Time Warp: A polished installation reflects past and present within the soaring, richly decorated Albrechtsburg castle of Meissen, Germany, using aluminum, glass, mirrors and sound.
One look lengthwise in a sun-speckled upper room is all it takes to see a spectrum of ideas at play in Gerhards & Gl'cker's exhibit pieces for the Saxon castle of Albrechtsburg, in eastern Germany.
In a sunlit lab filled with genotyping equipment, Dr. Christof von Kalle and colleagues at the National Center for Tumor Diseases (NCT) plumb the secrets of cellular mechanisms that create cancers.
With nine offices in Germany and abroad, von Gerkan Marg und Partners (gmp) is known for such major architectural works as the Berlin Central Station (2006) and numerous other buildings and developments throughout Europe, Asia, and South Africa.
Project Specs Chapel of the Evangelical Academy Hofgeismar, Germany King & Miranda Design << Return to article the People Architect gmp – von Gerkan, Marg and Partners Architects Elbchaussee 139 22763 Hamburg T: +49.40.88 151 0 F: +49.40.88 151 177/8 E-Mail: Hamburg-E@gmp-architekten.de Design: Meinhard von Gerkan and Joachim Zais, 2002 Team, design: Monika van Vught Project leader: Joachim Zais General contractor Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, Dresden Photographer Marcus Bredt Berlin (0049-30-25298284) CAD system, project management, or other software used: Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau used for construction work of interior design AutoCAD 2008. the Products Structural system: Self-supporting room-in-room-system (steel framework) Suspended
Looking Farther Afield for Jobs It takes 12 hours to fly from Frankfurt to Hanoi, and Bernhard Franken is getting to know the route very well. Franken has a half-dozen projects in Vietnam. If his struggling Frankfurt practice has an angel looking out for it, she comes from the East. With startling speed, the German economy has turned sluggish and dyspeptic. Architects from Berlin to Bonn say small practices are shutting down or on life support. Larger ones are shedding staff, and Foster + Partners just closed its Berlin office. Image courtesy Bernhard Franken Tan Lab Green City in Vietnam,
From cacophony in the schoolyard and tense quiet during finals to the social jungle of the cafeteria and the read-out-loud of Roald Dahl: Maybe no acoustic environment is expected to perform in such a variety of ways as the contemporary school.