Project for the expansion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin by harris + kurrle
The German Foreign Office is located in the Kollhoff reconstructed building of the former Reichsbank from the 1930s. At the end of the 1990s, the Berlin studio Müller Reimann added a new building towards the Schinkel Academy.
Just these days, the results of a single-round competition for the southern expansion of the Foreign Office towards Kurstraße have been announced. The jury, chaired by Munich architect Andreas Hild, selected from a total of 25 proposals (in the preliminary round, 165 studios competed for the commission). The winner was the Stuttgart studio harris + kurrle, second place went to also Stuttgart architect Jens Wittfoht, and third place was taken by the Schulz brothers from Leipzig, who recently succeeded in the competition for the new German embassy in Vienna (which will replace the brutalist building by Rolf Gutbrod from 1965).
The winning project by harris + kurrle convinced the jury with its design of the inner courtyard, which, unlike other competitors, was largely left undeveloped. They placed only a single-story reception area with a grassy roof here. The verticality of the façade is emphasized by vertical window openings that span two floors, thereby bringing it in scale closer to the neighboring Reichsbank building.
On Monday, June 20, 2016, an exhibition of all competition proposals will take place at the Federal Office for Building in Berlin, which will be on display until early July.
Just these days, the results of a single-round competition for the southern expansion of the Foreign Office towards Kurstraße have been announced. The jury, chaired by Munich architect Andreas Hild, selected from a total of 25 proposals (in the preliminary round, 165 studios competed for the commission). The winner was the Stuttgart studio harris + kurrle, second place went to also Stuttgart architect Jens Wittfoht, and third place was taken by the Schulz brothers from Leipzig, who recently succeeded in the competition for the new German embassy in Vienna (which will replace the brutalist building by Rolf Gutbrod from 1965).
The winning project by harris + kurrle convinced the jury with its design of the inner courtyard, which, unlike other competitors, was largely left undeveloped. They placed only a single-story reception area with a grassy roof here. The verticality of the façade is emphasized by vertical window openings that span two floors, thereby bringing it in scale closer to the neighboring Reichsbank building.
On Monday, June 20, 2016, an exhibition of all competition proposals will take place at the Federal Office for Building in Berlin, which will be on display until early July.
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