Mühlweg Vienna Receives Best Architect Award
...they are all a positive commitment to a good cause. And if you do not know the flair of modern timber construction, you should look at the results from time to time; you will be surprised at what you see....
The Federal HolzbauPlus 2020: Recognition for SWG Schraubenwerk
...protection – because it stores carbon. So if you build with it, you act! Building a single-family house out of wood produces up to 56 percent fewer greenhouse gas emissions. Builders, investors and planners around the world are increasingly relying...
Insight into the exciting YKK project in Japan - exclusive interview with the project team
...snow). What elements of the project are you most proud of? VR: I am proud that our timber construction is known as far away as Japan. It is nice to be able to show our qualities, our good, detailed planning...
Hermann Kaufmann nominated as the Austrian of the Year 2013
...if you support me. It is very simple and does not take much time. Just click on the “VOICES” link. Why I was selected you can read there. It would be nice, if you could tell your friends too! Many...
Our new book is at the printers.
We are eagerly awaiting the delivery from the printer. Our latest book “SCHRAUBENWERK MIT HOLZ – Plumbing the Limits of Hardwood”, author Marko Sauer, will be published soon and can now be pre ordered. You can secure their copy here...
Building work begins at SWG Schraubenwerk Gaisbach GmbH
...house the company headquarters using modular building techniques. In addition to the size of the project, the use of timber for a metalworking industrial space is rare. Especially in a heat treatment facility, the use of timber as a building...
New building in Neubaugasse
...three buildings, on a plot of about 4,300 m2. The former Mayor Elmar Kolb was also present at the ground-breaking ceremony as a representative of the parish of Lauterach. “We are very pleased to be able to do our part...
The environmental education centre, Britzer Garten, is complete
...works with an air heat pump and the extensive green roofs help to improve the overall sustainability of the building. The environmental education centre was finished very quickly due to the prefabrication of the main elements. The office for landscape...
Nürnbergkareal Bauabschnitt 1, Absam receives klimaaktiv GOLD award
At the klimaaktiv award ceremony, Federal Minister Andrä Rupprechter celebrated 41 Tirolean buildings, which not only showed energy efficiency, but also the highest quality in terms of planning and construction, building materials, comfort and indoor air quality. 18 of them...
European Architecture Award 2015: IZM – Illwerke Zentrum Montafon receives an accolade
...Europe, with more than 10,000 m² of floor space. The surroundings of the 120 meter long structure, a narrow Alpine valley, allow the building to mimic the landscape. With the modular hybrid construction of wood and concrete, and the use...
The SWG Schraubenwerk project receives an award for good building culture
...with indirectly guided daylight, the use of rainwater and the use of a gas-driven air compressor for heat and cold control, the project impressively demonstrates a possible path to climate-friendly construction in the commercial building sector.” 44 good building culture...
Awarded 1st place for the new Zünd Systemtechnik project in Altstätten
...however, there are conceptual questions as to how far this open ventilation zone cannot lead to uncontrollable turbulence on the three floors. The facade proposal is interesting, with two window strips per floor. While the lower window is at the...
Illwerke Zentrum Montafon receives first prize at the 2015 materialPREIS
Outstanding material competence and high-quality implementation. This year the materialPREIS was awarded to architects, interior designers, planners and designers who use qualitative, innovative or visionary material in their projects. More than 200 entries competed for the first award in the...
Exhibition Berlin Bauen mit Holz – Wege in die Zukunft (building with wood – ways into the future)
...modern manufacturing methods, open up timber construction to completely new forms of design. The exhibition shows sensational wooden architecture from all over the world, which until recently would have been inconceivable. It gives clear answers to urgent questions surrounding climate...
School nominated for prestigious sustainable building award in Germany
...the ever changing ways in which modern education is carried out. The four buildings that form the school perfectly integrate into the landscape at the edge of the Augsburg Nature Park. The project shows how modular building and pre-manufacturing can...
Schmuttertal Gymnasium Diedorf wins the DGNB award Building Sustainable 2016
...German plus energy standard, it is also modular, allowing for agility in the ever changing ways in which modern education is carried out. The four buildings that form the school perfectly integrate into the landscape at the edge of the...
Timber Construction Day 2019: Lecture in Oslo
This year’s Timber Construction Day will be held on September 4 at DOGA in Oslo. It is an arena which brings together the latest from the world of timber architecture including technical innovative solutions, modern use of timber and award-winning...
Ceremonial inauguration of the Schmuttertal High School in Diedorf
After two years of construction, the Schmuttertal Gymnasium was inaugurated on October 21, 2015. It was planned and built with an integral and future-oriented approach, as a nationwide unique lighthouse project. It was necessary to combine economic, ecological and social...
A new Sutterlüty supermarket opens in Rankweil
On Thursday November 21st a new experience in shopping opens on Landammanngasse in Rankweil. Large, open arches greet customers and reflect the market hall character of the fresh produce displays. This new open concept idea flows through the entire shop...
