RKW Architecture +

RKW Architecture +
legal form	GmbH
founding	1950
Seat	Dusseldorf
Number of employees	about 400
Branch	Architecture and urban planning
Website	www.rkw.plus

The RKW architects is an architectural firm in Dusseldorf .

Company history

RKW Architektur + is one of the largest German architecture firms that also operate internationally. There are currently around 400 employees from 25 nations - architects, interior designers, civil engineers and administrative specialists - working at the Düsseldorf headquarters and the locations in Leipzig , Münster and Munich .

Founded in 1950 by Helmut Rhode in Düsseldorf, the architectural community, now managed by eight shareholders, has many years of national and international experience in all areas of building construction, interior design and urban planning and offers private and public clients a comprehensive range of services in all classic service phases, including general planning and construction - and quality management, BIM planning as well as project development, moderation and consulting services.

RKW has received more than 100 prizes in national and international competitions, including more than 50 first prizes and numerous for exemplary buildings.

The office is u. a. Member of the German Sustainable Building Council , the Baukunstarchiv NRW, the Bundesstiftung Baukultur, the German Council of Shopping Centers, the Architecture Export Network and the national BIM Competence Center (BIM Germany).

Buildings (selection)

2019: HolidayInn, Gdansk
2019: MTU Aero Engines Test Center, Munich
2019: Modernization of the Deutsches Museum, Munich
2018: CROWN renovation Kaufhof, Düsseldorf
2018: MAN A60, Munich
2018: BBDO, new worlds of work, Düsseldorf
2018: Amprion headquarters, Dortmund
2018: Albrecht-Dürer Vocational College, Düsseldorf
2017: Ciel et Terre, Düsseldorf
2016: Douglas Germany headquarters in Düsseldorf
2016: New construction of emergency shelters, Liebrechtstraße in Essen
2016: B&B Hotel, Mercartorstraße in Duisburg
2016: Sculpture hall in Neuss
2016: Expansion of the DHL Air Hub in Leipzig
2015: Hackforth Holding headquarters in Herne
2015: Milaneo in Stuttgart
2015: Forum Hanau shopping center in Hanau
2015: Edeka Center in Hanover
2015: Südzucker AG headquarters in Mannheim
2015: Rotation building of the University of Duisburg-Essen in Essen
2014: Motel One in Leipzig
2014: Steinkaul School in Düsseldorf
2014: BOC Bonneshof Office Center Düsseldorf
2014: Panta Rhei. Administration building near Düsseldorf Airport
2013: Green Office. Office building for the IOC in Sochi
2013: UN Campus Climate Secretariat in Bonn
2012: Leopoldina in Halle (Saale)
2010: Audi Campus T 23 Aggregate Center in Ingolstadt
2010: PGE Arena Gdańsk in Gdansk
2009: LzO Landessparkasse zu Oldenburg
2009: KfW main building in Frankfurt am Main
2006: Karstadt in Leipzig
2004: Royal Palace in Krefeld
2001: ARAG Tower in Düsseldorf
2000: Deutsche Börse in Frankfurt am Main
2000: Rathauspassagen (renovation) in Berlin
2000: Sevens Center in Düsseldorf
1996: CentrO in Oberhausen
1995: Reconstruction of Specks Hof in Leipzig
1959: The house at the Seestern in Düsseldorf
1957: ARAG headquarters in Düsseldorf

Competitions (selection)

2020: Marienkrankenhaus Kaiserswerth
2019: INquartier, Ingolstadt
2019: Town Hall, Mönchengladbach
2019: Continentale Directorate, Dortmund
2019: Town house, Bergisch Gladbach
2019: Living in Quartier Essen 51, Essen
2019: Cube 3, RWTH Aachen
2018: Konrad-Adenauer-Platz, Düsseldorf
2018: Festenbergsiedlung, Düsseldorf
2017: Tower on Mailänder Platz, Stuttgart
2016: Development of the station area in the community of Gauting in Gauting
2016: Debeka headquarters in Koblenz
2016: Coca-Cola area in Nuremberg
2016: Vaillant Campus in Remscheid
2015: Granary Island in Gdansk
2015: Former freight yard in Cologne-Mülheim
2014: B&B Hotel - Englische Strasse in Berlin
2014: “Stadtquartier Viktoriastraße” in Bochum
2014: “B & B Englische Strasse” in Berlin
2013: Rohde & Schwarz “Technology Center II” in Munich
2011: “Engine Forum MAN Plant” competition in Nuremberg
2011: Competition "Extension of the Südzucker AG headquarters" in Mannheim
2011: “Quartier am Mailänder Platz” competition in Stuttgart
2011: Facade competition in Leipzig (Grimmaische Strasse)

