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				Ingenieurbaukunst 2012/13 publishes Pavillion of Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz Every second year the maganzine Ingenieurbaukunst, published by the Federal Chamber of Engineers, represent the interests of its members in terms of the newest technical developments in German engineering. Furthermore they recognize outstanding structural engineers and promotes cooperation and the exchange of ideas between them. The issue 2012/13 publishes the Pavilion of Bundesgartenschau 2011 in Koblenz, which was developed together with the architectural office one fine day - holger hoffmann entstand. Mehr Informationen zum Projekt finden sie hier...
		Bautechnik publishes the concept for a "Suprastadio" The october issue 2012 of the trade magazine Bautechnik publishes the essay "Überragende Sicht" developed from Kreativlabor Interpol +- and osd. The concept of a "Suprastadio" defines the relationship between audience and player in a new way and activates the future requirements of a possible stadium in the 21st century. More information see here...
PBB Architecture Prize 2012 for the Transferzentrum Adaptronik TZA Under the patronage of the German Ministry of Traffic, Construction and Urban Developement there was distributed the 11th prize for architecture. The Fraunhofer Transferzentrum for Adaptronik in Darmstadt by JSWD Architekten and osd received one of the three main prizes. Read more here...
		Canopy Trainstation Gravensteiner Platz, Frankfurt was published in Stahlbau-Nachrichten The roof structure was manufactured as a stainless steel folded structure which streches itself over the whole waiting area of Gravensteiner Platz in Frankfurt. The canopy structure consists out of 12 reverted, flat, pyramidal elements, which sit on bottom fixed circular stainless steel pillars. Read more here...
				Publication Parkdeck P58 Flughafen Frankfurt in Bauforum Stahl Bauforum Stahl published the project Parkdeck P58 Flughafen Frankfurt which was developed in cooperation with Menzel Kossowski Architekten and osd according to measures to redevelope the airport for the new A380 airliner. Link to the article hier
		Publication Residential Building in the Taunus Region The recent "facelift" of an existing villa in the Taunus Region projected by the architects Meixner Schlüter Wendt in cooperation with osd was now published in Baunetz. Link to the article here
				Recognition for DIPF - Deutsches Institut für internationale Pädagogische Forschung, Frankfurt Ortner+Ortner architects in cooperation with osd got a recognition for the VOF competition DIPF - Deutsches Institut für internationale Pädagogische Forschung der Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Campus Westend. For more information klick here here
2nd Prize for the competition of a new institute building complex in Cologne University of Cologne: The competition entry for a new institute building complex at the University of Cologne won a 2nd prize. The competition was done in close cooperation with Lepel & Lepel. More information you will find here
		Roof construction for the end of line 18 in Frankfurt finished Recently, the roof construction for the terminal of the new tram line 18 in Frankfurt/Main has been finished. Significant part is the folded loadbearing stainless steel surface. The design was done in close cooperation with Schoyerer Architekten.
Publication of the spherical roof light glasses of the new Städelmuseum Togehter with Kai Otto from schneider + schumacher and Hanno Sastre from seele_sedak Harald Kloft and Florian Mähl published an article about the innovative roof lights of the new Städelmuseum in the book Glasbau 2012. Link to the publisher here
		The new Staedel Museum is opened The New Städel Museum in Frankfurt has been opened. Significant part of the architectural design are the 195 circular roof lights. For the first time spherical cold bended glass is used to realize accessible overhead glass structures. osd has worked as facade-consultant for this innovative construction designed by schneider + schumacher architects and manufactured by seele_sedak.
				Bus Terminal in Waedenswil/Switzerland completed On 10th of December 2011 the Bus Terminal in Waedenswil/Switzerland was completed. The curved roof construction is built in steel and glass. More information you will find here
		Mention at the design award "Holzbaupreis Hessen 2011" Two projects structurally designed by osd won a mention at the design ward "Holzbaupreis Hessen 2011": The Intercultural Center at Campus Westend in Frankfurt and the Mobile Light-Church, presented at the landscape exhibition in Bad Nauheim in 2011. Link to the documentation
				MURTURM/Austria published The Murturm project, a 26 m high landmark in the Steirian Murauen is published in the magazin „Deutsche Bauzeitung“ 10/2011 by Karin Tschavgova. You can find more information on the project and article here Link to Deutsche Bauzeitung
		Nordrhein-westfälisches Landesarchiv LAV slides up The new state archive building of Nordrhein-Westfalen (LAV) is integrated in a former storage building located in the harbour of Duisburg. The building complex consists of a sixty meter high tower building and a wave-like low-rise building. You can find more information here