HPP Architects
HPP Architects is one of Europe’s leading architectural partnerships with a full range of architectural and master planning services. Since its foundation by Professor Hentrich, the 4th generation of HPP partnership today includes a global team of more than 25 nationalities and 480 architects, engineers, urban designers and specialists. Today it comprises 13 offices including 8 regional offices in Germany and 5 international branches in Turkey, China and Netherlands.HPP completed more than 1200 buildings worldwide and aspires to create architectural quality of lasting value beyond the here and now: timeless and yet clearly part of their time, innovative and equally grounded in history. HPP ranks as one of the 25 largest architectural offices worldwide.
Among the most famous projects in the company's history is the Dreischeibenhaus in Düsseldorf. Most recently, in Germany the L'Oréal Deutschland Headquarters in Düsseldorf, the Europapark Stadion Freiburg and the conversion of the former Commerzbank-Highrise in Düsseldorf were completed. The mixed-use quarter FOUR Frankfurt, realised jointly with UNStudio, the vertical office campus Eclipse in Düsseldorf and the timber hybrid office building The Cradle are among the projects currently on the drawing board.
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HPP International
HPP International is an affiliated company of HPP Architekten GmbH, one of Germany’s most successful architectural partnerships. As a result of the internationalization of markets, working on projects and receiving commissions outside of Germany has become as usual as collaborating with other specialists across national borders. HPP International Planungsgesellschaft mbH was founded in 1977 and carries out architectural and master planning projects both abroad and for foreign clients. HPP International is a wholly-owned subsidiary of HPP Architekten GmbH and is responsible for the management of international plannings and is also involved in project development and project management. We assist our partners in identifying sites, in the conceptual phase and in the procurement of planning permission and thereby benefit from the country-specific knowledge and experience of our employees from 13 different nations.
The head office of HPP Architekten GmbH is based in Düsseldorf’s Media Harbor. Further HPP offices are located in Amsterdam, Berlin, Cologne, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Leipzig, Munich, Stuttgart, Istanbul, Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. HPP International's offices are located in Düsseldorf and Berlin. Through this network we are able to benefit from local knowledge, ease of availability and good relationships to the most important local contacts.
Among the well-known international projects are the Expo Village and the Henkel Asia-Pacific and China Headquarter in Shanghai, the AND Tower in Istanbul, the Baltic Arena in Gdansk, the Standard Bank Centre in Johannesburg, the Swan Office in Bucharest as well as the German Embassy in Washington. Under construction are currently the Multifunctional Arena in Ekaterinburg, the Alibaba Campus in Hangzhou, the Pudong Soccer Arena in Shanghai and the Taicang Campus of the Jiaotong-Liverpool University in Xi'an. Recently completed are the Yotrio Tower in Ningbo, the North Station Huide Tower in Shenzhen and the residential and mixed-use complex AND Pastel in Istanbul.