On October 23, 2024, the new Architecture Guide Germany 2025 will be presented at the Architekturgalerie Berlin.
The exemplary buildings and ensembles selected for this publication as part of the DAM Prize include our Council and Community Center in Holzwickede and the Neue Parkmitte in Luisenpark Mannheim.
Photos: © Brigida González
In a new publication on Archello.com, architecture journalist Gerard McGuickin has compiled a portfolio of our firm's brick buildings.
Included are the BDB Music Academy in Staufen, the Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr in Bochum, the Council and Community hall in Holzwickede, the Augustinianum High School in Greven and the City Hall in Lohr am Main.
Photo: © Brigida González
This time it was really razor-thin: our team was only beaten by the Schreiber engineers in the nerve-wracking 9-meter shoot-out in the final of the Stuttgart ArchiCup 2024.
Unfortunately, our shooting concept didn't quite work here: “The best goals are the ones where the ball goes in nice and flat at the top.”
Nevertheless, 2nd place was another sensational achievement - congratulations to everyone who took part!
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The new center in the Luisenpark Mannheim was published on german architects under the title “Experience flora and fauna”.
Martin Bez answered the interview questions about this project, which “blurs the boundaries between architectural design and landscape design”.
Photo: © Brigida González
We are very pleased about a new competition success: Our design for the “Conversion of the Hugenottenhalle and City Library into a Third Place in Neu-Isenburg”, developed together with Koeber Landschaftsarchitektur and wh-p Ingenieure, was awarded a 3rd prize.
The competition entries, which show the conversion into a new cultural center, are on display until September 1, 2024 in the Hugenottenhalle, Frankfurter Str. 152 in Neu-Isenburg and can be viewed daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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New publication of our latest project: The BDB Music Academy in Staufen was published on the Italian online platform for contemporary architecture divisare.com.
Photo: © Peter Ziegner
For the 19th time, the international best architects award has honored the best buildings. We are delighted that our "New Park Center in the Luisenpark Mannheim" project is one of the winners.
All of the projects recognized by the independent jury will be presented on the best architects homepage from today.
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Great success in the competition "Entrance and gastronomy building in Grugapark Essen": Our competition entry developed together with Koeber Landschaftsarchitektur (Stuttgart) and ifb Sorge (Nuremberg) was awarded 1st prize! Over 120 offices had applied for the planning and implementation of this project. Congratulations to our competition team - we are delighted!
An exhibition with all the competition entries can be viewed daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. until August 15 at the Orangerie information center.
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We are pleased to announce a new publication: Our latest project BDB Music Academy in Staufen has now been presented on archdaily.com.
Photo: © Peter Ziegner
Nice success: our competition design, developed in collaboration with Pfrommer+Roeder Landscape Architects, for the "New Schickhardt Community School, Heusteigstraße branch in Stuttgart" received a honorable mention.
"Taking up the width of the building site and the edges of the space has a very beneficial effect in its formulation, even in the widened area for the school grounds between the buildings. The independent architectural language is very promising," was the verdict of the jury chaired by Prof. Jörg Aldinger (Stuttgart).
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We are very pleased about the first monographic publication of our office's work. The architecture journalist Sebastian Redecke (Berlin) has written a detailed text that places the projects completed since 2004 in their context.
The book "Bez+Kock Architekten - Stuttgart" will soon be published in the "De aedibus international" series by Quart Verlag (Lucerne) and can already be ordered from bookshops.
Photo: © Quart Verlag / Brigida González
We are delighted: our New Apostolic Church in Pforzheim-Brötzingen was officially opened last Sunday.
After the consecration service on June 9, 2024, the "new place of encounter" on Wildbader Straße was officially inaugurated.
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Good news from Frankfurt: with the Town Hall and Community Center in Holzwickede and the Neue Parkmitte in the Luisenpark Mannheim, two projects have made it onto the longlist for the DAM Award for Architecture in Germany 2025.
Photos: © Brigida González
Accompanied by the town band and the music school, we celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the refurbishment and expansion of the education center with adult education center, music school and kindergarten in Rottenburg am Neckar on June 5.
Among the guests was Rottenburg's mayor Stephan Neher, who emphasized the successful extension of the existing building.
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Music in new rooms: Architectural photographer Peter Ziegner was in Staufen im Breisgau for us and photographed our new BDB Music Academy.
Photo: © Peter Ziegner
The "Day of Architecture" initiated by the Chamber of Architects of North Rhine-Westphalia is also coming to Arnsberg this year.
On June 29 and 30, 2024, the doors of our multi-award-winning South Westphalia Museum and Cultural Forum will be opened and presented to interested visitors.
