We are delighted to announce a new online publication: our three new buildings on the campus of Geisenheim University have now also been featured on archdaily.com.
Photo: © Brigida González
Our project for the Geisenheim University campus was published in the “Competitions Followed Up” section of the online edition of “wettbewerbe aktuell.”
Following our success in the 2017 competition, we were able to complete the three new buildings - the lecture hall building, logistics laboratory, and beverage technology center - this year.
Photo: © Brigida González
In the presence of Mayor Gertrud Maltz-Schwarzfischer and Education Officer Sabine Kellner-Mayrhofer, we celebrated the grand opening of our extension to the Georg Kerschensteiner Vocational School in Regensburg last Friday.
Headmaster Alfons Koller was enthusiastic about the new rooms and emphasized: “We are now playing in the Champions League.”
Photo: © bez+kock architekten
Congratulations to our competition team – our design for the Bildungscampus West in Saarbrücken, which we developed together with merz kley partner and freiraumconcept sinz-beerstecher+böpple Landschaftsarchitekten, was awarded 3rd prize. We are delighted!
The competition results will be on display until November 18, 2025 (Monday–Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) at Software AG, 2nd floor, Altenkesselerstraße 17/C2, 66115 Saarbrücken.
Visualization: © Grauwald Studio
We are delighted to have received two commendations at the Westphalian Prize for Building Culture 2025: Both the Council and Community Hall in Holzwickede and the Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr in Bochum received an award.
From 197 submitted projects in the fields of urban development, architecture, and open space planning, an independent jury selected a total of 5 prizes and 10 commendations.
Photos: © Brigida González
We are delighted to announce a new publication: Today, our Geisenheim University project was published on baunetz.de.
Photo: © Brigida González
The Baunetz ranking, which takes into account print publications in specialist journals from the past 24 months, has been redesigned and new features added.
And we are delighted to have made it into the top ten offices in Germany right at the start of the newly designed ranking.
Photo: © Brigida González / BauNetz
Congratulations to our competition team: Our design for the extension of the City Museum in Lippstadt, which we developed with ST raum a. Landschaftsarchitektur (Berlin), received a commendation!
“The work develops a very clear urban planning concept in which the market square is defined as a spatial continuum that respects all edges of the square equally. [...] Inside, the building impresses with its clear spatial structure, both in terms of floor plan design and vertical development,” said the jury, chaired by Holger Rübsamen (Bochum).
Visualization: © Grauwald Studio
As part of the event series "10 Years of the Design Advisory Board", Thorsten Kock will give a lecture in Ludwigsburg.
Petra Zeese (Zeese Stadtplanung+Architektur) and Matthias Schuster (Lehen drei) will also report on their practical experiences at the event, which was initiated by the Ludwigsburg city administration.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025, from 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m., followed by drinks reception
Ludwigsburg Museum im MIK, Eberhardstraße 1, 71634 Ludwigsburg
Advance registration is required as the number of participants is limited.
Photo: © Arne Hartenburg
Architectural photographer Brigida González photographed our latest project, the Geisenheim University of Applied Sciences.
We were able to construct three new buildings on the university campus: the lecture hall building and the logistics laboratory, as well as the GTZ Beverage Technology Center, which is considered the most important component for the practical training of future beverage technologists.
Photo: © Brigida González
In a press release from the city of Essen, the signing of the planning contract was highlighted as an important milestone for the “Entrance and restaurant building in Grugapark” project.
The new building not only makes a clear architectural statement, it also stands for a “responsible approach to the environment and resources”.
Visualization: © Renderbar
And the winner is: The Holzwickede town hall and community center was awarded the German Lighting Design Award 2025 in the category “Indoor Lighting / Public Areas”. In collaboration with ZWP-Ingenieur AG, which was responsible for the lighting concept, the renovation and extension of the historic town hall received this prominent award.
Photo: © Brigida González
Congratulations to our competition team: Our design for the New accommodation for Dresden South Police Station, which we developed with Jetter Landschaftsarchitekten, Henne & Walter (HVS planning) and Müller & Bleher (electrical planning), was awarded 2nd prize! We are very pleased about this!
The competition results will be presented until July 25, 2025 (Mon.-Fri. from 8:00-18:00) in the central hall of the Saxon State Ministry of Finance, Carolaplatz 1, 01097 Dresden.
Visualization: © Renderbar
The Australian online platform ‘Built Environment Channel’ has published our New Apostolic Church project in Pforzheim-Brötzingen.
Editor Kale Grant-Clarke presents the 15-meter-high new building in Wildbader Straße in the design atlas.
Photo: © Brigida González
“House Stories” is the title of Martin Bez's lecture at the HFT Stuttgart.
The event, which is organized by the Stuttgart Association of Architects and Engineers, will take place on
Thursday, June 05, 2025 and starts at 6:30 pm.