Awards (selection)

2020: Immobilienmanager Award in the category project development inventory | Award winner: Project developer HBB with the RKW project "Forum Schwanthalerhöhe, Munich"
2019: reddot award winner, Brands & Communication Design for www.rkw.plus
2019: European Innovation Award GCSC, 3rd place for the Crown project
2018: polis Award 2018, 1st prize in the "Reactivated Centers" category for the Crown project
2018: Specialist store Star for the Crown project
2018: Shortlist DAM price for the emergency accommodation in Essen
2018: German Design Award “Special Mention” for the Crown project
2017: Award for good buildings 2017, BDA Essen, recognition and audience award for the new construction of emergency accommodation, Liebrechtstraße in Essen
2016: “Fachmarkt Star” industry award, Nidder Forum
2016: ICSC European Shopping Center Awards, Category: New Developments - Large / Extra large, Milaneo Stuttgart
2016: Real estate manager award in the urban development category, award winners: City of Hanau and the project developer HBB with the RKW urban development project "Inner city renovation Hanau" and the core building project "Forum Hanau"
2014: European innovation award of the GCSC, award winners: City of Hanau and the project developer HBB with the RKW urban development project “Inner City Renovation Hanau” and the core building project “Forum Hanau”
2013: Main prize for the best sports project in Poland in 2013 for the “PGE Arena” in Gdansk, awarded by the Olympic and Paralympic Committee
2013: MIPIM Award 2013 - first prize in the category - Best Futura Mega Projects - for the “Milaneo” in Stuttgart
2012: ICSC - European Shopping Center Award - for the “Pasing Arcaden” in Munich
2011: 1st prize Green Building Recognition Program for the office building of the Olympic Committee - "Green Office" - in Sochi
2008: Green Building Award for the “KfW main building” in Frankfurt
2007: Architecture Prize of the City of Leipzig for the consumer supermarket Coppistraße in Leipzig
2006: ICSC Award from the International Council of Shopping Centers for the “Schlössle Galerie” in Pforzheim
2006: Award of Good Buildings 2006 from the BDA Düsseldorf for the "House of Doctors, 2nd BA", Düsseldorf
1996: European Shopping Center Award for the Rathaus-Galerie Wuppertal

literature

Weiss Klaus Dieter (Ed.): Workmanship. Working philosophy and design practice 2000–2010. RKW Architektur + Städtebau, Basel 2010
Wolfgang Hocquel; John Dennis Gartrell: Architecture for Commerce. Department stores, shopping malls, galleries. History and Current Trends - Architecture for the Retail Trade. Department stores, shopping centers, arcades. History and Current Tendencies. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5268-X (Basel), ISBN 0-8176-5268-X (Boston)
Johannes Busmann ; Hans-Günter Wawrowsky: Architecture. RKW, Rhode, Kellermann, Wawrowsky. 1950-2000. Hatje, Ostfildern-Ruit 1998, ISBN 3-7757-0735-2
U. Knaack: Planning and execution. Glass facades. In: Der Architekt, H. 3/2000
John Zukowsky; Martha Thorne: Skyscrapers. The new millennium - The Art Institute of Chicago. Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2000, ISBN 3-7913-2343-1
Romana Schneider; Klaus von Beyme: Architecture in the 20th Century. (Catalog book on the occasion of the exhibition "Architecture in the 20th Century. Germany" in the Deutsches Architektur-Museum, Frankfurt am Main, March 25– June 25, 2000), Prestel, Munich / London / New York 2000, ISBN 3-7913-2293 -1

Web links

Commons : RKW Rhode Kellermann Wawrowsky - Collection of images, videos and audio files

www.rkw.plus
Architecture +. In: Structurae
RKW Architecture +. In: arch INFORM .

Individual evidence

↑ RKW office profile. In: Baunetz, accessed on September 22, 2009
^ Competition results from RKW. In: competitionline.de, accessed on September 22, 2009
↑ The winner for the new building in Grimmaische Strasse has been determined In: lvz-immo.de, accessed on January 27, 2011

[baunetzprofil-1] RKW office profile. In: Baunetz, accessed on September 22, 2009

[2] Competition results from RKW. In: competitionline.de, accessed on September 22, 2009

[3] The winner for the new building in Grimmaische Strasse has been determined In: lvz-immo.de, accessed on January 27, 2011