Photo: © Brigida González
The Korean architecture magazine C3 (Seoul) has published an online article about the New Park Center in the Luisenpark Mannheim.
Under the title "Assimilating to the organic form of the park", the organically shaped pavilions embedded in the park are presented.
Photo: © Brigida González
We are pleased to announce a new publication: in the current issue of Bauwelt (8.2024), architecture journalist Sebastian Redecke reports on the international competition "Requalification of the Acropole of Byrsa and Rehabilitation of the National Museum of Carthage".
Under the title "Carthage's new roofscape", the author describes the special features of our design and compares it with the three other prizewinners.
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In order to strengthen the transfer of knowledge and internal networking within our office, we have appointed nine "Senior Architects".
This new team includes (from left) Gudrun Keller, Jonas Lenz, Marc Nuding, Iris Schulenberg, Hans-Jürgen Breuning, Eva Caspar, Christopher Horn, Torsten Hannig and Valerie Spalding.
Photo: © Arne Hartenburg
We are delighted about another competition success: our design for the new Düsseldorf district government building, developed together with asp Architekten and wh-p Ingenieure, was awarded 3rd prize.
"The high point is cleverly placed in terms of size and positioning so that it does not come too close to the Robert Schumann University, but also leaves sufficient light for the adjacent employment office," was the verdict of the jury chaired by Heiner Farwick (Ahaus).
Visualization: © Grauwald Studio / bez+kock architekten
We are delighted that our competition entry for the Sto Group's "New Innovation Campus" in Stühlingen-Weizen, developed in collaboration with koeber Landschaftsarchitektur and Bollinger+Grohmann, has been awarded 2nd prize!
"The work surprises with its urban design, which transfers the orthogonal alignment of the existing campus to the new innovation campus. This creates a subtle connection between old and new," was the verdict of the jury chaired by Silvia Schellenberg-Thaut (Leipzig).
Visualization: © Renderbar / bez+kock architekten
We are happy to announce the expansion of our leadership team: In addition to Meredith Atkinson, Erik Bossog, Michael Gaisser and Tilman Rösch, Sebastian Linder and Yong Liang are now also members of our management team / team leaders.
Both have been working in our office since 2018, Sebastian Linder was most recently responsible for the project management of the Town hall and Community center in Holzwickede, Yong Liang has taken over the leadership of our competition team.
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Together with Matthias Schuster from LEHENdrei, Thorsten Kock was elected to the architectural advisory board of the City of Ludwigsburg.
This is Thorsten Kock's third appointment to a architectural advisory board after Nürtingen (2018 to 2023) and Offenbach am Main (since 2020).
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We've come a long way up - we are delighted to be ranked 8th in the current Baunetz ranking (January / February 2024).
After exactly 2 years, we were once again among the top ten in the office ranking (national).
Photo: © Brigida González
The music academy in Staufen (Breisgau) was officially opened last week. The new building opened its doors in the presence of State Secretary for Culture Arne Braun and the President of the Federation of German Wind Music Associations, State Secretary Patrick Rapp.
The academy was designed not only for wind music, but also for amateur music in all its diversity.
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We are delighted to have received an award at the BDA Architecture Prize Dortmund Hamm Unna 2023 for our Town Hall and Community Center in Holzwickede.
The jury selected two awards and two honorable mentions from the 26 entries submitted.
"The old building, as an expressive building, has not been confidently complemented by a mere extension, but with the extension a coherent spatial continuum has been developed that creates a coherent building ensemble," was the jury's verdict.
Photo: © Brigida González
Our Integrated Comprehensive School in Rinteln is featured in detail in the current issue of Bauwelt (3.2024).
The editor Ulrich Brinkmann writes: "The new school in Rinteln by Bez + Kock has qualitatively realigned the school location on the outskirts of the city, but is also worth a visit because of the way it deals with the cluster."
Photo: © Marcus Ebener
We are pleased about a new publication: In the current issue of wettbewerbe aktuell (02 | 2024), our project Town Hall and Community Center in Holzwickede is presented in the section "Followed up (Weiterverfolgt)".
Photo: © Brigida González
An interview with Martin Bez was published in the current issue of DBZ Deutsche Bauzeitschrift: "How should we build? Which projects can still persuade a specialist editorial team to publish them today?"
The interview, conducted by Benedikt Kraft, begins with these important and exciting questions.
Photos: © Brigida González and Arne Hartenburg
Under the title "well done", the Federal Foundation for Building Culture has published a brochure that shows exemplary projects "that are on time and on budget and have been realized with high quality."
We are delighted that two of our projects, the Anneliese Brost Music Forum Ruhr in Bochum and the Museum and Cultural Forum South Westphalia in Arnsberg, have been published in the new brochure.
Photos: © Brigida González