HFT Stuttgart, Schellingstraße 24, Building 1, Tiefenhörsaal, 70174 Stuttgart
Photo: © Arne Hartenburg
Our competition design for the new construction of an administration center in Kehl, which we developed with freiraumconcept Landschaftsarchitekten, was awarded 5th prize.
"The designed timber skeleton construction with steel components that are statically limited to a minimum is very sustainable," was the verdict of the jury chaired by Prof. Stefanie Eberding (Stuttgart).
Visualization: © bez+kock architekten
As part of the event series "OPEN - Debate on Architecture, City and Country" curated by AIT-Dialog, Thorsten Kock will give a keynote speech on the topic of "Wish and Reality - Ideal Concept and Planning Reality".
Together with Manuel Herz (Manuel Herz Architekten, Basel), he will then discuss idealistic approaches and realistic implementations in architecture.
Thursday, May 22, 2025, event starts at 18:30
Gleishalle im Oberhafen
Stockmeyerstrasse 43, 20457 Hamburg
Photo: © Arne Hartenburg
Our New Apostolic Church in Pforzheim was published by the online edition of** IW Magazine **(Taipei City).
Editor Hsun Yun Chang presents the sacred building with its churchyard enclosed on all sides.
Photo: © Brigida González
Our town hall and community center in Holzwickede was published in the current issue of Bauwelt (8 / 2025).
The architecture journalist Ulrich Brinkmann has written an article about the renovation and extension of the historic town hall on the subject of “The heart of the town”.
Photo: © Brigida González
Congratulations to our competition team: Our design for the new children's house with school extension on the Rainbrunnen educational campus in Schorndorf, which we developed with Jetter Landschaftsarchitekten and wh-p Ingenieure, was awarded 2nd prize! We are very happy about this!
“The two-storey children's house, designed as a polygonal, four-winged structure, mediates with its different geometries between the Fröbelschule and the daycare center to the north and interlocks with the surrounding open space,” was the verdict of the jury chaired by Prof. Zvonko Turkali (Frankfurt a.M.).
Visualization: © bez+kock architekten
We are pleased about a new online publication: The editor Jakob Schoof has published our town hall and community center in Holzwickede on detail.de under the title “Decent clinker brick cube”.
Foto: © Brigida González
The town hall and community center in Holzwickede was nominated as one of three projects in the category “Interior lighting / public areas” for the German Lighting Design Award 2025. We are delighted about the successful collaboration with ZWP Ingenieur AG from Cologne.
Now we have to keep our fingers crossed that our project makes it all the way to the top - the winners of the competition will be announced on July 3, 2025 in the OsnabrückHalle, Schlosswall 1-9, in Osnabrück.
Photo: © Brigida González
In the recently published ranking of the online platform competitionline, we have once again made it into the top ten in the architecture category.
We are pleased that we were able to improve from 11th place to 9th place.
Visualization: © Grauwald Studio
“Thoughts on architecture and its materialization” is the title of Martin Bez's lecture at the Gisoton Seminar 2025 in the Festival hall Aitrach.
The event, at which MEP Dr. Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) will also be speaking, will take place on
Friday, March 28, 2025 and begins at 8:45 a.m.
Festival hall Aitrach, Oberhauser Weg 12, 88319 Aitrach
We are happy about a new publication: Today our project New Apostolic Church in Pforzheim was published on baunetz.de.
Photo: © Brigida González
In the print edition of the Stuttgarter Zeitung from February 15/16, 2025, journalist Andrea Jenewein published a city portrait with Martin Bez in the series “An architect shows his city”.
The joint city walk began in the inner courtyard of the Old Palace...
Photo: © Arne Hartenburg
We are pleased about the publication of our competition success “Episcopal Youth Welfare Office in Wernau” on competitionline.com.
Photo: © bez+kock architekten
The architectural photographer Brigida González was in Pforzheim-Brötzingen and photographed our New Apostolic Church. And we are now delighted with the new impressions of this project...
We are delighted to have won 1st prize in the “Episcopal Youth Office in Wernau” competition - congratulations to our competition team!
Our design, developed together with Jetter Landschaftsarchitekten (Stuttgart) and merz kley partner (Dornbirn), won over the jury chaired by Jorunn Ragnarsdottir (Stuttgart/Berlin): “The clearly defined location of the new building on the site creates a central focus in the open space between the three buildings - at the same time creating a harmonious ensemble of buildings.”
An exhibition with all the competition entries can be viewed from January 30 to February 6 on weekdays from 9 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 4 pm at Antoniusstraße 15 in 73249 Wernau.
Visualization: © bez+kock architekten
On the german-architects.com platform, the "Building of the Year ” can be voted for until January 31, 2025.
Our New Park Center in Luisenpark Mannheim is also in the running - and we would be delighted to receive as many votes as possible for this project.
Photo: © Brigida González
