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InnoDom Cologne featured in the new detail issue

We are delighted that our InnoDom Cologne project has been featured in the architecture magazine DETAIL under the “New Work” typology!

The InnoDom Cologne start-up center follows the motto: Keep it simple! The participatory building developed for the Cologne University Foundation offers an adaptable working environment that promotes creative exchange between start-ups, university and business.

In addition to flexible work areas, there is space to linger, experience and organize events. The striking LIKE-ITs in yellow and Bondi blue with panoramic glazing make the inner workings of the think tank visible to the city.

The five-storey building has a façade of vertical aluminum pilaster strips that signal the combination of creativity and productivity from afar.

Sustainability plays a major role here: from recyclable materials and energy-efficient technology to furniture with an extended life cycle.

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Clemens Kollmetz

September 5th, 2024

Nomination for German Corporate Sustainability Award 2025

We are one of three companies nominated for the German Corporate Sustainability Award in the Architecture and Civil Engineering category.
We are delighted!

This recognition confirms that we are on the right track with our office’s focus on climate-sensitive projects, our pioneering work in circular construction and our environmentally and socially responsible management.

We are aware of the construction industry’s responsibility for climate change. With every new construction project, we try to minimise our carbon footprint, use existing embodied energy, conserve resources, increase biodiversity and think in terms of cycles.

For us, this is closely linked to the way we build in existing buildings. The building stock is an important witness to past eras and a storehouse of valuable materials. Preserving existing buildings, discovering hidden potential through careful analysis and reprogramming them in a positive way through careful conversion or extension is what drives us.

We are looking forward to the award ceremony on 28 November in Düsseldorf.

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Elisa Uthmann

August 27th, 2024

Ground-breaking ceremony for the LVR at Ottoplatz in Cologne

The ground-breaking ceremony for the new office and administration building with underground car park for the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR) at Ottoplatz in Cologne-Deutz took place today.

The highly visible building complex, consisting of an 18-storey tower and an adjoining five- to six-storey shell, will provide more than 1,000 workplaces.

With catering facilities in the basement, the building faces Ottoplatz and supports its urban qualities. The spacious foyer, which connects the shell to the tower, forms the entrance to the office tower. Public areas such as conference rooms and a cafeteria are grouped around a central atrium and provide access to the southern office floors with a green courtyard.

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Eva Syllwasschy

August 20th, 2024

competitions, award winners

Start of facade installation at our Hoffmann SE construction site

A new headquarters with an innovation centre and 1,250 workplaces is being built for Hoffmann SE near the future district centre of Munich-Freiham. The five-storey polygonal building encloses a green inner courtyard and creates a striking urban landmark at the north-east corner with a 14-storey tower. On the east side, a two-storey arcade forms a buffer to the street, which can be used by passers-by as a weather-protected route to the neighbouring Freiham S-Bahn station to the south. The main entrance at the top of the building leads to the foyer, which is connected to the customer experience world with the innovation centre and multi-purpose areas such as the conference area and restaurant. The new Hoffmann workspaces extend from the third floor into the office tower. Terraces in the inner courtyard and on the roof provide opportunities for outdoor working. Clients, visitors and employees can benefit from the varied greenery of the outdoor areas, which has many positive ecological effects, from biodiversity and water retention to improving the microclimate.

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Eva Syllwasschy

August 1st, 2024

3rd place in the competition for the "Maison Killy"!

Val d’Isère, a small mountain village in the French Alps with around 1,500 inhabitants at an altitude of approximately 2,000 meters, is often referred to as the “Mecca of skiing”. As the venue for the 1992 Winter Olympics, Val d’Isère welcomes up to 25,000 ski enthusiasts throughout the winter season.

Our “Maison Killy” design is envisioned as the future centerpiece of Val d’Isère, blending harmoniously into the natural surroundings. The urban planning concept is based on the idea of detaching the building from the Olympique cable car station. This gives the multifunctional structure its own identity. The ski slope to the south frames the project and creates a clear, accessible connection between the village center and the cable car.

The roof is a reinterpretation of the seasons. It echoes the historic roofscape of the stone roofs of Val d’Isère and offers a dynamic morphology that opens up towards Bellevarde and Solaise, offering framed views of the village. Designed in layers, the ground floor acts as a mediator between the varying heights of the terrain and provides ground-level access from the snow field to the upper floor.

