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DAM Prize Ceremony & Exhibition Opening

PPAG Team — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 10:04:54 +0000

We took part in the exhibition opening and award ceremony for the DAM Prize 2026.
Our school, ADKosmos Berlin, was honored as one of the five finalists.
The exhibition at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt will be open until May 10.
Come and visit!

You can read more about the ADKosmos here.

© Photo: Moritz Bernoully

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Zusammenbauen – Architecture as a social task

PPAG Team — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 08:33:49 +0000

The Zukunft Bau Kongress 2025 brought together almost 1000 participants in Bonn and via livestream to discuss a key question:
How can we achieve socially equitable and environmentally responsible construction?

Anna Popelka wrote an essay entitled ‘Architecture = cultural capital or a plea for the best possible outcome!’ as part of the Zukunft Bau Kongress 2025.

Quote: ‘As planners, we must strive for the best that is feasible in each case. In the interests of a good future for all. Especially now. Anything less than that is a loss for us as a society.’
Anna Popelka, PPAG architects

You can download the entire publication here:

© Foto: PPAG

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Austrian Green Planet Building Award

PPAG Team — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:44:45 +0000

Our compartment school Allee der Kosmonauten in Berlin Lichtenberg has been awarded the Austrian Green Planet Building Award. We are delighted!

Intergalactic learning fun in sustainable Berlin school building ‘Made in Austria’

Minister of Economic Affairs Wolfgang Hattmannsdorfer presented us the Austrian Green Planet Building® Award in Berlin for the ‘Allee der Kosmonauten’ school campus.

Spacious green areas alongside numerous opportunities for sport and exercise: the largest new building to date in Berlin’s school construction initiative offers its pupils plenty of space and a high-quality learning environment, while also being extremely energy-efficient. This is sustainable construction ‘Made with Austrian know-how and design’. The school building was constructed by the municipal Berlin housing association HOWOGE as part of Berlin’s school construction initiative.

You can read more about the ADKosmos here.

© Foto: BMWET/Holey

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Café Restaurant Resselpark

PPAG Team — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:42:53 +0000

A restaurant on hallowed ground, on Vienna’s Karlsplatz, a stone’s throw from St. Charles’s Church.

Have you seen it yet? The new café restaurant in Resselpark invites you to linger; regulars, students from the nearby TU, tourists, everyone is welcome.
From the outside, the building looks like a collection of many small houses facing the public. This immediately creates a welcoming, human scale. Everyone has their own house to eat in.
The comprehensive spatial reorganization within the oval bordered by a hedge, characteristic of Karlsplatz, opened up opportunities for improvement: the multiple passageways were reactivated, the listed Tilgner fountain was integrated, and the ground was unsealed and unified. The sidewalk café now blends seamlessly into the general area.

© Photo: Hertha Hurnaus

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BEST OF ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT 2025

PPAG Team — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 13:50:10 +0000

Our CARO + LOUIS project on Schwartzkopffstraße in Berlin is featured in the new edition of “Ausgezeichneter Wohnbau” published by Callwey Verlag. We are delighted to receive this award!
The book was presented at this year’s BEST OF ARCHITECTURE SUMMIT in Munich. It was wonderful to be there.

© Photo: PPAG

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DAM Prize Finalist

PPAG Team — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:42:52 +0000

We are thrilled! Our Compartment School Allee der Kosmonauten in Berlin Lichtenberg is one of five Finalists for the DAM Prize! We are eagerly awaiting the grand finale.

As part of the nomination, the school will also be featured in the new “Architecture Guide Germany 2026.” The Architecture Guide by DOM publishers presents more than 100 current projects from all regions of Germany. We are delighted to be included.

You can read more about the ADKosmos here.

© Photo: Jan Bitter

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Nomination for the DAM Prize

PPAG Team — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:13:31 +0000

It’s official today and we can now reveal the news: our Allee der Kosmonauten Compartment School in Berlin Lichtenberg has been nominated for the highly regarded DAM Prize! And we are enthusiastic!

Things remain exciting: the shortlist will be announced in the course of the summer.

You can read more about the ADKosmos here.

© Photo: Jan Bitter

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“Haus am Park”: start of construction in Stuttgart

PPAG Team — Sat, 17 May 2025 14:21:10 +0000

The time has come for the “Zukunft Münster 2050” project in Stuttgart to enter the next phase: the ground-breaking ceremony for the first construction phase, the intergenerational “Haus am Park”, has taken place!

Along Moselstrasse, we are developing a socially and ecologically sustainable quarter for the Münster am Neckar building cooperative as part of IBA’27. The existing terraced houses that cannot be maintained are being replaced by new residential buildings in a dense and modular hybrid timber construction, with different forms of housing, communal spaces and commercial and social uses. The dense construction creates new open green spaces for everyone. Moselstrasse, which runs right through the quarter, will be transformed from a traffic route into a multi-use public space with existing old trees. The new quarter will also be partly self-sufficient thanks to an air heat pump recooler and photovoltaic system.

Completion of the “Haus am Park” is planned for 2027, the year of the IBA.

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Tag der Architektur Berlin

PPAG Team — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:12:34 +0000

In June it’s time again! The Berlin Day of Architecture will take place, this time under the motto “Building Diversity”. We are particularly pleased to be able to present two Berlin projects by PPAG in 2025: On June 28^th at 10:30, Anna Popelka and Georg Poduschka, with the HOWOGE, will guide you through the different areas of the double school in Allee der Kosmonauten and explain the ideas behind a compartment school. At 15:00 the next tour starts with the residential project CARO + LOUIS. LOUIS is already completed and features both an exposed cork façade and unexpected volumes inside.

No registration required, just come to the meeting point!

For more information on all the events of Tag der Architektur Berlin, click here:
https://www.ak-berlin.de/baukultur/tag-der-architektur/programm-2025/

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Zukunft Bau Kongress 2025: Architecture as a social task

PPAG Team — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 14:46:52 +0000

If we understand architecture as a social task, social responsibility comes into focus alongside the current ecological challenges. How can we combine these aspects and use them as an opportunity to better understand and democratically shape our built environment? The Zukunft Bau Kongress 2025 will shed light on the various facets of this social task and reflect on new forms of cooperation.

Housing is one of the most important building uses, with questions such as: How can we develop housing in a social, sustainable and architecturally high-quality way? How can the immense mass of existing buildings be used in a way that meets people’s needs and conserves the climate and resources for as long as possible?

Anna Popelka will be giving a presentation on May 22 from 10:30 a.m. and will shed light on the topic of residential construction from the perspective of PPAG architects.

Zukunft Bau Kongress 2025: zusammen_bauen: Architektur als gesellschaftliche Aufgabe
(= Future Building Congress 2025: building_together: Architecture as a social task)
When: May 21-22, 2025
Where: WCCB , former plenary hall of the German Bundestag, Bonn + livestream
For program and registration: click here

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