David Chipperfield Architects

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David Chipperfield Architects is an architecture firm founded in 1985 by David Chipperfield with offices in London, Berlin, Milan and Shanghai. The office was best known for its numerous museum buildings in Europe, China and America.

After winning the appraisal procedure for the reconstruction of the Neues Museum on Museum Island (Berlin) , Eva Schad, Harald Müller and Mark Randel founded the David Chipperfield Architects Gesellschaft von Architekten mbH in 1998. Since 2011 the office has been run by Harald Müller, Eva Schad and Martin Reichert, Christoph Felger and Alexander Schwarz as managing partners. Today more than 100 employees work for David Chipperfield Architects Berlin (as of May 2017).

After winning the competition for the Modern Literature Museum in Marbach (2001–2002), the project office for the Museum Island was transformed into an independent location for David Chipperfield Architects. The office profile is shaped by the twelve years of work at the Neues Museum. The core competencies are in the field of cultural buildings, monument preservation and restoration as well as building in a historical context. In 2005 the Berlin office opened in Shanghai. In 2014, David Chipperfield Architects Shanghai emerged as an independent office.

Campus Joachimstrasse

The Berlin office is located in the Mitte district. Between 2007 and 2013, the architects expanded a commercial building built in 1895 as a piano factory with four new structures made of exposed concrete. In the front building there are exhibition and event rooms as well as an apartment. The middle house contains the architecture office with archive and model making workshop. A canteen is housed in the free-standing, two-story building. Together with the garden courtyard, it forms a semi-public place where people can meet and exchange ideas.

The office extension was awarded the BDA Berlin Prize in 2015 and the Berlin Architecture Prize in 2016.

Completed buildings in Germany (selection)

  • Stadthöfe Hamburg, Hamburg (2011-2018)
  • Museum Folkwang , Essen (2007-2010)
  • Schiller National Museum , Marbach am Neckar (2006–2009)
  • Gallery house 'Am Kupfergraben 10', Berlin (2003–2007)
  • Office building Ullstein Verlag, Berlin (2001–2004)

Completed buildings outside of Germany (selection)

  • Amorepacific headquarters, Seoul, South Korea (2010–2017)
  • Westkaai Towers 3 and 4, Antwerp, Belgium (2001-2016)
  • Xixi Wetland Estate, Hangzhou, China (2007-2015)
  • Kaufhaus Tyrol, Innsbruck, Austria (2007–2010)
  • Liangzhu Museum, Liangzhu Cultural Village, China (2003-2007)

Current projects (selection)

  • Karstadt Hermannplatz, Berlin, Germany (2017–)
  • Refurbishment and expansion of the Préfecture de Paris Boulevard Morland, Paris, France (2015–)
  • Mogul Museum, Agra, India (2015–)
  • Bolzano Department Store, Bolzano, Italy (2012–2022)
  • Hotel Ortaköy, Istanbul, Turkey (2009–)

Honors and awards (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexander Schwarz: The "cultural real estate" museum . In: Oliver Scheytt, Simone Raskob, Gabriele Willems (eds.): The cultural real estate : planning - building - operating. Examples and concepts for success . Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-2981-1 , p. 127-139 .