July 30th, 2024

Mehr ist mehr

Our InnoDom Cologne project was featured in a detailed article in md-mag. We are pleased about the successful article, in which the two project managers Linda Leers and Daniel Trappen also have their say. The article can be accessed via the following link.

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Elisa Uthmann

July 20th, 2024

We have been nominated for the German Sustainability Award!

We are one of 13 companies nominated for the German Sustainability Award in the “Architecture and Civil Engineering” category. The prize is awarded to industry pioneers who demonstrate particularly effective, successful and exemplary contributions to transformation.
Relevant aspects were both our climate-sensitive projects, including our pioneering work in circular construction, as well as our environmentally conscious, socially responsible corporate governance.
We are delighted to have been nominated and are looking forward to the jury’s decision, which will be announced at the award ceremony at the end of November.

Last year, Werner Sobek AG received the award.

Photo 1: RAG-Stiftung and RAG AG Zollverein, ©Nikolai Benner

July 11th, 2024

Nomination World Architecture Festival 2024

We are thrilled to anounce that the InnoDom Cologne has been shortlisted in Best Completed Buildings: Inside Workplace (Large) for the 2024 World Architecture Festival Awards. We’ll be presenting our project live at the World Architecture Festival taking place from 6 to 8 November 2024 at Marina Bay Sands. See you in Singapore!

Read more here: World Architecture Festival 2024 – Home Page

July 9th, 2024

InnoDom Cologne nominated for DAM Award 2025!

The InnoDom Cologne is one of 112 projects nominated by an independent jury for the DAM Prize 2025. We are delighted!

Every year since 2007, Deutsches Architekturmuseum has honoured the best recently completed building projects in Germany with this award. The nominations are based on proposals from regional experts and architectural chambers.

More information and the list of nominees can be found here: dam-online.de.

Photo: ©Jens Kirchner

July 2nd, 2024

Architects Afterwork Aachen - Talk with Jasna

We are looking forward to Jasna’s presentation at COLLAB – architectural communication. In her talk on 10 July 2024, she will set the audience’s minds on a climate course, just as she does in our office. The Collab is a space for collaborative processes, meetings and communication around the theme of architecture.

June 30th, 2024

Day of Architecture at our Berlin office

On the 30th of June we opened the doors of our Berlin office to all interested parties and gave an insight into our work and current projects.
Thank you to everyone who came! We were delighted with the level of interest and the quality of the discussions.

June 30th, 2024

Architecture Day at InnoDom Cologne

Almost 200 people took part in four guided tours of InnoDom Cologne this weekend.
We are very pleased that so many people took part and showed their interest.

June 20th, 2024

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We are delighted to announce that we have been elected to the BIM Alliance Board of Directors!

As a member of the BIM Alliance, we have been involved in various working groups and circles since 2019. We value the open and regular dialogue between members and the growing importance and influence of the BIM Alliance as a strong representative body for architects in the digital transformation. As a member of the full board, we want to continue to work together strategically and also focus on challenges such as the sustainable building revolution and the increasing influence of AI.

The BIM Alliance is an association of over 90 architecture firms with the aim of successfully shaping the digitalisation of the construction industry. As a professional representation of planning and property-monitoring architectural firms, the BIM Alliance seeks an open exchange with all stakeholders and influences the practical design of BIM in the planning process, standardisation and norms.

We would like to thank all members of the BIM Alliance for their trust and look forward to working with the entire Board and continuing our excellent collaboration!

Find out more about the BIM Alliance at the official website: https://www.bim-allianz.de/

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Eva Syllwasschy

June 18th, 2024

Hoffest on the construction site of our OFFICEHOME Pollux at Campus Ostkreuz in Berlin Friedrichshain

The sustainable OFFICEHOME complex is being built on the site of a former car dealership, garage and taxi business in the centre of Berlin. It consists of three buildings, of which we are planning the second construction phase, OFFICEHOME Pollux. Its six floors can be divided into up to 44 individual office units with areas of 350 – 5,000 sqm per floor and all standard office layouts. The office space is complemented by exclusive, spacious loggias and roof terraces.

All the buildings in the new OFFICEHOME complex have been designed to save energy and resources. The buildings will be DGNB Gold and Wired Score Gold certified and built in accordance with the EU taxonomy. The first phase was designed by Collignon Architecture.

