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• Achievements

  Achievements Architecture is a highly competitive business. And Sehw is right at the heart of this competition. We face competitive situations every day: the war for talents to win the...

• Team

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• Twins for modern job nomads

  Temporary accommodation for professional nomads designed as a building block for urban densification in growing cities. Sounds very general, but Berlin continues to attract many young people. In this case in the…

• Our Story

  Our Story Prof. Xaver Egger began his professional career in 1992 in Hamburg, where a partner office still exists under the same name with partners Juan Hidalgo, Andreas Horlitz and...

• Center for Digital Energy

  The Fraunhofer Center Digital Energy (ZDE) in Aachen is getting a climate-change-resistant building. The design by Sehw Architektur, which was awarded 1st place, makes the institute’s applied research visible to the outside…

• Old Books, Old Walls — New Life

  The Georg-Eckert Campus, designed by Sehw Architecture, is a modern research campus of the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Braunschweig, Germany, as part of the Leibniz Association. The project…

• Modular Counteracts Shortage

  The city of Cologne, like many other major German cities, suffers from a shortage of school facilities. Once again, the panacea is prefabrication and modular construction. In cooperation with S&H Modulbau, Sehw…

• Round the corner

  Architectural Keystone of a Berlin Block: Student Apartment Building in the Upcoming Oberschöneweide District In the heart of Berlin, housing for students is becoming increasingly unaffordable, making the outskirts more important when…

• Weitblick, Innovation Campus

  The building providing modern working environments is the first component of the emerging innovation park in Augsburg, a place bringing together the worlds of work and research. Consequently, its concept is aimed…

• Collaboration Village

  West of Berlin Brandenburg Airport “Willy Brandt” (BER), a new quarter is being developed that is well connected to Berlin and the world through the airport. The mix of coworking, university uses,…

• The Copper Coil

  Shining prelude to the STEM Campus. Sehw has been creating spaces for science for many years, thereby designing showcases for science and conveying images of scientific innovations to the outside world through…

• Along the School Boulevard

  Essen-Schonnebeck is a former mining district in the north of Essen. The neighbourhood is characterised by large-scale residential developments and soaring winding towers in between, which make the observer constantly remember that…

• The sky above Berlin

  Back in the 1980s, Bruno Ganz sat on the Victory Column in Tiergarten as the angel Damiel in Wim Wenders’ film “The Sky Over Berlin” and looked out over the city. Today,…

• Inclusive learning and living space

  Potsdam is growing and needs new schools. The new elementary school is located in the north of Potsdam in the heart of the listed Red Barracks ensemble. The three-wing structure provides clear…

• Outside the city gates

  The new primary and secondary school building creates an ensemble of three clearly defined, compact structures, each realised in one construction phase. As a direct neighbour of the listed town centre, the…

• Dynamic Lusatia

  Structural change poses major challenges for some regions, among them Lusatia, a former lignite mining region. “The Brandenburg state government, in close cooperation with the Saxon state government, wants to give additional…

• Delicate school extension

  The city of Cologne, like many other major German cities, suffers from a shortage of school facilities. Once again, the panacea is prefabrication and modular construction. In cooperation with S&H Modulbau, Sehw…

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  Sehw is architecture as the design of social practice find out more Sehw develops architectures for special uses in special locations find out more Sehw stands for an aesthetic of...

• Publications

  Press Welcome to the Sehw Architektur press section! Here you will find the latest press releases, exciting publications and the opportunity to sign up for our newsletter column “Just a...

• South on the Hennekamp

  A diverse, green urban quarter is being created on the former industrial site in the centre of Düsseldorf. In terms of urban planning, the quarter at the Auf’m Hennekamp – Witzelstraße junction…

• Am Hochschulring

  A modern office building is being built on the campus of the Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau for tenants from the science and research sector. With access from different directions, the…

• Reanimation

  In Berlin, we gave a 1970s industrial building a new skin and a new lease of life. Built as a functional building, it followed its function: Staff area on the lower ground…

• Old and new in the park

  Not far from the former course of the Berlin Wall, an inner-city residential quarter was developed, thus increasing the demand for school facilities. For this reason, the Kurt Tucholsky Primary School is…

• Transformation

  Gymnasium Grossburgwedel is a sprawling school outside the town centre of Burgwedel. The school has certainly experienced a lot, and what stood out as a modern school in the 1960s has been…

• Bioniq

  As a university location, Greifswald has a high demand for student housing. The design of a passive house using timber construction not only took account of the pressure on the housing market,…

• Timber construction set

  For JOPE Real Estate AG, we developed a modular construction system using wood for housing projects at various locations throughout Germany. The first site to be developed is located in Berlin’s Reinickendorf…

• Revitalisation

  Sustainable, networked, communal – that’s how we want to live in the future. A visible sign of this statement is the design for the revitalisation of the coal bunker ensemble. The Greentower…

• Learning in the U

  Sehw is currently planning eight additional buildings for several school locations in cooperation with SH Holz- und Modulbau for Gebäudewirtschaft Köln. The City of Cologne reacted early to the lack of space…

• At the heart of the EU

  The new building for the International German School of Brussels creates an overall ensemble that makes individual learning houses visible to the outside as interwoven cubes. Together with the sports hall, they…

