13 April 2025

Exhibition and vernissage by Bettina Khano at the GRAFTLAB Gallery

RAMPANT GROWTH
BETTINA KHANO
Exhibition opening on Wednesday, 30 April 2025 at 6pm
GRAFTLAB Gallery 2, Invalidenstr. 5, 10115 Berlin

In her latest artistic practice, Khano makes rampant growth tangible - as a material, emotional and narrative movement. In turning the act of mending into a profound exploration of the intersections between the past and the present, the familiar and the unfamiliar, the living and the ghostly, Khano has de- and reconstructed her practice in recent years.

Exhibition
1st of May – 11th of May, 2025
Saturday and Sunday from 2-6pm
During the week by appointment.
Contact: mail@bettinakhano.de, 0172 3115958

09 April 2025

GRAFT founding partner Thomas Willemeit at International Urban Health Summit

Today, GRAFT founder Thomas Willemeit leads a breakout session at the International Urban Health Summit in Hanover. The session under the title “Good Practices - Small Interventions and Substantial Returns,” focuses on the longtime research into the design of patient rooms in intensive care units. Alawi Luetz, Professor at the Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin and Critical Care Consultant, will show how the very environment of an ICU can play a crucial role in healing and recovery.

Learn more about the research team that works on improving cognitive outcome in the critically ill (COCI - cociwg.org) and how GRAFT supports their work with our design expertise: graftlab.com

The International Urban Health Summit aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to address key issues of urban health through the lens of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

It is part of the International Urban Health Project by The InterAcademy Partnership (IAP), the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften and the International Society for Urban Health (ISUH) and is funded by the VolkswagenStiftung: urbanhealth.bbaw.de

03 April 2025

Topping-out ceremony for Col23 timber construction project

The Col23 project will create a new coworking space at Columbiadamm 23 in Berlin-Tempelhof. On 3 April 2025, UTB Projektmanagement GmbH celebrated the topping-out ceremony for the conversion of a former factory hall with an adjoining office wing together with the clients and guests. Built in 2012 as a low-energy timber construction, the hall and extension will be optimised for its future use as a modern, urban office space according to the plans of GRAFT, combining architectural innovation with the requirements of a future-oriented working environment. Completion is scheduled for June 2025.

02 April 2025

AI and architecture - lectures by GRAFT experts

How is AI changing the way we communicate about architecture and tell stories? GRAFT Senior Architect and AI expert @Tatiana Lebedeva will be sharing her view on these questions at the 18th AMM symposium in Bochum.

Based on her experience in GRAFT projects, Tatiana will talk about new narrative possibilities that AI can open up in the collaboration process and how it can support interactions with project partners.

The AMM Symposium is one of the largest AI conferences in the industry and will be held on April 3-4, 2025 at the Bochum University of Applied Sciences. Experts and young talents from research, industry and practice will meet to find answers together. It is organized by the @Masterstudiengang AMM Architektur Media Management.

Participation is free of charge and a livestream of the whole event will be available! More info and registration here: hochschule-bochum.de/architektur-media-management/18-amm-symposium/

On April 3, 2025, GRAFT founding partner @Wolfram Putz will speak about the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence in architecture at an event hosted by the Hamburger Kreativ Gesellschaft.

The event also features Jacqueline Peter, AI and automation expert with a focus on the architecture and construction industry, Maged Elbanna, Hanns-Jochen Weyland (Störmer Murphy und Partner) and gmp Architekten.

More info on the speakers and the initiative Hamburger Kreativ Gesellschaft can be found here: kreativgesellschaft.org

20 March 2025

Kick off for Funkytown Berlin

With the kick off of Funkytown Berlin, GRAFT, seven other architecture firms and the initiator Trockland are entering the planning phase for a new creative quarter in the east of the city.

Eight new buildings (called "Stations") are to be erected in the immediate vicinity of the well-known Funkhaus venue on Nalepastrasse, providing spaces for culture, education, accommodation and social activities. Each member of the planning team is designing one new building.

GRAFT is joined by Grüntuch Ernst Architekten, hilligarchitekten, Julian Breinersdorf Architekten, KSP Engel, Lava, LXSY and Tchoban Voss.

Visit the project website: https://funkytown.berlin/stations/

28 February 2025

Meet us at MIPIM 2025!

Together with URBAN CELL, the modular solution for sustainable neighborhoods, GRAFT will be present at the Global Urban Festival MIPIM. You can find us as as part of the official German Pavilion in the Riveria Hall.

Interested in meeting with GRAFT to discuss the future of our cities? Please contact us via pr@graftlab.com. Thomas Willemeit, founding partner of GRAFT, will be participating.