At the courtyard party, PANDION CEO Reinhold Knodel, Enpal Managing Director Dr Florian Christ, Berlin Partner Managing Director Dr Stefan Franzke, Inga Schwarz, Head of Research at BNP Paribas Real Estate, and Gerhard Wittfeld, Managing Partner of kadawittfeldarchitektur, discussed current trends in the Berlin office market and the changing requirements in the New Work sector.

June 6th, 2024

InnoDom receives German "LICHTDESIGN-PREIS"

InnoDom receives German “LICHTDESIGN-PREIS” 2024 in the office/administration category!

The lighting design of the Cologne University Foundation’s start-up center was created by arens faulhaber lichtplaner, architecture and interior design by kadawittfeldarchitektur. The prize was awarded on June 6 at the Dornier Museum in Friedrichshafen.

The “InnoDom” start-up center communicates its unconventional and diverse use visibly from afar in Cologne’s urban space, especially in the dark. Two two-storey, staged, monochrome rooms with panoramic glazing resemble stage sets and, like shop windows, show the work and tinkering going on inside.

In the interior spaces, the technology is routed openly beneath the concrete ceilings, with guidelines as the guiding theme of the lighting design. On the first floor, these show the way from the lobby to the cafeteria and the meeting rooms. In this way, they also contribute to making the open room sequences tangible as a continuum. On the upper floors, they are supplemented by desk-mounted task lights. Users can control these individually, while at the same time supporting the concept of an open, flexible working environment.

May 31st, 2024

Foundation stone laid for 'Equalizer' office building in Berlin

On 31 May, together with ‘DIE Deutsche Immobilien Entwicklungs AG (DIEAG)’, the general contractor Ed. Züblin AG and many guests, we celebrated the symbolic start of construction of the “Equalizer” office building in Berlin’s Mitte district.

The 14-storey building will provide around 13,000 sqm of floor space, divided into 400 sqm rental units that can be used flexibly as open-plan, combi or cubicle offices. The building is characterised by numerous green and open spaces, a landscaped courtyard and outdoor terraces and loggias. In addition, the green roofs provide retention areas and space for solar panels. The building is highly recognisable thanks to the vertical double pilaster strips in the façade and the harmonious colour gradient.

The new building meets the requirements for DGNB Gold certification and has been pre-certified by the European Centre for Allergy Research Foundation (ECARF). It will be designed in BIM (LP5: Model Detail Level 300).

May 26th, 2024

Jasna Moritz's contribution to the exhibition “380-780 nm. Color in architecture and the city"

“Material authenticity, natural surfaces, patina of the existing. Colors and contrasts are our tools to carefully ‘orchestrate’ the complex coexistence of old & new, of materials that can be separated again – haptic, sensual, honest. What a colorful vision!”

Jasna Moritz’, partner at kadawittfeldarchitektur, answer to the question of how future, climate-friendly construction and conversion will manifest itself aesthetically – and what role colors will play in this. Their answers and those of other architects can be viewed at the exhibition “380-780 nm. Color in Architecture and the City” at the Museum of Baukultur NRW in Düsseldorf. The exhibition focuses on resonating positive and negative examples of the use of color in architecture and the city. The exhibition can be viewed until June 28, 2024.

May 16th, 2024

Temporary use at 'Lust for Life

The former Horten building ‘Lust for Life’, which has become a ‘lost place’ in Aachen’s city centre, is to be used again temporarily!

For a long time it wasn’t clear what would happen next – now the renovation work for the temporary use has been completed. From April until at least the end of September there will be about 1500 m² of freely usable space available.

kadawittfeldarchitektur is also campaigning against this vacancy in Aachen’s city centre and is supporting the project with 2500 euros. This is part of the 4012 euros that were raised in December 2023 on a ‘transformative dancefloor’ under the motto ‘Do good and dance’, and which are earmarked for Aachen’s cultural scene.

A series of temporary events will now be organised under volunteer management. The aim is to provide space for smaller organisations and initiatives with a small budget and to create inclusive offers.

‘Lust Auf Life’ is intended as a cultural space. Unfinished concerts. Public rehearsals. Small art exhibitions. Graffiti artists. The concept is a modern and flexible response to a gap in Aachen’s cultural scene and attempts to fill it. It is also hoped that the project will provide a stimulus for the neighbourhood, creating more vibrancy and security in the area.

The photo shows how kadawittfeldarchitektur used the vacant building as an exhibition space in 2020 to present insights into the office’s work in the shop windows on the occasion of its 20th anniversary.

March 25th, 2024