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a midcentury japanese home topped with an umbrella-like roof
Sunny Days Ahead

Kazuo Shinohara’s reconstructed Umbrella House debuts at the Vitra Campus in Germany

aerial view of circular arena at night, surrounded by a park
MUCcc Ado

Populous wins bid for climate-neutral arena near Munich Airport

interior of a vietnamese bedroom
Building Socialism

East German architecture leaves a lingering legacy in Vietnam

a grove of lavender, which pantone claims is Very Peri
Very Peri Prose

Daily digest: Germany shutters half of its nuclear power plants, Pantone crowns Very Peri its color of 2022, and more

The O, a tower shaped like an O by MVRDV
O My

MVRDV reveals the “O” apartment block for an old U.S. military base in Mannheim, Germany

rendering of an office park with towers at the Filmpark Babelsberg
Lights, Camera, Libeskind

Studio Libeskind reveals a mixed-use office complex for Germany’s iconic Filmpark Babelsberg

the new fritz building, a five-story glass cube
International Excellence

Christ & Gantenbein unveils a flexible modern office building for multinational Roche

Ruhr-ing To Go

Germany’s MKM Museum reopens with a Herzog & de Meuron-designed extension

rendering of people walking through garden amid low-rise buildings
Nonstandard Fare

MVRDV breaks ground on prefabricated suburban development in Mannheim, Germany

historic city center with glass building
Effektive Siting

EFFEKT wins competition to design newspaper headquarters in northern Germany

urban plaza with pavilion at center
A Twist On A Classic

MVRDV designs pavilion in honor of 500th anniversary of world’s oldest social housing foundation

a landscape with wildflowers and grasses
Mellow Meadow

A Piet Oudolf-designed garden at the Vitra campus makes its full-bloom debut

photo of gottfried bohm
1920–2021

Pritzker Prize-winning German architect Gottfried Böhm dies at 101

view of the reconstructed Berlin Palace with an observation tower in the background, Humboldt Forum
Fourth Time's a Charm?

Berlin’s delay-plagued Humboldt Forum opening pushed back again due to COVID-19

illustration of a tree-topped mixed-use buildings
Bugging Out

Henning Larsen shares master plan for a new urban district in Wolfsburg, Germany

the louvre pyramid, a museum closed because of covid
Not Good At All

Struggling cultural institutions lock down (again) as COVID-19 surges across Europe

A spherical extension of a building
Niemeyer, But Make It A Spherical Buffet

The Niemeyer Sphere, one of Oscar Niemeyer’s last designs, opens in Germany

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