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ArchDaily Building of the Year Nomination 2025

Our projects ‘Assila HQ in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’ have been nominated for the ArchDaily Building of the Year 2025.

The first phase of voting for the prizes will run until 12 February at 12:01 AM EST.

(Photo: Laurian Ghinitoiu)

Vote for us here: ArchDaily

More about the project: Assila HQ

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Unser Projekt Klimapositives Wohnen in Berlin wurde für seinen wichtigen Beitrag zur Bereitstellung von zugänglichem, angemessenem, sicherem und bezahlbarem Wohnraum, zur Stadterneuerung und/oder zur Aufwertung von Slums im Einklang mit den Grundsätzen des SDG11, Ziel 11.1, ausgezeichnet.

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Re-inviting & Re-visiting

Conceptual design by Daniel Lie Jia Kua

Located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the site was refurbished in 2019. It has successfully attracted young artists and made the courtyard more lively. The location is utilised for ongoing festive activities, but it remains uninviting during off-peak season. The project aims to redesign the place for local workers as a hanging spot during their break time. A series of transitional spaces for hangouts and reminiscences of the past is created.

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Eco-Friendly Animal Pavilion

Conceptual design by Erleta Berisha and Irena Llapashtica

Located in Pristina, the pavilion is designed for intersecting animal communities and human use, The pavilion is modular, vertical structure composed of various cuboid sections. Each section is designed to accommodate different animal habitats, incorporating elements such as nesting areas, planters with vegetation, and spaces filled with natural materials like twigs and leaves.

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Do you have a mission? Then come and meet us!

We would like to congratulate our clients, the Nordic Embassies, for the 25th anniversary of the completion of the embassy complex on Rauchstrasse in Berlin. Following our planning for Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, we have contributed our expertise to other diplomatic missions: the Canada House on Leipziger Platz, the Chilean and South African residences in Grunewald and the remodelling of the Italian embassy. We are currently working on the new building for the Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh in Berlin's Tiergartenstrasse.

Photo: Matthias Matschewski

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Fire and Water - What the Future Holds

' It is good to remember that utopia is nothing but the reality of tomorrow and that today's reality is yesterday’s utopia'

Le Corbusier

Illustration by: Munashichi,Future Economic View of Innocence, 2015

In 2023, the world faces a pressing challenge from climate change, with drought, forest fires, and torrential rains becoming more frequent. As a result, people are striving to create resilient communities that improve the quality of life and create a 'brave new world' for future generations. Architects have long hoped to create a better society through utopian ideas, but the current situation is deteriorating water quality, increasing temperatures, and emitting emissions.

In this studio, we will explore alternative utopian and dystopian cultures, as well as contemporary concerns like poverty, overcrowding, and educational planning. We will reconsider how people would live in both paradise and dystopia scenarios. Our vision for ambitious architectural projects in the future includes a reconsideration of housing, trade, transportation, and recreation. The future holds a variety of challenges, including the development of a resilient city, addressing contemporary concerns, and imagining a utopian or dystopian future.

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SBRAUS summer school in Skopje was a great success due to the excellent input of 24 students from 5 countries and the intertwined network of teachers. The results will have a lasting impact on the development of this historic moment. Stay tuned on https://sbraus.com for results and Venice exhibition in March 2025.

Copyright: Photo: 1 and 3: Muhammed Duraki@MTU, Skopje, Photo 2: Ligia Fernanda Burgos Valcarcel@DIA, Dessau

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Mix n' Match

To combat urban heat island, small green spaces can be used as a means of cooling cities during heatwaves. The tiny actions we each take add up to a great deal when multiplied among a global community. For sustainability to evolve, this is a crucial strategy.

The conversion of a small area of underutilized urban land into a miniature nature reserve benefits the neighbourhood in numerous ways.Their comprehension and order of importance regarding these issues will determine their future.

This semester, Mix n' Match will concentrate on small urban areas that emphasise a combination or relationship to several components, such as a combination of environments and mood, environments and cultures, and so forth. Its goal is to research and examine various underutilized urban areas and combine them with various components that influence a resilient and sustainable society, where they may be used for the restoration of social and mental health.

How can students identify underutilized open spaces, combine different elements, and build an urban enclave that supports itself as a community recreation and revitalisation area?

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From Coal to Culture

Conceptual design by Erin Kong 

Located in Cottbus. The key idea of the project is to be ‘more than a museum’, where the building acts as an initiator and catalyst for integration and education. The sunken courtyard guides users closer to the water's edge, mimicking the topography of the ex-mining site. Reflecting the development, the structure showcases 2 different views. One blends with the surroundings and the other is a modern Lightbox from the sea.

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Graduation Season!

Congratulations to the students on the successful completion of their Master's thesis at Studio Peter Ruge on the theme: "Fire & Water: What the future holds". It was the best studio in recent years, also due to the fact that WinShen Tay was awarded the Robert Oxman Prize for the best student project at DIA this year. The theme of the future-looking thesis was Urban Rematerialisation - Reimagining a Circular Metabolism of Materiality.

Photo courtesy of Lelaram Thiyagarajan

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Harvest Haven

Conceptual design by Shaqir Shaqiri and Elvis Isaac Enebeli

Located in Nigeria. The site faces issues such as lack of adequate school, health centres and food. The project aims to create a build environment that serve both as productive and nurturing spaces. 

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DAM Preis 2025 Nominiert

Unsere Projekte „Assila HQ in Riad, Saudi-Arabien“ und „Xintiandi Factory Hangzhou, in China“ wurden für den DAM Preis 2025 nominiert.

Mehr über die Projekte erfahren Sie hier! Assila HQ 

Xintiandi Factory

(Foto ©Laurian Ghinitoiu und ©认识杭州)

Mehr infos, besuchen sie unsere website: Peter Ruge Architekten

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Just around the corner!

The collaboration between universities for the Erasmus+ summer school is on the agenda. We had a great adventure day with the team in Ferropolis, to investigate how old industrial regions could be urban mined into a cultural space for events and social activities.

Thanks to the team from the University of Mother Tereza, Skopje; University of Maribor, Slovenia: University of Thessaly, Volos; and IUAV University from Venezia.

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Plug In

Conceptual design by Benjamin Kah Ho Ngai and Cian Wong

@benthedurian and @ciann.w

Located in Cottbus. The key idea of the project is to utilise modular/prefabricated construction components for the proposed information centre, to address the changing relationship between cultural history, the natural environment and coal mining in the region.

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Featured on Architizer

Our project, Xintiandi Factory Hangzhou was recently featured by Architizer!

Photo of interior by 认识杭州

Check out the featured project here:-

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Ready for Take-Off

Our design of the new embassy is ready for take-off. The Ground-breaking ceremony for the New Embassy of the People's Republic of Bangladesh on Tiergartenstrasse took place on 17 May 2024 with notable guests from various country's representations.

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Habitation Against Demolition

Conceptual design by Avneet Madan and Pratiksha Dutta

@avneetmadan and @pratiksha_dutta19

Located in Halle, the key idea of the project is to utilise adaptive reuse from existing structure- The primary features of the warehouse of seamless integration of residential spaces with laborative environments, such as art galleries, workshops, an urban/ideas lab, and dedicated areas for artistic expression such as graffiti art rooms.

The different spaces connected give users a chance to use their skills and get involved with the local culture.