HG Merz GmbH

HG Merz GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	1981
Seat	Stuttgart , Germany
management	Hans-Günter Merz
Number of employees	9
Branch	Architecture, museum design
Website	www.hgmerz.com

Mercedes-Benz Museum , Stuttgart, 2006

Kunstkammer Wien , Vienna, 2013

Restoration of the State Opera , Berlin, under construction

Monument on Breitscheidplatz, in Berlin-Charlottenburg

HG Merz GmbH , also known as hg merz architects museumsgestalter , is an architectural office based in Stuttgart and Berlin that specializes in museum and exhibition design as well as in the renovation and expansion of historically significant buildings.

history

The office was founded in 1981 in Stuttgart by HG Merz and in 1993 an office in Berlin was added. In 2012 the office founded the company mm +. While HG Merz mainly realizes projects in German-speaking countries, mm + focuses more on the international market. For the museum projects, HG Merz often works with other architecture firms, e.g. B. Daniel Libeskind , UNStudio and Bjarke Ingels .

Projects (selection)

Reconstruction and renovation of the Alte Nationalgalerie Berlin (1993–2001)
Sachsenhausen Memorial : "Station Z", Oranienburg (1998–2005)
Mercedes-Benz Museum Stuttgart (1999-2006)
Jewelery Museum Reuchlinhaus Pforzheim (2002-2006)
European School of Management and Technology , conversion of the former GDR State Council building, Berlin (2003–2006)
Military History Museum of the Bundeswehr Dresden (2003-2010)
Reconstruction and renovation of the State Library Unter den Linden Berlin (2000– approx. 2015)
Porsche Museum Stuttgart (2005-2008)
Reconstruction and renovation of the Stasi Memorial Berlin-Hohenschönhausen , Berlin (2008–2012)
Extension and basic renovation of the State Opera Unter den Linden , Berlin (2009–2015)
Ruhr Museum in the Zollverein World Heritage Site , Essen (2005–2010)
Tirol Panorama Innsbruck (2007-2011)
Kunstkammer of the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna (2010–2013)
Energy Bunker Hamburg , exhibition as part of the IBA Hamburg (2012–2013)
UNESCO World Heritage Lorsch Monastery , master plan and new construction of the reception building (2010–2014)
Richard Wagner Museum Bayreuth (2011-2015)
Barenboim-Said-Akademie Berlin, conversion of the magazine building of the State Opera Unter den Linden , concert hall together with Frank Gehry (2012-2016)
Reconstruction and renovation of the circulation tank by Ludwig Leo , Research Institute for Hydraulic Engineering and Shipbuilding at the TU Berlin (2014–2016)