Coop Himmelblau

Coop Himmelblau is an architectural firm primarily located in Vienna, Austria and now maintain offices in the United States and in Mexico. This great design firm has design such great buildings such as the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, BMW World in Munich, the Great Egyptian Museum and many more. Right now Coop Himmelblau is now proposing a new hotel in New York City and is now currently under construction for the European Centre Bank in Frankfurt. Coop designs his buildings with the most advanced materials and with limited city funding. His designs are modern and all very successful and create jobs for many people.
Last year he won the International Architecture Award for the Chicago Athenaeum in Illinois. Also in 2004 he won the Annie Spink Award for excellence in Architectural Education. He has also won the gold medal for merits to the federal state of Vienne, Austria.
Most of his designs are usually made with glass and are not the usual skyscraper; he designs are very complex and have twists and turns everywhere. An example of this would be the BMW Welt in Munich, Germany, which is the BMW vehicle delivery building. Another example of this is the MOCAPE in Shenzhen, China, he won first place in a competition for this building and the design.
He believes that a vigorous urban architectural experience results when the qualities of space are linked, creating a rhythm of dynamism and concentration.

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