1st prize for Heimatmole and award for Grünwald at the “Residential Buildings of the Year 2025” awards
Oct. 13, 2025
Clueless until our project was announced, then overjoyed!
Photo Callwey/Andreas Gebert
We are delighted to have won first prize for the Heimatmole and an award for the cooperative neighbourhood in Grünwald!
Two of our projects impressed the renowned jury at Callwey Verlag's ‘Residential Buildings of the Year 2025’ awards.
Our winning project is a modular building in Hamburg's HafenCity district, characterised by versatile communal spaces and a spacious green façade. The result is 16 residential units with seven flexible switch rooms, a community club and a shared roof terrace.
In Grünwald, we created a neighbourhood with high transparency and communal green spaces for the non-profit building cooperative Grünwald. Fourteen residential buildings are grouped around three courtyards: greenery that brings neighbours together.
“The building density of 4.0 is well above the upper limits of the German Building Use Ordinance and is compensated for by the integration into the hybrid building block with the sloping position of the house for views of the square, courtyard, and water, and a very convincing architectural quality.”
“The square and front façades are [...] calmly structured with floor-to-ceiling windows and subtly create space through polygonal, slight kinks. This makes an important contribution to the urban milieu of the Baakenhafen quarter.”
Roland Pawlitschko, architect and author, gave the laudatory speech for the Heimatmole.
Photo Callwey/Andreas Gebert
Photo Eva Maria Herrmann
The ‘Residential Buildings of the Year’ award is the only joint award for builders and architects in the field of multi-storey residential construction in German-speaking countries.
The residential buildings awarded by the expert jury and all nominations are published in the corresponding yearbook ‘Ausgezeichneter Wohnungsbau’ (Excellent Residential Construction) by the publishing house Callwey.
Twelve pages of the publication are dedicated to our winning project, Heimatmole, and our award-winning Grünwald project is presented on six pages.
