The architect Hans Kollhoff has contributed his designs to our company’s “Design for Berlin” project.

He joins the project together with Josef Paul Kleihues, Richard Rogers and Nicholas Grimshaw with some panache.
Born in Lobenstein in 1946, Hans Kollhoff studied architecture in Karlsruhe and New York. After gathering a few years’ experience with Oswald Matthias Unger, he established his own architectural bureau in Berlin in 1978. The architectural scene in what was then West Berlin soon took notice. The housing he built on Luisenplatz received international acclaim, and the way Hans Kollhoff took off in the "new Berlin" should have come as a surprise to no one: the Malchower Weg estate, Potsdamer Platz, new government buildings, the Alexanderplatz project, to name just a few. Hans Kollhoff advocates meticulous planning in building construction: he re-examines the essence of architecture, implementing new ideas in urban spaces with a commitment to highest quality standards. These are the principles behind his thoughts and actions.