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Perlach Plaza is a hub, a signboard, and a calling card. With its urban mixed use of retail, service businesses, restaurants, residential units, and a hotel, it has a central urban-design function in the development of the new KulturQuadrat center on Munich’s Hanns-Seidel-Platz.

The design of the new Technical Administration Building of the municipality of Düsseldorf rests on the foundation of a permeable plinth and articulates the large built volume required in the competition brief as a slender tower of four interlocked tall blocks.

Our ideas of a predictable future and the foreseeability of developments have been overtaken by the recent crises, and tomorrow's work has been radically changed in a very short time by pandemics, home office and digitization. However, in a crisis there is always an opportunity to initiate innovations. A matter of course for a successful technology company to react and develop visions for the future.

With a focus on subsidized housing and a developable floor space of 23 hectares, the area east of the recreational lake in Hirschstetten in Vienna’s 22nd district is considered as the next big urban development area in the city.

The center of the quarter is the new town square with a supermarket, café, and kindergarten. Oriented toward Holsteiner Strasse, it links the existing Brauereihof (cultural venue and restaurants) with the concave quarter’s square.

It is a known fact that the realities of life change with age. In taking account of dynamic user needs, new residential forms have increasingly been a topic of architectural exploration. For the ANUNDO residential project in Mannheim, Germany, which is intended for people 55 and older, living spaces are grouped around semipublic circulation zones and communal areas in the center of the built volume.