![View of the ESO Supernova close double-star system by Bernhardt and Partner Architects. Copyright: Claudia Neeser.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/1_ESO-Supernova_©_-Foto-Claudia-Neeser.jpg)
The ESO Supernova Planetarium & Visitor Centre at the Garching Research Campus near Munich opened on April 28, 2018, and aims to bring astronomy closer to the public in a …
![The Elbtower, as seen from the Elbpark. Copyright: SIGNA Chipperfield for HafenCity Hamburg GmbH.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/The-Elbtower-view-from-Elbpark-©-SIGNA-Chipperfield_source-HafenCity-Hamburg-GmbH-.jpg)
The finale and overture at the same time: the Elbe Tower in Hamburg will be the conclusion of HafenCity’s development and simultaneously the prelude to the entrance to Hamburg’s city …
![Being an architect and a mother at the office of Almut Grüntuch-Ernst. Copyright: Edgar Rodtmann (for DAM Deutsches Architekturmuseum)](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DAM_Frau-Architekt_Almut-GrÅntuch-Ernst_GrÅntuch-Ernst-Architekten_Foto-Edgar-Rodtmann-1.jpg)
Although more than half of all students in architecture faculties are now women, only very few manage to make the leap into the top ranks, where architecture is still a …
![Restaurant Oosten is in front of the ECB high-rise. Copyright: Andrea Schwappach for ga frankfurt.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/image-1-EZB_OOSTEN-DSC04497-©-ga-frankfurt_as.jpg)
In October 2012, Frankfurt’s restaurant “Oosten” opened on the former “Ruhrort shipyard”. Like a stranded houseboat in the midst of cranes, construction sites and unpaved roads, Oosten announced a new …
![Mouse Bunker main façade, as a key example of Brutalism in Berlin. Copyright. Thomas M. Krüger.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Mousebunker1.jpg)
Hardly anything in the architectural history is more frequently misunderstood than the term “brutalism”. It doesn’t mean gloomy, brutal-looking concrete monsters, but buildings whose characteristics are raw, with unadulterated material …
![Allmann Sattler Wappner won the competition for the redesign of this central zone around the Cologne cathedral in 2002, but it took a while to be finished. Copyright: Marlene Zeltwanger.](https://www.guiding-architects.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Cologne_Dom1.jpg)
As soon as you leave Cologne’s main railway station, you will be stunned, such is the presence of the towering cathedral in high gothic style. However, not so long ago …