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  • Shenzhen Art Museum New Venue & Library

    Shenzhen Art Museum New Venue & Library

    A cultural center has arisen in Shenzhen with strong international appeal: Our design weds the art museum and the library to form a coherent whole. The design rests on the central idea of creating a public space in the form of two outstanding cultural institutions that are both linked to each other by the staggered tiers of the site and communicate with the urban space around them.

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  • New headquarters for two federal ministries in Berlin

    New headquarters for two federal ministries in Berlin

    Organize. Preserve. Renew. The new head offices of two federal ministries. Our complex revitalization of two buildings with long-standing histories in the former banking quarter in Berlin’s Mitte district. Transformation. Modernization. Preservation. From the competition through to turn-key. Heritage preservation and the power of transformation: fostering dialog between the old and the new.

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  • Transformation

    Transformation

    Transformation – preserving and adapting buildings to current requirements makes sense in many instances both from an ecological and economic perspective. The aim is always to upgrade the economic, technical and aesthetic value of a property; this typically means that a wide variety of aspects relating to building law, energy, statics but also constructional and con-servation aspects need to be considered. Such work requires both extensive technical know-how and creativity to attune these various requirements with one another and ultimately find the best possible solution.

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  • WIKA Innovation Center

    WIKA Innovation Center

    How did we use good architecture to promote R & D ? We connected the workstations and the production facilities while creating clear structures and lines of vision. The challenge with this project was to wed production facilities and R & D in a new ensemble, as each has its own special requirements. We succeeded in combining all usages to form a striking CI for the market leader in pressure and temperature measuring technology.

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  • Living

    Living

    The digital world is changing city dwellers’ life styles and their notion of society. New living typologies are needed in order to respond to this trend. Hybrid buildings that combine housing, work spaces, hospitality, wellness and service facilities, are just as much in demand as new forms of collective homes, so–called Co-Living. Residents’ needs for private and personal spaces need to be reconciled with areas for (communal) activities all under the single roof and with an intelligent footprint.

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  • Great Mosque

    Great Mosque

    The mosque complex, which faces Mecca, combines various cultural and religious facilities on the 26 hectare site. In 2008, our team won the international competition. Construction work on the Djamaâ el Djazaïr, Arabic for Great Mosque, began in 2011 and was completed in 2020.

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  • Jürgen Engel receives ULI Germany Leadership Lifetime Award 2024 22.11.2024

    On 21 November 2024, Jürgen Engel was presented with the prestigious ULI Leadership Award in the Lifetime Achievement category in Berlin. The prize, which is awarded by the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Germany, honours outstanding individuals who shape the future of our cities through visionary thinking and sustainable action. In his laudatory speech, Ulrich Höller, ABG Real Estate Group, emphasised Jürgen Engel’s extraordinary lifetime achievement: ‘Jürgen Engel has shaped the architecture of German cities for several decades through his constant and outstanding work. With spectacular projects such as the Grand Mosque in Algiers, he has also strengthened the reputation of German architecture worldwide. With this award, we are honouring one of the most important German architects of the present day.’
    Jürgen Engel thanked the jury and those present for this special honour. In his acceptance speech, he emphasised the responsibility that architects bear for the built environment: ‘With our creative designs, we seek answers to the diverse challenges of our time. This honour encourages us in our attitude of not following every fashion, but - in the tradition of the Bauhaus - creating timeless architecture that serves people: functional, sustainable and permanently usable. In other words, architecture that creates quality - for people and for our cities.’ The ULI Leadership Award is presented annually in five categories and honours personalities whose ideas and commitment sustainably advance architecture and urban development. Honouring Jürgen Engel is a recognition of his decades-long contribution to architecture and his ability to create not only buildings, but also places of high quality and lasting value.
    Photo: Stefan Wieland