• Protective school

  It will be a building for everyone, for use as a school and for the community of Ladakh, a village in the far north of India. All rooms are arranged around the…

• Centre for Start-ups

  Since 2019, the TU Berlin has belonged to the circle of excellence universities in Germany. This reputation is to be reflected in the architecture. The new building of the Chemical Invention Factory,…

• Learning Village

  Sehw Architektur’s latest project once again exemplifies the three pillars of Sehw’s architecture. The new timber building in the existing ensemble impresses with its innovative approach, its sustainability and the social added…

• Layered closure of a gap site

  We have known this from other cities for quite some time: living in the city centre is becoming more and more expensive and people are moving in concentric circles towards the periphery.…

• Re-use, re-think

  A vacant prefabricated building in the historic centre of Berlin, previously occupied by the former GDR Ministry of Construction, was converted and expanded by Sehw as part of a feasibility study concerning…

• Sweet new working world

  The confectionery manufacturer Storck is planning to further develop its production site in Berlin. Including two existing buildings from the 1960s and 1970s, the first step is to create space for over…

• Order needs order

  The Karlsruhe Police Headquarters finds its new location in a former industrial monument consisting of several individual buildings from different periods. In the future, the five-storey buildings will accommodate uses of the…

• Alles was Recht ist

  As an outstanding example of architecture of the new practicality, the building complex of the Administrative Court and District Attorney Office in Frankfurt on the Oder occupies a prominent position in the…

• a new police station for the BER

  Well look at this, Berlin has a new airport. It now also needs a new police station. It will be located on an area already used by the police, which is bordered…

• 2 Ministries in Potsdam

  Sehw has been involved in architecture for the Brandenburg state government for quite a while now.  Already in the nineties, we built the library of the state chancellery in the Heinrich-Mann-Allee. In…

• Rough structure and fine texture

  As part of the reform of the police structure in the Free State of Saxony, the patrol and criminal investigation service is being centralised at the Werdau site. In order to meet…

• Darling Reinickendorf

  Darling Reinickendorf is like Reinickendorf itself: an original that claims its place in the neighbourhood, that stands out but is also part of it, that polarises but will be loved by those…

• Shared Living

  Berlin is booming! The number of employees is rising and the housing market is being upgraded. In other cities like London or New York serviced apartments or shared-living models are already long-established…

• Pearl in Pankow

  In Berlin’s Pankow district, we have completed a residential building with 26 modern residential units. One of the units is designed as a town house with three floors and a separate entrance.…

• Young Europeans

  Will it stay or can it go? Three modular timber buildings will be erected on the campus of the international German school in Brussels in 2025 for a temporary period of three…

• Town Country Creek

  The town of Altötting lies in the heart of Bavaria. The historic town centre is the spiritual centre of Bavaria and has been the most important Marian pilgrimage site in the German-speaking…

• Student Housing

  The idea is a village in the city, the communal living of the residents in a loose community that enriches the togetherness and everyday life of the students. The design is laid…

• Holidays at home

  The new building in timber construction is hidden in a quiet side street not far from the main shopping street in Berlin’s Zehlendorf district. Fourteen flats are spread over two buildings, some…

• The Iceberg

  People from Darmstadt are calling the new building for the Fraunhofer SIT “Iceberg”. Do the citizens of this scholarly city see the unsinkable Titanic coming? Do they discern the underground levels? Does…

• All-round solution

  In the morning in Germany, in Stuttgart to be precise. Employees of the Institute Center are crowding in the new cafeteria. Comprising five Fraunhofer institutes and another five affiliated partner institutes of…

• Showcase of science

  The new building for the Institute of Physics is an stand-alone building in a prominent location that mediates between the northern part of the East Campus and the university high-rise building to…

• School, all spruced up

  In recent years, Nuremberg has launched an unrivalled school offensive. Part of this is a new primary school in the rapidly developing north-west of the city. The design for the new primary…

• Learning in the Park

  The airy three-storey building with a regular grid serves as an interim building for several schools and is intended to accommodate other municipal uses in the future. Therefore, great importance was attached…

• School as city

  The new building for the Kolkwitz comprehensive school forms an urban ensemble of school buildings and sports hall that is carefully embedded in the rural surroundings. For this purpose, a flat and…

• Playful learning in old barracks

  The design concept for the York municipal primary school makes it possible to create an attractive and contemporary ensemble of primary school and sports hall as part of the urban masterplan, which…

• Police department Calw

  The new building marks the northern entrance to the town in a striking way. The main entrance is orientated directly towards the connecting road. The building’s architecture is characterised by its shape,…

• Six roofs for the multiplication table

  The new primary school building is an inclusive, functional, identity-forming and attractive place. It consists of two buildings that are positioned on the site to form an address. A single-storey building forms…

• Learning canteen

  The city of Cologne, like many other major German cities, is confronted with an acute shortage of school space. The means of choice is modular prefabricated construction. A compact two-storey building with…

• Community unites old and new

  The new extension, designed in a joint venture with Lorber Paul Architektur und Städtebau, complements the existing building in such a way that a central schoolyard is created as the heart of…