Knippers Helbig

Knippers Helbig GmbH
legal form	GmbH
founding	2001
Seat	Stuttgart , Germany
management	Thorsten Helbig, ; Boris Peter
Number of employees	49
Branch	Engineering office
Website	www.knippershelbig.com
	As of December 31, 2018

Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering is an engineering office based in Stuttgart , New York City and Berlin . It was founded in 2001 and specializes in structural and facade planning for national and international construction projects in the areas of building construction, steel construction, timber construction, bridges and airports.

A branch in New York City was added to the headquarters in Stuttgart in 2009 and in Berlin in 2012.

The company works with world-renowned architects such as Massimiliano Fuksas , Renzo Piano , Steven Holl, Herzog & De Meuron, SHoP and Stefan Behnisch and supports facade companies such as Seele, Gartner or Frener + Reifer. Knippers Helbig also works for customers such as Apple, the Oscar Academy, Adidas and the Trumpf company.

The focus is on the development of special solutions for complex structures and facades as well as the programming of parametrically or generatively generated structures in glass and steel construction such as B. the facade of the Shenzhen International Airport , which consists of 60,000 different facade elements.

The design and construction of the world's largest membrane roof of the 1,000 m long and 100 m wide central main building of the World Exhibition in Shanghai came from Knippers Helbig Advanced Engineering as well as the steel and glass construction of the shopping mall MyZeil in Frankfurt am Main , the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, or the Peek and Cloppenburg department store in Cologne .

Furthermore, the office is experimenting with new building materials. B. responsible for Europe's first road bridge made of glass fiber reinforced plastic , as well as for the first carbon-reinforced, completely steel-free concrete bridge in Albstadt - Ebingen.

Works

(Selection)

2021 - New Toronto Court House
2021 - Wilhelma elephant house in Stuttgart
2021 - Central bus station in Ludwigsburg
2020 - Sächsische Aufbaubank Leipzig
2019 - Museum of Fine Arts Houston
2018 - Glassell School of Art, Houston
2018 - Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2018 - Franklin & Marshall Visual Arts Center, Lancester
2018 - VOLT, Berlin
2018 - Adidas meet & eat, Herzogenaurach
2018 - Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, Los Angeles
2018 - Sächsische Aufbaubank, Leipzig
2016 - Dorotheenquartier Stuttgart
2016 - Wilhelmspalais Stuttgart
2016 - Reverberation Gallery, State Opera Berlin
2016 - Convention Center, Kigali
2016 - Voltairestrasse Berlin
2015 - Hotel am Bostalsee, Nohfelden
2015 - Uhlmann WP2013, Laupheim
2015 - Children's Museum Monterrey, Mexico
2015 - Collier Memorial, Cambridge
2014 - Hospitalhof Education Center, Stuttgart
2014 - Astana Library Kazakhstan
2013 - Shenzhen International Airport , Shenzhen
2013 - Casa Shopping Carioca Wave, Rio de Janeiro
2013 - Pérez Miami Art Museum, Miami
2012 - Pavilion Museum of Modern Art New York City
2012 - Pavilion Expo 2012 , Yeosu
2010 - Facades Dubai Airport Concourse 2 + 3, Dubai
2010 - Jübergturm , Hemer
2010 - Expo Axis, Shanghai
2010 - Norwegian Pavilion, Expo Shanghai
2010 - Youth Center Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
2009 - Free form mesh shell for Westfield London Shopping Center

2009 - United Nations Conference Center, Bonn

2009 - Center des Sports et des Loisirs, Luxembourg -Belair

2008 - MyZeil , Frankfurt am Main

2008 - GRP bridge, Friedberg

2007 - residential and commercial building, market houses in Mainz

2005 - Flagship store Peek & Cloppenburg , Cologne

2005 - Center for Cellular and Biomolecular Research at the University of Toronto

Competitions

(Selection)

