Bauhaus Museum Dessau: A Building within a Building

addenda architects, Middle Density, Project, Technology and fabrication, Urban Paradigms

Architecture&nature, Concrete, Context, Cultural Facility, Dessau-Roßlau, Educational Building, Flexibility, Germany, Glazed façade, Multifunctional space, Museum, Project, Structure, Urban environment

Photography: Thomas Meyer/OSTKREUZ and Hartmut Boesener

Bauhaus Museum Dessau is a building within a building, a soaring concrete block enveloped in glass. At the end of 2015 the proposal from the Barcelona-based young architectural practice addenda architects won over the jury in the open international competition, which had attracted 831 submissions from all over the world.