The German Architecture Annual 2025, published by DOM, presents the DAM Prize winner and shortlisted projects, awarded by the German Architecture Museum (DAM). Edited by Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe, and Peter Cachola Schmal, the book highlights 25 shortlisted projects from 100 nominations, offering insights into contemporary German architecture. It explores key trends such as circular construction, sustainable materials, and adaptive reuse, reflecting current priorities in design and urban development.
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Gewers Pudewill. Tailor Made Architecture
Park Book’s publication ‘Gewers Pudewill. Tailor Made Architecture’ presents projects completed since 2019 by the award-winning Berlin-based German architecture firm. Founded by Georg Gewers and Henry Pudewill, the firm’s portfolio during this period includes office buildings, conversions of manufacturing and commercial structures, housing, research facilities, and nursing residences for the elderly.
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DOM publisher’s German Architecture Annual 2024 presents the most notable buildings shortlisted for the DAM (Deutsches Architekturmuseum) Prize for outstanding buildings in Germany. The editors are Yorck Förster, Christina Gräwe and Peter Cachola Schmal. The Annual presents the winning, finalist and shortlisted projects with in-depth portrayals of 26 selected projects. This year’s projects reveal a strong emphasis on sustainable materials.
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Berlin-based Sehw Architektur has designed a building comprising 159 apartments for students in Oberschöneweide, Berlin. The corner building with similar treatment of its walls and sloping roof gives it a monolithic appearance. The external colour divides the building into two parts, and the slight horizontal shift in the windows provides the facade with a ‘playful dynamic’. The building features open-plan kitchen-living rooms, common areas to promote social interactions, and compact apartments with large windows. Photo Helen Bereket. Sehw Architektur
Multi-generational housing in Erfurt, Germany by architects Dorschner Kahl and Heine Mildner
Dorschner Kahl Architekten in collaboration with Heine Mildner Architecken, both based in Germany, have created Andreasgärten, a complex for multi-generational living in the centre of Erfurt in Germany. The complex comprises three new three-storey timber buildings hosting 100 rental apartments, a therapy centre, and a chapel, together with an adapted former brick carriage house that serves as a kindergarten.
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Sauerbruch Hutton has redesigned the bookshop at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, with reused elements from previous exhibitions. Light grey MDF boards are used for the tables and shelves, and steel-framed recycled polycarbonate sheets are used as movable screens. In contrast to the muted colour of the furniture elements and the architecture, the books and textile ceiling flags provide colour and help define the boundary of the bookstore. Photo © Jan Bitter. Sauerbruch Hutton
Gigon/Guyer extension to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat Bottrop in Germany
Zurich-based Annette Gigon / Mike Guyer Architects have added a two-story extension to the Josef Albers Museum Quadrat in Bottrop’s historic park Stadtgarten. The form, materials and colour of the structure are designed such that the architectural identity of the adjacent 1913 judge’s villa and museum buildings from the 1970s and 1980s, are clearly legible. Photo Stefan Müller, Berlin. Gigon/Guyer
Ortner & Ortner Baukunst create office campus for W&W comprising seven courtyard buildings
Architects O&O Baukunst have created a 160,000 square-meter campus housing 4,200 employees for financial group Wüstenrot & Wüttembergische AG in Kornwestheim, Germany. The compact campus consists of seven courtyard buildings surrounded by mixed meadow orchards and a boulevard lined with cafes, restaurants, and conference and leisure facilities. Photo Stefan Mueller. O&O Baukunst