  • 1st prize for URBAN.Q with 60 metre office tower in Hanover 07.10.2024

    We are delighted to have won 1st prize in the realisation competition for URBAN.Q in Hanover. Close to the main railway station, the site of the former post office offers the opportunity to develop a lively neighbourhood. Our design for Meravis Immobiliengruppe is divided into the 17-storey office tower ‘THE.PEAK’ and a 6-storey hotel with a separate daycare centre. With a height of 60 metres, the new office tower is one of the ten tallest buildings in the centre of Hanover. The office space can be flexibly divided and allows for various office concepts (cellular offices, open space, co-working). ‘We have found a worthy winner in KSP Engel. Elegance, lightness and high functionality characterise the design for THE.PEAK,’ was the jury’s verdict. The new urban quarter, which is divided into three building plots, will offer an attractive utilisation concept that appeals to different target groups. In addition to residential use, office space, a hotel, a day-care centre and retail, service and catering space are to be offered here. In conjunction with the high-rise building and hotel, the newly created square will create a special identity for the neighbourhood. A total of approx. 57,000 square metres of gross floor area will be created.
    Visualisation: Play Time / KSP ENGEL

  • Foundation stone laid for Central Business Tower, Frankfurt/Main 05.09.2024

    Together with around 300 guests, our client Helaba celebrated the laying of the foundation stone for the Central Business Tower high-rise project on 4 September 2024. The future 205-metre-high office tower with a historic base building in Frankfurt’s banking district thus reached the next milestone. The office tower will not only be a new landmark for the city, but also a place with cultural uses such as the new branch of the Weltkulturenmuseum. In the base area, there will be other public uses such as a restaurant with a view of the ramparts, a company catering facility and a café with an evening wine bar. The 52-storey tower block will provide around 72,500 m² of rental space, most of which will be used as modern office space. Together with Helaba, we are also setting a new standard for sustainable high-rise architecture: with photovoltaic modules integrated into the façade, a vertical “solar power plant” is being created that is unique on this scale. As the keystone on Neue Mainzer Strasse, the Central Business Tower combines tradition and modernity paired with contemporary urban living. More information

  • CANYON office tower progressing rapidly 14.08.2024

    The CANYON office complex planned in Frankfurt’s banking district is making rapid progress: just over a year ago, the City of Frankfurt granted planning permission for the project at Mainzer Landstrasse 23. The demolition of the existing building on the site has been completed. Now our Munich-based client and project developer CV Real Estate has succeeded in acquiring a main investor for the construction project. The London-based investment manager Tite Street Capital is taking over the project. The 15-storey design by KSP Engel offers an ideal environment for modern workplaces thanks to its green façades. A vertical joint extends across the entire height of the façade, giving the design its name. In addition to flexible office space, the approximately 36,000 m² of space also includes a three-storey passageway in the base building with restaurants and shopping facilities that enliven the urban space. The green, staggered roof terraces offer a high quality of stay and the ideal environment for outdoor meetings or an after-work drink with a view over the banking district. More information

  • Siemens lays foundation stone for campus expansion 08.05.2024

    The approximately 54-hectare Siemens Campus continues to grow: Following the completion of the two construction phases Module 1 and 2, the expansion of the Siemens Campus continues with the laying of the foundation stone for Module 8. The campus, which is being built on behalf of Siemens Real Estate, is designed as an integral part of the city of Erlangen and presents itself as open, green and lively. The broad, green main thoroughfare, which stretches across the entire corporate campus (Siemenspromenade), can be experienced in its entire length as an almost 2-kilometer-long axis. The four new buildings of Module 8 are lined up along this green axis, including a parking garage and three office buildings. These are designed as CO2-neutral, all-electric buildings that are heated and cooled using heat pumps. Thanks to the sustainable, CO2-neutral energy supply, the use of ecological building materials and flexibly usable building structures, the first CO2-neutral Siemens site in the world is being created. Together with the Bavarian Minister of the Interior Joachim Herrmann, Lord Mayor Florian Janik, the CFO of Siemens AG and company spokesman Ralf Thomas, and other guests of honor, architect Jürgen Engel filled the time capsule for the foundation stone of the 80,000 square meter site. More information
    Photo: Marcus Bredt

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