Bieling_Architekten Knowpia

Bieling Architekten
Company type	Architecture firm
Founded	1955
Founder	Josef Bieling
Headquarters	Kassel, Germany
Key people	Thomas Bieling; Kurt Bieling;
Number of employees	c. 15–20[citation needed]
Website	bieling-architekten.de/de/

Bieling Architekten is a German architecture firm located in Kassel, Hesse, with another office in Hamburg. Founded by Josef Bieling in 1955, the firm has projects throughout Germany. His son Thomas Bieling. a director since 2011, runs the company as a group of independent architects. Earlier names included Architekturbüro Josef Bieling, Bieling & Bieling Architekten, and Bieling & Bieling. They designed apartment buildings and offices, and became known for winning competitions for new quarters, such as Waidmarkt in Cologne and Wallhöfe in Hamburg.

History edit

Front of Zu den heiligen Engeln in Hanover in 2011, built by Josef Bieling in 1964

Interior of the Maria Hilf [de] in Trutzhain, built by Bieling in 1965

New buildings for the Basler Versicherungen in Bad Homburg, in 2012

In 1955, the architect Josef Bieling (1919–1981) founded the Architekturbüro Josef Bieling in his hometown Kassel. He focused on the planning and building of churches in the dioceses of Fulda, Paderborn and Hildesheim. He built 35 new churches, among other sacred buildings, and restored and remodeled several others. He also engaged in the building of senior citizens’ homes, kindergartens, parish halls, hospitals, schools, hotels and private homes.^[1] The new churches have included St. Bonifatius^[2] and St. Theresia [de],^[3] both in Kassel, Zu den heiligen Engeln in Hanover, and the pilgrimage church Maria Hilf [de] in Trutzhain.^[4]

His sons, Kurt Bieling (born 1951) and Thomas Bieling (born 1956), also studied architecture, at the Technische Universität Braunschweig. From 2011, Thomas Bieling has been the only director of the firm now called Bieling Architekten.^[5]

The firm is known for large projects in several German cities, such as the restoration of the Unterneustadt [de] in Kassel, and the new quarters Waidmarkt in Cologne's Oversburg [de],^[6] and Wallhöfe in Hamburg-Neustadt.^[7]

Competitions edit

The office took part in several competitions for architecture and realization, and has received more than 100 awards at competitions, including:^[8]

2006: Quartiersentwicklung Neustadt / Wallhöfe in Hamburg^[7]
2007: Wohn- und Gewerbequartier Waidmarkt in Cologne^[6]
2008: Geschäftshaus Große Packhofstraße in Hanover
2009: Geschäftshaus an der Fürstenrieder Straße in Munich
2009: Erzbischöfliches Theologenkonvikt [de] in Paderborn
2010: Hybrid Houses, model project of the exhibition IBA Hamburg [de]

Awards edit

Bieling Architkten has received several awards:^[9]

1994: Hessischer Denkmalschutzpreis [de]: Ursulinenschule Fritzlar [de]
2001: Deutscher Fassadenpreis ... (recognition): new building Ambulantes Herzzentrum Kassel^[10]
2002: Deutscher Fassadenpreis für vorgehängte hinterlüftete Fassaden [de]: Crematory in Kassel^[11]
2002: Vorbildliche Bauten in Hessen: Home for several families (Mehrfamilienhaus) Barth in Kassel
2003: Prize of the Association of German Architects in Hesse (BDA Prize, Simon-Louis-du-Ry-Plakette: Entrance hall of the hospital Städtische Kliniken in Kassel, and an office building^[12]
2003: BDA Prize: offices and stores (Büro- und Geschäftshaus) at the Friedrichsplatz in Kassel^[12]

References edit

^ "Wie weiter in St. Laurentius? / Die Nordstadtkirche St. Laurentius wird 50 Jahre alt" (PDF) (in German). Katholische Kirche Kassel. April 2012. p. 14. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 31, 2017. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^ "Katholische Pfarrkirche St. Bonifatius in Sehenswürdigkeiten – Kassel.". www.kultur21.de. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
^ "Unsere Kirche". herzjesu-kassel.de (in German). Retrieved 13 January 2019.
^ Anders, Johanna (2014). Neue Kirchen in der Diaspora (in German). Kassel University Press. pp. 102–103. ISBN 978-3-86-219682-1.
^ "Bieling Architekten AG". archinfo.de (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Fay Projects feiert Grundsteinlegung am Waidmarkt in Köln". property-magazine.de (in German). 20 June 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Baubeginn für Quartier Wallhöfe". Die Welt (in German). 21 February 2009. Retrieved 26 November 2018.
^ "Bieling Architekten AG" (in German). competitionline.combaunetz.de. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
^ "Bieling Architekten" (in German). baunetz.de. Retrieved 19 December 2018.
^ Ausgezeichnete Architektur. Deutscher Fassadenpreis 2001 für vorgehängte hinterlüftete Fassaden (VHF)
^ Ausgezeichnete Architektur. Deutscher Fassadenpreis 2002 für vorgehängte hinterlüftete Fassaden (VHF)
^ ^a ^b "du Ry / Auszeichnung guter Bauten rund um Kassel" (in German). baunetz.de. 18 March 2003. Retrieved 27 November 2018.