Unterstein Langenegg receives the Klima:aktiv award
...optimisation during operation. In this category, the energy quality of the building is evaluated on the basis of its real energy consumption. For the first time, three buildings won in this category, including the project multi-family house Morscher in Langenegg....
Experts discuss the very best Timber has to offer
...who wants to move towards more timber construction and is looking for initial contacts. Participation is free of charge. Since the number of participants is limited to 150, it is important to register here quickly, but no later than March...
Awarded 1st place in the bid for Russareal Lochau
...individual buildings, both the semi-detached houses to the east, and the longitudinally oriented multi-storey buildings to the west, are incorporated into the structural system. The height of the individual residential buildings is three to four storeys, the commercial building on...
1st prize for a proposed development of the former Spicher school
Wohnbaugruppe Augsburg will build new apartments on the site of the former Spicher School in Pfersee. For this purpose, a competition was held in March. Our office will take over the planning of the housing complex with 70 apartments. The...
Hermann Kaufmann receives the Toni Russ Prize
...the cultural sense.” Do not stop Kaufmann himself, who has planned around 300 objects to date – 80 percent of them in wood – wants to go further: “We must not grow too comfortable and satisfied with ourselves, but we...
The Olpererhütte Ginzling receives the Best Architects Award 2009
The “Best Architects 09” award received the highest number of entrants since the awards were founded. 189 outstanding projects were submitted to the award. This year’s jury found it particularly difficult to select the best of the best. A total...
The most beautiful books in Austria 2008: Hermann Kaufmann Woodworks
...considered excellent. With 211 submitted publications, from more than 100 publishers and designers, this year saw the largest number of entries. The competition “The most beautiful books in Austria” is annually published by the Federal Ministry of Education, the Arts...
Hermann Kaufmann Awarded Bezau Assisted Living Development
...the development will be extended to the west. One of the particular challenges of the design is to preserve the traditional characteristics of the building. The front and rear sides of the houses must remain distinguishable, the contrast between shingle...
"Haus Mitanand", Bezau is nominated for a Constructive Alps 2020 award
The international prize for sustainable renovation and building in the Alps “Constructive Alps” spans international borders. The awards are part of the larger Alpine Convention and aims to offer ‘food for thought’ about alpine life and living. Switzerland and Liechtenstein...
Cluster Innovative - SWG site inspection of the production hall
Invitation to visit the new wooden production hall for free. On 24 October 2019, proHolzBW has organised a site inspection of the production hall as part of “Cluster Innovative”. If you are interested and for further information click here....
The Architekturtage Experience in 2008
...events offering an exciting access to the most diverse aspects of architecture. We invite you to open buildings and architecture workshops, guided tours, walks and bus tours, exhibitions, lectures, discussions, festivals, art events, a diverse program for people young and...
Ground breaking ceremony for ASZ Vorderland
Interkommunal for more sustainability! 11 municipalities work together to realise the Recycling Centre (ASZ) Vorderland. At the celebration of the laying of the foundation stone on 06.06.2019, President Harald Sonderegger emphasised the positive example displayed by this extraordinary cooperation –...
Gold for Klimaaktiv flagship development Unterstein in Langenegg
...sector for climate protection. The excellent Klimaaktiv projects impressively showcase how these possibilities can be used to make a lasting contribution to our future. They are therefore an important driving force in achieving our climate goals #mission2030” Bundesministerin Elisabeth Köstinger...
Architekten Hermann Kaufmann presents their latest book
Individuality from a modular system: Illwerke Zentrum Montafon The new office building of the Vorarlberg power plants in Vandans is a hybrid timber construction designed and implemented by Architekten Hermann Kaufmann. On July 10, the book “Hermann Kaufmann IZM –...
Role Model Recycling Centre in Langerringen - Germany
The Augsburg district will halve the number of recycling centers by 2035, particularly affecting smaller municipalities. One of the winners of the new distribution concept is Langerringen, where a modern environmental competence center is set to be established next year....
Winner of the Schmiedberger Boutique Hotel
...and seminar rooms. The necessary feeling of intimacy, required in these particular areas because of their function, has been delivered in the formulaic design of the space. Direct daylight also adds the visual screen affect. The residential complex in the...
The Vorland recycling centre is now open
...use. The ASZ Vorderland is open to all residents of the municipalities of Fraxern, Klaus, Koblach, Laterns, Meiningen, Rankweil, Röthis, Sulz, Übersaxen, Viktorsberg, Weiler, Zwischenwasser and the city of Feldkirch. Saturday March 7, 2020 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Industriestrasse...
Lectures in Ulm on contemporary timber architecture
Two lectures from Hermann Kaufmann + Partner ZT GmbH and Ludescher & Lutz. The first will be given by partner and architect Christoph Dünser. He will be reporting on the office building of the Illwerke Zentrum Montafon. It is currently...
Symposium: Circular Economy in Construction
...may be the idea of an infinite circulation of materials. The symposium is a contribution to sustainable construction, and informs about topics such as Aktivhaus and R-Beton. As part of this symposium, DI Christoph Dünser delivers a lecture entitled “Exemplary...
