Stephen Williams (architect)

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Stephen Williams (born August 23, 1963 in Port Talbot , United Kingdom ) is a British architect and interior designer living in Hamburg .

Life

Stephen Williams grew up as the son of an engineer and a teacher in his native Port Talbot in Wales . The family later moved to the small town of Bridgnorth in the West Midlands , where he became enthusiastic about punk music as a student . After completing his school education, Williams studied architecture at the Birmingham Polytechnic in Birmingham from 1982 to 1985 and at the Canterbury College of Art in Canterbury from 1986 to 1988 . He graduated in 1988 with a diploma.

From 1985 to 1986 Williams worked in London at CZWG Architects and at Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas in their Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). In 1988 he started his own business in Bristol and ran an architecture office there until 1991. In 1990 he became a member of the Royal Institute of British Architects . Williams moved to Germany in 1992 , where he initially worked from 1992 to 1993 as a competition architect for Christoph Ingenhoven in Düsseldorf . In 1993 he moved to the Alsop  & Störmer office community in Hamburg, where he worked as a design architect until 1997. From 1997 to 1999 Williams worked as a freelancer at Bothe Richter Teherani in Hamburg. In 1999 he also taught as a tutor at the University of Wales , Cardiff .

In 2000 he founded the architecture and design office Stephen Williams Architects in Hamburg , which has been operating under the name Stephen Williams Associates GmbH (SWA) since 2008. He has worked with the Hamburg architect and urban planner Julia Erdmann , who was an associated partner at SWA from 2009 to 2016 , among others . The office is now known for numerous projects, such as in the area of ​​the design of city districts ( e.g. Hamburg's city courtyards ), working environments (e.g. Jung von Matt ) and hotels (e.g. 25hours Hotel Hamburg HafenCity ).

He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute .

Stephen Williams is married and lives with his wife in his adopted home of Hamburg.

Prices

Williams has won several architectural competitions to date and has been invited to take part in restricted or restricted competitions, such as for the headquarters of Motor Music in Berlin (2002), the headquarters of the Universal Music Group in Berlin (2002), and the Pizza Amano restaurant in the delivery center Autostadt of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg (2003) and the Beef Club restaurant in Autostadt in Wolfsburg (2004) as well as for the construction of a new hotel and hostel in Hamburg (2016) and for the new construction of a stilwerk hotel in Travemünde (2018).

Works (selection)

Urban planning

Stadthöfe Hamburg, corner of Stadthausbrücke / Neuer Wall (formerly Stadthaus )
  • Stadthöfe Hamburg - Conception master plan / urban development concept (2008)

Buildings

Motel One Hamburg-Alster in Hamburg, Steindamm - facade design with panels in four different shades of gold
  • Motel One Hamburg-Alster in Hamburg, Steindamm (2010)
  • Sixtyfive Suites in Hamburg, Alter Wall (2010)
  • Schaartor 1 in Hamburg; Architects: Gottfried Schramm  & Jürgen Elingius (1960); Revitalization: Stephen Williams Associates (2014)
  • Hotel Tortue in Hamburg's Stadthöfe district (2018)

Interior design

  • Motor Music, headquarters in Berlin, Spreespeicher (2003)
  • Universal Music Group, headquarters in Berlin, Spreespeicher (2003)
  • Pizza Amano, restaurant in the Autostadt delivery center of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg (2003)
  • Warner Music Group , headquarters in Hamburg- Speicherstadt (2005)
  • Beef Club, restaurant in the Autostadt delivery center of Volkswagen AG in Wolfsburg (2006)
  • Several hotels of the Meininger Hotel Group , such as Berlin Hauptbahnhof (2008), Salzburg (2009), Frankfurt am Main Airport (2012) and Brussels City Center (2013)
  • Weltbühne, Café in the Hamburg Thalia Theater (2010)
  • Jung von Matt, branch in Hamburg- Karolinenviertel (2011)
  • 25hours Hotel Hamburg HafenCity, theme hotel in Hamburg- HafenCity (2011)
  • Facebook Headquarters, German headquarters in Hamburg and Berlin (2016)
  • Twitter Offices, Germany headquarters in Berlin (2016)
  • Yelp, Inc. , Germany headquarters in Hamburg (2016)

Exhibition design

Exhibitions

  • Stephen Williams . Dreamspace Gallery, London, 2007 (exhibition with presentation of current architectural projects as well as book presentation of the monograph on Stephen Williams published by Daab-Verlag in Cologne in 2007)
  • Multiple participation in the Hamburger Architektur Sommer , such as 2000 ("Walk this way"), 2009 ("London calling") and 2015 ("Inclusive Places")

literature

  • Christina Lissmann: Stephen Williams Architects . Daab-Verlag, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86654-028-6 (German, English, French, Spanish, Italian; content text according to publisher's information).

Web links

Commons : Stephen Williams  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Eva Eusterhus: He directs in his rooms. In: welt.de . December 17, 2011, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Hans-Juergen Fink: He is the designer of the invisible. In: Abendblatt.de . April 20, 2013, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c Katja Neumann: Stephen Williams. In: dear-magazin.de. July 25, 2007, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Architecture works! In: virtualdesignmagazine.de. March 24, 2015, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  5. ↑ a b Ulrich Gaßdorf: The town house: The new luxury quarter on the Fleet. In: Abendblatt.de . January 4, 2014, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  6. ^ A b Jung von Matt in Hamburg - Stephen Williams Associates. In: innsides.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ a b 25hours Hotel HafenCity - Stephen Williams Associates. In: innsides.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  8. ^ Michael Korb: Gastronomy Administration. In: michael-korb.de. Retrieved October 15, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Ulrich Gaßdorf: New hotel with 230 rooms on the neighborhood. In: Abendblatt.de . November 24, 2016, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Result: New construction of a stilwerk hotel in Travemünde. Invitation competition. In: competitionline.com. July 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Sixty Five Suites - Stephen Williams Associates. In: innsides.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Schaartor. In: alstria.de. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  13. ↑ (red, ko): Tortue opens in June. In: ahgz.de . March 14, 2018, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  14. ↑ James McLachlan: Trojan Horse by Stephen Williams Associates. In: onofficemagazine.com. September 15, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2018 (UK English).
  15. ^ Jung von Matt office by Stephen Williams Associates. In: homedsgn.com. February 14, 2012, Retrieved October 11, 2018 (UK English).
  16. ^ A b c Interface Inc .: Interview with Daniel König from Stephen Williams Associates. In: blog.interface.com. February 14, 2018, accessed October 15, 2018 .
  17. ^ Malcolm McLaren Exhibition - Stephen Williams Associates. In: innsides.com. Retrieved October 10, 2018 .
  18. ^ Autostadt Wolfsburg: Bugatti, infinite. In: manager-magazin.de . November 19, 2008, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  19. ↑ designxport - Hamburg's ideas workshop for design. In: awmagazin.de . November 2014, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  20. ↑ Stephen Williams Architects: Exhibition and UK book launch - until October 12. In: bdonline.co.uk. September 17, 2007, accessed October 10, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Hamburg architecture summer 2015. About the circumstances. (PDF; 3.0 MB) In: architektursommer.de. Hamburger Architektur Sommer e. V., 2015, p. 75 = No. 124: Inclusive Places , accessed on October 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Williams, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British architect and interior designer
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Port Talbot , United Kingdom