25 February 2025

DBZ Launch Event at GRAFTLAB - Issue partnership 03/25 BETON

GRAFT is celebrating its partnership with Deutsche Bauzeitschrift DBZ for the 03/2025 issue on the topic of "concrete" with a launch event at GRAFTLAB. We are happy to welcome different experts who work with the material and expand its possibilities.

As a reinterpretation of concrete, the GRAFTLAB will provide both a backdrop and a focus topic and serve as a starting point for discussion. The architecture firm Nieto Sobejano is the author of one of the projects selected by GRAFT for this edition and will present its Archive of the Avant-garde project in Dresden. The engineering office schlaich bergermann partner, together with the manufacturers of the thomas gruppe, will talk about the genesis of the material-saving concrete cap slab "concap".

Accompanied by wine and snacks, we want to discuss and draw a brief
conclusion afterwards.

Location: GRAFTLAB, Invalidenstr. 5, 10115
Time: Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 7:00 p.m.
With the kind support of: thomas gruppe & InformationsZentrum Beton

24 February 2025

Exhibition and vernissage with Flavio de Marco at the GRAFTLAB Gallery

a man with a cell phone in his hand in front of a yellow background. the man is only shown as an outline

FLAVIO DE MARCO will be exhibiting his works in the GRAFTLAB Gallery for two days.

"RASCH is a two-day exhibition featuring works on canvas and on paper.

RASCH is the use of the Bayraktar TB2 drone by three Ukrainian soldiers in the city of Kharkiv. The soldiers are looking through two tablets inside a space that could be a military outpost, a bunker or a cave. This image covers a previously painted landscape, the home page of a no longer existing flight company, of which remain a colourful palm tree and a few shreds of sky.

RASCH is a teenager absorbed in his smartphone while playing a video-game with an unknown name.

RASCH are two brothers who exchange information with their smartphones like any other brothers on any other day of the year in any other city on planet earth.

RASCH is a still life as a tangle of cables and power supplies that no one can afford not to have in order to be able to communicate.

RASCH are unknown people who sit in public transport every day to move around the city. They keep their eyes fixed on the screen. Nobody knows what they are looking at, who they are chatting with. Sometimes they smile, ignoring everything around them. If someone unintentionally bumps into them they suddenly wake up from the digital dream and re-emerge in the physicality of reality.

RASCH are more images where time seems to shorten with each glance, clicking visions of the world that open up new possibilities to click again.

RASCH is the rhythm of digital life that consumes images through ontinuously scrolling devices as view slowly diminishes, contours blur more and more, until at some point nothing will be visible anymore."

Flavio de Marco

Opening: February 28, 2025, 6 pm
Location: GRAFTLAB Gallery 2, Invalidenstraße 5, 10115 Berlin
Exhibition duration: March 01 - March 02, 2025
Opening hours: 11.00 am - 06.00 pm

30 January 2025

GRAFT founding partner Lars Krückeberg speaks at Finnish Concrete Awards in Helsinki

GRAFT founding partner Lars Krückeberg spoke as a key lecturer at the Finnish Concrete Award Conference 2025 award ceremony in Helsinki on Thursday, January 30. The event took place at the Dipoli building in Espoo, the main building of Aalto University, which was designed by Reima Pietilä Architects in the 1960s.

The award conference for the best Finnish concrete building is an important event in the field of architectural construction in Finland, which attracts a lot of public attention. The audience of the conference consisted of about 600 Finnish architects, architecture students and engineers.

Every year, a well-known foreign architectural firm is invited to be the keynote speaker at the conference. Since the early 1990s, the Awards have had the opportunity to invite renowned architects such as Mario Botta, Tadao Ando, Santiago Calatrava, James Stirling, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Steven Holl, Dominique Perrault, Wiel Arets.

Picture (c) Betoni magazine

29 January 2025

DOXS NKLN is a finalist of the MIPIM Awards 2025

We are happy to announce that DOXS NKLN has been selected as a finalist for the MIPIM Awards 2025!

The project transforms a former industrial site in Berlin-Neukölln into a sustainable and flexible urban hub. With diverse workspaces and spaces for culture and social exchange, DOXS NKLN will activate the area and create new synergies for the neighborhood.

The winners will be announced on March 13th during the MIPIM fair in Cannes.

For a closer look at the project, check out our new video:
Video by: GRAFT
Music by: Luis E. Cantero

All MIPIM finalists

A big thank you to our team and everyone who shares our vision!

Thomas Willemeit, Wolfram Putz, Lars Krueckeberg, Georg Schmidthals, Sven Fuchs, Trockland

Achim Krayl,Javier Nieto Cano, Peter Buche,Onur Kemal Kösedağ, Katerina Tsirepa, Fivos Chalkiopoulos, Leon Seibert, Jakob Seibert, Marco Falzoni, Nele Martens, Aleksandra Kiszkielis, Maria Goldstein, Dua Nur Ciftci