Office building for Vivawest

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

The Cologne and Berlin-based firm JSWD was founded in 2000. The third office location is situated in Tampa, USA.
The four partners Jürgen Steffens, Olaf Drehsen and the brothers Konstantin and Frederik Jaspert are leading an office with approx. 280 employees from 30 nations. The partners started on their architectural careers as RWTH students in Aachen. Günter Behnisch, Schuster Architects as well as Volkwin Marg (gmp) influenced their further professional development, followed by teaching posts and the establishment of the firm. In the last several years, JSWD has realized many projects in Germany and increasingly in other European countries, for the most part following successfully entered competitions.
JSWD finds further architectural, technical and intellectual inspiration in cooperative ventures with other architectural firms in France and Luxembourg, in the USA and in China while maintaining a collaborative exchange in the realization of joint construction projects.

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Category
  • Architects
Location
Köln, Germany
Employees
280
Website
www.jswd.de
Founded
2000