Sohm Holzbau Receives Price the State Prize for Architecture Industry and Trade
...ceiling and wall elements made of solid wood, which do not need glue or steel connections. This idea sounds simple, but requires precise processing and profound knowledge. The expansion of the company was a way to carry the image of...
Breaking Ground at Illwerke Center Montafon
...the man made modifications to the land and large, two-storey blocks of flats. This stance is not unusual in architecture in the Alpine regions and is in the tradition of structural engineering of power plant construction in the region of...
Fernpassstraße receives recognition from the Prize for Quality in Housing 2015
...in Apartment Construction’. With over 30 high-quality projects entering the awards, we wanted to celebrate the diversity of the projects”, said Andreas Eisele, President of BFW Bayern. “Now in their second year, we have started to build a strong future...
DETAIL Editorial May: The roof of the Nebelhornbahn cable car station is being anaylized
...the current issue, we show less spectacular examples that have one thing in common: They are in the context of historic roofs. Dietrich Untertrifaller’s wide overhanging wooden roof ducks into the landscape within sight of Munich’s Olympic tent, as does...
Hermann Kaufmann Wins Contract for Illwerke Centre Montafon
...facades. Timber construction offers optimised embodied energy (savings of a factor of 3) and makes the building exemplary. The skeleton structure, with a few reinforcing cores, offers a high level of flexibility, it would be possible to expand the form,...
klima: aktiv Gold for Multi-Apartment Construction in Sulzberg
...running costs and the highest level of construction, the total annual costs are not higher than in buildings of standard quality. On November 16, 2012 the presentation of the plaque klima: aktiv Gold to Günter Morscher in the presence of...
Energy and Climate Protection: Particularly climate-friendly constructions honored – such as the project Unterstein, Langenegg
...Bau” – partly in collaboration with “Wohnbauselbsthilfe” with 10 projects – are the developers presenting the highest number of certified buildings this year. Among the honored buildings are also the last two winners of the State Prize, the office and...
Lecture series "Visions of Sustainable Construction"
The Freiburg Chamber of Architects and the city’s Department of Environmental Protection again present three perspectives that take up these questions and pursue them: The Evolution of Systematic Timber Construction Speaker: Christoph Dünser, Hermann Kaufmann + Partner ZT GmbH, Schwarzach...
We received the Austrian Green Planet Building® Award for the Brock Commons Tallwood House in Canada!
...objectives and strict criteria of the national climate protection initiative klimaaktiv for the building and real estate industry to an international level. The outstanding achievements of Austrian planning offices, consultants, construction companies and production plants abroad in the field of...
Hermann Kaufmann receives three Vorarlberg Timber Construction Awards
...building shows the ability to create a smart mixture of the materials. The second award win of the night went to the project ‘house R’ received, in the category ‘single-family house’. The jury said: “It is impressive how the wood...
Energy-Efficient Construction: Practice Well Advanced Compared to Regulations - Appeal by Hermann Kaufmann
...be energy-positive buildings or, at the very least, zero-energy buildings. This is technically feasible and implementable. By doing so, we would also provide support to our young individuals who are currently expressing their protests and initiating various actions to be...
Now available - book "SCHRAUBENWERK MIT HOLZ – Pushing the Limits of Hardwood"
The new production hall of the SWG screw factory in Gaisbach is a pioneering building for timber construction. The architecture sets new standards for the use of hardwood and re-explores the limits of the future-oriented, renewable building material. The result...
LCT ONE - LifeCycle Tower is Awarded a Nomination of the State Prize
...realization of the LifeCycle Tower as a global lighthouse project has a positive impact: “The system construction means it has global use, one utilises regional resources possible. This will also benefit small and medium-sized enterprises.” The recognition helps to publicise...
Housing and Care Home Development in Liefering Awarded to Hermann Kaufmann
...of attention, in order to avoid unnecessary wall formations. The required compactness was taken into account, allowing 13 or 15 residential units to be combined into one building. This meant the required apartments could be accommodated in only 5 buildings...
Fernpassstrasse in Munich wins the 2014 Bayern Holzbaupreis
...every four years since they were founded in 1978. Holzbaupreis Bayern said of the Fernpassstrasse project: The use of wood for the energetic modernisation, and the increased simplicity of the apartments, resulted in exemplary architecture. The significant increase in quality...
Special award for our project B&O wooden multi storey car park, Bad Aibling
Jury’s statement When necessary parking spaces are constructed as above-ground pallet or quarter garages instead of underground parking garages, it is a benefit for the environment and the flexibility of future reuse. When this is done for the first time...
Hirschau Unterdorf, Schnepfau has been awarded the prestigious environmental prize "Energy Globe" - congratulations to Morscher Bau and all parties involved.
...and the use of renewable energies. The aim of the award is to present innovative and sustainable projects to a broad public, as there are already good and implementable solutions for many of our environmental problems. This increases awareness of...