Graft architects

Graft (own spelling: GRAFT ) is the name for a group of German architects with offices in Germany and abroad. They were labeled by the press as a "trendsetter " and " pop stars of architecture".

Company History

The architecture firm Graft was founded in 1998 by Lars Krückeberg, Wolfram Putz and Thomas Willemeit in Los Angeles, California. They met had. Than fellow students in a student choir The office is active in the fields of urban planning, architecture and design. Since 2001, the architects maintain a branch office in Berlin, since 2004 together with the founding partner Gregor Hoheisel another in Beijing. Overall, the company currently employs approximately 100 employees. So far have been planned and implemented worldwide by the 100 projects. The orders will vary from "Kid dental practice to a tower block, from the hand basin to the neighborhood ." Graft is in Germany, among others, for its multiple, international award-winning design hotel "Hotel Q" on the Kurfürstendamm in Berlin known. With the project "Gateway 149 " realized the office in the summer of 2012 his first apartment building in Berlin. too, the long-standing collaboration with the famous actor Brad Pitt, among others, as Mitinititiator and design curator of the Make It Right Foundation, contributed greatly to the fame of the planning office in the community.

Graft is characterized by its experimental and interdisciplinary design practice and its avant-garde design. The design philosophy invokes its own words, on the botany of the process taken Aufpropfens. In this method, the beneficial properties of two genetically different plants can be combined in a new hybrid.

Realized projects (selection)

  • Gate 149, Berlin, Germany, 2012
  • Opticon, Eyewear Store, Hamburg, Germany, 2007
  • DC Shoes Store, Los Angeles, USA, 2008
  • The Emperor, Hotel, Beijing, China, 2008
  • Makle It Right shotgun House, New Orleans, USA, 2009
  • Iveria Hotel Radisson SAS, Tbilisi, Georgia, 2009
  • Boulevard of Stars, 2009-2010
  • W New York - Downtown Hotel & Residences, New York City, USA
  • Villa Schwanenwerder
  • City Center, Las Vegas, USA
  • MIR Camelback Duplex, New Orleans, USA
  • Vertical Village, Dubai, UAE
  • Russian - Jewish Museum of Tolerance, Moscow, Russia
  • Master Plan Dan Dong New Town, Dan Dong, China

Awards (selection)

  • Bard Sign of the Year 2007, Mixology Awards, Bar Convent Berlin (Hotel Q)
  • Plasterboard Trophy 2007, 1st place, Category Innovation ( Graft World)
  • The International Architecture Award, Chicago Athaeneum, 2008 ( stack)
  • D & AD Award, Yellow Pencil, Category Environmental Design / Installation, 2008 ( MIR)
  • Grand SADI Award, 2008 ( Opticon )
  • Archip 2008, the Public Interior / Innovation ( KU64 )
  • Red dot design award, 2008 ( Kanera 1D)
  • Good Design, 2009 ( Kanera 1D)
  • Red dot design award, 2009 ( Thermopal Designers Collection)
  • Steel Innovation Award 2009 ( Kanera 1D)
  • Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany, gold, 2009 (The Pink Project )
  • International Architecture Award, 2009
  • AR Architectural Review Awards, 2009 ( Make It Right Shotgun House)
  • American Architecture Awards, 2009 ( Make It Right Shotgun House)

Television documentary

  • Julie Schrader: artists up close - Graft, ARTE, France, 2007.
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