January 14th, 2025

New Park Center in Luisenpark in the selection for Building of the Year

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

December 20th, 2024

Lecture by Reinhold Messner in the new lecture hall building at Hochschule Geisenheim University

A successful start for our new lecture hall building: the extreme mountaineer, author, museum founder and winery owner Reinhold Messner was a very prominent guest in our new building on the campus of Hochschule Geisenheim University.

Messner's exciting lecture, in which he spoke about climate protection and sustainable lifestyles, inspired over 650 visitors.

Photo: © Woody T. Herner

December 18th, 2024

Topping-out ceremony at the rehearsal and workshop center for the State Theatre in Munich

Good news from Munich: We celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the new rehearsal and workshop center of the Bavarian State Theatre.

In the presence of Bavaria's Minister of Construction Christian Bernreiter, Bavaria's Minister of Art Markus Blume as well as Karl Stock, Head of the Regensburg State Building Authority and Andreas Beck, State Director of the Bavarian State Theatre, a new milestone for the completion of the six-storey building in Munich-Bogenhausen was celebrated after the ground-breaking ceremony in June 2023.

Completion of the new building is planned for the end of 2026.

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

December 4th, 2024

New publication: Holzwickede Town Hall and Community Center in architektur. aktuell

Our town hall and community center in Holzwickede was published in the current issue (11/2024) of the Vienna-based trade journal architektur. aktuell.

The architecture journalist David Kasparek published an article here under the title "Impression and Expression ”.

Photo: © Brigida González / architektur. aktuell

December 3rd, 2024

New lecture hall building at Hochschule Geisenheim University inaugurated

We are delighted: Last Friday. 29.11., our new central lecture hall building at Hochschule Geisenheim University was officially opened.

The new building has a divisible lecture hall with 657 seats and seminar rooms on the upper floor with 300 seats. The opening ceremony took place in the presence of Christoph Degen, State Secretary of the Hessian Ministry of Science and Research, Art and Culture (HMWK), Thomas Platte, Director of Landesbetrieb Bau und Immobilien Hessen (LBIH), Prof. Dr. Hans Reiner Schultz, President of Hochschule Geisenheim University and Christian Aßmann, Mayor of Geisenheim.

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

November 26th, 2024

Holzwickede town hall and community center on Stylepark.com

The architecture journalist David Kasparek took a look at our town hall and community center in Holzwickede and wrote an article entitled “Centre through addition”.

We are pleased about this beautiful publication on Stylepark.com.

Photo: © Brigida González

November 20th, 2024

Holzwickede town hall and community center among the four finalists

Great success for our town hall and community center in Holzwickede: The renovation and extension of the existing town hall was selected as one of the four finalists of the Archello Awards 2024 in the category “Government Building of the Year”.

Now it's time to keep your fingers crossed and vote for our project! Voting is open and we appreciate every vote.

Photo: © Brigida González

November 12th, 2024

We are here again - 8th place in the Baunetz ranking!

In the current Baunetz ranking (September / October 2024), our office occupies an excellent 8th place.

This is our third consecutive top ten position in the national ranking since May 2024 - and we are delighted about that!

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

November 6th, 2024

Council and community center Holzwickede in the db Deutsche Bauzeitung

Our town hall and community center in Holzwickede was published in the current issue (11/2024) of db Deutsche Bauzeitung.

In the section “New in ...”, Achim Geissinger describes the renovation and extension of the historical town hall, which was built in 1915.

Photo: © Brigida González

October 28th, 2024

Commendation in the Spandau meeting center competition

A nice success: our competition design, developed in collaboration with ST.Raum Landschaftsarchitektur from Berlin, received commendation in the “Westerwaldstraße meeting center in Spandau” competition.

From November 7 to December 5, 2024, all competition entries will be on display in an exhibition at Klubhaus Falkenhagener Feld (Westerwaldstraße 13, 13589 Berlin Spandau).

Visualization: © Renderbar

October 16th, 2024

Holzwickede town hall on the longlist of the Archello Awards 24

We are delighted that our town hall and community center in Holzwickede has also made it onto the longlist of the Archello Awards 24.

The extension of the listed, historic town hall from 1915 was longlisted for the “Government Building of the Year”.

Photo: © Brigida González

October 11th, 2024

Two projects in the Architecture Guide Germany 2025

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

September 30th, 2024

Publication of our brick buildings on Archello

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

September 27th, 2024

Second place in the Stuttgart ArchiCup for the second time

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!

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

September 25th, 2024

New center in the Luisenpark Mannheim on German Architects

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

August 29th, 2024

Third Prize at the Third Place in Neu-Isenburg

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.

Visualization: © Renderbar

August 5th, 2024

Music Academy in Staufen on divisare.com

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

July 23rd, 2024

Best architects 25 award for the New Park Center in the Luisenpark

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.

Photo: © Brigida González

July 9th, 2024

1st prize in the competition "Entrance and catering building in Grugapark Essen"

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.

Visualization: © Renderbar

July 8th, 2024

BDB Music Academy Staufen on archdaily.com

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

July 1st, 2024

Honorable mention in the "Schickhardt Community School, Stuttgart" competition

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).

Visualization: © Grauwald Studio

June 25th, 2024

New book published by Quart Verlag

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

June 19th, 2024

New Apostolic Church in Pforzheim inaugurated

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.

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

June 12th, 2024

Holzwickede Town Hall and Luisenpark Mannheim on the longlist for the DAM Award 2025

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

June 6th, 2024

Topping-out ceremony in Rottenburg for the refurbishment and expansion of the education center

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.

Photo: © bez+kock architekten

May 22nd, 2024

New photos of the BDB Music Academy Staufen

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

April 24th, 2024

Architecture Day 2024 in NRW - we will be there!

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

April 23rd, 2024

New online publication of the New Park Center in the Luisenpark

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

April 22nd, 2024

Competition for the National Museum of Carthage in "Bauwelt"

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.

Visualization: © Grauwald Studio

April 15th, 2024

New in the office: nine senior architects

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