prosthetics company situated in Duderstadt.

It has been responsible for several innovations in prosthetics, including the C-Leg, a computerized knee that adaptively varies its passive resistance to suit the patients’ different walking gaits, and the Michelangelo Hand, a fully articulated robotic hand prosthesis.

An der Alster 1

The building with interesting architecture is situated at the intersection between the Hamburg’s lively downtown and its urban landscape rich in water and mature trees. It is at the transition from city to nature, and the gateway building to the bustling metropolitan core. It is a fine example of modern German architecture.

Green Climate Fund Headquarters

The Federal Republic of Germany recently chose the Laboratory for Visionary Architecture (LAVA) as the designers for their bid to host the Secretariat of the Green Climate Fund in Bonn, Germany.

With a design inspired by the beautiful setting in the Rhine valley, and with curvilinear forms, nature light wells, roof top gardens and a large sunken terrace for the restaurant, the three level structure will comply with the latest energy and building ecology standards, meeting the highest demands in terms of sustainability (German gold certificate), ecology and energy efficiency (net zero energy).

Sumatrakontor Hamburg

Another one of these German buildings is the mixed-use building (SPV 1-4) designed by Erick van Egeraat is part of the Überseequartier and the larger plan of the HafenCity waterfront redevelopment in Hamburg, Germany.

The new building SPV 1-4 comprises spaces for retail, offices and housing on a gross floor area of 37,000 m2.

Within the Masterplan of the Überseequartier, this building with interesting architecture acts as urban attraction, offering retail areas on the ground floor and hosting offices and apartments alongside the main Überseeboulevard that connects the inner city with the river.

Vitrahaus

Over the years the Vitra Campus has become an architecture museum, featuring works by the most renowned architects: Frank Ghery, Zaha Hadid, Alvaro Siza, Tadao Ando, Jean Pruvé, Nicholas Grimshaw, Buckminster Fuller and SANAA (under construction).


The latest addition to the complex is the VitraHaus building, a series of stacked pitched-roof boxed, designed by Herzog & de Meuron for Vitra’s Home Collection:

JOH 3

Centre for Virtual Engineering

Deutsches Bergbau-Museum

The Deutsches Bergbau-Museum, a German Mining Museum, lies in the heart of the Ruhr Area, in the city of Bochum.

The museum is one of the most important mining museums and one of the most popular museums in Germany. Currently, the museum draws around 400,000 visitors annually to its 12,000 sqm of exhibition space.

Sony Center Berlin

In the reconstruction of Berlin, Sony Center stands for a new technical vision and order. It is not a building, but a part of the city.

External is the “real” city; internal is the “virtual” city. The Passages and Gates reinforce this transition from the real to the virtual world.

Surrounding Sony Center are the traditional urban streets and spaces. Inside is a new type of covered, urban Forum for a changing cultural and social interaction of our time.

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Dupli Casa

The geometry of this German building is based on the footprint of the house that previously was located on the site. Originally built in 1984 and with many extensions and modifications since then, the new building echoes the “family archaeology” by duplication and rotation.

Lifted up, it creates a semi-public space on ground level between two layers of discretion. The skin of the villa performs a sophisticated connection between inside and outside and offers spectacular views onto the old town of Marbach and the German national literature archive on the other side of the Neckar valley.

Quatrier M

Adidas Laces

Provincial Government Office

Quartier M

Villa W

Trianel GmbH Corporate Centre

From an urban design point of view, the four-storey building with its tranquil trapeze-shaped structure acts as a counterpoise to the dominating stadium and the varied architectural styles of the neighborhood.

The generously glazed facades open up views into the park to the south of the building. The white horizontal solar screening slats made of aluminium profiles create a calm overall appearance, which has a harmonizing effect on the surroundings.

Baufeld 10

With the HafenCity Hamburg, a new district covering 157 hectares is being developed directly at the port. In addition to the mixed utilization, the relevant urban development concept calls for high-quality and interesting architecture. For this reason, there was a separate tendering process for each individual building site.

Kö-Bogen

Kö-Bogen is made up of both straight and curved geometry. The straight lines are meant to reflect the city context, matching the building line on the Koenigsallee. The curved lines, which maneuver within and around Kö-Bogen’s courtyards, create more fluid connections with the pedestrian environment.

Luneburg University’s Libeskind Building

The whole project is part of the regional university’s ambitious plans to reinvent itself. It started off as a technical college but now aspires to become more of an elite institute of contemporary learning.

The university has called itself Leuphana for the past few years after an advertising agency suggested a name change. It is run by university president Sascha Spoun, who was the youngest head of a German university when he took up the position in 2006 at the age of 36.

His deputy, Holm Keller, previously worked for the management consultancy firm McKinsey and the publishing and media giant Bertelsmann.

Plus-Energy House with Electromobility

Mercedes Benz Museum

The Mercedes Benz Museum intricately combines structure and content and is one of the interesting architecture examples from this article.

The Museum is dedicated to a legendary car; its unique structure has been specifically devised to showcase a collection in which technology, adventure, attractiveness and distinction are merged.

It is also a Museum for people to freely move through, to dream, learn, look and let themselves be oriented by fascinations, light and space.

Sonnenhof

Sonnenhof consists of four new buildings with office and residential spaces. Located on a consolidated number of smaller lots in the historical center of Jena, Germany, the separate structures allow for free access through the grounds.

Their placement on the outer edges of the plot defines a small-scale outdoor space congruent with the medieval city structure. Its outdoor facilities continue the building’s overall design concept past the edges of the lot.

The planned incorporation of commerce, residence, and office enables a flexible pattern of use that also integrates itself conceptually into the surroundings.

BBI Info-Tower

Kusus + Kusus architekten’s BBI-Info Tower at the Capital Airport in Berlin is designed to be a recognizable element for the airport that will “serve the whole region and far beyond the boundaries of the construction site beyond.”

Rising 31 meters, the tower is a welcoming sight for visitors approaching by land or passengers on plane. Programmatically, the building is a observation tower that provides views of the “growing” new airport complex which is currently being developed.

By ascending to the top, the visitor is then roughly at the level of the surrounding construction cranes and gains new insight into the construction activities.

Built Landscape

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