2019 - Bergisch Gladbach town house - 1st prize
2019 - Administration building Lagerhausstrasse Aachen - 2nd prize
2018 - Headquarters of the Stadtwerke and Volkshochschule Soest - 1st prize
2018 - Seilbahn / Cable Car Göteborg - Winner
2018 - Kärcher Museum Winnenden - 1st prize
2017 - Skyscraper at Europaplatz Berlin - 1st prize
2017 - Konzerthaus Munich - 1st prize
2017 - Sports hall Alter Postweg Vaihingen ad Enz - 1st prize
2017 - Typensporthallen Berlin - 1st prize
2016 - District development Berg am Laim - 1st prize
2016 - Casino Cologne - 1st prize
2016 - Visitor Center Bundestag Berlin - 1st prize
2016 - ZOB Bahnhofsareal Ludwigsburg - 1st place
2016 - Campus Neue Weststadt Esslingen - 2nd prize
2016 - Sports-Dome Hamburg - 1st prize
2015 - Palais Europacity Berlin - 1st prize
2015 - TU Campus 2020 - 1st prize
2015 - HVG Heilbronn - 1st place
2015 - Guggenheim Museum - finalist
2014 - adidas HalfTime - 1st prize
2014 - Quartier T5 Mannheim - 1st prize
2014 - AEB Headquarter Stuttgart - 1st prize
2014 - VOLT Berlin - 1st prize
2013 - Sächsische AufbauBank - 1st prize
2013 - Hafencity pedestrian bridge - 1st prize
2013 - Extension of the Stuttgart State Parliament - 1st prize
2013 - Center Sportif Belval, Luxembourg - 2nd prize
2013 - Uhlmann heartbeat, Laupheim - 1st prize
2012 - Vocational School Center Wetzlar - 1st prize
2012 - Henninger Turm Frankfurt - 1st prize
2012 - TTC Tower Taichung - 2nd prize
2012 - ZSW research building Stuttgart with Henning Larsen Architects - 1st prize
2011 - Bad Soden car park with Birk and Heilmeyer Architects - 1st prize
2011 - Quartier M, Düsseldorf with Jürgen Mayer H Architects - 1st prize after revision
2011 - Parking garage “Kleine Mandel” at Hamburg Airport with Wulf Architects - 2nd prize
2011 - Exhibition hall Berlin with Wulf Architekten - 2nd prize
2011 - footbridge, Landsberg am Lech - 1st prize
2010 - Kaohsiung Marine Gateway, Taiwan with Asymptote Architecture, NY - 2nd Prize
2010 - IBA hall complex, Hamburg with Allmann Sattler Wappner Architects - 1st prize
2010 - Exhibition halls and train station in Kirchberg, Luxembourg with Pohl Architects Urban Planners and Steinmetz de Meyer architectes urbanistes: 1st prize
2010 - Central bus station in Kiel - with Giorgio Gulotta Architects: 2nd prize
2010 - Pedestrian Bridge Vienna with Knight Architects: 1st Prize
2010 - Karlsplatz Stuttgart with Behnisch Architects : 1st prize
2010 - Wilhelmspalais in Stuttgart with Lederer + Ragnarsdóttir + Oei : 1st prize
2009 - Cessange peripheral train station, Luxembourg with Pohl Architects and Steinmetzdemeyer: 2nd prize
2009 - Opladen pedestrian bridges with Knight Architects: 1st prize
2008 - Wala Foundation headquarters with H4A Gessert Randecker Architects: 1st prize
2008 - Shenzhen International Airport with Massimiliano Fuksas
2007 - New building Gewandhaus Dresden with Cheret Bozic: 1st prize
2007 - Heidelberg pedestrian bridge with Cheret Bozic: 3rd prize
2004 - Frankfurt International Airport Terminal 3 with Foster and Partners : 2nd prize

Illustrations

Expo Axis , Expo 2010, Shanghai
Norwegian Pavilion, Expo 2010, Shanghai
Facade of the new terminal of the Shenzhen International Airport , construction site September 2012
Gewandhaus in Dresden
Roof and facade of MyZeil , Frankfurt
Facade of the Weltstadthaus Cologne
Roof of Westfield London